(Aesop). Bailey, N. THE FIVE BOOKS OF THE ÆSOPIAN FABLES OF PHÆDRUS, Augustus Cæsar's freedman, with A numerical key adjoining to each line, directing to take the words in construing in a proper order: and also the notes of Peter Danet, for the use of the Dauphin, translated into English. To which are added, a copious parsing index, containing every word in the fables, with their proper English; and a grammatical praxis on them, referring to the rules of grammar. By the assistance of which, young scholars, of but a very slender acquaintance with the rules of grammar, may be enabled of themselves, with ease and pleasure, and without interruption to the teacher, to learn their lessons in Phædrus. For the use of schools. London : printed for J. Buckland, J. F. and C. Rivington; T. Longman, B. Law, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin 1785.
15th Ed. Corrected and Improved. xvi + 69pp. + Title page + 152pp. Waterstained in part upto pp.66., some subsequent minor wrinkling, ex.-libris E. Boustead with the signature of ‘John Boustead Carlisle February 22 1790’, old sheep, worn and rubbed. loss to spine with gilt lettered label.
ESTC No: N508846 "A construing and parsing index to Phædrus' fables" has a separate, dated title page with imprint "London: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXXXV." and pagination, but register is continuous. a: In Latin and English. a: Includes index.
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(Aesop). Phaedri, [Gaius Julius]. AUGUSTI LIBERTI FABULARUM AESOPIARUM Libri Quinque. Publii Syri et Aliorum Veterum Sententiae. Recensuit et Notas Addidit Richardus Bentleius. Cantabrigiae: Apud Cornelium Crownfield 1726.
1st Ed. Sm. 4to. [viii] + 87pp. Copper engraved frontis. sculp B. Baron. Latin text. Signature A browned to head and with sm. closed tear, marbled e.ps., contemporary mottled calf boards with gilt tooled edges, minor loss to corners, some fading to edges, rebacked in modern calf with gilt motifs and tooling with gilt lettering to spine.
Aesops Fables Latin. Inscribed in beautiful and legible script ‘Jo Brown Universitatis Glasguensis Alumnus Elegantiorus ingenii dotes Diligentia gnavitas excolens Hoc prienuum in hunc usum A Pratribus Goergii Muirhead quondam L.H.P. In hac Universitate legatis Publice Tulit. Guyil Richardson L.H.P. ... 1794.’ Presumably William Richardson (1743–1814), literary scholar and Professor of Humanity at Glasgow. Edited by Richard Bentley. ESTC N38784 ‘Aesop’s fables. Latin. Also issued as part of: ’Publii Terentii Afri comoediae ...’ Cantabrigiae, 1726.’ 1st-century CE Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin.
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(Cicero). Lintott, Andrew. CICERO AS EVIDENCE. A Historian’s Companion. OUP 2008.
1st Ed. x + 469pp. Very good in d/w.
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(Grote). Demetriou, Kyriakos N. (Editor). BRILL’S COMPANION TO GEORGE GROTE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden 2014.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. [xii] + 418pp. Port. frontis. Very good in black lettered light green coloured pictorial boards.
Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception, Volume I.
£75.00 [ref: 292546]

(Pliny). HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE PLINE. Traduction Nouvelle Par M. Ajasson de Grandsagne. Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke 1829-33.
20 volumes bound in 10. French text. From the library of Dr James Bynon, some browning, rebound in light brown cloth with gilt lettered labels to spines.
Stéphane Ajasson de Grandsagne (born Jean-Baptiste-François-Étienne Ajasson de Grandsagne (1802-1845). Ajasson entered the Natural History Museum where he was a student and then collaborator of Georges Cuvier and of Louis Jacques Thénard.
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(Virgil). P. VERGILI MARONIS OPERA Impensis Mediceae Societatis, Librario Philoppo H Lee Warner 1912.
Large 8vo. 415pp. + [i]. With the signature of Stanley W. Scott, gilt lettered green cloth, minor marking, spine sl. faded and bumped.
With the signature of Denis J.B. Hawkins. Denis John Bernard Hawkins (1906–1964) British philosopher and Catholic priest. "Ex recensione Henrici Nettleship a Joanne Percival Postgate relecta, permissv Georgii Bell et filiorum, typis Riccardianis a Carolo T Jacobi novissime excursorum."--Colophon [From the review of Henry Nettleship reread by Joanne Percival Postgate, with permission from George Bell and his sons, printed by Riccardianis from Charles T. Jacobi's latest excursus.] From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor.
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Booth, Rev. John. A LEXICON OF THE PRIMITIVE WORDS OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE, Inclusive of Several Leading Derivatives, Upon a New Plan of Arrangement for the Use of Schools and Private Persons. G and W B Whitaker 1820.
1st Ed. 308pp. Some browning, ex.-libris Jeremy C. Ahern, contemporary half leather with marbled boards, gilt ruling and motifs and gilt lettered label to sl. rubbed spine, corners rubbed.
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Boys-Stones, G.R. (Editor). METAPHOR, ALLEGORY, AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION. Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions. OUP 2003.
2nd Imp. [x] + 305pp. + [v]. Good in d/w.
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Caesaris, C. Julii. (Gaius Julius Caesar). DE BELLIS GALLICO ET CIVILI POMPEJANO, Nec non A. Hirtii, Aliorumque de Bellis Alexandrino, Africano, et Hispaniensi Commentarii, Ad Msstorum sidem expressi, cum Ontegris Notis Dionysii Vossii, Joannis Davisii, et Samuelis Clarkii. Cura et Studio Francisci Oudendorpii, Qui suas animadversiones, ac varias Lectiones adjecit. Lugd. Bat., apud Samuelem Luchtmans, Rotterodami, apud Johannem Danielem Beman 1737.
2 vols. in 1. Sm. 4to. [26] + 1035pp. + [33] Index. Red and black lettered title pages, additional engraved title, 3 folding maps, 10 plates including 5 folding. Latin text. Sm. wormtrail to tail upto pp.185, some light browning, contemporary calf, some marking, loss to corners to upper board, hinges cracked, gilt lettered label to chipped spine.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. ORATIONES M. Tullii Ciceronis per Philippú Beroaldúre cognitae ac diligeter correctae. Addita in Calce Oratione aduersus Valerium quae hactenus incognita fuit. Bologna : Impressit Benedictus Hectoris Bononiensis ea diligentia qua si omnes formandis operibus formandis uterentur, bene cum litteris ageretur, 13 Apr. 1499
Folio. 200 x 291mm. 271ff. 40 lines per page. Last leaf with woodcut device. Latin text. Slightly trimmed. Light browning, first 20 odd leaves with old scholarly marginalia and ruling, upper hinge cracked, head of title page and first leaf of text with ‘S. Maria del Popolo Rome’ in old ink, old vellum, title in manuscript to spine, some soiling, split to upper compartment, sm. split to middle compartments, minor soiling.
ISTC No.ic00549000. Brunet pp.36 ‘Belle édition contenant tous les discours. Quant à l’Oratio adversus Valerium, qu’on y a donné pour la premiére fois, ce serait, selon Orelli (præfatio ad orationem pro Plancio, page VIII), l’ouvrage d’un philologue français du XVe siècle - Réimpr. Venetiis, per Christoforum de pensis, di XX mensis Decembris MDCCCCV., in-fol.’ ‘Beautiful edition containing all the speeches. As for the Oratio adversus Valerium, which was given there for the first time, it would be, according to Orelli ((preface to the prayer for Plancius, page VIII), the work of a French philologist of the 15th century - Réprint. Venetiis, per Christoforum de pensis, di XX mensis Decembris MDCCCCV., in-fol.’ Goff C549; HC 5129*; Pell 3696; Nice 163; Maignien(Grenoble) 220; Polain(B) 4285; IBE 1655; IGI 2933; IBP 1547; SI 1162; Coll(U) 432; Voull(B) 2787; Hubay(Augsburg) 569; Walsh 3243; Oates 2500; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 559; Bod-inc C-247; Sheppard 5395; Pr 6642; BMC VI 845; BSB-Ink C-386; GW 6771. ‘First and very rare edition of Philippus Beroaldus. The speech Adversus Valerianus at the end is a forgery of Janus Cardo after Johannes Baptista Pius. - First ll.’ Ketterer & Kunst.
£10,000.00 [ref: 289139]