Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; x,246pp. Mild spotting to top edge of text block, else tight, clean and unmarked in mildly spine-sunned dustwrapper, Near Fine. More
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
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (18.75cm.); original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 266pp.; photographic frontispiece, 3 leaves of plates. Some general shelf wear, mostly to spine ends, spine just a hint cocked, else Very Good. Biography of the Romano-Jewish scholar Flavius Josephus. From the library of..... 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
Berlin: Buchhandlung Borwärts, 1910. First Thus. Octavo (25.5cm.); original drab wrappers printed in red; 240pp. Wrapper extremities a bit worn and toned with several short closed tears, spine ends chipped, else Very Good, internally quite fresh. History of slavery in antiquity, translated from the Italian into German. 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
![Dictionarivm Ciceronianvm [Dictionarium Ciceronianum]. CICERO, Francesco PRISCIANESE, alt....](/pictures/medium/34600.jpg?v=1529353778)
Romae: Michaelis Herculis, 1666. Revised Edition. Small octavo (15.5cm.); contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title; 399pp.; woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Signatures: A-2B8 (the C signature bound in twice). Boards a bit rubbed, lacking both endpapers, hinges starting to crack but still holding, contemporary and later (1734) ownership signatures (both redacted about..... 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
Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1881. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's brown cloth, decorative spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, brown glazed endpapers; 510pp.; engraved frontispiece. Boards rather scuffed at extremities, corners bumped, both hinges cracked, textblock uniformly toned, else About Very Good only. From the library of..... 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Thus. Octavo (23.75cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [2],304pp. Fine. 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
Chicago: Educational Screen, [1942]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's green printed card wrappers; single folded chart bound in (96x40cm.). Wrappers a bit worn with a few small closed tears to extremities, else Very Good overall, chart in fine condition. Four copies only in OCLC as of June, 2020. More
![The Golden Mean [cover title]. HORACE, trans William Cowper](/pictures/medium/26707.jpg?v=1529353511)
[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
![On Dressing Plainly [cover title]. Charles L., trans John Cotton Dana, HORACE](/pictures/medium/26706.jpg?v=1529353511)
[Woodstock, VT: Elm Tree Press, n.d., ca. 1920]. First Thus. Small octavo (20cm.); original red pictorial stitched wrappers; unpaged. Wrapper extremities darkened and slightly worn, else Very Good. Forms part of the series "Horatian Reprints," providing verses by Horace in both the original Latin and an English translation. Title of..... 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
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. Edition not stated. Octavo (22cm); bright green cloth, spine stamped in gilt with dark blue; bold pictorial dustwrapper; xiii,134pp. Dustwrapper mildly toned and soiled, with tanned spine and large crease across lower portion of front; chips and small tears to extremities; marginalia/underlining throughout interiors..... 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
Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1964. Firsts thus. Two octavo volumes in pictorial card slipcase; quarter-cloth over boards; 256+223pp; illus. Both volumes fine, without dustwrappers (as issued?); in lightly rubbed and scuffed, but sturdy, slipcase. A sharp example of this somewhat hard-to-find edition, presenting two of the most scholarly popular works..... More
Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie. 1859. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spines in five compartments, all edges speckled brown, marbled endpapers; [4],vi,[2],386; [4],391pp. Boards quite heavily rubbed with exposure to corners, textblock uniformly foxed throughout. About Very Good only..... 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
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); xxix,516pp. Mild spotting to top edge of text block; mild corner-creases to covers; still a tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy. There was a simultaneous hardcover issue. More
Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webber, 1915. 12mo. Printed paper wrappers; 28, (4)pp; 3 illustrations in text. Institutional cloth and staple reinforcement to bound edge; evidence of label removal on rear wrapper; Good. Text clean, complete and unmarked. No. 133 in publisher's series "Kleine Texte fur Vorlesungen und Ubungen." Text..... More
![Some Odes of Pindar in New English Versions by Richmond Lattimore [Poet of the Month]. PINDAR,...](/pictures/medium/42036.jpg?v=1540850237)
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
[Norfolk, CT: New Directions], 1947. First Thus. Octavo (23.5cm.); original printed magenta wrappers; 52,[1],[11](ads)pp.; illus. Spine faded, textblock starting to separate from wrappers else About Very Good and sound. GALLUP A58a. More
