Horace

Q. Horatii Flacci Opera, Cum Scholiis Veteribus Castigavit

Glasgow and London, in aedibus academicis excudebat Jacobus Mundell, 1796. Leather. A delightful new edition of the works of Horace, complete with notes by Joseph Zeunius, Joseph Matthias Gesner and Gulielmus Baxter. ESTC Citation No. T46147.Horace (65-8BC) was a Roman lyric poet writing during Augustus' reign. He wrote plentiful works, including his Odes, Satires, Epistles, Epodes and Ars Poetica. His work strongly influenced contemporaries such as Ovid and Propertius, as well as later writers such as Petrarch, Dante, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Edward FitzGerald, and W. H. Auden. He is also held as being the first autobiographer in the world.In the original Latin.With additions and notes by Joseph Zeunius, Joseph Matthias Gesner and Gulielmus Baxter.A new edition, in a contemporary leather binding. In a full calf binding. Externally a little worn; the spine label has worn off, and extremities are a little worn and bumped. Sticker to the tail of the spine. Some wear to the boards resulting in loss. Internally, firmly bound. Pages have just the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 784R30

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Horace Classical Literature Latin Literature Ancient History Classical Literature None

Horace; Car. Herm. Weise [Karl Hermann Weise] [ed.]

Q. Horatii Flacci Opera Ad Praestantium Librorum Lectiones Accurate Recensuit

Lipsiae [Leipzig], Sumptibus Ottonis Holtze, 1889. Leather. A small attractive volume of the poetical works of Horace; an uncommon edition edited by Karl Hermann Weise and bound in full vellum. A later edition of this work in a full vellum binding with decorative gilt to the spine and marbled end papers. Ink inscription to the first blank page and to the title page. A collection of the best known poetical works of the Roman satirist Horace, in the original Latin, edited by Karl Hermann Weise. 'Odes' is a collection of four books of lyric poems by Horace, originally published in 23 BC and 13 BC. The odes are written in an imitation of the short lyrical poems written by the Greek poets Sappho, Pindar, and Alcaeus. They cover a range of subjects, including religion, wine, patriotism, love, friendship, and morality. This particular version, edited by Karl Hermann Weise, is becoming uncommon. In a full vellum binding. Externally, very smart, with only a couple of small marks to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .

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Book number: 864M14

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Horace Latin Weise Latin Not Stated

Horace; Fridericus G. Doering

Q. Horatii Flacci Opera

Oxford and London, D. A. Talboys, 1831. Leather. A collection of the works of Horace in the original Latin, bound in smart diced calf. Horace (65-8BC) was a Roman lyric poet writing during Augustus' reign. He wrote plentiful works, including his Odes, Satires, Epistles, Epodes and Ars Poetica. His work strongly influenced contemporaries such as Ovid and Propertius, as well as later writers such as Petrarch, Dante, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Edward FitzGerald, and W. H. Auden. He is also held as being the first autobiographer in the world.In the original Latin.Bound in a pleasing contemporary leather binding with colourful marbled edges. In a full diced calf binding. Externally, generally smart, with some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine; extremities are slightly bumped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 776R18

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Horace Latin Literature History Ancient Rome Latin Literature None

Horace

Oeuvres D&Apos;Horace En Latin Et En Francois

London, A. Hambourg, 1803. Leather. A scarce ten volume collection of Horace's works in French and the original Latin, bound in contemporary leather. Horace (65-8BC) was a Roman lyric poet writing during Augustus' reign. He wrote plentiful works, including his Odes, Satires, Epistles, Epodes and Ars Poetica. His work strongly influenced contemporaries such as Ovid and Propertius, as well as later writers such as Petrarch, Dante, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Edward FitzGerald, and W. H. Auden. He is also held as being the first autobiographer in the world.With historical and critical commentaries by Andre Dacier (1751-1822), a French scholar of classics. His other editions included those of Pompeius Festus and Verrius Flaccus, Aristotle's Poetics, Hippocrates and Plutarch's Lives.Complete in ten volumes.In the original Latin as well as in French.A scarce work. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart, with some larger instances of rubbing to the tail of the first volume and to volume II; otherwise just a little general wear and rubbing. Volume VI is lacking the gilt spine label. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with just the odd mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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Book number: 775R54

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Horace Works of Horace Latin Literature Works of Horace Not Stated

Horace; M. Dacier [trans.]

Oeuvres D&Apos;Horace Traduites En Francois, Avec Des Notes, Et Des Remarques Critiques Sur Tout L&Apos;Ouvrage: Dernier Edition, Avec L&Apos;Original Latin

Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1691. Leather. An early edition of this scarce ten volume collection of Horace's works in French, with the original Latin. A late 17th century translated collection of works from leading Roman lyric poet, Horace. In both French, with the original Latin to face. "Last Edition, with original Latin reveni, corrected, and enriched by figures." During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the Age of Enlightenment, neo-classical culture was pervasive. English literature in the middle of that period has been dubbed Augustan. It is not always easy to distinguish Horace's influence during those centuries (the mixing of influences is shown for example in one poet's pseudonym, Horace Juvenal).However a measure of his influence can be found in the diversity of the people interested in his works, both among readers and authors. New editions of his works were published almost yearly. There were three new editions in 1612 (two in Leiden, one in Frankfurt) and again in 1699 (Utrecht, Barcelona, Cambridge). Cheap editions were plentiful and fine editions were also produced, including one whose entire text was engraved by John Pine in copperplate. The poet James Thomson owned five editions of Horace's work and the physician James Douglas had five hundred books with Horace-related titles. Horace was often commended in periodicals such as The Spectator, as a hallmark of good judgement, moderation and manliness, a focus for moralising. His verses offered a fund of mottoes, such as simplex munditiis, splendide mendax, sapere aude, nunc est bibendum, and carpe diem. Adorned with beautiful wood-cut, decorative, head and tail pieces. With a delightfully engraved frontispiece to each volume, although unfortunately, lacking the last six leaves to volume five. Uniformly bound in their original full calf bindings. Andr Dacier was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus' De verborum significatione, and was the first to produce a "readable" text of the 20-book work. The most important of his works were his editions of Pompeius Festus and Verrius Flaccus, Aristotle's Poetics, the Electra and Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles; Epictetus, Hippocrates, Plutarch's Lives, and this translation of Horace. Complete in ten volumes In full calf bindings. Externally, fairly smart, with a little rubbing to the extremities and the joints. Small loss to the head of the spine to Vols I, VII and VIII. Small loss to the spine of Vol V. Leather is splitting to the head of the rear joint to Vol III. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright but with the odd spot throughout. Vol V is lacking pages 11 to 26, meaning part of Dacier's 'Remarques sur la Premier Ode du V. Livre, Appelle Livre d'Epodes' is missing. Vol V is also lacking six pages to the rear and there is a loss to the last five pages, affecting a few words to each page. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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Book number: 863M27

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Horace Classical literature Roman poetry Classical literature Not Stated

Horace; Arthur John MacLeane

Quinti Horatii Flacci: Opera Omnia with a Commentary

London, Whittaker and Co. 1853. Leather. 'Opera Omnia' in the original Latin by Horace, first thus with commentary by Arthur John MacLeane, in a signed Nutt full calf binding. 'Opera Omnia' by the leading Roman lyric poet in the Augustan Age, first edition to feature an extensive commentary by Arthur John MacLeane. Text in the original Latin and commentary in English in double column below. With a preface and introduction by MacLeane, as well as biographical references and indexes to the rear. In a full calf binding signed Nutt of Cambridge. No half title as called for. Page numbers on p. 767 and 768 are reversed as issued in this first edition thus.The aim of this work was to present students and readers with an in-depth understanding of Horace's poems in their letter and spirit, including a biographical and historical sketch of his life. Neat previous owner's marginal annotations to the occasional leaf. In a full calf binding signed Nutt, with marbled edges and endpapers, five raised bands. Loss to the title label to the spine. Externally generally sound with some shelf wear and rubbing to the spine and extremities, minor scuffing to the spine and boards. Previous owner's inscription to the verso front free endpaper, dated 1854, crossed out in blue ink, as well as a more recent ownership inscription undated. Featuring neat marginal notes by a previous owner to the occasional leaf, occasional underlining. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to the occasional leaf, although generally, the pages appear very clean throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 806A50

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: horace classical literature latin poetry classical literature None

Horace

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera, Interpretatione Et Notis

London, J. Johnson; et al, 1799. Leather. A collection of the Latin poetical works of Horace, an extensive collection of his influential lyrical poetry. A collection of the works of Horace, here in the original Latin.Including a life of Horace.'Odes' is a collection of four books of lyric poems by Horace. The original Latin books were published in 23 BC and 13 BC.The odes are written in an imitation of the short lyrical poems written by the original Greek poets, Sappho, Pindar, and Alcaeus. The poems cover a range of subjects, including religion, wine, patriotism, love, friendship, and morality.Horace was a Roman lyric poet and satirist, who worked under the emperor Augustus. He is best known for this collection.Bookplate of Granville Hastings Wheler to the front paste down. Wheler was a clergyman and scientist who owned Otterden Place, where he carrier out experiments on electricity; he was the first in England to electrify a live animal. The twelfth edition.Four pages of adverts to the rear. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart. Some rubbing and a few light marks to the boards and spine. Cracks to the front joint. Minor bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with just a few scattered spots. Prior owner's faded ink inscription to the title page. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 823P37

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera, Interpretatione et Notis horace opera works horace Granville Wheler None

Horace; H Darnley Naylor

Three Hundred & Sixty Five Short Quotations from Horace

Shaftesbury, The High House Press , 1935. Leather. A scarce limited edition of this anthology of quotations from Horace by H Darnley Naylor. Limited edition of 215 copies, of which nos. 1 to 15 are printed on hand-made paper and signed by both the compiler and translator, and the printer. This copy is number one-hundred and seventy.Featuring quotations by Horace with modern titles and varied metrical eversions in English by H Darnley Naylor,  British-born Australian academic who became Emeritus Professor of Classics in the University of Adelaide, South Australia.Gift inscription to front free endpaper 'To our friend Mary Tennyson-Wood in memory of a great man. From "Matie" + John Darnley-Naylor. HDN died on 8th December 1945". In quarter cloth binding over marbled boards. Externally very smart with only light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light minor spotting to odd leaf, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 862A27

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: henry darnley naylor horace quotations aphorisms horace None

Horace; C. Smart

The Works of Horace

London, Henry G Bohn , 1850. Cloth. A bright copy of Smart's prose translation of Horace's work, a new edition. A new edition of C. Smart's translation of the works of Horace, revised. Generally following Orelli's text with useful annotations from the best modern and ancient commentaries. Containing leading Augustan poet Horace's translated work in prose. Illustrated with frontispiece.Publisher's advertisements to endpapers. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip faded. Internally, firmly bound. Minor light spotting affecting margins of odd leaf only, pages otherwise generally very clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 853A23

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: horace collected works new editions collected works None

Horace; C Smart

The Works of Horace, Translated Literally Into English Prose; for the Use of Those Who Are Desirous of Acquiring or Recovering a Competent Knowledge of the Latin Language

London, J Newbery, 1762. Leather. The second edition of this prose translation of Horace's works. Rebound in a lovely half calf binding with marbled paper boards. The work was first published in 1756 and was subsequently reprinted frequently due to its accessible nature. Early editions of this work are hard to find, as the text was very often used in schools as it was a great educational tool for those learning Latin. Horace was a leading Augustan poet. His lyrical poems were penned in hexameter verse and the caustic iambic. This work sees his titles translated into prose. In Latin and English, printed in parallel. ESTC No. T52767. A beautifully bound and well preserved set of this popular Roman poet's works. Rebound, in quarter calf bindings with marbled paper boards. Externally, excellent condition with very little shelfwear. Prior owner's inscription to the title pages, J Pansoney Cath Hall. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges with just occasional light spots. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 623L12

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Horace Prose Horatii Poems Prose None

Victor Hugo

Les Travailleurs de la Mer

Paris, Librairie Internationale, 1866. Leather. A set of Les Travailleurs de la Mer by Victor Hugo. A set of Les Travailleurs de la Mer by Victor Hugo. Two of the complete three volumes. The set consists of volumes II and III, and is missing volume I. Eighth edition. The book was well received, perhaps due to the previous success of Les Miserables. Dedicated to the channel island of Guernsey where he spent 15 years of exile, Hugo tells of a man who attempts to win the approval of his beloved's father by rescuing his ship, intentionally marooned by its captain who hopes to escape with a treasure of cash it is transporting, through an exhausting battle of human engineering against the force of the sea and a battle against an almost mythical beast of the sea, a giant squid. Superficially an adventure, one of Hugo's biographers calls it a "metaphor for the nineteenth centuryechnical progress, creative genius and hard work overcoming the immanent evil of the material world." In blue quarter crushed morocco leather bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, sound with slight rubbing. There is some minor bumping to the top and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with some scattered light foxing. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown in both volumes. Good . Ill.: Not stated. Good .

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Book number: FGN21-H-3

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Victor Hugo sea workers French literature sea Not stated

Aldous Huxley

Antic Hay

London, Chatto & Windus, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this comic novel depicting life following the end of World War One. First edition. A comic novel which takes place in London and depicts the self-absorbent culture of the elite in the turbulent times following the end of World War One. Written by Aldous Huxley, an English writer and philosopher. Huxley's work includes novels, non-fiction, essays, narratives and poems. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor shelf wear to the extremities. A few marks to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd handling mark and age toning to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 839T48

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: Huxley Antic Hay WW1 Antic Hay None

George Payne Rainsford James

De L&Apos;Orme

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition. Leather. A first edition of G. P. R. James' third novel. A first edition of G. P. R. James' third novel. Complete in three volumes. George Payne Rainsford James (August 9, 1799 June 9, 1860), was an English novelist and historical writer, the son of a physician in London. He was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent. He held the honorary office of British Historiographer Royal during the last years of William IV's reign. In 1825 he wrote his first, and probably his best known novel Richilieu, which wasn't published until 1829. After reading Richilieu, which had been given to him by a friend, and after receiving a letter from James, Walter Scott advised him to take up literature as a profession. He was also given encouragement by Washington Irving. In half calf bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, sound with shelfwear. Very slight cracking to the head of one rear joint and very slight evidence of past worming to one further rear joint. Internally, bindings loosening slightly in places. Generally bright but with the odd mark and scattered foxing throughout, heavy in places. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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Book number: FGN21-C-12

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: George Payne Rainsford James English literature English novels leather English literature Not Stated

Henry James

The Novels and Tales of Henry James

London , Macmillan and Co. 1908-1909. Cloth. A complete twenty four volume set of the novels and tales of renowned realist writer Henry James, with frontispieces to each volume. Henry James was an American-British author who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the English language and is considered a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. Henry James is best known for his novels that deal with the social interplay between émigré Americans, English and Europeans. This is a complete twenty four volume set of the novels and tales of this extraordinary writer and is part of the Macmillan New York edition and includes his works The Turn of the Screw, A Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors.  Volume I contains Roderick Hudson, volume II contains The American, volume III consists of The Portrait of a Lady I, volume IV contains The Portrait of a Lady II, volume V consists of The Princess of Casamassima I, volume VI contains The Princess of Casamassima II, volume VII contains The Tragic Muse I, volume VIII contains The Tragic Muse II, volume IX consists of The Awkward Age, volume X consists of The Spoils of Poynton, A London Life and The Chaperon.  Volume XI contains What Maisie Knew, In the Cage and The Pupil, volume XII contains The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, The Liar and The two Faces, volume XIII contains The Reverberator, Madame de Mauves, A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales. These were all published in 1908. Volume XV contains The Lesson of the Master, The Death of the Lion, The Next time and Other Tales, volume XVI contains The Author of Beltraffio, The Middle Years, Greville Fane and Other Tales, volume XVII contains The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle etc, volume XIX contains The Wings of the Dove I and volume XX contains The Wings of the Dove II. Volumes XXI and XXII contains The Ambassadors and Volumes XXIII abd XXIV contains The Golden Bowl. These were all published in 1909.  Each volume has a tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece.    In the publisher's original uniform full cloth binding, with intricate gilt detail to the spine. Externally, very smart with light bumping to some of the tails of the spines. Front hinges starting on volumes ix, vii, v, ii, xvii. Internally, all are firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with some scattered spots to some pages. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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Book number: 833B2

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: The Novels and Tales of Henry James Henry James portrait of a lady fiction Henry James Not Stated

Jerome et Jean Tharaud

La Fete Arabe

Paris, Librarie Plon, 1922. Leather. A French collaborative novel from Jerome et Jean Tharaud. A French collaborative novel from Jerome et Jean Tharaud. Limited to 1100 copies of which this is numbered 837. In a quarter-morocco binding. Externally, smart, with just a few marks and some slight rubbing. Internally, firmly bound. Bookseller's label to front free-endpaper. Pages are bright and clean, with just the odd patch of foxing. Near Fine . Ill.: Not stated. Near Fine .

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Book number: FGN22-E-1

Catalogue: Classical Literature

Keywords: collaborative novel Tharaud limited edition French literature Tharaud Not stated