Birmingham: Johannis Baskerville, 1766. 8vo, pp. [2], 388; cancels as in Gaskell; engraved frontispiece; recent half brown calf over marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; the whole lightly foxed else generally fine throughout. Gaskell 34. More
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757 [i.e. 1771?]. Second edition of Baskerville's first ("perhaps finest") book; 4to, pp. [10], 432; contemporary full mottled calf neatly rebacked, preserving the old red morocco label on spine; a bit of spotting to the prelims, but a very good copy nonetheless. This second edition, virtually identical... More
Glasgow: Andreas Foulis, 1778. 2 volumes in 1, folio, [4], 277, [1]; blank leaf; [8], 307, [1], [2] subscribers; contemporary full tree calf neatly and sympathetically rebacked to style, yellow edges, gilt ownership stamp on upper cover of Richard L. Schieffelin, and an engraved family bookplate on the front pastedown... More
Londini: impensis Gul. Pickering, 1821. First Pickering edition, issued in his Diamond Classics series and printed in Diamond type by C. Correll; 48mo (8 cm.), pp. 283, [1]; generally fine in contemporary and probably original pebble-grain green morocco gilt, a.e.g., ribbon bookmark. One of the rarest of Pickering's Diamond Classics;... More
New York: E. Duyckinck, T. & J. Swords [et al.], 1803. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lvi, 353; [2], 470, [10]; contemporary full sheep, black morocco labels and red morocco numbering pieces on spine; the text is tones, both bindings rubbed and worn, but sound. In fact, not the first American... More
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1766. Only edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 16, [3]-536; contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco-backed marbled boards, smooth gilt-paneled spine laid out in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; edges worn, corners showing, but in all a very good, sound copy. Gaskell 32. More
Londini: typis excudit J.F. Dove, veneunt apud Ricardum Priestley, 1821. 4 volumes, royal 8vo (identified by Lowndes as the Large Paper issue), contemporary full tree calf, covers with ornate gilt borders, smooth spines in 6 compartments, red morocco labels in two, a.e.g.; joints starting, minor wear at the spine ends... More
[Geneva]: Apud Petrum Santandreanum, 1575. 3 parts in one volume, small 8vo; *4 *8 a-x8 2a-2m8 2n4 2o8 2p4 [A]-D8 E6; printer's device, initials, head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary limp vellum (darkened), yapp edges, manuscript spine title; small loss to spine leather; 18th-century ownership signature "Mathon" and late 19th-century rubber... More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1952. Edition limited to 1500 copies made for members of the LEC by Giovanni Mardersteig, 20 wood engraved illustrations by Bruno Bramanti, 4to, xv-[xvi] & 154-[157]pp., fine copy in original green cloth-backed paper-covered boards, publisher's box. Signed by Mardersteig and Bramanti. Quarto-Millenary 229; LEC Bibliography 229. More
Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1893. Dritte Auflage, besorgt von Max Lehnerdt, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 591; viii, 543; contemporary three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-tooled spines in 5 compartments, all edges marbled, decorative endpapers; edges and corners quite scuffed, spines faded, Vol. I spine cocked;... More
Francofurti ad Moenum: Ludovici Broenneri, 1833. First edition, large 8vo, pp. lxxx, 1419, [3]; text in double column; later full brown morocco, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine, marbled edges; extremities rubbed and worn; good and sound. Latin poetry from the works of Lucretius, Catullus, Virgilius, Horatius, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovidius... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1969]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 234; original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; jacet spine faded, minor edge wear, else about fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to Gwin Kolb; author ALS to Kolb laid in: "Here, at last, is The Formal... More
Chicago: 1937. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp, iv, 39; original linen-backed rust paper-covered boards, gilt; linen a bit soiled, else very good. Inscribed by the author, "Arno B. Luckhardt. Scripsit eius nomen et suum auctor. Payson Sibley Wild Non. Apr. MCMXXXVII" on the front free endpaper, Mr. Luckhardt's... More
Boston & Cambridge: James Munroe, 1856. 12mo, x & 108pp., text in Greek and roman character throughout, very good copy in orig. brown cloth. Woolsey was president of Yale. More
Glasgow: printed and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1750. 8vo, pp. 238, [2]; contemporary tan sheep, double gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine 6 compartments, black morocco label in 1, red speckled edges; spine toned, armorial bookplate of Charles of Yorke, very good and sound. Gaskell 175. More
Glasguae: excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis academiae typographi, 1756. 8vo, pp. [2], 98; uncut; original blue paper-covered boards; boards rubbed and toned, spine perished, large chip to upper free endpaper, likely an excised ownership signature; a good, sound copy. Gaskell 328. More
Glasguae: in aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1761. 8vo, pp. [4], 300; text in Greek, contemporary brown calf, spine in 6 compartments, brown morocco label in 1; boards worn, joints starting, ex-Southwark library with small tape residue on boards and their small rubberstamp on the title page and... More
Glasguae: excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1767. 8vo, 4 volumes, Greek and Latin text interleaved, contemporary speckled calf, triple-rule gilt borders, smooth gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, brown morocco labels in 2, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; all but 1 label perished, boards and spine worn, library stamps on title... More
Glasguae: excudebat Robertus Foulis academiae typographus, 1745. 8vo, pp. [2] (ad leaf lacking), 42, [2]; bound with: Xenophon, Hiero, or the condition of a tyrant, 1750. pp. [4], 75, [1]; leaf B4 cancelled; three-quarter calf-backed marbled boards; spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; boards a little rubbed, toned endpapers, closed tear to E2; very good. Gaskell 70 & 174. More
![Xenophon's history of the affairs of Greece. By the translator of Thucydides [William Smith]. XENOPHON.](/pictures/thumb/24072_1.jpg?v=1488390455)
London: Benjamin White, 1770. First edition of this translation; 4to, pp. iv [i.e. vi], 331, [5]; engraved folding map bound in as a frontispiece; full contemporary calf, rebacked, old red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; engraved 18th century bookplate of John Cator; very good, sound copy. Preceded only by Newman's 1685 translation. More
![[= Reprint of a colloquial commentary of Zhang Juzheng on the four books: Mencius]. Juzheng Zhang.](/pictures/thumb/50312_1.png?v=1515709119)
n.p. [Wu Weiye ?], [c. 1650]. Books 14-27 of 27 books, bound in 5 volumes; contemporary, if not original, paper covers, title in manuscript on each cover, stab-bound; with 21 folios lacking in the text and replaced with blank folios, 15 folios partially perished and remargined, and 2 folios almost... More
