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De bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili pompeiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I....

[Aldine] Caius Julius Caesar; Aulus Hirtius; Giovanni Giocondo [ed.]; Raimondo Marliani [indexer]

De bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili pompeiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africano liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I [The Gallic War in Eight Books; the Pompeian Civil War in Four Books; the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars in One Book Each]

Venice: [title-page lacking; other copies show In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri], [mid-1500s]. Aldine "Enchiridion" Octavo; 30pp of preliminary matter extant (lacunae, see description) + 2pp Preface of Aldus Manutius + 530pp, including extant Index (lacunae, see description). Double-spread woodcut map of the Iberian peninsula. Contemporary mottled calf; four raised..... More

Price: $450.00

The Gods of Greece [Signed and with ALS to William Safire]. Arianna Stassinopoulos, Roloff Beny,...

Arianna Stassinopoulos [Huffington]; Roloff Beny [photo.]

The Gods of Greece [Signed and with ALS to William Safire]

New York: Harry C. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Signed by Stassinopoulos on title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Bill and Helene, / with my love, / Arianna / 15th August 1983." Additional autographed letter signed taped to front free endpaper and reads, "Dear Bill..... More

Price: $45.00

A History of the Pharaohs: The First Eleven Dynasties & The Twelfth to the Eighteenth Dynasties...

Arthur Weigall

A History of the Pharaohs: The First Eleven Dynasties & The Twelfth to the Eighteenth Dynasties [Two Volumes]

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1925. First Edition. Two Octavo Volumes. xv, 328 pp.; xv, 424 pp. All plates and illustrations present. Volume One is red brick cloth and stamped in black. Volume Two in same with spine stamped in gilt and front blind stamped. Lacking dust jackets... More

Price: $125.00

The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought. Bruno Snell, T G. Rosenmeyer,...

Bruno Snell; T.G. Rosenmeyer [trans.]

The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. Decorative dust jacket. Burnt umber boards with spine lettered in gilt. Some light shelfwear to edges and a few colorful smudges. A touch of wear to extremities of boards. Sturdy and square in binding and interior unmarked. More

Price: $50.00

Slavery in Ancient India: As Depicted in Pali and Sanskrit Texts. Dev Raj Chanana, J. Filliozat, fwd

Dev Raj Chanana; J. Filliozat [fwd.]

Slavery in Ancient India: As Depicted in Pali and Sanskrit Texts

New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pages. Prinetd dust jacket with Rs 10.00 price inact. Beige boards with spine stamped in black. Dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges and toned at spine and edges. Boards are heavily foxed, and lightly worn at edges..... More

Price: $50.00

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Twelve Volumes]. Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Twelve Volumes]

London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1806. "A New Edition." Twelve Octavo Volumes Complete. Frontis portrait and two fold-out maps to volumes 1 and 2. Full contemporary tree-calf with black and red labels and gilt decoration to spine. Worn along edges, with bumping to corners and some loss to..... More

Price: $750.00

The Iliad of Homer. Homer, Alexander Pope, John Flaxman, trans

Homer; Alexander Pope [trans.]; John Flaxman [illus.]

The Iliad of Homer

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1979. Octavo. 478 pages. Color frontis portrait and black and white illustrations throughout. Full red leather with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on covers and spine; all edges gilt; yellow satin ribbon. Light rubbing along top edges with some smudging near bottom..... More

Price: $30.00

A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace, with the Original Text, and Critical Notes...

Horace; Philip Francis [Trans.]; Edward du Bois [Ed.]

A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace, with the Original Text, and Critical Notes Collected from his Best Latin and French Commentators (Four Volumes)

London: Richard Taylor and Co., 1807. "A New Edition, with Additional Notes." 12mo; Vol I xxvi + 336pp; Vol II 305pp; Vol III 345pp; Vol IV 341pp. One engraving, in Vol III, illustrating Satire 8 of Bk II of the Satires. Reverse-mottled calf. Parallel Latin and English in each spread..... More

Price: $90.00

Plato and Europe. Jan Patočka, Petr Lom, trans

Jan Patočka; Petr Lom [trans.]

Plato and Europe

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. First Edition. Wrapper Issue. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; xxi,[3],223pp. Some light wear and dust-soil, very occasional faint pencil underlining, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series Cultural Memory in the Present. More

Price: $20.00

Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza. Jennifer L....

Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper

Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. First Edition. Octavo. 211 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over gray boards with brown lettering to spine. Jacket is lightly rubbed along edges, with some faint scuffing to front and rear panels. Boards are sturdy and clean. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More

Price: $25.00

Archaeologia Graeca, or the Antiquities of Greece [William Safire Copy; Two Volumes]. John Potter

John Potter

Archaeologia Graeca, or the Antiquities of Greece [William Safire Copy; Two Volumes]

Edinburgh: Mundell, Doig, & Stevenson: and for J. Nunn [et al.], 1808. Two Octavo Volumes. 521 pages + Index; 418 pages + Index. 28 black and white plates (2 in volume one; 22 in volume two) portraying the government, military, and sports of Ancient Greece. Full speckled calf gilt tooled..... More

Price: $125.00

L'Art Roman en France: Architecture / Sculpture / Peinture / Arts Mineurs. Louise...

Louise Lefrançois-Pillion

L'Art Roman en France: Architecture / Sculpture / Peinture / Arts Mineurs

Paris: Guy le Prat, n.d., ca. 1947. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's limp tan boards printed in brown; [2],110pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A bit of toning to boards and textblock, bump to top edge of rear cover, small chip to top fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good..... More

Price: $25.00

Relations Politiques Et Commerciales De L'Empire Romain Avec L'Asie Orientale (L'Hyrcanie,...

M. [Joseph Toussaint] Reinaud

Relations Politiques Et Commerciales De L'Empire Romain Avec L'Asie Orientale (L'Hyrcanie, L'Inde, La Bactriane Et La Chine) Pendant Les Cinq Premiers Siecles De L'Ere Chretienne

Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 339 pages. 4 fold-out maps to rear. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Green cloth over marbled paper covered boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Moderate wear to boards; cracked at bottom corners and spine ends. Cracked at hinge but binding is sound..... More

Price: $125.00

Ancient Panama: Chiefs in Search of Power. Mary W. Helms

Mary W. Helms

Ancient Panama: Chiefs in Search of Power

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],228pp.; illus. and maps in text. Jacket a bit edge worn with short closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel not approaching text, ownership pressure stamp to front free endpaper, else Very..... More

Price: $25.00

Un Bal chez les Étoiles [A Dance Among the Stars]. Mathilde Vonwiller, Colette Sauter

Mathilde Vonwiller; Colette Sauter [Illus.]

Un Bal chez les Étoiles [A Dance Among the Stars]

Lausanne: Roth et Sauter / Au Verseau, 1966. First Edition. Quarto; unpaginated [32pp]. Thirty-two full-layout illustrated pages with incorporated "hand cursive" text. Bound in stiff card with deep reverse flaps. Binding and pages printed throughout in wedgewood blue on off-white, with text in red. Entirely in French. Binding edge-folds..... More

Price: $30.00

The Satires of A. Persius Flaccus. Persius, John Conington, Aulus Persius Flaccus, ed. trans

Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus]; John Conington [trans., ed.]

The Satires of A. Persius Flaccus

Third Edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893. Third Revised Edition. Octavo; xxxix, 149pp. Red leather with gilt stamped "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" (City School of London) crest on front, with gilt dentelles and spine ornamentation, gauffered edges, and a small black leather title card to spine. Marbled page edges. Boards lightly..... More

Price: $45.00

Quintilian's Institutes of the Orator [Institutio Oratoria] in Twelve Books. Translated from the...

Quintilian; J. Patsall [Trans.]

Quintilian's Institutes of the Orator [Institutio Oratoria] in Twelve Books. Translated from the Original Latin, According to the Paris Edition of Professor Rollin, and Illustrated with Critical and Explanatory Notes (Twelve Books in Two Volumes)

London: B. Law, 1774. First Thus. Octavo; Vol I xii + 404pp; Vol II xii + 441pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses bound in. Contemporary tree calf with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine. Gilt filleting on all board edges, and additional trio of small gilt stamps on spine crowns..... More

Price: $275.00

Ur III Tablets from the Columbia University Libraries. S. Garfinkle, H. Sauren, M. Van De Mieroop

S. Garfinkle; H. Sauren; M. Van De Mieroop

Ur III Tablets from the Columbia University Libraries

Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2010. Quarto. 341 pages. Illustrations. Red cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, as issued. Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Unread. Some wear to plastic shrinkwrap with a few small punctures. A touch of shelfwear to corners of boards. Volume 16 in the..... More

Price: $65.00

The History of Rome (Three Volumes in Two). D. D. Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold, D.D.

The History of Rome (Three Volumes in Two)

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1846. Stated "Three Volumes in Two." Octavo; Vol I 536pp; Vol II 509pp [+ 9pp of publisher prospectuses bound in]. Brown cloth. Gilt stamped emblem on front panel of both volumes; gilt lettering on spines. Both spines battered crown and foot, some peeling..... More

Price: $50.00

A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with Supplementary Chapters on...

William Smith

A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art

Boston: Hickling, Swan, and Brewer, 1857. Later Printing. Octavo; xxxi, 670 pp. Engraved frontis, with illustrations throughout. Rebound in purple cloth and black leather spine with gilt lettering. Boards faded, soiled, and stained, with a good amount of scuffing along joints, rubbing along edges, and bumping to corners, with some..... More

Price: $35.00

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