[Mount Horeb]: Perishable Press, 1983. Edition limited to 143 copies printed from Spectrum and Open Kapitalan on 5 different hand-made papers; 8vo, pp. [28]; original printed blue wrappers; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. Two Decades 105. More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. Edition limited to 500 copies, royal 8vo, pp. x, [2], 202, [2]; text in Greek and English; original blue cloth, gilt title direct on spine, t.e.g., inscribed on the endpaper by the publisher, Eric Partridge to his sometimes collaborator, friend, and professor of English at..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1875. 5 volumes, 8vo, original terracotta cloth; a bit rubbed and with an occasional crack in the cloth, vol. 1 rebacked. More
Oxonii: Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1800. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 437, [2]; late 19th century half calf over marbled boards; rubbed, but good and sound. More
Lipsiae: Otto Holtze [and] Londini: Dulac & Soc. [and] David Nutt, 1873. Small folio, pp. xxv, [1], 725, [2]; Greek text with Latin preface; the copy with occasional extensive and informed notes in the margins, likely by one W. H. Cross, University College, Oxford, whose ownership signature is on the..... More
London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1769. 2 volumes, 8vo; pp. xxviii, [4], 320; [4], 386; preliminary blanks preserved, engraved title pages; together with: Comedies of Plautus, translated in familiar blank verse, by the gentleman who translated The Captives... London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1772-4..... More
Nürnberg: Johann Paul Krauss, 1739. 8vo, pp. [46], 720, [94]; engraved frontispiece of a scribe working in a library; old vellum-backed boards, the spine almost perished and revealing the binding structure underneath; the binding a bit skewed, but sound. Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which 247 survive..... More
Lvgd. Batavorvm [i.e., Leiden]: ex officina Elseviriorum, 1640. First Elzevir edition, 12mo, pp. [12], pp. [24], 414 (but with a 10-p lacuna between p. 289 and p.300, as issued), [28]; printer's device on title page plus decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout; early 19th-century half calf over marbled boards..... More
Glasguae: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1751. Small 4to, pp. [4], 348, [8]; contemporary full calf very nicely rebacked, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; a near fine copy. Gaskell 207. More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1925. Edition limited to 405 copies, 8vo, 3 vols., title pages in red, blue and black; vellum-backed green paper-covered boards, gilt title direct on spine, t.e.g.; corners rubbed, upper joint of volume 2 cracked and reinforced with tape, bookplates of J. L. and E. B. Ketterlinus..... More
London: Lackington, Allen & Co. [et al.], 1805. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. 376; 324, [2]; front free endpaper in vol. I excised; contemporary full calf, rebacked, old red morocco labels preserved; good and sound. "The grace and accuracy of the work are remarkable … Warton placed it among works that..... More
Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, 8vo, 8 vols., decorated throughout by Thomas Lowinsky; generally a fine set in original black cloth, gilt lettering direct on spines, t.e.g. More
Philadelphia: Brannon and Morford, 1811. 8 volumes, 12mo, original printed boards, rubbed and worn, spines largely (but not entirely) perished, but the bindings remain sound, even though the back cover of volume IV is held on by a single cord. Early ownership signatures of Mary W. Chadeayne and Jacob Waring..... More
Baltimore: William and Joseph Neal, 1836. 8vo, pp. [8] ads, xx, 748; engraved frontis portrait and title-p. (both a bit spotted), contemporary full sheep, red morocco label; good, sound copy, or better. Includes chronological table and a table of weights, measures, and money, as well as an index. More
New York: Bigelow, Brown and Co., n.d., [ca. 1920's]. 5 volumes, 8vo, 30 plates; contemporary quarter green levant, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spines, t.e.g.; spines faded to brown else near fine. More
London: printed by Whittingham and Rowland for J. Sharpe, [etc.], 1810. 2 volumes, 24mo, pp. vi, [2], 191; 216; engraved frontispiece in each volume; later half polished tan calf, brown morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; very good. More
Oxoniae: e Theatro Sheldoniano. Impensis Henrici Cruttenden, typographi, 1693. First Gibson edition (edited by him at the age of just 24), small 4to, pp. [22], 645, [1], [72] indexes and emendations; contemporary full speckled paneled calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; small chip from one corner of the top..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930. First edition, small 4to, pp. vii, [1], 170; frontispiece, folding map, over 125 illustrations throughout, largely from photographs; publisher's green cloth; slight staining to the corners of the boards, in a very good, unclipped dust jacket with slight waterstain at lower gutter. Ownership signature of..... More
Paris and London: Audot and Bossange, Barthes, and Lowell, 1830. 12mo, 2 vols only (of an eventual 17); title pages in French and English; 125 plates accompanied by descriptions in French and English; bound by C. Hardy in full triple-ruled red morocco, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, title gilt..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Third edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 321; 8 leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos; original stiff green pictorial wrappers; spine a bit cracked, else near fine. More
Venezia: Francesco Pitteri, 1739. 12mo, pp. 334, [2]; title page printed in red and black, woodcut device on title page, woodcut ornaments; very good and sound in contemporary vellum. Dictionary to the works of Terence and Plautus in Latin and Toscana. 4 in OCLC: 3 in Italy and 1 in..... More
Cambridge: University Press, [1975]. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, many illustrations on the rectos and versos of 192 plates; fine set in the dust-jackets. More
Amstelodami: Ex Typographia Blaviana, 1685. 4to, pp. [8], 934, [30]; engraved title-p., engraved folding plan of Rome, 7 engraved plates (2 folding); contemporary full speckled calf, black morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; joints rubbed, but generally a very good, clean and sound copy. Contents include information on the city and..... More
Ultrajecti: Franciscum Halma, 1685. Thick 8vo, pp. [36], 1-847, [256]; engraved title page, folding engraved map and 10 engraved plates (6 folding) by Jan van den Aveelen; a nice copy in old paste-paper boards, neatly rebacked in brown calf gilt, red morocco label. Alexander (356-323 B.C.) devoted himself early to..... More
Amstelodami: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1664. 8vo, pp. [4], 93, [47], 751, [1]; engraved title page and 2 folding plates, one a map; quarter vellum over patterned paper-covered boards, red speckled edges; vellum on spine cracked, toned and partially perished, otherwise a good copy with a few ink stains in the..... More
