761. Beecher-Stowe, Harriet.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – A Tale of Life among the Lowly. With [106] original Illustrations [plus one Fronstispiece-Portrait] by Jenny Nystrom-Stoopendaal.

London / Paris / New York & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, 1905. Large Octavo (18 cm x 23 cm). Frontispiece – Portrait of Harriet Beecher-Stowe, XIV, 680 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth-binding in protective Mylar. The notoriously shaky publication was strengthened by our bookbindery and is now ready to be read and used without fear of handling. Old gift-inscription to slightly frayed endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The best version due to the large size of the book and the corresponding illustrations.

762. Becker, Wilhelm Adolph.

De Romae Veteris Muris Atque Portis [Translates: “On the Walls and Gates of Old Rome”].

Dissertatio Topographica. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, (1842). 8°. 132 Seiten. Softcover / Titelbroschur. Etwas angestaubt. Die originale, gedruckte Dissertation des Altphilologen Wilhelm Adolph Becker (Dresden). Selten !

763. Avidov, Avi.

Processes of Marginalization in the Roman Empire.

Cambridge, Published by Author, 1995. 21.1 cm x 29.7 cm. 235 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor dampstains to rear cover. Very minor foxing to edges. Otherwise interior clean and bright. Contains loose ephemera.

764. Andrews, William L.

To Tell a Free Story – The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865.

Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1986. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XIII, 353 pages. With several illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

765. Ancient Roman Gardens.

Farrar, Linda.

Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 1998. 18 cm x 25 cm. 237 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

766. Drever, James.

Greek Education – Its Practice and Principles.

Cambridge, University Press, 1912. Small Octavo. VI, [2], 107 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

767. Tyrwhitt, Rev. R.St. John.

Greek and Gothic – Progress and Decay in The Three Arts of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting.

London, Walter Smith, 1881. Octavo. XI, 388 pages. Hardcover / Extremely beautiful and decorative full leather with marbled edges all around and marbled paper covered pastedown and endpaper. Prize-Binding with armorial board of Haberdasher’s Monmouth Grammar School with their Motto “Serve and Obey”. Excellent and firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

768. [Socrates] Stone, I.F.

The Trial of Socrates [With a chapter: “Socrates and Homer”].

First Edition London, Jonathan Cape, 1988. Octavo. XI,282 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Name and date of preowner on endpaper. Newspaper-clipping with a Review of this book by Peter Levi, loosely inserted / Newspaper-clipping of an article related to the book by Peter Jenkins also loosely inserted: “Socratic questions for today’s society”.

769. Robinson, C.E.

Everyday Life in Ancient Greece.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. Octavo. 159 pages. Illustrated. Map to the rear. Softcover. Poor condition due to cut-outs to cover, endpaper and title (see image). Otherwise this precious little book is in very firm and very good condition.

770. [Plato] Edman, Irwin.

The Works of Plato. Selected and Edited by Irwin Edman.

New York, The Modern Library, 1956. Small Octavo. XLVIII,577 pages. Hardcover without dustjacket. The binding and the bookblock in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. A few text-markings within the text (some very few with ballpen and somewith yellow highlighter]. The majority of the text is clean !

771. [Odysseus / Euripides] Henson, Rev. J.

The Cyclops of Euripides. With Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary and a List of Irregular Verbs used in the Play. With Illustrations.

London / Glasgow, Blackie & Son Limited, no year (c.1925). Small Octavo (11.5 cm wide x 17 cm high). Frontispiece-Illustration of a Satyr, XV, 84 pages with numerous text-illustrations in black-and-white plus two wonderful colour-illustrations: 1.Maenads with Thyrsus, Cymbal, Double-Flute and Torch and 2. Odysseus putting out the Cylops Eye. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor signs of text-markings. A wonderful little publication. [Blackies Illustrated Greek Series – With Vocabulary].

772. [Herodotus] Strassler, Robert B.

The Landmark Herodotus – The Histories. Edited by Robert B.Strassler. A New Translation by Andrea L. Purvis. Introduction by Rosalind Thomas.

First Edition. London, QUERCUS, 2008. Quarto ( LXIV, 953 pages. Illustrated and with maps to the rear. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. WIth the original dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition with only very minor signs of wear. Rare in this condition.

773. Hamilton, Edith.

The Echo of Greece.

First Edition. New York, W.W.Norton & Company, 1957. Octavo. 224 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The dustjacket frayed but now in protective Mylar. The Volume itself a little dusty on the cover but firm and in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. An important book ! Exlibris of preowner on endpaper [″The Prentices’ Book”].

774. Green, Roger Lancelyn.

The Luck of Troy – Illustrated by Margery Gill.

First Puffin Book Edition. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books in association with The Bodley Head, 1967. Small Octavo. 170 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

775. Evslin, Bernard.

The Trojan War. Illustrated by William Hunter.

New York and others, Scholastic Book Services, 1971. Octavo. 160 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

776. [Athenian Agora].

The Athenian Agora – A Short Guide.

Athens, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1983. Octavo. 32 pages. Illustrated. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [Excavations of the Agora, Picture Book No.16].

777. [Aeschines of Sphettus / Aeschines Socraticus] Fischer, Johann Friedrich.

Aeschinis Socratici – Dialogi Tres Graece. Tertium Edidit Ad Fidem Codd. Mss. Vindobb Medic. Aug. Et Libb. Editt. Platonis Stobaeique Veterum Denvo Recensvit Emendavit Explicavit. Indicemque Verborum Graecorum Copiosissimum Adiecit.

Leipzig, Mueller, 1786. Octavo. L, 290 pages plus 136 unnumbered pages of a thorough Index (Index Primus Verborum Graecorum / Index Secundus Scriptorum Veterum). Hardcover / Original full vellum with spine-label. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some foxing throughout. Rare !

778. [Homer] Lectius, Jacobus.

Poetae Graeci Veteres Carminis Heroici Scriptores, Qui Extant, Omnes / Homerus [Iliad and Odysseae Bilingual in Greek and Latin], Hesiodus, Orpheus, Callimachus, Aratus, Nicander, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Dionysus, Coluthus, Tryphiodorus, Musaeus, Theognis, Phocyclides, Pythagorae aurea carmina cum fragmentis alioru, Apollonius Rhodius, Oppianus, Cointus, Smyrnaeus, Nonni Dionysiaca. Apposita Est E Regione Latina Interpretatio. Nota item & variae lectiones margini adscriptae, Cura & recensione Iac. Lectii V.CL [Jacobi Lectii]. Accessit & Index verum & verborum locupletissimus. / [Dedication: “Illustrissimo et Potentissimo Principittera Ac D. Domino Mauritio Landgravio Hassiae, Comiti In Katzenelnbogen, Dietz, Zigenhaim [Ziegenhain], Nidda, &c. Domino suo Clementissimo].

[Bilingual Edition / Greek / Latin / Parallel text in Greek and Latin]. Avreliae Allobrogum [Genève/Geneva/Genf], Petrus De la Rouiere, 1606. Quarto (24 cm wide x 35 cm high). Titlepage (in red and black), [22 unnumbered pages of Dedicatio etc.], 739, 624, [46 unnumbered pages including Colophon] pages. Hardcover / Original 17th century full leather with original spine-label and embossed gilted supralibros to both boards. Binding firm and with only minor signs of wear. Interior with some minor browning. Overall in a very much very good+ condition. Wonderful bilingual edition of the classics, published still during Shakespeare’s lifetime.

779. Payne, John.

Volume I (of III) of the “Universal Geography” [Including Asia, Africa and Voyages of English Navigators] – formed into a new and entire system; describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; with their subdivisions of Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics: the extent, boundaries, and remarkable appearances of each country; cities, towns, and curiosities of Nature and Art. Also giving a general account of the fossil and vegetable productions of the Earth, and of every species of animal: The History of Man, in all Climates, Regions and Conditions; Customs, Manners, Laws, Governments and Religions: The State of Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Manufactures and Knowledge. Sketches of the Ancient and Modern History of each Nation and People to which is added, A Short View of Astronomy, as connected with Geography; of the Planetary System to which the Earth belongs; and of the Universe in General. With a set of Maps, drawn from the best Materials, every one of which is very neatly coloured; and a great Variety of Copper-Plates; descriptive of the most remarkable curiosities in the world. With an Appendix in two Parts, containing I. The History of the Voyages round the World, and toward the North and South Pole, which have been made since the year 1764 by English Navigators and II. A Digested and Geographical Account of the most considerable Islands and Countries which have been either discovered or explored during those Voyages, collected from every writer upon those subjects. Part I on the Appendix includes: 1. The First Voyage round the world, performed by Commodore Byron, in the Dolphin, accompanied by the Tamar Sloop / 2. Captain Wallis’s Voyage round the World, being the Second performed in the Dolphin / 3. Continuation of Captain Carteret’s Voyage round the World in the Swallow / 4. Lieutenant Cook’s Voyage round the World, in the Endeavour Bark (First Voyage, Second Voyage and Third Voyage including a stunning engraving of Cook, together with Portraits of inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands, Mangea and Ulietea) / The Appendix Part II contain a Geographical Account and Description of the Islands which have been lately discovered or visited in the South-Sea, proceeding from East to West (Easter Island / The Society Islands / The FRiendly Islands / The New Hebrides, Mallicolo and New Caledonia / New Zealand / New Holland / The Sandwich Islands //

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Zachariah Jackson (Great Ship-Street), 1792. Quarto. XV, 894 pages with a list of subscribers and eight fantastic full-page copper engravings (NO MAPS in this Volume) / Frontispiece (The beautiful Frontispiece-plate is cleanly detached and now comes with this beautifully restored book framed): Plates included are: 1. Frontispiece: Vegetable Productions constituting important Articles of Commerce: Nutmeg Tree / Bohea Tea Plant or Thea Bohea / The Cotton Shrub / The Nutmeg enclosed in the Mace and Nutmeg Kernel / Flower of Tea / The Cotton Shrub – This plate is hand-coloured ! / 2. The Artificial Sphere (Globe) with the Solar System and Divisions of the Earth / 3. [Kamtschatka] – A Kamtscadale Travelling in Winter / An inside View of a Winter-Hut of the Kamtschadales / 4. Animals in the Southern Parts of Africa (The Rhinoceros Bicornis / The Buffalo / The Hippopotamus, called by the Hottentots the Seacow) / 5. The Country contiguous to the Cape of Good Hope – Hottentots and their Huts &c. &c. / 6. Portrait – Collection on one plate of Captain James Cook – Killed on the Island of Owhyhee – 14th of February 1779 (From a painting by Dance in the possession of Sir Joshua Banks) – other portraits on that page include A woman and a man of the Sandwich Islands / A Man of the Magea – Omai or Omia , a Native of Ulietea / 7. Portrait – Collection on one plate of: Poulaho – King of the Friendly Islands / A Man of van Diemen’s Land / A Woman from van Diemen’s Land / A Woman of Prince William’s Sound / A Man of Prince William’s Sound / 8. Portrait-Collection on one plate of: A woman of Otaheite Island (Tahiti) bringing a present / A Woman of Otaheite (Tahiti) dancing / An Otahetian (Tahiti) in the Dress of his Country / A New Zealand Warrior completely armed (Maori) // Hardcover / Professionally restored original 18th-century leather with original gilt ornament and new labels on spine. Binding rubbed but after the masterful restoration in very good condition. Some of the plates slightly loose but not detached. Very few minor wormhole damage to the last 250 pages. Rare with the plates ! From the library of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, with his original bookplate to the pastedown. One of the early accounts of english Navigation and Discovery.

780. Congo / Kongo – Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909) – King of the Belgians and Owner / Absolute Ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.

Collection of four very important and meaningful manuscript letters by Leopold II to his administrator and Foreign Minister of the Congo – Free-State, Baron Adolphe de Cuvelier (1860-1931) with a total of 16 pages filled with Leopold’s instructions on pressing issues regarding a warning about an imminent visit by the Rector of the Mill-Hill Missionaries [probably Herbert Alfred Henry Vaughan (1832 – 1903)] and Leopold’s qualification of the visit of being detrimental to the Congo Free State (″ne travaillent pas pour l’État”). Leopold continues in another letter to talk about the hostile positions of english officials (consuls) and missionaries (″que les consuls anglais et les missionnaires anglais se conduisent bien mal envers l’État”). Interestingly, Leopold also touches on the nuisance of the german press criticizing Belgian Railway Lines and he is of the opinion that this is all happening in order to force the german parliament [″Reichstag”] to finance the building of the Tanganyika Railway [between Dar es Salaam and Kigoma]: (″cherche à effrayer l’opinion [en] Allemagne à propos de mes chemins de fer afin d’obtenir du Reichstag des fonds pour la ligne allemande vers le Tanganika”.

16 pages of MLS, Manuscript Letters (signed) on 10 leaves of Leopold’s official stationery “Château de Laeken” and “Palais de Bruxelles”. Laeken / Brussels, Château de Laeken [Palace of Laeken], 1901 – 1906. The leaves with different sizes (13,5 cm x 9 cm) and (18 cm x 11,5 cm). Excellent condition. Unsigned. Tremendously rare to find original letters by Leopold II on the open market in which the Colonial Free State and the protection against inquisitive visitors is discussed in such clear and instructive fashion. Leopold’s correspondence with Adolphe de Cuvelier shows how he is very much trying to still protect and influence the narrative of his Colonial Slavery Outpost even in the final years of his life.