Ancient
Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc. [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-349, [3] pp. Bound in blue cloth with decorative design stamped in bronze on the front board; designs, a single horozontal rule, and lettering in bronze on the spine; light blue topstain; bright yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Pictorial dust..... More
Grain-Mills and Flour in Classical Antiquity
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, ca. 2015. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-230, [4] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several charts, fourteen plates of black and white photographs, and a few in-text figures. First issued in 1958, now in a newer..... More
Early Greece
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-353, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few full-page maps. More
Exercises on the Syntax of the Greek Language ... An Historical Sketch of the Dialects; The Doctrine of the Middle Voice ... Two Appendices Illustrative of the Leading Principles of the Greek Syntax
New York: T. and J. Swords, 1831. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-211, [1] pp. Full contemporary sheep with the spine in six compartments and a black morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. With exercises in metaphrasis and paraphrasis, dialects, and prosody, with notes on Greek..... More
Lectures on the Republic of Plato
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [5], 4-364, 1-2 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and two gold rules on the spine. Price of 10/6 net on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of..... More
Galla Placidia Augusta; A Biographical Essay
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 346 pp. Quarter maroon cloth over white cloth with a maroon decoration on the front board with gold lettering on the spine; pink topstain. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several black and white plates..... More
The Monumental History of Egypt; As Recorded on the Ruins of Her Temples, Palaces, and Tombs
London: Trübner and Co., 1854. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 2-461, [3]; [3], iv-vii, [2], 3-643, [3] pp. Contemporary half pebbled leather over marbled boards, spines in six compartments with gold lettering; top edges gilt. Volume one illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and 35 additional..... More
Selections from the Poems of Ovid; Chiefly the Metamorphoses
Boston: Ginn and Heath, 1880. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 2-205, [9], [1], vi-x, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Quarter green imitation leather over green cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. Edited by J.H. and W.F. Allen and J.B. Greenough. The selections from Ovid are in Latin..... More
Caesars & Saints
New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. (1963), 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-191, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. With an index..... More
The Caesars' Wives; above Suspicion?
London: Hodder And Stoughton (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-192 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of £3.25 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white plates. Two small abrasions to the free front endpaper..... More
Philo I; In Ten Volumes (and Two Supplementary Volumes)
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v-xxxvi, [1], 483, [1], 8 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Number 226 in the Loeb Classical Library. Translated by F. H. Colson and G. H. Whitaker. Greek text..... More
Theaetetus; Sophist
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, n.d. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-462, [6] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Translated into English by Harold North Fowler. Greek text on the left, English on the right. Number 123 in the Loeb Classical Library..... More
A Selection of Passages from Plato for English Readers
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxxvii, [4], 2-242, [2]; 245, [1], [3]-20 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Blue cloth with a gold device on each front board, gold lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Translated from the Greek by Benjamin Jowett. Edited with..... More
Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-v, [3], 787, [3] pp. Brown cloth with decorations stamped in black on the boards and spine, spine lettered in gilt. Corrected from the Greek and revised by A.H. Clough. Dryden's Plutarch revised by the British, ninteenth-century poet and..... More
The General History of Polybius in Five Books
London: Printed by J. Hughs for R. and J. Dodsley, 1756. Later edition. Hardcover. 4to. 2 vol. [3], iv-xx, [1] 2-559, [11]; [17], 2-423, [15], [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the boards' edges, the spines in six compartments with a red and..... More
The Victor's Crown; A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium
London: Quercus (2011), 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxx, [2], 3-416, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £25 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several color photographs. Includes an index. A tiny separation between the backstrip and the textblock, else Fine in..... More
Etruscan Tomb Paintings; Their Subjects and Significance
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1922. First English language edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. [9], x, [1], 2-63, [1] pp. Quarter beige cloth over grey paper boards with a white paper label printed in black on the front board, spine lettered in black. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-one black and..... More
Opera
Londini [= London]: Kegan Paul, Trench & Soc. 1882. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [9], 4-293, [3] pp. Vellum boards with lettering in red on the front board and spine, black decoration on the front board; top edge gilt. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Title page printed in red and black..... More
Everyday Things in Archaic Greece
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xix, [3], 3-197, [1] pp. Black publisher's cloth with orange lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with..... More
Quinctillian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity
London: Printed for R. Dutton, W.J. & J. Richardsons, R. Lea ... and J. Cawthorn, 1805. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xxxii, [1], 2-448, [2]; [5], 2-458, [2] pp. Contemporary calf with a gilt rule on each board and the spines in six compartments, gilt decorations and a...... More
The Orator's Education: Books 9-10
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [2], 3-404 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Number 127 in the Loeb Classical Library. Edited and translated by Donald A. Russell. Latin text on the left, English on the right. A..... More
Quintus Horatius Flaccus Ad Lectiones Probatiores Diligenter Emendatus, et Interpunctione Nova Saepius Illustratus [= Works of Horace, approved selections cleverly revised ... ]
Glasguae [= Glasgow]: Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis [= Published by Robert and Andrew Foulis], 1750. Second edition. Hardcover. Small (Pot) 8vo. [5], 2-248, [2] pp. Contemporary full calf, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations, maroon morocco label on the spine, boards' edges show gilt tooling. Gaskell..... More
A Jew Among Romans; The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
New York: Pantheon Books [2013], 2013. First edition. Hardback. 8vo. [9], ix-xxvi, [2], 3-336, [4] pp. Quarter black cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $28.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Includes a bibliograhpy, notes, and an..... More
Marriage, Divorce, and Children in Ancient Rome
Canberra: Humanities Research Centre, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 2-252, [4] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with four plates of black and white photographs. A study of the family in ancient Rome based on translated primary source texts..... More