Venice: Pietro di Nicolini da Sabbio, 1538. Octavo (16cm). Early nineteenth-century half red leather and marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled red; blue marbled endpapers; fol. 1-191,[1]; relief frame on title page. Brief but numerous contemporary manuscript annotations throughout. Printed in an Italic typeface..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 275pp. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread, in original and Near Fine dustwrapper. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Limited Edition. Unnumbered presentation copy (one of 550 copies printed). Quarto (30cm). In orange pastepaper-covered books, backed in white vellum, titled in gold on spine; plain endpapers; [vi], 70, [4]pp; with relief line blocks printed in green by Frank Chouteau Brown. Printed at the Riverside Press..... More

Vienne: S.i., 1950. First Edition. Octavo (25.5 cm). Printed thick paper wrappers; 25pp+ 6 leaves of plates; folding plan. Tight, clean, and unmarked - Near Fine. Text in French. Guidebook to the site. More

London: for Henry Cripps, 1655. Small quarto (19.5cm). Recent full calf; new endpapers; 277,(23)pp [4p.l.; A-Oo4; Pp2]. Sound and complete in 20th-c. binding; text browned; occasional dampstaining, small marginal losses (not affecting text); Good. The tenth edition of this much-reprinted school primer in Roman history, first published in 1623 and..... More

[Woodstock, VT: Elm Tree Press, n.d., ca. 1920]. First Thus. Small octavo (20cm.); original green pictorial stitched wrappers; unpaged. Light wear from handling, faint dampstain to bottom edge of upper wrapper, else Very Good. Forms part of the series "Horatian Reprints," providing verses by Horace in both the original Latin..... More

Venetiis [Venice]: Apud Matthaeum Lenium, 1647. 12mo (15cm). Contemporary limp vellum, with manuscript titles to lower edge and spine; [3-4] 5-118pp; engraved decorative engraved title page by I. Picinus (i.e. Giacomo Pecini). 12mo: A-E12 (-E12), ($1-6). p.69 mispaginated as "6." Lacking final blank. Minor wear and chipping to edges, short..... More

Halle: Gebauerschen Buchhandlung, 1824. First Edition. Meier (1796-1855) was a classical philologist and editor of the Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung as well as several other German philological journals. This prize-winning treatise, on legal jurisprudence in classical Athens, is his most enduring work, remaining the standard study of the subject well into the..... More

Venice: Ioannes Gryphium, 1581. Quarto in eights (21cm). Later brown paper over boards; later endpapers; fol. [8],158,[2]; 2 woodcuts (the same block, printed on fols 1r and 124v), decorative capitals, head and tailpieces, printer's device to title page. Bookplate for the James V. Brown Library, Williamsport, PA. Boards rubbed and..... More

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1942]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's staplebound card wrappers in grey decorative dust jacket printed in red and black; 30pp. Somer wear to jacket extremities including some chipped splitting along spine edge, ownership bookplate of American ambassador Wymberley Coerr and his wife Janet to half title..... More

Patavii [Passau]: Josephus Cominus, 1740. Octavo (19cm). Undyed cartonnage with brief manuscript title to spine; 80pp; title page vignette, printer's device to colophon. Untrimmed. 8vo: A-E8. Minor external rubbing and wear, with splits and losses to paper over spine, internally clean and bright: Very Good. The sayings of Roman playwright..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1968]. First Thus. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale blue-grey pictorial dust jacket; v,[3],203pp. Jacket spine toned and slightly chipped at crown, bottom corners lightly bumped, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Persian Heritage Series. More

New York: George H. Richmond & Co., 1896. First Edition. Octavo (18cm); one quarter light grey cloth, with brown paper sides, stamped in gilt; TEG; 58pp. Boards soiled and worn; rubbing and abrasions about extremities. Textblock lightly toned and smudged, especially to deckled edges; illustrated ex libris on front pastedown;..... More