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First Lessons in Greek
by Evangelinos Apostolides (E. A.) Sophocles
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1839
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$120.00
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Full calf with gilt titled morocco label to spine. Wear to corners & hinges, nonetheless a solid usable copy. Unaccountably scarce. 4 x 6 inches Item Price
$120.00
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The Histories
by Herodotus; Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt. Notes by John Marincola.
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- As New
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Published
- 2000
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$285.00
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Scarce virgin copy in publisher's original shrink wrap. Black leather boards with tasteful Greek key gilt cartouche to boards; title & author to boards and spine. Moire endpapers and silk ribbon; four raised bands.
6.75 x 9.5 in Item Price
$285.00
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The Iliad
by Homer; Translated by Robert Fagles. Introduction by Bernard Knox.
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- As New
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Published
- 2004
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$225.00
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Scarce virgin copy in publisher's original shrink wrap. Black leather boards with tasteful Greek key gilt cartouche to boards; title & author to boards and spine. Moire endpapers and silk ribbon; four raised bands.
6.75 x 9.5 in Item Price
$225.00
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The Last Days of Socrates
by Plato; Translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant. Introduction by Harold Tarrant.
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- As New
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- Collector's Edition
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- 2000
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$225.00
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Scarce virgin copy in publisher's original shrink wrap. Black leather boards with tasteful Greek key gilt cartouche to boards; title & author to boards and spine. Moire endpapers and silk ribbon; four raised bands.
6.75 x 9.5 in Item Price
$225.00
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History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides; Translated by Rex Warner. Introduction by M.I. Finley.
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- As New
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
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- 2000
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$225.00
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Scarce virgin copy in publisher's original shrink wrap. Black leather boards with tasteful Greek key gilt cartouche to boards; title & author to boards and spine. Moire endpapers and silk ribbon; four raised bands.
6.75 x 9.5 in Item Price
$225.00
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The Odyssey
by Homer; Translated by Robert Fagles. Introduction by Bernard Knox.
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- As New
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- Collector's Edition
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- 2004
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$235.00
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Back leather boards with gilt particulars and title to boards and spine. Moire endpapers; silk ribbon; four raised bands. A virgin copy in original publisher's shrink wrap.
6.75 x 9.5 in Item Price
$235.00
![The Iliad; The Odyssey; The Ethics of Aristotle; The Last Days of Socrates; The Histories; History of the Peloponnesian War [SIX VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/560/127/1458127560.0.m.jpg)
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The Iliad; The Odyssey; The Ethics of Aristotle; The Last Days of Socrates; The Histories; History of the Peloponnesian War [SIX VOLUMES]
by Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, and Thucydides. Translations by Robert Fagles, Hugh Tredennick, Harold Tarrant, Aubrey de Selincourt, J.A.K. Thomson, and Rex Warner. Introductions by Bernard Knox, John Marincola, and M. I. Finley.
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- As New
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- Collector's Edition
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- 1999-2004
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$1,100.00
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Virgin copies in publisher's shrink wrap. All in handsome black leather boards with gilt Greek key cartouche bordered particulars and titles to boards and spines. Moire endpapers; silk ribbons; smyth sewn. Image one shows another set without publisher's original wraps (i.e. not this set)
6.75 x 9.5 in Item Price
$1,100.00
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Cum commentariis selectissimis variorum: & scholiis integris. Johannis Bond. Accedunt Indices locupletissimi, tum Auctorum, tum Rerum. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio
by Q. Horatius Flaccus (Quintus); (Horace)
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1670
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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Original full vellum boards; yapped fore-edge; black ink lettered title to spine with original owner's name to back board. Illustrated title page. Latin text throughout. Previous owner's name to fly -F. Dufaur Harrow--otherwise no other names or markings. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. A handsome & sturdy copy. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. Item Price
$400.00
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Opera Omnia quae supersunt. Io. Georgius Walchius Recensuit et criticis comentariis cum aliorum, tum suis inlustrauit.
by Lucii Coelii siue Caecilii Lactantii Firmiani
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- Used
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- 1715
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$220.00
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Original full vellum with faint handwritten title to spine. Title in red and black. A supple & durable binding. 4 1/2 x 7 inches. Item Price
$220.00
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (7 Volumes - Complete)
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited from numerous manuscripts by Walter W. Skeat
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- Used
- Edition
- Second Edition
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- 1972
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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Black cloth boards with copper particulars to front board and spine. Cream paper dust jacket with text and design. All 7 dust jackets protected in mylar. Volumes contents are as follows: Vol. 1: Romaunt of the Rose and Minor Poems; 2: Boethius, Troilus; 3: House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, Astrolabe, and Sources of Canterbury Tales; 4: The Canterbury… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
![Les Epitres Amoureues [sic] traduites en Francois. Nouvelle edition augmentee et embillie [sic] de figures. TOGETHER WITH les Elegies Amoureuses d'Ovide](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/816/066/1352066816.0.m.jpg)
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Les Epitres Amoureues [sic] traduites en Francois. Nouvelle edition augmentee et embillie [sic] de figures. TOGETHER WITH les Elegies Amoureuses d'Ovide
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- Used
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- 1703
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$1,400.00
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[viii] 447 [1]; [x] 271 [3]. Full mottled calf. 2 volumes in 1.
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$1,400.00
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Arrianou Periplous Euxeinou pontou ; Tou autou periplous tēs Erythras Thalassēs ; Annōnos Periplous Libyēs ; Ploutarchou peri potamōn kai orōn ; Epitomē tōn tou Strabōnos geōgraphikōn = Arriani & Hannonis Periplus ; Plutarchus de fluminibus & montibus ; Strabonis epitome.
by Flavius Arrianus, [Arrian], Oppian, Proclus, Sigmund Gelen, Simon Grynaus (Grynäus), Adrien Turnebe (Turnèbe), Hieronymus Froben, Johann Walder
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- Used
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- First Edition
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- 1533
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$6,440.00
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Contemporary blind ruled yapped vellum. Armorial bookplate of Rufus King; note to title in ink, catalogue entry pasted to recto of front fly; capital Η & Σ faintly to fore edge. Foxing to front pastedown and fly, otherwise remarkably clean and bright. Item Price
$6,440.00
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Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, da tutte le cose al buon costume nocive con somma diligenza purgato; Alla sua vera lezione ridotto, e con varie note dilucidato. Per uso principalmente de' Modesti Giovani della Toscana lingua studiosi
by Giovanni Boccaccio
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1754
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$300.00
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18th century full vellum with red morocco title label to spine. 2 parts bound as one: part 1: 179 pp., [1]; part 2: [181]-403 pp., [3]. Italian text throughout. OCLC shows only one other copy of this version published by Deregni at the National Library of Scotland. Marginal notes in pencil to last 9 pages, otherwise no previous owners'… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
![Leneide [L'Aeniede] de Virgile fidellement traduitte [traduicte] en vers heroiques avec le latin a costé, et les remarques a chaque livre pour l'intelligence de l'histoire.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/689/309/1288309689.0.m.jpg)
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Leneide [L'Aeniede] de Virgile fidellement traduitte [traduicte] en vers heroiques avec le latin a costé, et les remarques a chaque livre pour l'intelligence de l'histoire.
by Virgil. Vergil. Pierre Perrin
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- Used
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- Second Edition
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- 1664
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$440.00
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Volume one only (of two). Full yapped vellum with title in manuscript to spine. Title & engraved title together with 6 folding plates; [xx],455. Plate six separated at fold. Moisture mark to upper hinge area extending to text. Item Price
$440.00
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Polybiou toy Lykorta Megalopolitou istorion ta sozomena : Polybii Lycortae f. Megalopolitani historiarum libri qui supersunt. Isaacus Casaubonus ex antiquis libris emendavit, latine vertit, & commentariis illustravit. Aineiou Taktikon te kai poliorketikon upomnema peri toy, po chro, poliorkoumenon antechein. Æneæ, vetustissimi Taciti, Commentarius de toleranda obsidionalis
by Polybius, Casaubon, Isaac
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1609
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$3,200.00
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Full ruled contemporary vellum; red morocco label to spine. Gilt armorial 'Martis et artis honos' to boards. [60], 1080, [32], 151 pages. Wear to fore edge of rear board. Dibdin p. 350: "A most excellent edition". Item Price
$3,200.00
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La seconda parte della libraria historica di Diodoro Siciliano; tradotta dal greco in latino da diversi autori e nella nostra lingua da M. Francesco Baldelli.
by Diodorus Siculus (Diodoro Siciliano), Francesco Baldelli, Francesco, Thomaso Porcacchi
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1575
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$575.00
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Full vellum with particulars to spine in gilt. Elaborate woodcut initials and head and tailpieces throughout. Loss on title page to C in Seconda. Worming to front pastedown and pgs 355-6 with slight scholia loss; still a handsome copy in its original binding. Item Price
$575.00
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Pub. Ovidius Nazoos herscheppinge, in Nederduitsch dicht vertaelt door J. V. Vondel met aenmerkingen van Pieter Du-ryer met schoone kopere platen
by Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) (J. V. Vondel, translator)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1703
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$500.00
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Amsterdam: P. & J Blaeu. Very Good. 1703. Original gilt embossed full vellum with morocco label to spine. With 124 half page copper engravings. Includes P.C. Hooft's Judgment of Paris at pp. 529-538. Front board cleanly detached. Otherwise a nice copy without owners' names or other markings. ; Folio ; [xvi],538, [vi] pages; All … Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
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Hesiodi Ascraei Qua Exstant ex Recensione JOANNIS GEORGII GRAEVII Cum ejusdem Animadversionibus & Notis auctoribus. Accedit Commentarius nunc primum editur JOANNIS CLERICI, ex Notae varionum, scilicet JOSEPHI SCALIGERI, a.o. Ac DANIELIS HEINSII
by Hesiod
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Variorum
- Published
- 1701
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$300.00
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Very nice turned full vellum with exposed vellum band ties. ; Octavo; Additional images and further information provided upon request. Two oval stamps nearly obliterated on title (see image 2) though not affecting text. (xxvi), 351, (i). 2 engraved plates; (viii), 326. 5 x 7.85 inches. All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . Item Price
$300.00
![[Opera] Publii Vergilii Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis : cum Seruii commentariis accuratissime emendatis, in quib. multa quae deerant sunt addita, graecae dictiones et versus ubiq[ue] restituti : sequitur Probi celebris grammatici in Bucolica et Georgica commentariolus non ante impressus. Ad hos Donati fragmenta, Christophori Landini, et Antonii Mancinelli commentarii.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/802/411/1128411802.0.m.jpg)
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[Opera] Publii Vergilii Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis : cum Seruii commentariis accuratissime emendatis, in quib. multa quae deerant sunt addita, graecae dictiones et versus ubiq[ue] restituti : sequitur Probi celebris grammatici in Bucolica et Georgica commentariolus non ante impressus. Ad hos Donati fragmenta, Christophori Landini, et Antonii Mancinelli commentarii.
by Publius Virgilius Mario (aka Virgil, Vergil ), Marcus Valerius Probus, Maurus Servius, Aelius Donatus and Cristoforo Landino. Edited by G. B. Egnatius.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1507
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$3,600.00
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Bound (& closely trimmed) in full ruled crushed morocco by by the famous French binder Marcellin Lortic. Wide turn-ins with gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Editio princips of Marcus Valerius Probus' Commentum in Bucolicas & Commentum in Georgicas. Also contains commentaries on Vergil's works by Maurus Servius, Aelius Donatus and Cristoforo… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,600.00
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Ten Epistles of Ovid: Translated Into English Verse, with the Latin and Notes; To Which Are Subjoined the Epistles of Hero to Leander, and Leander to Hero, by a Different Hand; that of Sappho to Phaon by Pope, and of Dido to Eneas by Dryden.
by Ovid (William Windsor Fitzthomas, translator)
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- Used - Good with no dust jacket
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1807
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- Disbound
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$205.00
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Disbound. Frontis of three maidens by R. Henderson engraved by J.W. Tomkin, Title, Advertisement, xlv, [i],317,[2] pp. Original paper covered boards disbound & lacking spine paper. Scarce in the first edition. Not mentioned is Lowndes.; 10 mo; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$205.00
