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LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus.
Pharsalia, Sive De Bello Civili Caesaris Et Pompeii Libri X. Adiectis ad marginem Notis T.Farnabii, quae loca obscuriora illustrent.
London: Richard Field, 1618..
8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 291. folding engraved map of Europe by R.Estrack (trimmed to neatline & with small tear - no loss). woodcut device on title. woodcut initials. contemporary calf (headpiece chipped & a few prelims bit soiled otherwise a nice fresh copy). ownership entry of classical scholar Stephen Barrett [1718-1801], dated Oxford 1738. First Edition Edited by Thomas Farnaby [1575?-1647] and the Second Edition in Latin to be published in England, preceded by a 1589 edition edited by J.Sulpitius. "Farnaby was the chief classical scholar as well as the chief schoolmaster of his time. His editions of the classics, with elaborate Latin notes, were extraordinarily popular throughout the seventeenth century." (DNB) STC 16883.
$900 USD Book Number: elala921 Order / Enquire

LUCANUS, [Marcus Annaeus].
La Pharsale.Ou Les Guerres Civiles, De César Et Pompée. En Vers François Par Mr De Brébeuf.
Paris: Antoine De Sommaville, 1656..
6 Parts in 1 Volume. 4to. pp. 8 p.l.(the last blank), 91; 5 p.l., 106, [blank leaf]; 2 p.l., 47; 2 p.l., 49-100, [blank leaf]; 3 p.l., 123; 2 p.l., 96. woodcut royal arms on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf, gilt back (extremities worn, short split in upper front joint, free-endpapers removed, ms. notes on front paste-down & few leaves at beginning, lower outer corner of title torn away with loss of last to letters of the word 'Roy' in phrase 'Avec Privilege Du Roy'). First Edition, Second Issue(?), with first title dated 1656 (the second is dated 1654, and the others 1655). This issue is not mentioned in any of the bibliographies consulted. In this copy, the privilege to the second part is signed in manuscript 'Louis de France' by his consellor Habert and by the printer Sommaville. Georges de Brébeuf's [1618-1661] verse translation of Lucanus' great epic poem on the civil war between Pompey and Caesar was well received by his contemporaries, but was severely criticized for its precious language by Nicolas Boileau in the latter's Art poétique. Boileau did, however, allow that "Malgré son fatras obscur,/ Souvent Brébeuf étincelle." cfBrunet III 1202. cfCioranescu 16301 (1654-55). cfGraesse IV 275. cfQuérard V 383.
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MABLY, [Gabriel Bonnot] De, Abbé [1709-1785].
Observations Sur Les Romains.Nouvelle Édition, revue et corrigée.
Geneva: Franç. Dufart & Paris: Volland, 1789..
12mo. pp. 2 p.l., 554, [1 leaf]. contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt back (joints cracked, spine ends chipped & lacking 1 label, foxing to outer leaves). cfCioranescu 41168-69. cfQuérard V 405. cfTchemerzine VII 164 (b).
$150 USD Book Number: elala1469 Order / Enquire

[MAILLY, Louis, chevalier de] [1657-1724].
Anecdote, Ou Histoire Secrète Des Vestales.
Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1700..
12mo. pp. 234, [5]privilege. woodcut printer's device on title. woodcut headpiece & initial. contemporary calf, gilt back. Château de Chatillon armorial bookplate. First Edition of this account of the Vestal Virgins, the only female priests within the Roman religious system. Cioranescu 44385. cfBarbier I 178 & cfQuérard V 444 (1701 edn.).
$250 USD Book Number: elala1365 Order / Enquire

MALKIN, Benjamin Heath [1769-1842].
Classical Disquisitions And Curiosities, Critical And Historical.
Cambridge: J. & J.J.Deighton, 1830..
8vo. pp. xxvi, 460. contemporary half calf, gilt edges (joints & extremities rubbed). gilt leather ownership label on upper cover the 'Most Hon. Marquess of Camden'. Second Edition (first: 1825).
$150 USD Book Number: elala3780 Order / Enquire

MANILIUS, M[arcus].
Astronomicon Ex Editione Bentleiana Cum Notis Et Interpretatione In Usum Delphini Variis Lectionibus Notis Variorum Recensu Editionum Et Codicum Et Indice Locupletissimo Accurate Recensitum.
London: A.J.Valpy, 1828..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. iv, 502; 2 p.l., [503]-956, lxxvi, with half-title in Vol. II. later half calf (rubbed, extremities worn & chipped, lacking spine labels, internally very good). armorial bookplates of George Cornewall Lewis [1806-1863] & William Spottiswoode [1825-1883]. Houzeau & Lancaster 1037.
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MITFORD, William [1744-1827].
The History Of Greece.With His Final Additions And Corrections. To Which Is Prefixed, A Brief Memoir Of The Author, By His Brother, The Late Lord Redesdale. Carefully Revised By William King.
London: Printed For T.Cadell and W.Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1838..
8 Volumes. 8vo. engraved frontis. portraits? title vignettes. 19th century calf, gilt backs (rubbed & scuffed, lacking spine labels). cfNCBEL II 1739.
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NIEBUHR, B[artold] G[eorg] [1776-1831].
The History Of Rome.Translated By Julius Charles Hare, M.A. And Connop Thirlwall.
Cambridge: Printed By John Smith.For John Taylor., 1831-32..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxxiv, 615, [1]; 1 p.l., x, 641. with half-title in Vol. II. folding engraved map. contemporary calf (rubbed, spine labels wanting, head of Vol. I spine chipped). armorial bookplate of sir George Douglas. Second Revised Edition (Vol. I) and First Edition (Vol. II) of the English Translation. A third volume of the Romische Geschichte was published in Berlin in 1832, and the English translation by W.Smith and I.Schmitz, not offered herewith, was published in London in 1842. "Niebuhr is the founder of modern, empirical and scientific history, and the publication of the first two volumes of his Roman History (the third appeared posthumously) marked a turning point from which historians have never looked back.[He] established the principle, now universally adopted, of 'positive scepsis'.which is that the systematic collection and critical assessment of the original sources must be the foundation of all historical writing." (Printing and the Mind of Man) cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 267.
$250 USD Book Number: elala2896 Order / Enquire

OVIDIUS NASO, Publius.
[Opera Omnia].Cum Integris Jacobi Micylli, Herculis Ciofani, Danielis Et Nicolai Heinsiorum, Et Excerptis Aliorum Notis, Quibus Suas Adiecit Petrus Burmannus.
Amsterdam: R. & J.Wetstein & G. Smith, 1727..
4 Volumes. 4to. pp. 9 p.l., 863; 1 p.l., 1102, [4]; 3 p.l., 900; 2 p.l., 167, 263, [7]errata, [54], 582. titles in red & black. 3 engraved frontis./titles by M.Pool & Van Vianen after B.Picart & J.Goeree & 1 engraved plate. contemporary gilt-stamped calf (front covers detached, rear joints split, spine ends & corners worn, several gatherings in last volume foxed). "This Edition may justly be esteemed the chef-d'oeuvre of Burmann; it is one of the noblest, and most correct of the Dutch classics." (Harwood) The text of Nic. Heinsius has constituted the basis of this magnificent publication, which Burmann has amended by a diligent collation of Mss. and early editions. Amongst the Variorum notes the editor has inserted those of Micyllus, Glareanus, Constantius Fanensis, jDan. & Nic. Heinsius, and others, together with his own. In the fourth volume besides some biographical accounts of and eulogies on Ovid, the prefaces of some of the preceding editors, &c. are three indices." (Moss) Burmann eventually wrote a lengthy preface following publication but it was not published until fifteen years after his death. "Notwithstanding a few imperfections, this beautiful and erudite performance may be considered as the 'edition longe praestantissima' of Ovid. Its various readings, sagacious criticisms, and judicious selection of the most valuable parts of ancient editions, render it a work almost indispensable to those students who wish to enter minutely into the beauties and illustrations of the poet." (Dibdin) Dibdin (4th Edn.) II pp. 268-69. Moss II pp. 344-45.
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PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus.
Opera Omnia Ex Editione G.L.Koenig Cum Notis Et Interpretatione In Usum Delphini Variis Lectionibus Notis Variorum Et Veteris Scholiastae Recensu Editionum Et Codicum.
London: A.J.Valpy, 1820..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-vii, [1 leaf], 304, xxv. lacking half-title? library buckram.
$90 USD Book Number: elala2909 Order / Enquire

PINDAR.
Les Olympiques De Pindar, Traduites En François, Avec Des Remarques Historiques.
Lyons: Guerin & Delatour., 1754..
12mo. pp. 4 p.l., 52, lxxxviii, 212. with half-title. woodcut title vignette & ornaments. contemporary tree calf, gilt back (trifle rubbed, a nice copy). First Edition of this esteemed French Translation with notes by de Sozzi. Moss II 421.
$200 USD Book Number: elala1210 Order / Enquire

PLATO.
Dialogues.
Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1770..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 442; 3 p.l., 424. with half-titles. woodcut title vignettes. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (spine ends chipped, corners worn, short splits in upper joints, lacking 2 spine labels, some light foxing). First Edition of the French Translation by Jesuit priest Jean Nicolas Grou [1731-1803]. Including the Theaetetus, Ion, Philebus, Meno, Gorgias, Protagoras, Hippias Major and Hippias Minor. Moss II p. 453.
$999 USD Book Number: elala3431 Order / Enquire

PLATO.
Loix.
Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1769..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2],368, [2]ads; 2 p.l., 502, [1]ads. with half-title in Vol. II. wood-engraved title vignettes & tailpieces. contemporary calf, gilt backs (joints partly cracked, lacking 2 spine labels, some light foxing, some gatherings lightly embrowned). First Edition in French, translated by Jesuit priest Jean Nicolas Grou [1731-1803] of Plato's last work, left uncompleted at his death. As opposed to the ideal state described in his Republic the Laws presents a practical plan for a 'second best' constitution and state. "Under [it] the elite may possess modest estates, and private families are allowed. The lower ranks of society now have some political rights and powers, though careful regulations ensure that they will not attain political control. The rulers, though decently educated, are not required to be philosophers. The women are not warriors. Much of the Laws is a sort of Blue Book, in which detailed rules and regulations are laid down for the conduct of elections, legal proceedings, religious ceremonies, markets, schools and irrigation.In its concrete legal, social and administrative prescriptions.students of Greek history and politics can find a good deal of interest. For inevitably Plato sometimes copies and often just improves on laws, regulations, codes, customs and expedients already obtaining in Athens or other Greek states. Political actualities can be read through Plato's political recommendations.". (Encycl. of Philosophy)
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PLINIUS SECUNDUS [Gaius Caecilius] [PLINY THE YOUNGER] [62-113].
Epistolarum lbri X.
[Colophon on kk7r:] Venice: In Aedib. Aldi, Et Andreae Asulani Soceri, June 1518..
8vo. pp. 26 p.l., 525, [1 leaf]. Aldine anchor device on title & at end. 19th century red morocco, Aldine anchor device in gilt on covers, all edges gilt (rubbed, title lightly toned & with small paper repair in lower margin, 'x' in colophon date erased with tiny hole). probably from the Syston Park Library of Sir John Thorold. Second Aldine Edition. The letters of the consul and Governor of Biyhinia, friend of Tacitus and Suetonius, provide an interesting view of the varied interests of a cultivated Roman gentleman. "The etiquette of the imperial circle, scenes from the law-courts and the recitation-room, the reunions of dilettanti and philosophers, the busy life of the capital or of the municipal town, the recreations of the seaside and of the country - all these he brings vividly before our eyes". (Encyc. Britan., 11th Edn.) Topics range from his Tuscan villa, happy memories of Lake Como, love for his wife, Calpurnia, dreams, ghost-stories, the beauties of the Clitumnus and the floating islands of the Vadimonian lake, the eruption of Vesuvius in connection with the last days and death of Pliny the Elder, the deaths of Silius Italicus and Martial, the principles that should guide a Roman governor in Greece, the government of Bithynia, and the relations between the governor and the Emperor. "The Letters are models of graceful thought and refined expression each of them dealing with a single topic and generally ending with an epigrammatic point." (Ibid.) The whole of Book 8 was first published in its proper place by Aldus Manutius in 1508. Adams P1538. BM STC Italian p. 525. Renouard I 195.4. Dibdin (4th Edn.) II p. 330. Moss II pp. 493-94.
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POLYBIUS.
The History Of Polybius The Megalopolitan...
London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Cornelius Bee, 1634..
folio. pp. 7 p.l., 480, [14]index. lacking initial blank. title within elaborate woodcut border. folding table. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary calf (worn, front cover detached, endleaves replaced, title backed, 3rd leaf with tears -- no loss, occasional marginal defects, lower edge of table waterstained & with several small holes with slight loss). First Edition of the English Translation by Edward Grimeston, preceded by C.Watson's translation of 1568. STC notes 3 variants, one with earlier imprint (1633). STC 20099a. Brüggemann p. 241. Moss II p. 529.
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