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Classics19667. Aesop and others.: Twenty four Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists, as rendered into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knight, with illustrations after the etchings of Marcus Gheeraerts the elder. London: Ernest Benn limited1928. The text by the Alcuin Press Campden. the illustrations by the Collographic Art Printers. 52 pp. 24 illustrations, gold blocked blue boards, there is some fading to the gilt and there is a bit of sun fading. internally good but covers fair only. £12.004629. Brodribb, C.W. editor: Virgil, the Georgics in English hexamaters by C.W. Broadribb. London: Ernest Benn 1st edition 1928. 26 by 19 cms. pp.86, woodblock decorations by Maud Reed Cooper. some fading and edge rubbing to dark green boards along with some old but faint staining, internally good. £12.0017715. Cornish, F.W., translator: Catullus Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1939. The Loeb Classical Library. xi + 366 pp. 17 x 11.5 cm. Gold-blocked red boards. T.e.g. Spine a little faded, otherwise good. Signature of Allan Seaton, Irish artist and poet, on ffep. The Latin text is matched page by page by the translation. £20.0012425. Dunlop, John: History of Roman Literature from its earliest period to the Augustan Age. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1823. Two volumes. Vol. 1, xxiii+598 pp. Vol II, 627 pp. 22 x 14cm. Half leather and black mottled cloth, six panelled spines with raised bands and gilt decoration, original spine labels, marbled endpapers, a small Belfast binder label on front pastedown for Aiken McCulloch Police Square. The spines have been professionally relaid. Internally bright, tight and clean. A classic study. £110.0012129. Dymock, Joannis editor: Caii Julii Caesaris Opera Omnia; ad Optimorum, Exemplarium Fidem Recensita. Edinburgi: Editio Decima Nona 1851. Notulis sermone anglicano, exaratis illustrata, et indice nominum propriorum uberrimo instructa: in usum scholarum. 476 pp. leathrer embossed boards with six panelled spine and original spine title. Some very minor old annotation, former owner listed as E. S. Bond The Argory (Co. Armagh). Text in Latin throughout. £35.009873. Frere, John Hookham: Aristophanes A Metrical Version of The Acharnians, The Knights and The Birds with occasional comment. London: George Routledge and Sons Third Edition 1890. with an introduction by Henry Morley. 281 pp. blue boards, a little rubbed, particularly at spine extremities, otherwise good, no annotation or underlining. £8.0011871. Hall, W.H. (Bullock): The Romans on the Riviera and the Rhone A Sketch of the Conquest of Liguria and the Roman Province. London: Macmillan and Co. 1898. x+194 pp. illustrated, two coloured maps, one folded, ancient/modern plans of Marseilles and Frejus. Green boards showing some wear and rubbing, particularly to the bottom quarter of the front board, internally good. £12.005103. Hincks, Thomas D: A Greek-English Lexicon. London: Whittaker & Co. Dublin: J.Cumming 1843 15 by 15 cms, xii+672 pp. professionally recased in a modern black binding , gilt spine title, 2nd edition much enlarged. first published in 1831. Containing all the words that occur in the books used in most schools and collegiate courses. Hincks was Master of the Classical School at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. £30.0013856. Horatii Flacci, Quinti (Horace): Opera. Interpretatione & Notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez. Cardinalitus Socius ac Rhetor Emeritus, jussu Christianissmi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini ac Serenissimorum Principum Burgundiae Andium & Biturigum. Dublin: editio duodecima, prioribus longe emendatior. A Leathley, W.& W. Smith, T. Wilson & T. Ewing 1767. Huic editioni accessere Vita Horatii cum Dacerii Notis, ejudem chronologia Horatiana & praefatio. 20 by 12.5 cms. 16+410+68 pp. with several decorative woodblock engraved head and tailpieces, the last 68 pp consist of the index. The book has been professionally rebound in brown cloth with a black and gilt spine label, and gilt lining, new endpapers. There are a few pages with some old light pencil annotation. The binder has put the date 1757 on the bottom of the spine in error for 1767. This is an attractive copy. We have not been able to ascertain if there are earlier Dublin printings of this work. £165.0019781. Jones, WHS, translator: Hippocrates, Vol II. London: William Heinemann Ltd, reprinted 1943. lxvi + 336 + 7 pp. 17 x 11.5 cm. Gold-blocked green boards. Initials of the historian Richard Grenfell Morton on ffep, o/w In very good condition. This is the second volume of Hippocrates in the Loeb Classical Library. £10.0017868. Jowett, B: Thucydides Translated into English with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and Indices. Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1881. Vol.1, Containing the Text. This is volume 1 of a two-volume work This volume is complete in itself. xxi + 708 pp. 23 x 15 cm. Index. The binding is a modern one: gold-blocked green boards, and new endpapers. The title page is a bit dusty, but the rest of the text is clean and tight. Very occasional pencilled marginalia, o/w In very good condition. £25.0017901. Jowett, B: Thucydides Translated into English with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and Indices. Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1881. Vol.2, Containing the Notes. This is volume 2 of a two-volume work. xlix + lxxxviii + 550 + (ii) pp. 24 x 15 cm. Index. Original gold-blocked black boards, faded and worn. Hinges weak. Occasional pencilled marginalia. A reading copy. £15.0014755. Langhorne, J. and Langhorne, W. trans. and editors: Plutarch's Lives translated from the original Greek with notes critical and historical, and a new life of Plutarch. Dublin: T.Ewing in Capel Street, 1771. Volume 2 only. 453 pp. with seven engraved plates, in a contmporary calf binding, six panelled spine with raised bands, original spine label. Boards worn and scuffed, internally tight and clean. This volume includes Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Timoleon, Paulus Aemilius, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Cato the Censor, Philopoemen, Titus Quinctius Flaminius, Pyrrhus, Caius Marius, and Lysander. The portrait plates are attractive £32.0011943. Langhorne, J. and Langhorne, W., translators and editors: Plutarch's Lives, translated from the original Greek with notes critical and historical and a new life of Plutarch by John Langhorne and William Langhorne. Dublin: Printed by T. Ewing in Capel Street, 1771. The first Dublin edition. Volume V. only of a five volume set. 217 pp. + index. Engraved portrait of Dion. In contemporary calf, six panelled spine with raised bands, original spine label, rubbing and some wear to boards, small loss to upper spine extremity, otherwise tight and clean. £23.00978. Lempriere, J.: Bibliotheca Classica: or A Classical Dictionary; ... Proper Names ... Coins, Weights, and Measures. London: Black, Young, and Young, 1832. Second edition, corrected, improved and enlarged. 1090 pp. 23 x 14 cm. Re-edited and revised by E.H.Barker with further corrections, etc by C. Anthon. Gold-blocked half leather and brown boards. Marbled edges. Slight scuff to rear board, otherwise in very good condition. Unpackaged weight 1,400 g. £23.0017023. Lorimer, H.L.: Homer and the Monuments. London: Macmillan & Co., 1950. xxiii + 552 pp. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. 32 plates. 61 figures in text. Gold-blocked blue boards, in good condition, in a faded, partly-edgeworn dustwrapper. Bookplate of DDA Simpson, late Professor of Archaeology at Queen's University, Belfast. Unpackaged weight 1,600g. £10.0015285. McCabe, Joseph: The Empresses of Rome. London: Methuen & Co, 1911. x+357+31 pp. 23 x 14.5 cm. Twenty-four plates. Gold-blacked blue boards, no dw. Spine sunfaded and showing a little wear, otherwise good. £10.0017935. Merouille S.J., P. Carolus: M.T. Ciceronis Orationes Quædam Selectæ, Cum Interpretatione & Notis Quas In Usum Serenissimi Delphini Edidit P. Carolus Merouille, S.J. Quibus Præfigitur Vita Ciceronis Per Annos Consulares Digesta. His Adjiciuntur In Tres Orationes ....... Dublin: Impensis P. Wogan, Old-Bridge, 1795. Editio Decima Emendatior. xxvii + 477 + (14) pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. In a contemporary calf binding, with modest gilt lining and an original gold-blocked black spine label. The spine has been professionally relaid and has new matching leather spine extremities. Owner's name, and date, 1813, on ffep. Internally very tight, clean, and unmarked. This Dublin printing is uncommon. There is no copy in the National Library in Dubln, and Copac currently show no Dublin printings in UK libraries £75.00809. Murray, Gilbert, translator: The Frogs of Aristophones. London: George Allen & Sons, 1908. ii + 136 + ii pp. 19 x 13 cm. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. Gold-blocked green boards. In good condition. £10.00806. Murray, Gilbert, translator: The Hippolytus of Euripides. London: George Allen & Sons, 1911. ii + 86 + ii pp. 19 x 13 cm. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. Gold-blocked green boards. In good condition. £10.00808. Murray, Gilbert, translator.: The Medea of Euripides. London: George Allen & Sons, 1910. xii + 96 + ii pp. 19 x 13 cm. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. Gold-blocked green boards. In god condition. £10.0012339. Myers, FWH: Essays Classical. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1911. First published 1883. 223 pp. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Essays on Greek Oracles, Virgil and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Hardcover, rebound in half leather and textured cloth boards with five panelled spine with gilt lining and gilt panel devices, red and gold spine label, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. with an inscription on ffep, "W.A.N. MacGeough Bond from G.J. C. Eton July 1927". Also as a loose insert a letter which accompanied the book, from George J Chittes. MacGeough Bond was from the Irish family which owned Drumsill and The Argory, County Armagh. In very good condition. £150.0019782. Page, TE, editor: Aristotle The Poetics, "Longinus" On the Sublime, Demetrius On Style. London: William Heinemann Ltd, reprinted 1946. xThe Loeb Classical Library. The Greek text with English translation. xx + 501 pp. 17 x 11.5 cm. Gold-blocked green boards. Signature of the historian Richard Grenfell Morton on ffep, o/w In very good condition. £10.0020576. Pinner, H.L.: The World of Books in Classical Antiquity. Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff 23 x 15 cm. 64 pp. 15 illustrations, soft covers in very good condition. £10.0015781. Polignac, Cardinalis Melchioris de: Anti-Lucretius Sive de Deo et Natura, Libri Novem. London: Johannem Nourse, 1751. Editio Secunda. Tomus Secundus. Second volume only, of two. 256+16 pp. 16.5 x 9.5 cm. Books five to nine, and an index. Bound in contemporary calf, six panelled spine with raised bands. Spine label missing, o/w a good tight clean copy. £35.0014867. Pomponius Mela and Caius Julius Solinus: De Orbis Situ Libri III. & C. Julius Solini, Polyhistor. Basileae: (Basel) Per Sebastianum Henricpetri 1595. 15.5 by 11 cms. (18) 398 pp. decorative capitals, beautiful woodcut device, or printer's mark, for the publisher, the two boards are contemporary but the spine has been professionally replaced in similar syle with five panels, raised bands and a new red and gilt spine title. There is a small worm hole from the title page margin through the margins to p.200. The book block is tight and clean, the ffep has edge damage from the wormhole, and with some old annotation to the title page "(12) August 24 1693." The front pastedown has the bookplate for the earl of Roden and this may be the date of accession for his library. £350.009874. Prickard, A. O: Libbelvs de Svblimitate Dionysio Longino Fere Adscriptvs. Oxonii: Typographeo Clarendoniano n.d. accedvnt excerpta qvaedam e cassii longini operibvs. xvi+xliv. preface in Latin, text in Greek. A few light pencil markings otherwise very good. On the Sublime, by Longinus, the Greek literary critic, which analyses the qualities of great literature, was highly influential amongst the Romantics. One of the Oxford series - Scriptorum Classicorum Biblioteca Oxoniensis. £8.0016638. Rolleston, T.W., editor: The Book of Epictetus being the Enchiridion together with Chapters from the Discourses and Selections from the Fragments of Epictetus. London: George G. Harrup & Co. Ltd, c1930. 286 pp. 18 x 12.5 cm. Gold-blocked blue boards, in a quite worn, price clipped, dustwrapper. From the library of Alan Seaton, Irish poet and artist, who has dawn his own bookplate on the page facing the title page. £10.0011496. Smith, Dr. William: A Smaller History of Rome from the earliest times to the establishment of the empire. London: John Murray Twentieth edition 1879. 17 by 11 cms. xxvi+296 pp. illustrated by engravings on wood. half leather and textured cloth binding, five panelled spine with raised bandswith gilt rulings and small gilt motif, original spine label, marbled endpapers and fore edges. The front board has the crest of Maynooth College. Internally tight bright and clean, a very good copy. £25.0011534. Tibulli Albii (Albius Tibullus): Albii Tibulli Carmina Libri Tres cum Libro Quarto Sulpiciae et Aliorum. Lipsiae: Ioannem Fredericum Iunium 1777. 21.5 by 13 cms. lxxii+205 pp. bound in contemporary calf with a modernmatching calf spine with gilt ruling and spine title. Albius Tibullus, c54-19 BC was a leading Roman elegiac poet. bears the bookplate with crest of Maxwell Carpendale.This is a member of the Maxwell family from Monaghan and Down. This may be Maxwell Carpenter, 1795-1856, the son of Jane Maxwell ( Carpendale ) of Falkland Co. Monaghan, who married T.W. Carpendale in 1782? £40.0012354. Whiston, William: The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian. Translated from the original Greek, according to Havercamp's accurate edition Dublin: Printed by R. Reilly for George Ewing Bookseller at the Angel and Bible in Dame's Street 1751. Volume V only out of five. 360 pp + 138 unnumbered pages, these last being five separate indexes to the five-volume set: 1 - Sources and Histories of the Old and New Testaments; 2 - Authors Quoted; 3 - The OT parallel to Josephus Histories; 4 - Places; and 5 - Men and Memorable Things. Contains the bookplate of Henry Jenney, Esq, with elaborate arms and crest, on the front pastedown. (Motto: Sapere et Fari.) Jenney has signed the title page, and put the date November 8th 1749. Title page printed in red and black, endpapers not present, front joint tender, contemporary calf, quite worn, edge rubbed, six panel spine, raised bands, faded gilt decoration and original red and gilt spine label, internally clean. £20.00822. Wodhull, Michael, translator: Hecuba and other plays by Euripides. London: 1888. Morley's Universal Library. ii + 288 + ii pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Includes, Hercules Distracted, Andromanche, Helen, The Children of Hercules, The Cyclops The Trojan Captives, and Rhesus.Worn green boards, with spine label. No dw. Largely uncut. Contents in good condition. £15.009875. Wood, Andrew: The Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace Translated into English Metre. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo 1872. xxiv+140 pp. brown beveled boards, no underlining or annotation. £8.00 |
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