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[Geneva]: Oliva Pauli Stephani, 1593-1616. 2 works bound in one volume, 8vo. pp. 16, 884, 120, [viii], 88; 169, [vii]. Estienne device to titles, parallel text in Greek and Latin, light waterstaining to the second work. 18th century sprinkled calf, gilt spine, some wear to headcap, red edges. 20th century book labels and ink stamp of Buckfast Abbey. Related biographical works on the lives of Greek philosophers, originally compiled in the 3rd and 4th centuries CE, published by Henri Estienne and his son Paul. Book

Londini [London] typis excudit J.F. Dove, veneunt apud Ricardum Priestley., 1821. 4 vols. 8vo. Some very trivial spotting, but generaly very clean. Contemporary half vellum, gilt, over marbled boards, with crimson morocco lettering and numbering pieces. A little minor wear to the edges, but a handsome set. Book

Lipsiae [Leipzig], in Libraria Weidmannia, 1797- 1811. 5 vols. 8vo (all published). pp. xviii, 590; xviii, 372; [ii], 438; xxxii, 414, [ii]; xviii, 452. Handsome late nineteenth-century crimson half morocco, gilt. Armorial bookplate of Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, the 14th Earl of Derby, three times Prime Minister, and translator of Homer. An “excellent and critical edition”, according to Dibdin, though Ruhkopf sadly never completed it. Friedrich Ernst Ruhkopf (1760-1821) was a director of the Lyzeums of Hanover and a member of the royal society of the sciences in Goettingen. Dibdin, Introduction to rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Latin classics, II, 400. Book

[Twickenham] Strawberry-Hill, 1760. 4to. pp.[vi], 525, [i]. Engraved title vignette and tail-piece by Grignion. Spotting on title and final leaf; two ink library stamps of Repton School on title and one in the text. Modern half-calf in period style. Edges untrimmed. The only classical text and "most distinguished piece of printing to come from the Press at Strawberry Hill". Bentley’s notes were edited by his grandson Richard Cumberland. Hazen 7; Dibdin II, 187; ESTC T112686. Book

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam], ex officina Wetsteniana, 1708. 4to. pp. [xviii], 476, [lxxii] + 8 engraved plates, but lacking the additional engraved title-page. Edited by Johan van Broekhuizen. Some spotting. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum.Ink stamp of Repton School library to title. From the library of the great English bibliophile Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), classical scholar and Dibdin's 'Orlando', who attended every London book sale between 1764 and 1800 and bought extensively but, as De Ricci says, also with great judgement. He normally recorded the date, place of acquisition and price paid on the flyleaf. In this instance Edwards’s sale, March 3d 1794; the purchase price appears to be encoded. Wodhull neatly excised much of this information in books which he consigned to auction himself in 1801 and 1803, so our example likely remained with the bulk of his library, auctioned by Sotheby’s in 1886. Dibdin I, 384. Book

Londini [London]: Impensis J. et P. Knapton [...] et Gul. Sandby, 1750. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. [xxxiv], 239, [i]; [ii], 288, 288, [xviii] + 58 b/w plates, mostly engraved by Johann Sebastian Müller and Charles Grignion (one by J. Bonneau), occasional light spotting, title-pages printed in red and black, t.p. vignettes and tail piece concluding Ruaeus’ ‘Historia’ also by Müller, ‘tabularum explicatio’ is bound at the end of vol. 2; text edited by Emmanuel Schelstrate. Plate II (numbered) is Sandby’s dedication to Frederick, Prince of Wales, who died in 1751. Contemporary gilt-ruled red morocco, discreetly re-backed preserving original spines, all edges gilt. End-paper ownership inscriptions of Edward Daniel Stone (1832-1916), classical scholar and Eton schoolmaster. William Sandby utilised the version of Virgil’s text prepared by 17th century Vatican librarian, scholar and theologian Emmanuel Schelstrate, which he then illustrated with plates showing ancient… Read More

Cantabrigiae [Cambridge], Typis Academicis, Impensis Jacobi Tonson, 1701. 4to. pp. [iv], 520. Without engraved frontispiece. Some light browning/age-toning. Contemporary panelled calf, worn, spine gilt, joints cracked. Edited by Dr Leng, later bishop of Norwich. Tonson’s four finely printed quarto editions of Horace, Virgil, Terence and Catullus were among the first works executed for the Cambridge University Press. They were certainly a milestone in the career of Tonson himself (he was soon planning the great Caesar of 1712) and set new standards for the English trade generally. Dibdin II, 473. Book

Cantabrigiae [Cambridge] prostant venales Londini, apud Gul. Sandby [...]: Cantabrigiæ, 1763. 8vo. pp. [xii], 229, [i] + 14 engraved plates; lacks engraved frontispiece. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt; upper joint, headcaps and corners skilfully renewed and tooling made good.' A very neat and well printed edition' (the printer being Joseph Bentham at the Cambridge University Press, as the colophon reveals). Five years later Sandby sold his bookselling business to a naval officer on half pay, one John McMurray, the founder of the publishing house which still bears his name. See, for example, Zachs, W.: The First John Murray (1998). Dibdin II, 156. Book

Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden], apud Franciscum Hackium, 1658. 8vo. pp. [xxiv], 614, cxliv, including engraved title by Hackius; without a letterpress title, but nothing appears to be lacking (issued simultaneously in Amsterdam under the Elzevir imprint with the same collation). With engraved folding map covering the Roman world, the region affected by the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. Contemporary vellum, slightly soiled, title inked to spine, yapp edges. Dibdin II, 185. Book

Amstelodami [Amsterdam] Ex Officina Elzeviriana , 1658. 8vo. pp. [xxiv], 614, cxliv, including engraved title by Hackius; without a letterpress title, but nothing appears to be lacking (issued simultaneously in Leiden by Hackius with the same collation). With engraved folding map covering the Roman world, the region affected by the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, some wear but sound. Willems 1234; Dibdin II, 185. Book

Cantabrigiae [Cambridge], Ex Officina Joann. Hayes [...] Impensis H. Dickenson [...], 1686. 12mo. pp. [xlviii] (including preliminary blank), 454, [ii]. Contemporary panelled calf, wear to headcaps and joints. Dibdin II, 201. ESTC R39283 Book

Lipsiae [Leipzig]: typis Johannis Baueri. Sumptibus verò Christiani Gerlachii & Simonis Becksteinii, 1655. 4to. pp. 326 [ii]. Title printed in red and black, parallel Greek and Latin text, browned. Contemporary vellum with oval armorial stamp of Henrici (Henrik) ter Borch to covers. 19th century ink stamp to title and 18th century letterpress book label to pastedown of “Uit de Bibliotheek van de Doopsgezinde Gemeente bij het Lam en den Toren te Amsterdam”, the library of the Baptist Church at Amsterdam. Kaspar von Barth’s edition of the neoplatonist philosopher Aeneas of Gaza, the first in the original Greek (a Latin translation had appeared in Venice in 1513), first published in 1653 and reisssued with a new title page, as here, in 1655; Zacharias Scholasticus was a near contemporary, born near Gaza, noted as an ecclestiastical historian. Brunet, I, 66. Book

Venetiis [Venice], Aldus [apud Pauli Manutium, Aldii filium], 1558 [but 1559]. 8vo. ff. [iv], 332, [xiv]. Title with woodcut Aldine device, one or two marginal notes (trimmed) and very occasional underlining in an early hand, old paper repair strengthening the gutter of B1 (f. 5), a little very light spotting; lacks 2 final leaves, blank and blank except for repeated printer’s device. Mid twentieth-century blind-stamped calf and bookplate, early ownership inscription shaved from title. This edition contains a new preface dated 1558; the colophon is dated 1559. Renouard, ‘des Alde’, 174:9. Book

London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies [...], 1813. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xvi, 547, [i]; viii, 510. Occasional spotting. Grey publisher’s boards, extremities worn, rebacked in cloth, probably in the mid twenthieth century, pencilled presentation inscription on title dated 1939. Book

London: printed for R. Sare [et al.], 1704-1699. Two works in one volume, folio; fourth and first editions pp. [x], 28, [viii], 476; [16], 238, [2] (advertisment leaf) + (in the first work) engraved portrait frontispiece of L'Estrange by Roger White after Kneller and full page engraving of animals from the fables gathered around Æsop (potbellied and misshapen as per popular tradition), both plates a little soiled and frayed. The table has been bound after the 'life of Æsop' in the first work. General light toning in the second work (due to paper stock). Rebound in good quality full tan morocco in the mid twentieth century, with one of the original panelled calf covers pasted onto an endpaper. Ownership inscription of Sir Henry Tichborne, dated January 1st 1767; later armorial bookplate (c. 1800) of Sir Henry Tichborne, engraved by Huntly of New Bond Street. Later pencilled signature, illeg. A royalist pamphleteer and author, L'Estrange was appointed Surveyor of the… Read More

Lutetiae [Paris]: apud Iacobum Dupuys,, 1570. Folio. pp. [lii], 798, [ii]. Greek text, with prefatory epistles by Denys Lambin and Jean Bienné (Benenatus). Near contemporary French calf, ruled in gilt and blind with gilt oval wreath ornament to covers; some wear, rebacked and recornered, end-papers renewed; armorial bookplate (reinstated on front pastedown) of Henry Sinclair, 10th Lord Sinclair (1660–1723). Dibdin describes the edition as ‘a beautiful and an excellent one’ and explains that it was originally planned by Guillaume Morel; after Morel’s death in 1564 three French booksellers (Dupuys, Benenat and Somnius) undertook to finish it at their joint expense, and the book can be found with all three imprints. Dibdin I, 480; Adams, D-266; OCLC: 8208840. Book

[colophon: ] Venetiis [Venice, 1517. 8vo. Editio princeps of De Venatione. ff. 166, [ii], printed in Greek italic, Aldine device on title and verso of last leaf, light stain on title but generally clean. Old vellum with leather label on spine. Pencilled inscription on pastedown: D.A. Morison from Arthur Cope, October 1939. "Edition rare et recherchée" (Brunet). The first appearance, together, of perhaps the most celebrated treatises of antiquity on hunting and fishing, attributed to Oppianus of Corycus and Oppianus of Apamea. The latter's De Venatione or Cynegetica forms the cornerstone of most later literature on hunting. The Halieutica or De Piscibus by Oppianus of Corycus, a work on fish and fishing, was first published in Latin translation by Lorenzo Lippi in 1478; the editio princeps in Greek first appeared in 1515. The two Oppians were considered to be identical, but De Venatione can be dated to between 211 and 217 A.D. and the author of the second work is known to have… Read More

Haganoae [Hagenau], Ex Officina Seceriana, , 1534. Part one only (of 2). 8vo. A-Z,AA-EE8, FF4. Woodcut Setzer device (Janus) on verso of last leaf. Minor marginal worming to first few leaves, not affecting letters of text; a couple of leaves with light waterstaining; some early headlines cropped or cut close. Greek text only, lacks Camerarius’ scholia, published in the second part. Uncommon fourth printing of Sophocles in Greek, one of the principal editions between the Aldine of 1502 and Turnebus’ edition of 1553. Later sixteenth-century vellum, with later red morocco label, lacks ties. Near contemporary signature of Johann Behem on the title; signature on lower pastedown: Fesendorff, 1577; Nineteenth century inscription on title, possibly ‘Bibliothek Grissrring’; ink stamp of Repton School on title, and armorial bookplate of Laurence Arthur Burd (1863-1931), philatelist, expert on Machiavelli and teacher at Repton (where the Burd Library is named for him). Adams S-1441 Book

Glasguae [Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis excudebat R. Foulis, , 1744. 8vo. pp. [iv], 128, 214, [xxiv]. Text in Greek, with Latin translation following.Contemporary French red morocco, gilt-ruled with floral device to spine, all edges gilt; letterpress book label to pastedown, ‘De la bibliotheque de Me. Esbran, Avocat au Parlement de Normandie, 1784’. Foulis issued two versions of the Meditations of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the same year; both follow Richard Ibbetson’s edition, but they were formatted differently. Our example is in two parts: the original Greek text followed by a Latin translation; the other version is a single volume in parallel text (Greek text with Latin translation on the facing page). Ibbetson's edition was first published in Oxford in 1704; he was Archdeacon of Exeter at the time of his death in 1731. Gaskell, Foulis, 44; ESTC T149289 Book

Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicis. Excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus, 1743. 8vo. pp. [ii], 53, [i], 52. Greek text followed by Isaac Casaubon’s Latin translation. Contemporary calf, rebacked, corners renewed. Foulis was elected University Printer on March 31st 1743, and this is the first book where he styles himself ‘Academiae Typographus’. Peter Needham’s excellent edition was first published in 1712. 1744 dated ownership signature, ‘E Libris Bagnall’, on the free endpaper, with two 20th century inscriptions beneath: R.J. Mockridge, St John’s Oxford in 1908; gift to D Hughes from the Rev R. Mockridge, then at Harwicke Rectory, August 1958. Bookseller’s ticket (R. Saywell) to pastedown. Theophrastus’s moral character sketches are listed in English in a 19th century hand on the lower pastedown. Gaskell, Foulis: 40; ESTC N475398. Book