Bell, John.

Bell's New Pantheon, or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-Gods, Heroes and Fabulous Personages of Antiquity ...

London: Printed by and for John Bell, Bookseller to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales at the British Library, Strand, 1790. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Two volumes in one. I: iv, 407pp.; II: [ii], 399, [iii]pp. I: []2, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, 3A4-3F4; II: []1, A4-Z4, Aa4-Tt4. Contemporary half brown calf, rebacked. With 37 plates with 98 images, engraved by Conde, Grignion, etc. Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 52; ESTC T99549. Good.

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Book number: 1931

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Classics

Bianchini, Francesco.

Camera ed inscrizioni sepulcrali de' liberti, servi, ed ufficiali della casa di Augusto scoperte nella via Appia, ...

In Roma: appresso Giovanni Maria Salvioni, nell'archiginnasio della Sapienza, 1727. 0. Hardcover. Folio. VII, 87pp. a6, A4-K4, L2. First edition. Engraved title in black-and-red. Contemporary vellum. With an engraved title, engraved vignettes, and 7 engraved plates (5 of them double-page). The engravings show cross sections, elevations, architectural details and inscriptions. The plates were drawn by Girolamo Rossi and engraved by Antonio Buonamici. Cicognara 3617; Brunet I, 847; Graesse 361; Olschki 16462. From the Cholmondeley Library, with its bookplate. Good.

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Book number: 1933

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Classics

Caylus, Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, Comte de.

Recueil d'Antiquites égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines.

A Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant (I-III) & Chez Tilliard (IV-VII), 1752-1757. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Seven volumes. I: [viii], xxv, 348pp,; II: viii, 430, [ii]pp.; III: xxxiv, 448pp.; IV: xx, 418, [i]pp.; V: xxxvi, [ii], 348pp.; VI: xx, 414, [i]pp.; VII: [iv], xxviii, 336pp. I: []4, a4-c4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Xx4, Yy42; II: []1, a4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Hhh4; III: a4-d4, e2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Kkk4; IV: a4-b4, c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4, Ggg2; V: a4-c4, d2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Vv4, Xx2; VI: a4-b4, c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4 (Fff4 blank); VII: [ ] 2, a4-c4, d2, A4-Tt4. Contemporry mottled calf, repaired. Illustrated. I: frontispiece & 107 plates; II: frontispiece & 128 plates (126 in the count, but there are 3 plates for 58); III: frontispiece & 121 plates; IV: frontispiece & 125 plates; V: frontispiece, title-page vignette by Le Fevre & 120 plates: VI: frontispiece & 130 plates; VII: frontispiece portrait drawn and engraved by Littret before 'Eloge' & 97 plates. Cohen-de Ricci, 211-212; Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, pp. 99-100; Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 254. From the library of the Reverend Edward Orlebar Smith, with his armorial bookplate. The Reverend Edward Orlebar Smith was Rector of the Parish Church of St. Mary, Bletchley in 1790, also Rector of Bradenham (which he vacated for this living) and Hulcot, with Salford, Bedfordshire. Good.

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Book number: 1945

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Classics

Longinus, D.

Dionysii Longini de Sublimi Libellus...

Verona: Ex Typographia Johannis Alberti Tumermani, 1733. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [xii], xxx, 269, [xxvii]pp. )( 6, a4-c4, d4 (- d4 blank), A4-Z4, Aa4-Oo4. With the half-title present. Title printed in red-and-black, with engraved device. Rebacked in half green moroco, retaining green vellum for boards. Frontispiece portrait facing the first leaf of the preliminaries drawn by Antonio Litta and engraved by F. Zucchi. The first quadrilingual edition. Very minor old staining. Good.

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Book number: 2

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Classics

Keywords: EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, CLASSICS, PHILOSOPHY, LANGUAGES, ILLUSTRATIONS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS

Menander.

Menandri et Philomeni Reliquæ, quotquot reperiri potuerunt; Græce et Latine, cum notis Hugonis Grotii et Joannis Clerici, qui etiam novam omnium versionem adornavit, indicésque adjecit.

Amsterdam: Apud Thomam Lombrail, 1709. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [xvi], 375, [xxii]pp. *8, A8-Z8, Aa8, Bb4-Cc4 (Cc4 blank). Title-page in red-and-black. Contemporary reversed calf. With two full-page plates after p. 287. Graesse IV, 484; Ebert III, 13772; Hoffmann II, 591; Ter Meulen/D. 469. From the library of William Eliot Furness and Joseph Sadony, with Sadony's name impressed on the title and following page. Good.

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Book number: 1049

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Classics

Parthenius of Nicaea & Plutarch.

Les Affections de Divers Amans. Les Narrations d'Amour de Plutarche.

[Paris]: [Coustellier], 1743. 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. [8]-11, [iv], 72pp. a8, A8-D8, E4. Third edition. First two pages, half-title (?) and title-page, printed in red-and-black. Contemporary mottled calf, repaired. Gay I, 32. First modern edition of these two classical stories. Good.

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Book number: 1371

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Classics

Keywords: Erotic Literature

Ovidius, P.N.

Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, traduites en François, avec des remarques et des explications historiques. Par M. l'Abbé Banier, de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles Lettres.

Amsterdam & Leipzig: Chez Arkstzee & Merkus, 1764. 0. Hardcover. Amsterdam & Leipzig: Chez Arkstzee & Merkus, 1764. Duodecimo. Three volumes. I: [iv], lxxii, [xlviii], 287pp.; II: [iv], 422pp.; III: [iv], 363, [xvii]pp. I: []2, a122-e12, A12-M12; II: []2, A12-R12, S8 (S8 blank); III: []2, A12-P12, Q6, R4. Half-titles present. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With engraved plates. Frontispiece to volume signed I. C. Philips; the other plates are not signed. I: 5 plates, including frontispiece. Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 395. Good.

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Book number: 2018

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Classics

Plato.

Parmenides sive de Ideis et uno rerum Omnium Principio Platonis Dialogus.

Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1728. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [iv], XXXIII, 101 [i]pp. []2, b4-e4, f1, A4-N4 (N4 blank). With the half-title present. Bilingual edition. Contemporary calf, upper hinge cracked. Top and bottom of spine chipped. Graesse V, 318. From the library of the Duxe of Sussex, with his bookplate. Good.

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Book number: 1277

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Classics

Tacitus, Cornelius.

Opera, recognavit, emendavit, supplementis explevit, notis dissertationibus illustravit Gabr. Brotier.

Paris: Delatour, 1771, 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Four volumes. I: [iv], lxviii, 483pp.; II: [iv], 537pp.; III: [iv], 594pp.; IV: [iv], 624pp. and a folding table in Vol. I. I: []2, a4-h4, i2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Ooo4, Ppp2; II: []2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Xxx4, Yyy2 (Yyy4 blank); III: []2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Zzz4, Aaaa4-Eeee4, Ffff2 (- Ffff2 blank); IV: []2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Zzz4, Aaaa4-Iiii4. With the half-titles present. Contemporary calf, rebacked at an earlier date and repaired recently. With an engraved folding map in each volume. The four oversized, folding maps were done by French cartographer Robert de Vaugondy, who served as geographer to Louis XV as well as to the Duke of Lorraine and Bar. Brunet V, 636; Dibdin, Introduction to the Greek and Latin Classics II, pp. 455-456; Graesse VII, 10; Ebert IV, 1813; Schweiger, II, 1004; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 208; Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, 394. Good.

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Book number: 970

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Classics

Keywords: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS