Classical History

John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly London, 1867. HB NODJ,1867, stated second edition, Blue Pictorial Cloth with Gold Gilt decorations, Hinge slightly Starting, Minor Rub, Wear Scuff mainly on edges, Slight Fox Here & There, Former owner Name,Tiny chips base & top Spine, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, Small Corner Bump, 266 pgs, index,Ads in Back Bk, . Hard Cover.

Ex officina Weidmanniana, 1739. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. [10] 348 [12]. Title printed in red and black. Crudely illustrated frontispiece. Annotated by Johann Minellii. This edition of Sallustius was probably meant for Latin students. The entire book is inter-leaved with blanks, presumably for note taking. Several blanks contain notes in a miniscule old hand. Bound in full vellum (darkened spine). [Schweiger II, p.881].

Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990. First editions. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Four volumes. 4to. Cloth-backed boards. Illus. Checklist. Index. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. A detailed and extensively illustrated study of what it was like to live, work, and die in the ancient world, and includes consideration of such things as the role of women, religion, public baths and nudity, and burial practices.

Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. First edition. Full leather. Published Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. 12mo., 4 1/2" x 7 1/2", viii+160pp. Full calf with leather spine label. Scuffing/wear to the leather, sweating stain to top corner of first 20 pages, top corner of page 60 chipped with slight loss to text (supplied in facsimilie), mild foxing, label on fly leaf. Binding tight, text unmarked. Good. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.

Venetiis: Ex typographia Remondini, 1751. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. 143, [1]. Title page is printed in red and black. Bound in modern quarter brown cloth with brown patterned paper boards. The edges of the leaves are untrimmed and ragged. The interior displays some marginal soiling and wear with occasional chipping and corner creasing. A tear on the lower part of page 19 is professionally and neatly sealed. The upper corner to the final leaf of the index is chipped/torn perhaps affecting a few numbers or letters. The imprint statement on the title page contains some rubbing which obstructs two letters in the word "typographia." A few brief instances of marginalia are written in a miniscule old hand. The corner of the head cap is neatly patched. Generally this is a well read copy. Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-24 b.c.e) was a Roman writer and historian. His surviving work Vitae execllentium imperatorum or Lives of outstanding commanders consists of a collection of short biographies of… Read More

NY: Crown, 1977. NEAR FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1977. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in hunter green boards and cloth spine in grass green gravesite pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Publisher issued wrinkle to rear paste down. Breath of toning to page edges upper corner, else FINE. 'A Pictorial, Historical, and Ancedotal View of American and European Cemeteries and the Famous and Infamous People Who Are Buried There.' Includes 256 monumental photographs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. Small Octavo. 273pp. with an appendix containing the names of the Union soldiers who died at Andersonville, Illustrated by Thomas Nast. [Nevins p. 192; Much useful data on daily life and officials at such prisons as Charleston and Florence; very bitter against Confederates]. bound inmaroon cloth over beveled boards, pictorial gilt spine, brown endpapers. Light wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy.

P. F. Collier, New York, 1892, Ten volume set. First Editions. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 7,233 pp in ten volumes. Text clean, no foxing, lightly yellowed with age, no prior owner attributions or markings in any of the volumes. Illustrated with 54 wood-engravings, including a a depiction of the author on the frontispiece of volume one. Gilting on front cover and spine of each volume shows various evidence of shelfwear. Speckled outer edges.Volume I has a small tear near tail of spine and contains: The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder and The Pioneers. Volume II contains: Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie and The Spy. Volume III has light markings on rear cover and contains: The Pilot, The Red Rover and The Two Admirals. Volume IV has pages 119-120 partially missing and contains: The Sea Lions, Afloat and Ashore and The Water Witch. Volume V has a large tear in pages 607/608 and two tears on page 717-718 (all tears intact) and contains: The Crater, Miles Wallingford and… Read More

Athena, Typographeia "Kyklos", Athens, 1935; 8vo (5 1/2" x 8"), 723 pages; leather bound. The tragedies of Euripides, translated from the classic Greek into modern demotic, plus interpretive prefaces and semiotic analyses by distinguished Greek scholar and philologist, Demetrios Sarros. Two volumes: 372-page Volume II (1935), containing Medea, Hecuba, Elektra, and Andromache, and 351-page Volume III (1938) with Phoinissai, Iketides, Erakleidai, and Kyklos, beautifully bound together in custom quarter calf with textured green cloth, raised bands, gilt rules, gilt spine decorations, gilt morocco title labels, and decorative end papers. Fine condition. A most handsome volume.

Beautifully illustrated book cover like new, slight edge wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine solid and undamaged. Large copper satin ribbon marker.
Jacket near new, modest edge/shelf wear; protected in fresh mylar cover.
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This spectacular compilation of plates representing a superb collection of ancient Etruscan, Greek, and Roman vases is the fruit of a collaboration between Sir William Hamilton and British diplomat and collector Pierre-Francois Hugues d'Hancarville, an adventurous connoisseur and amateur art dealer.

Grosset & Dunlap 1905. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition, first printing. Very good book. Bound in dark red ribbed leather. Pages have a dark gilt to top edges. Former owner name, and dedication penned on back of front cover and another owners name penned on front pastedown. Shelf wear to edges, no jacket. Fairly scarce. 8vo .441 pages. Illistrated.

McCarter, Margaret HillThe ReclaimersHardcoverPublisher: A.L. BURT, 1Used - Good. Hardcover. green cloth boards that are worn and rubbed, especially at corners, along edges and at spine ends where there is some threadbareness. Some soil on closed edges. Bottom fore edge corners of pages are yellowed and bumped, A few other corners and edges are bumped or creased. Age toned. Binding sound. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks, but has previous owners name in pencil on both cover pages. Has loose hinge on front cover but otherwise binding is still in tact.

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in VG dw. 8vo, xvi+808pp, slate cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. First hardcover edition of this significant study of Grecian music. Unmarked copy, minor wear, dustwrapper has a bit of fading to spine.