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Ancient world 385 Baudy, Gerhard J., 1950- Adonisgärten: Studien zur antiken Samensymbolik. (Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie; Heft 176). Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Anton Hain, 1986, 130p, notes, pub ads. Hardback. Like new. $95.00

Ancient world 305 Aesop.
Aesop's fables. A new version written by Munro Leaf; with illustrations by Robert Lawson. Norwalk, Conn.: Heritage Press, 1969, xii, 130 pages : illustrations. A very nice copy with no marks except that the cover has some bubbling –I think it was caused by too much binder's glue. With this minor detraction, I would call it a good copy in slipcase. $9.50
A selection of more than 100 fables rewritten in their newest form, yet the age-old wisdom and the substance are still the same.

Affirmation und Kritik: zur politischen Funktion von Kunst und Literatur im Altertum. Edited by Gerhard Binder and Bernd Effe. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1995, 277p, notes. Paperbound. Fine, bright, clean copy. $35.00
Contents:Im Nachsinnen über die politische Bedeutung der Prophetie: Überlegungen zu Daniel 9 by Henning Graf Reventlow; Zwischen Affirmation und Kritik: die demokratische Polis des 5. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Literatur by Karl-Wilhelm Welwei;
Thukydides und Perikles: zum Problem von Affirmation und Kritik im Werk des Historikers by Alexander Kleinlogel; Grossbauten und Prunkbauten im klassischen Athen by Hermann Büsing; Kunst und Zensur in Platons "Staat" by Rudolf Rehn; Alexandrinisches Herrscherlob: Ambivalenzen literarischer Panegyrik by… Read More

Ancient World 1240 Clauss, Manfred, 1945- Alexandria: Schicksale einer antiken Weltstadt.
Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2003, 368p, notes, 70 illus. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper, very good in dust jacket. $23.50

Ancient world 1536 Couat, Auguste, 1846-1898. Alexandrian poetry under the first three Ptolemies, 324-222 B.C. With a supplementary chapter by Émile Cahen, translated by James Loeb.London: William Heinemann, ltd.; New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931, xx, 638 pages, bib, index. This is an ex-library copy from the library of a major museum. It is not a reprint but the first edition. Volume has the usual library markings but I wonder how often it was consulted as it is in such nice shape. The blue linen cloth binding with the gilt lettering on the spine is very attractive, printed in Great Britain. There is a handwritten note in pencil noting that the book was given to the museum in 1931by James Lamb, 1867-1933. With detractions noted, book is in good to very good, tight condition. $20.00

Ancient world 326 Anacreon. Anacreon.
Translated by Thomas Stanley. With a preface & notes by A. H. Bullen, & illustrations by J. R. Weguelin. London: A. H. Bullen, 1906, xxiv, 92 p., [10] leaves of plates: illus. First printed (with the Greek text) in 1892." [i.e. 1893]. This edition has the English only. Nicely made book with deckled edges and top edge gilt. Gilt lettering on spine and front cover panel. Cover is darkened, especially to spine, with some fraying to head and heel of spine, small white spot to top of panel. Binding little dry. Overall a good copy but not better. $12.50

Ancient world 430 Boissonade, Jean François, 1774-1857. Anecdota Græca, e codicibus regiis. Descripsit annotatione illustravit J. Fr. Boissonade. In five volumes. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1962. Volume II – viii, 420, index; Volume III – viii, 494p, index; Volume IV – x, 490p, index; Volume V – viii, 504p, index. A photographic reprint of the Paris edition, 1829-33. Fine condition, Volume V has a few minor stains to side paper edge. Volume I is not present Price for Volumes II-V: $100.00
Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie (12 August 1774 – 8 September 1857) entered the public service in 1792 during the administration of General Dumouriez. Driven out in 1795, he was restored by Lucien Bonaparte. He then resigned public employment permanently, in order to devote his time to the study of Greek. In 1828 he succeeded Jean-Baptiste Gail in the chair of Greek at the Collège de France. He also held the offices of librarian of the Bibliothèque du Roi, and perpetual… Read More

Ancient world 1539 Apollonios de Rhodes/Apollonius of Rhodes, fl. first half of 3rd century B.C. Argonautiques.
Texte établi et commenté par Francis Vian et traduit par Émile Delage. (Series:
Collection des Universités de France). Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1974-1981. Three volumes: Tome 1: Chants I-II, xc, 283 pages, notes; Tome II; Chant III, xv, 151 pages, notes; Tome III: Chant IV, xi, 273 pages, folding maps, index. Greek text and French translation of Argonautica. Volume I is in paperback and Volumes II and III in hardcover. Signature of scholar on front free endpapers, rather attractive bright yellow color covers, very good condition. The three volumes: $65.00 Box A 62
Apollonius of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος Apollṓnios Rhódios; Latin: Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. The poem is one of… Read More

Ancient world 3790a (Aristophanes)Croiset, Maurice. Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens. Translated by James Loeb. London: Macmillan, 1909, 192 pages, index. There is a preface by the author as well as an introduction to the English translation by John Williams White of Harvard University. Nicely produced in blue cloth and gilt lettering on the spine. Very attractive book, has some German pencilling in margins of some pages, in small hand. They are obviously notes on what the English words mean. The signature of a well-known classical scholar on front free endpaper. He taught in Germany for a while and maybe bought the book there. $21.50

Ancient world rka (Aristophanes).Reckford, Kenneth J. Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy: Volume l: Six Essays in Perspective. The University of North Carolina Press, 1987, xiv, 567 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Signature of collector on front free endpaper, fine copy in dust jacket. $18.50

Ancient world 1564 (Aristophanes)Croiset, Maurice. Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens. Translated by James Loeb. London: Macmillan, 1909, 192 pages, index. There is a preface by the author as well as an introduction to the English translation by John Williams White of Harvard University. Nicely produced in blue cloth and gilt lettering on the spine. This volume came from the library of a major museum, the gift of Loeb, the translator -so noted in pencil on front free endpaper. Has typical library markings. Even with the library processing, one questions how often, if at all, that the book was consulted. Good condition. $13.50

Ancient world 349 Aristophanes.
Aristophanis Ranae. Emendavit et interpretatus est Franz Volkmar Fritzsche. Turici: Sumtu Meyeri et Zelleri, 1845, 61p, 459p, corrigenda. Ex-library copy. Bound in black boards with gilt lettering. Cover is worn. Rubbed and chipped edges. Bumped extremities. Binding and text block are intact. Pages are lightly toned but clean. The front free endpaper is missing the upper corner. The side paper edge, from about page 333 to 355, are ruffled. The commentary runs for 459 pages, in Latin. Greek text 61 pages. For more on the editor see his edition of Lucianus Samosatensis in this collection. $25.00

Ancient world 355 Aristoteles Werke in deutscher Übersetzung. Begründet von Ernst Grumach. Herausgegeben von Hellmut Flashar. Band 8. Magna Moralia. Ubersetzt und Kommentiert von Franz Dirlmeier. Dritte, erneut durchgesehene Auflage. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973, 482p, bib. Very good in dust jacket. The introduction goes from page 93 to 147, the comments from page 149 to 475, appendix and bib the rest. $12.50

Ancient world 1367 Wallace, William and Mary Wallace. Asklepiades of Samos. [The poems of Asclepiades edited by W. and M. Wallace, with translations by the editors and others.]. Oxford University Press: London, 1941. xv, 107p, notes, bib, index. Good, clean tight copy. There is some faint whitening around the bottom corner of the front cover panel, maybe vestiges of powder? Attractively made book with Greek with English translations. $18.50 Box 127
Asclepiades of Samos was an ancient Greek epigrammatist and lyric poet. He was a friend of Theocritus, who flourished about 270 BC. He was the earliest and most important of the convivial and erotic epigrammists. Only a few of his compositions are actual inscriptions. Others sing the praises of the poets whom he especially admired, but the majority of them are love songs. It is doubtful whether he is the author of all the epigrams (some 40 in number) which bear his name in the Greek Anthology. He possibly gave his name to the Asclepiad metre.

Ancient world 354 Aristotle.
Athenaion politeia [In Greek characters]. Aristotle on the constitution of Athens. Second edition. Edited by Frederic G Kenyon. [London]: Printed by Oxford University Press for the British Museum and by Longmans and Company, 1891, li, [l]. 190p., index, corrigenda slip. Greek text, technical apparatus is in English. On the title page is a stamp: "Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum". On the flyleaf is the stamp of a previous owner (from Egypt) and the signature of another, a classics professor. The book has a black leather and corners and unusual raspberry-like boards. The spine and the tips are heavily worn and scraped in parts but still a very tight, clean copy. The lining papers have a geometric motif suggesting that perhaps the volume was bound in Egypt. $65.00

Ancient world 362 Athenian studies presented to William Scott Ferguson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press/ London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940,4 p. l., 535p, index, front., illus., plates, diagrams. [Harvard studies in classical philology. Supplementary volume 1], Spine is a little sun-faded, else very good, clean tight copy. $45.00
"The editors are the former students of Professor Ferguson ... Their own essays appear in the regular volume LI (1940) of Harvard studies in classical philology."--
Contents: Blegen, C. W. Athens and the early age of Greece; Mylonas, G. E. Athens and Minoan Crete; Daux, Georges. Athènes et Delphes; McGregor, M. F. The pro-Persian party at Athens from 510 to 480 B.C; Peek, Werner. Die kämpfe am Eurymedon; Wade-Gery, H. T. The peace of Kallias; Dinsmoor, W. B. The tribal cycles of the treasurers of Athena,
Thompson, H. A. A golden Nike from the Athenian Agora; Gomme, A. W. The old oligarch; Meritt, B. D.… Read More

Ancient world 631 Athenian studies presented to William Scott Ferguson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press/ London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940,4 p. l., 535p, index, front., illus., plates, diagrams. [Harvard studies in classical philology. Supplementary volume 1]. Spine is a little sun-faded, else very good, clean tight copy. $45.00
"The editors are the former students of Professor Ferguson ... Their own essays appear in the regular volume LI (1940) of Harvard studies in classical philology."—Very interesting essays.
Contents: Blegen, C. W. Athens and the early age of Greece; Mylonas, G. E. Athens and Minoan Crete; Daux, Georges. AtheÌ€nes et Delphes; McGregor, M. F. The pro-Persian party at Athens from 510 to 480 B.C; Peek, Werner. Die kämpfe am Eurymedon; Wade-Gery, H. T. The peace of Kallias; Dinsmoor, W. B. The tribal cycles of the treasurers of Athena, Thompson, H. A. A golden Nike from the Athenian Agora; Gomme, A. W. The old oligarch; Meritt, B. D. Athens and… Read More

Ancient world 1108 Richter, Gisela M. A. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958, xxvii, 209p, bib, notes, illus, plates, index. Revised edition of classic 1946 edition. Good, clean solid copy. No dust jacket.

Ancient world 346 Aristophanes. Birds, Lysistrata, Assembly-Women, Wealth. A new verse translation, with introduction and notes by Stephen Halliwell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, lxxxi, 297p, notes, index. Fine copy in dust jacket. $12.50

Ancient world 425 Boeotia antiqua. I. Papers on recent work in Boiotian archaeology and history. Edited by John M. Fossey and Jacques Morin. (Monographies en archéologie et histoire classiques de l'Université McGill/ McGill University monographs in classical archaeology and history, 7.) Amsterdam: Gieben, 1989, xi, 184p, 66 plates, illus, graph, map. Softbound in red paper. Measures 8 ½ inches by 11 ½ inches. $57.50