ALCIPHRON.

Alciphron's Epistles; in which are described, The Domestic Manners, The Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece. Now first Translated from the Greek [by William Beloe and Thomas Monroe].

London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Leigh and Sotheby; and R. Faulder, 1791. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 8vo, 213 x 124, pp. [iv], 270, with errata on verso of half-title, contemporary calf; joints cracked (but holding), corners worn, spine slightly dried, top and base of spine chipped. With the armorial bookplate of Hutches Trower on the front paste-down end-paper and in a contemporary hand on the recto of the front free end-paper, transcription of part of the review that appeared in November, 1791, in the Critical Review; and ms notes in a later hand in pencil in the text and on the verso of one of the rear free end-papers. Of the two translators, Beloe is a good deal better known than Monroe, which might account for the preface's being written in the first person singular. Both male and female vanity seem to have attracted Alciphron's gift for satiric hyperbole; one of the courtesans writes to her lover, "Thus, it is a common artifice among coutezans to govern their followers by inspiring them with hopes, and ever deferring their gratification; but with you such conduct would be absurd, for I do not fear your being satiated."

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ARISTOPHANES.

Aristophanous komodiai duo Ploutos kai Nephelai. Meta scholion palaion panu ophelimon. Aristophanis comoediæ duæ Plutus & Nubes: cum Scholiis Græcis Antiquis, Quibus adjiciuntur Notæ Quædam, Simul cum Gemino Indice.In usum Stuiosæ Juventutis.

Londini: typis T. Wood; Impensis R. Wilkin, D. Midwinter & A. Ward, & B. Motte, 1732. 8vo, pp. [xxii], 453 [454 blank, 455 -461 notes, 462 blank, 463 - 478 Index], contemporary calf, red leather label; front cover worn and detached, top and base of spine chipped, rear joint cracked. This edition was prepared by John Leng (1665 - 1727), Latin scholar and Bishop of Norwich. His original edition of Aristophanes appeared in 1695.

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ARISTOTLE

Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, translated: With Notes on the Translation, and on the Original; and Two Dissertations, on Poetical, and Musical, Imitation. By Thomas Twining. The Second Edition, in two volumes, by Daniel Twining.

London, Printed by Luke Hansard...and sold by T. Cadell and W. Davies..., 1812. 2 volumes. 8vo,225 x 138 mms., pp. xxxii, 344; [iv], 499 [500 blank], including half-titles, uncut, original boards, paper labels; front cover volume 1 detached, other joints weak, spines worn and slightly defective with some loss of paper. Daniel Twining's preparation of this second edition of his father's great work led him to include some additional remarks and notes that his father had made, with particular reference to the translation of Aristotle by Thomas Tyrwhitt.

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Book number: 6885

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BURRELL [née Raymond], (Sophia, Lady Burrell):

The Thymbriad, (From Xeonphon's Cyropedia.)

London: Sold by Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Garden; T. Payne, at the Mews Gate; and J. Robson, in Bond Street. 1794, FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 207 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 154 {155 Errata, 156 blank]. BOUND WITH Telemachus. By Lady Burrell. London: Sold by Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Garden; T. Payne, at the Mews Gate; and J. Robson, in Bond Street. 8vo, 207 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 78. 2volumes in 1, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines (rubbed and slightly dried); joints slightly cracked (but firm), a goodish copy with the autograph of "Richard and Julia Rowley" on the verso of the front free end-paper. Lady Burrell's opening line of The Thymriad repeats Dryden's opening line in his translation of Virgil's AEnid, "Arms, and the Man I sing...." The two volumes seem to have been offered for sale separately, but The Monthly Review in 1795 , noted, "Though these two poems are published separately, we give our opinion of them jointly, because they are of the same character. They are both grounded on well-known stories; both amplify the original incidents and sentiments, in order to afford an opportunity of displaying the poet's descriptive powers; both express at large, in set speeches, the motions and passions respectively belonging to the principal characters; and both are composed in an easy kind of measure, very suitable for fictitious narrative, with no other difference than that one is with, and the other without, rhyme." In a longer review, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, also in 1795, concluded its very favourable assessment of the two poems, "Many...passages might be pointed out which are distinguished by no inconsiderable portion of genius, as well as by much warmth of imagination. We have no reluctance in pronouncing that whoever can receive delight from the perusal of elegant and harmonious versification - whoever is pleased with a poetical bouquet, where, though the different flowers which compose it vary both in fragrance and in beauty, the whole is sweet and agreeable, will have many acknowledgments to make to the author of the above publications."

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Book number: 9773

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CAESAR (Julius):

Commentarii di Caio Giulio Cesare Tradotti di latino in vulgar lingua: per Agostino Ortica de la porta Genovese. Con la tavola di nomi antiqui et moderni de la Gallia, Britannia, Germania, Italia, Grecai, Egypto, Asia, Africa et Hispagna Ultimamente con somma diligentia revisto, & corretto.

In Venetia per Alovise de Torti, 1539. Small 8vo, 144 x 97 mms., [ix] + 241 numbered leaves, engraved device with bust of Caesar on title-page, woodcut map on Aiiiir -A5v, 5 more woodcut illustrations Avr - A8v, colophon on verso of last leaf of text,18th century boards in vellum, red morocco label on spine. A very good copy, with the autograph "J. T. Coleridge/ 1814" on the recto of the upper margin of the front free end-paper. The judge Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790 - 1876) was a nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and this is almost certainly his autograph. The translation by Agostino Ortica della Porta of Caesar's commentaries was one of the best and most popular in the 16th century. It first appeared in 1512 and was frequently reprinted.

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Book number: 7033

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CAESAR (Julius):

C. Julius Cæsar's Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey. To which is added Aulus Hirtius or Oppius's Supplement of the Alexandrian, African and Spanish wars. With the Author's Life. Adorn'd with culptures from the Designs of the Famous Palladio. Made English from the Original Latin, by Martin Bladen, Gent.

London: Printed for Richard Smith..., 1705 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 204 x 120, pp. [xxxviii], 363 [364 - 370 Index, 371 - 374 adverts], engraved frontispiece, three folding engraved maps, 10 engraved pltaes (8 folding), later 18th century panelled calf, rebacked, new end-papers, title in gilt on spine; lower outer corner of title-page slight defective, corners worn, but a good copy. Colonel Martin Bladen (1680–1746) was born in 1680 attended Westminster School where he was a Queen's Scholar at St Peter's College and then attended St John's College in Cambridge.[3] He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1698[4] but did not pursue a legal career. He joined the military in December 1697 as Ensign to Captain Jos. Fletcher. He still found time to produce this well-illustrated and more than competent translation of Caesar, and another ten editions followed quickly.

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Book number: 10349

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CATULLUS, PROPERTIUS, TIBULLUS.

Catulli Tibulli Propertii Opera

Londini Typis J. Brindley 1749. 12mo (in 6s), 120 x 72 mms., pp. [ii], 132, 120, engraved title-page before printed title-page, contemporary polished tree calf, small gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt to an urn motif, red morocco label. A fine copy, with the book label of Lt. General Adams (possibly Thomas Adams, 1730? - 1764) on the front past-down end-paper. The text was edited by Usher Gahagan (d. 1749), the Irish classical scholar. He edited a number of Brindley's classical imprints, all beautifully printed and often in fine bindings. Alas for scholarship: he was hanged on 20 February 1749, for "diminishing the coin of the realm" by filing small pieces off gold and silver coins.

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CATULLUS.

Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii Opera.

Londini: Typis J. Brindley, Sumptibus J. Murray, No. 32 Fleet Street, 1774. 12mo (in 6s), 133 x 82 mms., pp. [iv], 132; 120, entirely uncut, rather horribly bound in 20th century leatherette; text a little browned, spine defective, front joint cracked at top and bottom, with cover bowed. This edition of the poetical works of Catullus, Tiberius, and Propertius was first published by Brindley in 1749 and edited by Edward Harwood. ESTC 101092 locates 5 copies in the UK, Harvard and Newberry in North America. Zachs, The First John Murray, no. 75.

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Book number: 7404

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Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius.

[Works]

Londini: Impensis G. Pickering..., 1824. 32mo, 85 x 49 mms., pp. [iv], 61 [62 blank], 36, 93 [94 blank], engraved frontispiece, handsomely bound in full contemporary olive calf, spine richly gilt, all edges gilt, red morocco label; front joint a little rubbed but a very attractive copy. One of Pickering's "Diamond Classics," printed by C. Corrall.

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Book number: 6812

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CLASSICS. SAMMELBAND. PERSIUS

Auli Persi Flacci Satyricorum Celeberrimi gravissimi, &difficillimi Satyrae VI. Ita illustrata ut e quovis facile intelligi possimi, commentariis Eilhardi Lubini.

Amstelredami Apud Zachariam Heyns Bibliopolam 1595. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 155 x 96 mms., pp. [viii], 248. BOUND WITH: Nicodemi Frischlini, in A. Persii Flacci Satyras, eruditae et elegantes Paraphrases, quae vice Commentarii esse possunt. Opus Longe Utilissimum, tum Scholis, tum Academiss. Cum Gratia et Priviletio Impressum Francofortiad Moenum, per Ioannem Spies. 1587. 8vo, 155 x 96 mms., pp. [xvi], [142], including final colophon leaf. BOUND WITH: Q. Sept. Florentis Christiani Andromacha Euripdea Tragoedia: Com Notatis ad ipsam Graecam fbulam. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1594. 8vo, 155 x 96 mms., pp. [xvi], 70 [71 -76 blank]. 3 volumes in 1, contemporary vellum (slightly soiled). The edition of Persius is by the German scholar Eilhard Lubinus (1565 - 1621) and was published in the same year that he was appointed professor of poetry at University of Rostock. The German philologist Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547 – 1590) published numerous editions of the classics, though the best-known ones are editions of Virgil. Arrested for libel and imprisoned in the fortress of Hohenurach, near Reutlingen, he killed himself in a fall while trying to escape from his cell. Florent Chrestien, also known as Quintus Septimius Florens Christianus (1541 - 1596), a French physician and author of texts on physiology, also published editions of the classics, particularly satires.

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DAVIDSON (Joseph), publisher:

The Fables of Phaedrus, Translated into English Prose, As near the Original as the different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages will allow. With the Latin text and Order of Construction in the opposite Page; and Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical notes in English. For the Use of Schools, as well as of Private Gentlemen,

London: Printed for Joseph Davidson..., 1745. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 124 mms., pp. [v] iv - vi, 180, with adverts leaf before title-page, bound in 19th century, half calf, spine gilt with olive label, rubbed and cracked to front joint; lacks frontispiece, but it seems never to have had one. A reasonable copy, with two 18th century autographs on the top margin of the title-page, the first scored out (?"N. Harley 1756", the second "J. Peake 1782" and "Peake/ Chepstow" on the recto of the second front free end-paper

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DEMOSTHENES.

Demosthenous ho peri stephanou logo. Demosthenis de corona oratio.

Glasguae: In ædibus academicis, excudebat Andreas Fouli, 1782. 12mo, 157 x 97 mms., pp. viii, 108, [i] ii - v [vi blank], [3] 4 - 98, contemporary vellum, black leather labels on spine, marbled end-papers, a binding vaguely in the style of Edwards of Halifax; boards sprung and a bit soiled, but a good copy. Gaskell 651. ESTC T164563 locates copies in NLS, Bodleian, and Aberdeen in these island; National Institute of Education and Michigan in the United States,

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Book number: 9691

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DYCTIS et DARES.

Dictys Cretensis et Dares Phrygius De Belllo et Excidio Trojae, In usum Serenissimi Dephinim cum Interpretatione Annae Daceriae. Accedunt in hac Nova Ediitone Notae Variorum integrae; Nec non Josephus Iscanus, Cum Notis Sam. Dresemii. Nimismatibus & Gemmis, Historiam illustrantibus exonavit Lud. Smids, M. D. Disserationem de Dictye Cretnesi praefixit Jac Perizonius.

Amstelaedami, Apud Georgium Gallet. 1702. 4to, 233 x 185 mms., pp. [lxxxii], 177 [178 - 244 indexes]. [6], 54 [55 - 76 notes and & Ad Lectorem], 169 [169 172 Index, 173 - 174 Erratum], title-page in red and black with "Ex Lib Bib Scholae Reginae Edinensis" on top margin of title-page, two engraved plates before title-page, 6 engraved plates preceding text of Del Bello Trojano, contemporary calf, rebacked in lighter calf, with brown morocco label; corners worn, but a good copy. In 1702 Jacob Perizonius established the paradigm that is still valid today claiming that the supposed eyewitness accounts of Dares and Dictys are purely fictitious. The Latin novel Ephemeris belli Troiani is conceived as an eyewitness account of the Cretan Dictys, who is said to have fought in the Trojan War among the Mycenaeans. His work, which – unlike the Iliad and the Odyssey – does entirely without gods, was at the center of the way Troy was regarded during the Middle Ages and early modern times, together with the work of Dares. According to Dictys, it was the Trojans, not the Mycenaeans, who triggered the war, and the Greeks responded by attacking coastal towns in the northwest of Asia Minor.nk CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE The Ephemeris belli Troiani of Dictys of Crete (Dictys Cretensis) is a Latin novel consisting of six volumes about the Trojan War. It is based on a Greek text from the 1st or 2nd century CE that had been lost, except for two papyrus fragments. The Latin version was composed by Lucius Septimius during the 3rd or 4th century CE. The Ephemeris belli Troiani claims to be based on the eyewitness account of the Cretan Dictys, who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War. His recordings are said to have been discovered by accident in his grave in the year 66 BCE. But it is by no means proven that the account of finding the Dictys originals is authentic. The chronicler, the Cretan Dictys, is said to have accompanied his king, Idomeneus of Knossos, to Troy and to have taken the Greek side, while writing about the siege and conquest of Troy. Unlike Homer, Dictys makes no reference to divine intervention. This gives his report a more modern and authentic character. The work was rediscovered in the 12th century and it played a pivotal role in the reception of the story of Troy during the Middle Ages up until early modern times. For Byzantine scholars, Dictys was the leading authority on Troy, followed by Homer, Euripides and Virgil. In Western Europe, the ranking was: Dares, Dictys, Virgil and Ovid. From late antiquity onward, the story of Dictys's journal, in amusing prose addressed to a knowledgeable and sophisticated audience, came to be taken literally. During the Middle Ages, when Homer's Iliad was considered lost or was known only in an abridged version, Dictys's account, together with that of Dares, formed the basis of historical knowledge about the Trojan War. In 1702, however, not quite 20 years after the Ottomans had threatened to conquer Vienna for the second time and 170 years before Troy was rediscovered on Hisarlik, the Dutch classical scholar Jakob Perizonius established the paradigm still accepted today that Dictys's and Dares's works were entirely fictitious. (From the Luwian Studies web site.)

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EPICTETUS.

Epicteti Quae supersunt Dissertationes Ab Arriano Collectae: Enchiridio Fragmentisque in fine adjectis. Recensuit Notisque illustravit Joannes Uptonus Praeb. Rossensis.

Londini: Imprensis Thomae Woodward, 1739, 1741. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Small 4to, 196 x 146 mms., pp. [xvi], [5] 5 - 680; [681 - 683- 684 - 792 [793 Errata, 794 blank]] [3] - 4 - 277 [288 blank, 289 - 3778 Indexes], with a drop-title in volume 2 on 5ir, reading "In Dissertationes Epicteti Ab Arriano Collectas Notae et Emedationes Joannis Uptoni; cume integris Annotationibus Jacobi Schegkii, Ieronymi Wolfii, Selectique aliorum Virorum doctorum Noties," contemporary calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco labels; some occasional foxing and very slight damp-staining, tops and base of spines chipped and front joints very slightly cracked, but a good and attractive set, with the book label of George Proctor Upton on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume; he was mayor of Lyme Regis in the early 19th century and a descendent of John Upton. A Latin translation is below the Greek text. The editor, John Upton (1707 - 1760), was the son of the schoolmaster and scholar James Upton (1671 - 1741). "An accomplished classical and literary scholar, he published an excellent edition of Arrian's Epictetus in two volumes (1739–41)..." (ODNB). The Greek historian, philosopher, and scholar Lusicus Flavius Arrianus (c. 86 - c. 160) attended lectures given by Epictetus, and his edition contains virtually everything we know about the life of Epictetus.

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EPICTETUS.

The Morals of Epictetus: Made English in a Poetical Paraphrase. By Ellis Walker, M. A.

London: Printed for T. and D. Dodesley..., J. Durham...., and G. Field..., 1764. 12mo (in 6s), 175 x 98 mms., pp. [xxii], 61 [62 - 64 contents], engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin (very worn)); text fingered, short tears not affecting text in several leaves, a rather shabby and well-used copy, with the contemporary autograph "Thos Hopper" on the top margin of the dedication page. Walker's edition of Epictetus first appeared in 1692 and was frequently reprinted in the 18th century. A piracy, with the names of the publishers being fictitious. ESTC T138717 locates copies in BL, Bodleian (2), Oxford Harris Manchester; University of California, Riverside and Pennsylvania in the USA; and Monash in Australia.

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Book number: 7629

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