[Diamond Classics] [Bible: N.T.]

Novum Testamentum Graecum.

Londini [London]: Gulielmus Pickering, 1828. 48mo. (80 x 45 mm), pp. [8], 512. Text entirely in Greek. Engraved frontispiece by Worthington after Leonardo's Last Supper, engraved title-page. Frontispiece and engraved title a little dusty, light age yellowing. Contemporary crushed navy blue morocco, boards and spine gilt, inner edges gilt. Spine sunned, joints and corners a little rubbed. Inscription 'The Hon.ble Francis H. Baring from Bart B. Dowling Feb 13 1878' to fly. From Pickering's famous 'Diamond Classics' series. Dedicated to George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), renowned bibliophile. 'The smallest Greek Testament ever published. Reuss places the text among Editiones Stephano-Elzevirianæ, i.e. the class represented by Buck's edition of 1632 and similar Testaments.' (D&M). A very good, clean copy, exquisitely printed in Greek diamond type by C. Corrall. Keynes, p.81; Darlow & Moule 4816

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Book number: 53683

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Ahrensdorf, Peter J.:

Homer on the Gods & Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization.

Cambridge University Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 271. Hardback. Contents and binding mint. Dust-jacket, fine.

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Book number: 53255

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Ancona, Ronnie & Greene, Ellen (eds.):

Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. First edition. 8vo., pp. xi, 372. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

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Book number: 54299

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Angela, Alberto: (Gregor, Katherine, trans.:)

Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity.

New York: Harpervia, 2021. First edition in English. 8vo., pp. xvi?, 382? + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, small remainder mark to edge and a hint only of shelf-dust, otherwise a fine copy. Originally published in Italy in 2018 as Cleopatra: La Regina che sfido Roma e conquisto l'eternita.

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Book number: 54506

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Alexander of Aphrodisias: (Lewis, Eric, trans.:)

On Aristotle's Meteorology 4.

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press 1996. First edition. 8vo., 186 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, still very good.

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Book number: 54227

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Apuleius: (Singer, Peter, ed. & abr.:)

The Golden Ass.

New York: Liveright, 2021. First edition, first impression. 8vo., pp. ix, 219. Illustrations to text. Hardback:white cloth, red gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Edited and abridged by Peter Singer, translated by Ellen Finkelpearl, and illustrated by Anna and Varvara Kendel.

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Book number: 54632

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Aristotle:

Opera Omnia.

Lipsiae [Leipzig]: sumptibs et typis Car, Tauchnitii, 1831. 11 vols. bound as 10 (vols. 3 and 4 bound together). Editio stereotypa, 12mo., a little toned. Black paste-patterned paper bindings gilt title and volume labels plus additional handwritten paper title labels. Blue dot taped to foot of each spine, library stamps to endpapers. Endcaps worn, a few chips and scuffs, vol. 9 missing a small bit of paper at foot of spine, still very good. To front pastedown: bookplate of Robert College Library Constantinople; ink stamp of Classics Departmental Library of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. To ffep: handwritten inscription of G.E. Bean, Istanbul University dated Nov. 1944; typewritten paper slip 'Presented to the Department of Classics by Professor R.M. Harrison'; large ink stamp also of University of Newcastle upon Tyne Department of Classics Library. To half-title, ink stamp of Robert College Library, Jun 23 19, Constantinople. George Ewart Bean (1903-1977) was an English archaeologist and writer. He helped to set up the archaeology department at the University of Istanbul and taught classics there for many years. His archive is held at the Museum of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. The first 11 volumes here of a 16 volume set: volume 12 appeared in 1831, then the rest in 1832. Contains: v. 1. Physicorum libri VIII -- v. 2. Metaphysica -- v. 3. De coelo libri IV. De generatione et corruptione libri II -- v. 4. Meteorologica. De mundo liber -- v. 5. Historia animalium -- v. 6. De partibus animalium libri IV. De generatione animalium libri V. De animalium incessu. De animalium motione. De spiritu -- v. 7. De anima libri III. De sensu et sensili. De memoria. De somno. De somniis. De longitudine et brevitate vitae. De iuventute et senectute. De vita et morte. De respiratione -- v. 8. Categoriae. De interpretationne. Topica. De sophisticis elenchis -- v. 9. Analytica priora et posteriora -- v. 10. Ethicorum ad Nichomachum -- v. 11. Politicorum libri VIII. Oeconomica.

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Book number: 54740

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Baltussen, Han & Davis, Peter J. (eds.):

The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. vi, 329. Hardback: grey cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

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Book number: 54349

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Barca, Natale:

Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus & Salvius 136-132 & 105-100 BC.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 256. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

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Book number: 54508

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Bishop, M. C.:

Lucius Verus

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xv, 197 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new.

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Book number: 54644

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Boardman, John:

Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical.

Thames & Hudson, 2001. Large 4to. (312 x 242 mm), pp. 409. Illustrations. Hardback: brown cloth. Dust-jacket. Fine.

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Book number: 53638

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Boissier, Gaston:

La Religion Romaine. D'Auguste aux Antonins.

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1906. 2 vols. in 1. Small 8vo., pp. xiv, 403; 413. Cream cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated, spine label, spine browned, boards grubby, slight shelf wear to edges, endcaps and corners, edges dusted, top edge gilted, foxing to free end-papers, still very good. Gilt-embossed stamp 'Schola Civitatis Londinensis' (City of London School) to upper board.

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Book number: 48781

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Bowersock, G.E:

Roman Arabia.

America: Harvard, 1983. First edition, second impression. 8vo., pp. xiv, 224 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, dusty to edges otherwise very good. Dust-jacket, rather grubby and slightly stained but entirely intact, good.

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Book number: 54264

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Bryen, Ari Z.:

Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. 363. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. In the publisher's "Empire and After" series.

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Book number: 53618

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Caesar, Gaius Julius: (O.Donnell, James J., trans.:)

The War for Gaul: A New Translation.

Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xlv, 275. Map of Gaul to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

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Book number: 54504

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