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  • Topic: The Classical World

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London: [s.n.], M.DCC.XXXVI [1736].

8vo: [4],346,[82], with folding copper-engraved map of the Mediterranean world, frontispiece portrait of Homer, title-page vignette and 12 further half-page plates and tailpieces (one beginning and ending each section), engraved by Van der Gucht, all in excellent impressions. Contemporary mottled calf, boards framed with double gilt filet, ornately gilt-tooled spine... more

Price: $665.00

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Iohannem Elsevirium, Acad. Typog:, 1658.

Small, thick 8vo: [iv],751,[1],93 [Freinshem's supplement ],[46, unnumbered Index]pp, with engraved title page finely colored by a contemporary hand, folding map, folding plan of the Temple of Ammon, and numerous woodcut head and tail pieces, initials and illustrations in the text. Period vellum with yapped edges, faint manuscript title to... more

Price: $865.00

Amstelaedami (Amsterdam): Wetstenium, 1692.

Four books in one volume. Latin text throughout. Reprinted from the Utrecht edition of 1680. Octavo (5 x 8 inches). Full contemporary calf (or nearly so), four raised bands, elaborately gilt spine with gilt title on red morocco label. Engraved (beautifully so by Romeyn de Hooghe) title page depicting the... more

Price: $1,235.00

London: printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXXXVI [1786].

First Edition. 4to in 2 volumes: xvi, 684; viii, 718, [29], [1]pp, with 2 folding maps, "The Western Division of the Grecian Colonies and Conquests" and "The Eastern Division of the Grecian Colonies and Conquests." Uniformly bound in period full tree calf, the spines divided into six compartments with gilt... more

Price: $865.00

London: printed for C. Bathurst, J. F. and C. Rivington, B. Law, W. Owen, T. Longman [and 5 others in London],, 1785.

The sixteenth edition, corrected and improved. 8vo: [16],xxx,375,[27]pp, with 14 copperplate engravings, (7 folding, one double-page), numerous decorative head- and tailpieces; title page printed in black and red. Handsomely rebound by Fitterer in period-style butterscotch calf, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering... more

Price: $965.00

London: printed for J. Tonson; and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row,, 1712.

8vo: [8]174,179-482[pagination irregular but text continuous]pp, with frontispiece and six further copper-engraved plates by Guernier. The History of Love, by Charles Hopkins, with separate title page dated 1709. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in six compartments between raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red. A handsome scarce... more

Price: $565.00

Trajecti Ad Rhenum: apud Guilielmum vande Water, cic ic ccix [1709].

First Burmann Edition, complete in two volumes. 4to: [38],136,157-164,145-688; [4],368,[116]pp (pagination irregular, as with all copies of this edition, but text continuous and complete), with superb engravings, including one of gladiators. Full vellum, edges stained red, title page printed in red and black. Binding secure (small repair to spine base)... more

Price: $735.00

London: Printed by R. Reily, for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, MDCCXLVI. [1746].

8vo: [2],xvi,[2],487,4,[13]pp, with advertisement leaf preceding title page and nine copperplate engravings (three folding), comprising world map, celestial chart, map of the Peloponnesus, two plows on one sheet, compass rose and four botanicals, all about Fine with barest hint of toning. Latin text with Martyn's English translation and copious commentary... more

Price: $685.00

Antwerp: Plantin, 1590-1591.

First illustrated edition of a very early juvenilia, volume II only of the two-volume Metamorphoses abbreviated. Oblong 16mo (4 1/8" x 5 1/8"); pagination: 209-361, plus 17 pages, including an Index and approbatio, with 72 plates on 71 leaves (lacking 4 plates and the text on the verso). This copy... more

Price: $1,385.00

Basileae: Basileae in Officina Henrichi Petri, Mense Martio, Anno M. D. LI [1551].

Folio: [88],447,[1], with two folding celestial maps and numerous woodcut illustrations of instruments for observing the skies and making astronomical measurements. Edited by Schreckenfuchs and augmented by his commentary. Beautifully bound in nineteenth-century continental mottled calf over patterned paper-covered boards, spine in seven compartments with central gilt ornament, red and... more

Price: $4,250.00