Richmond, VA: Normand White, 1826. Edition not stated. Octavo (22cm); full dark brown calf, gilt titling on spine, pale yellow edgestains; 444pp. Leather moderately scuffed and scratched, with scattered small bumps and gouges, abrasions, edgewear; spine creased, somewhat tanned. Textblock comprehensively foxed, with dampstains and soiling throughout; pastedowns torn along..... More

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Modern translations into English of two Greek plays. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); light pink paper-covered boards, with title label mounted to spine, and decorative elements embossed to front cover; dustjacket; [iv],118,[2]pp. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, with gentle..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. Reprint. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's sheep, maroon morocco gilt spine label, all edges marbled; vii,[3],349pp. Boards quite rubbed and worn with brief peeling of leather to upper cover and spine ends, upper cover starting to separate; contemporary student's ownership bookplate to front pastedown and pencil..... More

Tarrytown, NY: The Roe Printing Company, 1924. Edition not stated. Octavo (17.5cm); blue paper covered boards, leather grain, titles stamped in white, with b/w photo-illustration tipped on front; III-XLI (recto only), frontispiece, one plate. Boards somewhat warped; soiling, surface wear, extremities rubbed; spine creased along joints. Interiors toned, especially along..... More

[Oxford: British Archaeological Reports], 1977. First Edition. Quarto (29cm.); publisher's red pictorial card wrappers; [20],333pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and soil to wrappers, endpapers tipped inside wrappers (as issued), rear free endpaper rather soiled from the glue and rusting of the binding staples, else Very Good and sound. Festschrift of..... More

Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2016. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm x 22.5cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; 196pp 1 + 159 plates; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Description and analysis of incantations on cuneiform tablets in the Shøyen Collection and editions of selected..... 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

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. First Edition. Large octavo (25cm); three quarter brown leather with marbled paper covered boards; spine in six compartments, gilt-stamped title in second, others stamped in black; marbled endpapers, all edges dark red; XIV, 544pp. Boards rubbed, with some chipping and surface loss to..... More

Seattle: Edward L. Jones / Frayn Printing Co., 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; xviii,182pp.; illus. Wrapper extremities foxed, old price sticker to upper cover, else Near Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Black Studies Series (In Classical History). 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

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

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

Altenburgi: Joh. Ludov Richterum et Heredes Lanckisianos, 1721. First Thus. The fundamental works of jurisprudence first compiled under Justianian I between 529 and 534 AD, this the first edition to be annotated by German scholar Christoph Heinrich Freiesleben. Two volumes in one; thick quarto (ca. 26cm.); contemporary blind-stamped pig skin..... More