1. [Aeschines / Attic orator] / [Demosthenes] / [Taylor, John] / [Markland, Jeremiah] / [Reiske, Johann Jakob (Reiskio)].

Aischinou Ho kata Ktesiphontos kai Demosthenous Ho peri stephanou logos. Cum Delectu Annotationum, Præcipue e Tayloro, Marklando, Reiskio. In Usum Juventutis Academicae.

Two Volumes in one (complete), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1801. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece of Cicero, XLVIII, [2], Portrait of Aeschines, 130 pages / Volume II: XXI, Portrait of Demosthenes, 165 pages plus 24 unnumbered pages of an “Index sive Vocum Difficiliorum”. Hardcover / Original, full leather with original spine-label and gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Front hinge starting. Binding a bit scuffed to upper hinge but beautifully firm and with the endpapers intact. Some very interesting, contemporary annotations in ink. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. A very rare book !!

2. [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 !

3. [Anacharsis the Younger] Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques / [Barbie du Bocage].

Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the Christian Aera. [With the large Fold-out-Map of Greece and the Grecian Islands by Barbie di Bocage (August 1788)]. Translated from the French. In Five Volumes, The Fifth contains Maps, Plans, Views and Coins, illustrative of the Geography and Antiquities of Ancient Greece.

Third Edition. Dublin, Printed by and for M. Mills, 1795. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: XVI, 391 pages / Volume II: IV, 468 pages / Volume III: IV, 475 pages / Volume IV: VII, 487 pages / Fifth Volume [″Maps, Plans, Views and Coins illustrative of the Travels of Anacharsis the Younger”], 31 Illustrations, Plans or Maps (complete / some folded). Hardcover / Original late 18th/early 19th century full-leather-Volumes with original spinelabels. Besides the bindings with some minor damages and some rubbing all Volumes firm and complete. The Volume with Plans and Maps in excellent condition with minir tear to the Margins of the Plan of the Academy only. Overall in very good condition with signs of external wear. From the library of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, with his ExLibris to pastedown. A spectacular set with all the 31 Plans and Maps and Illustrations in magnificent (!) condition.

4. Arbuthnot, John / [Daniel Conner Library].

Tables of Antient Coins, Weights and Measures – Explained And Exemplified in Several Dissertations [Including sections like: “The Grecian Manner of reckoning Sums of Money by Drachmae, Minae and Talenta” / “A Dissertation concerning the Doses of Medicines given by Ancient Physicians” / Including “Of the Jewish Coins in which their weights are likewise considered”]. The Second Edition – To which is added, An Appendix, containing Observations on Dr.Arbuthnot’s Dissertations on Coins, Weights and Measures by Benjamin Langwith.

London, Printed for D. Browne, without Temple-Bar; A.Millar, in the Strand; and J.Whiston and B.White, in Fleet-Street, 1754. Quarto (24 cm x 29 cm). Collation [complete as called for by Index]: Title, 11 unnumbered pages, 327 pages plus 18 plates (partly folded) with Weights, Measures and Values of Several Foreign Coins explained. Original 18th-century binding, recently rebacked in 18th-century-style by two english master-bookbinders. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front free endpaper with faded dampstain. Only very minor signs of foxing. Some minor wormhole – damage to the inner margins but not effecting the text. Wide margins. Extremely Rare Publication, now beautifully restored ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

5. Aristophanes – Struve, Ernst August (aus Flensburg).

De Eupolidis Maricante sive de Aristophane accusatore et Eupolide Plagii Reo.

Kiel, C.F.Mohr, 1841. 8°. 75 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Broschur. Minimale Gebrauchsspuren.

6. Aristophanes.

The Birds and The Frogs. With an Introduction by Dudley Fitts.

One Volume. Connecticut, The Heritage Press, 1959. 20 cm x 28 cm. The Birds: XII, 52 pages / The Frogs: XVII, 62 pages. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Original Hardcover in illustrated slipcase. Binding foxed but otherwise in excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

7. [Aristoteles] Aguirre, Javier.

Dialéctica y filosofía primera. Lectura de la Metafísica de Aristóteles.

Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2015. 8°. 131 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Signed / Inscribed and signed by the author Javier Aguirre to Graham Parkes.

8. Aristotle – Boecker, Ewald.

De Quibusdam Politicorum Aristoteliorum Locis.

Greifswald, Kunike, 1867. 8°. 45 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Titelbroschur. Nur minimale Gebrauchsspuren. Etwas angestaubt.

9. [Aristotle] Edel, Abraham.

Aristotle and His Philosophy.

Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina, 1982. 23,5 cm x 16 cm. XII, 479 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Former library copy with library-stamp. Marker signs on edges.

10. [Aristotle] Jones, John.

On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy.

California, Stanford University Press, 1980. 8°. 284pages, including Index. Original Softcover. Very Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

11. Arnold, Bernhardt.

De Atheniensium saeculi a. Chr. n. Quinti Praetoribus.

Dresden, Meinhold & Filii, 1893. 8°. 34 Seiten. Softcover / Titelbroschur. Minimal angestaubt.

12. [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].

13. Bradford, Ernle.

Thermopylae: The Battle for the West.

New York, Da Capo Press, 1983. 15 cm x 23 cm. 255 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

14. Busby, Richard.

Grammatica Busbeiana, Auctior et Emendatior : Id Est Rudimentum Grammaticae Graeco-Latinae Metricum in Usum Scholae Regiae Westmonasteriensis.

London, G.Ginger, 1809. Octavo. 230 pages with Calendarium Romanum / [Bound with: “Graecae Grammaticae Compendium” – London, G.Ginger, 1810. 40 pages]. Hardcover / Fantastic, original full suede-leather binding with ornament on boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

15. [Byron Circle] Haygarth, William.

Greece, A Poem, In Three Parts; With Notes, Classical Illustrations, And Sketches Of The Scenery.

First Edition. London, Printed by W,Bulmer and Co., 1814. Quarto (24 cm wide x 30 cm high). 304 pages with all 9 original sepia-aquatint-plates by Charles Turner after Haygarth. Disbound due to broken binding. Halftitle and bookblock available with all 9 plates included. Needs rebinding. Bookblock firm, halftitle detached. All nine plates with faded dampstain but still in beautiful and strong impression. The wide-margined Text in excellent, clean condition besides the faded dampstain. Last page of the Volume with some browning. Very minor wormhole-damage to the last 14 pages. One illustration cleanly detached. Extremely Rare Book !

16. [Cellarius, Christoph] Christophori Cellarii Smalcaldensis / Patrick, Samuel.

[Geographia Antiqua / Atlas with Maps of Antiquity] Christophori Cellarii Smalcaldensis Geographia Antiqua – Recognita denuo & ad veterum novorumque scriptorum fidem, historicorum maxime, identidem castigata & Quinta Editione plurimis locis aucta & immutata. Huic demum sextæ Editioni Tot Chartas ex majori auctoris Geographia antiqua quot ad minorem hanc illustrandam requirebantur, Duplicemque Indicem, Quorum Priori vetera locorum nomina novis præponuntur, Posteriori nova veteribus, Addidit, totam recensuit, & Scholarum usui accommodavit, Samuel Patrick.

[Sixth Edition and the first illustrated version]. London, Sumptibus S. Ballard, J. Senex, G. Innys, J.Osborn & T. Longman, 1731. Octavo. VIII, 180 pages with 26 maps and one scientific illustration of a Globe [sphere]: Globi, Charta Geographicae et Sphaerae a Joannes Senex (Fol.2). Original Hardcover / 18th century full leather with the original spine-label. The Volume in protective Mylar. The binding starting at the spine but still firm and entirely in its original condition. Very good overall condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. With a manuscript – entry to the rear endpaper: “Dan [meaning Daniel Conner] began Astronomy April 19th 1812”.

17. Clutton, Elízabeth. / Kenny, André.

Crete. Islands.

New Abbot / London / North Pomfret / Vancouver, David & Charles, 1976. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 207 pages with many illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

18. [Conder, Josiah].

Greece / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe].

In Two Volumes (Complete Set). London, Printed for James Duncan, 1826. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. Volume I: IV, 375 pages / Volume II: IV, 336 pages. With a fold-out map of Greece and 7 black and white illustrations showing: 1. Mistra / 2. Argos / 3. Corinth / 4. Patras / 5. Eleutherai / 6. Athens / 7. Aegina. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament to spine. Poor condition with signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Spinelabel and front board detached on Volume I. Minor foxing. [The Modern Traveller- Volume 15-16].

19. De Ségur, Vicomte J. A.

Les Femmes – Leur Condition et Leur Influence dans L’Ordre Social chez différents peuples anciens et modernes [Avec un chapitre “Les Grecs”]. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée de l’influence des Femmes sous l’Empire, et de notes historiques, par M. Ch. N***.

Edition originale. Paris, Raymond Libraire, 1820. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 474 pages/ 445 pages avec 2 gravures originale. Relié demi-cuir. Excellent condition !! Tome 1 et 2 (complet). Nouvelle Édition. Paris, 1820. 2 gravures. Bel exemplaire. Couverture et tranches de couverture un peu frottées. Intérieur bon état malgré quelques rousseurs éparses. Titre, Auteur et tomaison en dorés sur dos en cuir marron orné de fleurons. Exlibris Franco Crainz.

20. [Demosthenes] Taylor, John.

Demosthenous, kai Aischinou, hoi Peri tes parapresbeias, Kata Ktesiphontos, kai Peri tou stephanou, logoi antipaloi. Graece et Latine.

[Bilingual Edition in Greek and Latin]. In Duobus Tomis. Tomus primus [-secundus] (complete et). Cantabrigiae (Cambridge), Typis Academicis – Impensis Danielis Prince, Oxoniae, et Ioannis Woodyer, Cantabrigiae, 1769. Octavo (13 cm x 20,5 cm). 405, 478 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century calf with new spine-labels. Titlepage of Volume One slightly loosened. Upper spine of Volume Two slightly brittle but both Volumes firm and otherwise in very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of both Volumes. Very Rare !

21. Demosthenis / Demosthenes [Johannes Rust, Med. Tem. & Trin. Coll. Cantab.].

Demosthenis Orationes De Republica Ad Populum Habitae: Latio donatae ab Jo: Vincentio Lucchesinio patritio Lucensi, cum notis criticis, & historicis. Ad SS. Dnm Nostrum Clementem Undecimum Pontificem Maximum.

Romae, Ex Typographia Antonii de Rubeis in Platea Cerensi, 1712. Large Octavo. XII, 232 pages. Original Hardcover (Pigskin) with contemporary handwritten title on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small, professional repair to upper spine. Some paper damage with text-loss internally to pages 267 – 278 as well as pages 315 – 320. Several defects to some pages with small text-lesions and tears. From the library of Johannes Rust, Trinity College Cambridge. His small bookplate pasted to the dedication page. Contemporary entries in ink on the pastedown and endpaper.

22. Diodorus Siculus.

Bibliothecae Historicae – Libri Qui Supersunt E Recensione Petri Wesselingii Cum Interpretatione Latina Laur. Rhodomani Atque Annotationibus Variorum Integris Indicibusque Locupletissimis. Nova editio, cum commentationibus III Chr. Gottl. Heynii [Christian Gottlob Heyne] et cum argumentis disputationibusque Ier. Nic. Eyringii.

[Editio Bipontina] / Bilingual Edition in Greek and Latin. 11 Volumes [complete set]. Biponti [Zweibrücken], Ex typographia Societatis, 1793. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: CLXXXII, 476 pages / Volume II: 565 pages / Volume III; 645 pages / Volume IV: LXXII, 400 pages / Volume V: 638 pages / Volume VI: 680 pages / Volume VII: 680 pages / Volume VIII: 568 pages / Volume IX: 553 pages / Volume X: 493 pages plus 1 unnumbered page of Corrigenda / Volume XI: 456 pages. Hardcover / Original full vellum with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very few Volumes with the pages a bit dusty and only some Volumes with a minor, faded dampstain to the outer margins. [From the library of Augustus Langdon, Bayswater, with his Exlibris to pastedown].

23. 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.

24. [Euclid / Euklid] Simson, Robert.

The Elements of Euclid ; Viz. The First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. The Errors, by which Theon, or Others, have long ago vitiated these Books, are corrected, And some of Euclid’s Demonstrations are restored. Also “The Book of Euclid’s Data”, in like manner corrected. By Robert Stimson, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. The Sixteenth Edition, carefully revised and improved. To which is added, “A Treatise on the Construction of The Trigonometrical Canon ; And a Concise Account of Lograithms”.

Sixteenth Edition. Three Volumes in One (complete). London, Printed for F.Wingrave and others, 1814. Octavo. VII, [1], 528 pages plus two plates 9as called for): 1. A Fold-Out-Plate of “Plane Trigonometry” bound in at page 484 and 2. A Fold-Ot-Plate “Spherical Trigonometry” bound in at the rear of the Volume. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Poor condition of the binding, boards nearly detached and the overall condition with stronger signs of wear. But this book is mostly interesting for the abundance of doodles by 19th-century Oxford – student Daniel Conner, from Ireland. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

25. Euripides.

Hekabe. Freely translated from the Greek by Robert Emmet Meagher.

First edition. East Hartland, self published, 1995. 15 cm x 22 cm. VIII, 55 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With the author’s dedication to Kruger and his wife Nell to half title. Occasional markigns and annotations in the text.

26. Euripides.

Iphigenia at Aulis / Iphigenia in Tauris. Translated with an Introduction by Robert Emmet Meagher.

First edition. Chattanoogia, Thot, 1993. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVIII, 176 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With the author’s dedication to Kruger and his wife Nell to front free endpaper. Occasional markings in the text.

27. [Euripides] Warner, Rex [ed.].

The Medea of Euripides. A translation by Rex Warner.

Second printing. London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946. 14,5 cm x 23 cm. 64 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger.

28. 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.

29. Gardner, John.

Jason and Medeia.

First edition. New York, Ballantine Books, 1975. 10,5 cm x 17,5 cm. 531, (1) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger.

30. Grant, Michael.

The Rise of the Greeks.

London, Guild Publishing, 1987. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVI, 391 pages. With 49 illustrations and 13 maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

31. Greece – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Ionian Isles and Greece – With Vignettes of the Temple of Jupiter Olympus at Athens, Greek Corsairs off Corfu, Modern Greek and Ancient War Chariot. With Depiction of Two Wrestlers. Inset maps of Corfu and Stampalia also.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by A.H. Wray and engravings by J.b Allen. London, Edinburgh & Dublin. J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 30.5 cm x 25.3 cm. Sheet Size: 37.3 cm x 27.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

32. [Greek Grammar] / [Trattner]

Institutionum Grammaticarum Linguae Graecae Pars Altera Ad Usum Scholarum Austriacarum. Continens: Supplementa Grammatica, Chrestomathiam Graecam, Lexicon Hermeneutico-Analyticum.

Vienna, Trattnern, 1795. 18cm x 12cm. 546 pages plus Appendix with ″ Lexicon Hermeneutico-Analyticum” [120 unnumbered pages]. Original Hardcover in protective Collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor external signs of wear. [Exemplar von Friedrich Georg Julius Heinrich Freiherr von Lasberg, mit seinem Besitzvermerk auf dem Vorsatzblatt].

33. [Greek Philosopher] Schaaffhausen, Carl [Franz Karl Carl Schaaffhausen] (1801 – 1850).

Greek Philosopher Head (Epicurus or Plato).

Stunning, original extra-large 19th century Pencil Drawing on coloured paper. [Germany], 1823. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with drawing: 61.5 cm x 76 cm. Size of the actual drawing: c. 45 cm x 57 cm. Excellent condition. Signed by C. Schaafhausen, d. 18. December, 1823. Framed in a wonderful Biedermeier style.

34. 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.

35. Grene, David & Lattimore, Richmond [eds.].

Euripides II. The Complete Greek Tragedies. “The Cyclops” translated by William Arrowsmith. “Heracles” translated by William Arrowsmith. “Iphigenia in Tauris” translated by Witter Bynner. “Helen” translated by Richmond Lattimore.

Sixth impression. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1968. 13 cm x 20 cm. 264 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

36. Hadot, Pirre.

What Is Ancient Philosophy ? [Includes a chapter on “The Hellenistic Schools”]. Translated by Michael Chase.

First Harvard University Press paperback edition. Cambridge / Massachusetts / a.o., Harvard University Press, 2004. 14 cm x 21 cm. XII, 362 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with his name to endpaper and some markings within the text.

37. 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”].

38. Hanson, Victor Davis.

The Wars of the Ancient Greeks : And Their Invention of Western Military Culture.

London, Cassell, 1999. 20.5 cm x 27 cm. 224 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print.

39. Hawkes, Jacquetta.

Dawn of the Gods: Minoan and Mycenaean Origins of Greece. With photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1968. 19.5 x 26cm. Frontispiece, 303 pages, with text illustrations and 45 plates. Original clothbound hardcover with decorated endpapers and gilt top edges, with original dustjacket. With a paper-defect to 6 pages (outer margins only). Otherwise in excellent condition with only very slight signs of external wear. Minor text markings.

40. [Hecataeus of Miletus] / Klausen, Rud. Henr.

Hecataei Milesii Fragmenta. Scylacis Caryandensis Periplus.

Berlin, Impensis G. Reimeri, 1831. Octavo. [3], Large Fold-Out-Map of the Ancient Mediterranean, titled: “Tabula Europae, Asiae, Libyae”, 324 pages including a thorough Index of Places. Hardcover / Original 19th century boards with new spine and spinelabel, bound to style of the 19th century. New endpapers. The Volume is now protected by Mylar. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

41. [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.

42. Hippenstiel, Guilelmus (Wilhelm Ludwig Emil Hippenstiel aus Bad Laasphe ).

De Graecorum Tragicorum Principum Fabularum Nominibus.

Marburg [Marpurgi Cattorum], Typis Friderici Typographi Academici, 1887. 8°. 57 Seiten. Softcover / Titelbroschur. Sehr guter Zustand.

43. [Homer] / Pope, Alexander [with William Broome and Elijah Fenton].

[Pope’s Homer in 20 Volumes complete] The Iliad of Homer / The Odyssey of Homer / [Stunning 18th century set of all 20 Volumes of Pope’s Works in their original, contemporary bindings with 26 full-page-engravings plus 1 large, folded Map of Greece, 1 large, folded illustration of the Battle of Troy, 1 folded illustration of Achilles Shield as well as 84 text-vignettes illustrating the Iliad and Odyssey / The engravings also include a frontispiece – portrait of Alexander Pope after a painting of Jean-Baptiste van Loo]. The set of Pope’s Homer is followed by “The Works of Pope – In Nine Volumes, Complete. With his last corrections, additions and Improvements: Together with the Commentary and Notes of his Editor”.

20 Volumes (complete set of Pope’s Homer and Pope’s Works). London, Charles Rivington / A.Millar and others, 1760 – 1766. Octavo (14 cm x 21 cm). Collation of Pope’s Homer and Pope’s Works follows here: Collation of Pope’s Homer: Volume One includes: an Essay on Homer by Pope, Book I and Book II of the Iliad with two Frontispiece – illustrations, CLI, 175 pages with five Text-Vignettes and one folded map of Greece [and “Phrygia” / Kingdom of Muska] / Volume Two includes: An Essay on Homer’s Battles, Book II – Book VII of the Iliad, 341 pages with five Text-Vignettes and with a stunning, folded map of Troy and the battlefield: “Troja cum Locis pertingentibus” / Volume Three includes: Book VIII to Book XII of the Iliad with ten Text-Vignettes on 304 pages / Volume Four includes: Book XIII to Book XVI of the Iliad with eight Text-Vignettes on 301 pages / Volume Five includes: Book XVII to Book XXI of the Iliad with ten Text-Vignettes and a stunning, folded engraving, showing the Shield of Achilles as described in Homer’s 18th Ilias, [added is a multi-page “Observation on the Shield of Achilles”], on 287 pages / Volume Six includes: Books XXII to Book XXIV of the Iliad with five Text-Vignettes, a two-page Epilogue for the Iliad by Alexander Pope [dated 1720], and “A Comparison between the Games of Homer and Virgil”, an “Index of Persons and Things”, “A Poetical Index to Homer’s Iliad”, an “Index of Arts and Sciences” with “a View of Homer’s Theology” [outlined in the Index are also Music, Geography, Physick, Military Art Astronomy, Architecture, Gymnastics, Agriculture and Rural Arts, Policy, Oratory etc.], on 212, [75], pages including the sectioning of Allegorical Fables in Homer, Allegorical and Fictitious Persons in Homer, The Marvellous or Supernatural Fictions in Homer, Characters of the Gods of Homer, as acting in the Physical or Moral capacities of those Deities [Jupiter, Juna, Apollo, Mars, Minerva, Venus, Neptune, Vulcan], Characters of the Heroes Achilles and Aeneas, Agamemnon, Ajax, Diomed, Hector, Idomeneus Menelaus, Nestor, Priam, Paris, Patroclus, Sarpedon, Ulysses and much more // Volume VII [being Volume One of The Odyssey]: Includes “A General View of the Epick [sic] Poem and of the Iliad and Odyssey, extracted from Bossu” and Book I to Book IV of the Odyssey with eight Text-Vignettes and some minor wormhole-damage decreasing from the titlepage to the end of the Volume, 240 pages / Volume VIII [being Volume Two of the Odyssey]: Includes Book V to Book IX of the Odyssey with nine Text-Vignettes on 272 pages / Volume IX [being Volume Three of the Odyssey]: Includes Book X to Book XIV of the Odyssey with nine Text-Vignettes on 316 pages / Volume X [being Volume Four of the Odyssey]: Includes Book XV to Book XIX of the Odyssey with eight Text-Vignettes on 277 pages with a faded dampstain to the core of the lower book-block / Volume XI [being Volume Five of the Odyssey]: Includes Book XX to Book XXIV of the Odyssey with an Epilogue [″Postscript”] by Alexander Pope, an Index to the Odyssey and an Addenda: “Homer’s Battle of the Frogs and Mice – by Mr.Archdeacon Parnel, corrected by Mr.Pope” with eight Text-Vignettes on 280, [20], 28 pages [one layer ever so slightly loosened, but still attached to the book-block// Collation of Pope’s Works: Volume I includes: Juvenile Poems / Pastorals etc. with Frontispice, Advertisement, Preface, [XLV], 288 pages with an additional two plates [Engravings for “Windsor Forest” and “The Rape of the Lock”] Faded dampstain to the illustration for “The Rape of the Lock” / Volume II includes: Pope’s Translations and Imitations, 272 pages with four plates, illustrating “Eloisa to Abelard”, “The Temple of Fame”, “January and May”, “The Wife of Bath” / Volume III includes: Moral Essays, Essays on Man and Essay on Satire, 362 pages, illustrated with eight plates of which one is detached and loosely inserted in its dedicated space verso page 203 / Volume IV includes: Satires and Epistles of Horace imitated, Satires of Dr.John Donne, etc., 336 pages, illustrated with three plates / Volume V includes the Dunciad in Four Books with a Frontispiece and five additional engravings (of which one engraving only covers half a page), 345 pages plus 14 pages of an Index / Volume VI includes Pope’s Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose, [including his Prefaces to Homer and Shakespeare], with 407 pages and one engraving faded dampstain to lower bookblock) / Volume VII includes the first Volume of Alexander Pope’s Letters, XXXII, 367 pages / Volume VIII includes the second Volume of Alexander Pope’s Letters, XI, 280 pages / Volume IX includes the third [and last] Volume of Alexander Pope’s Letters [including the 88 (!) letters to and from Jonathan Swift] XV, 372 pages //. Original Hardcover / 18th century full calf with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Condition of the eleven Volumes of Pope’s Homer: An original set of all eleven volumes of Homer with their original patina, unaltered in 18th-century-condition and with very few Volumes with minor damage to the spines and some of the leather slightly rubbed and minimally loosened from the boards. Minor, faded dampstain to one Volume and decreasing wormhole-damage to one other Volume. All Volumes firm with one layer inside the Odyssey ever so slightly loosened. All illustrations, maps, folded engravings and allegorical Text-Vignettes within Pope’s Homer present and in excellent condition. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. / Condition of the additional set of nine Volumes of Pope’s works: Overall very good with all Volumes firm but two Volumes with some minor damage to the spines (Volumes I and IV). Occasionally some dampstaining in three of the nine Volumes but overall this nine volume-set of Poepe’s works is in still very good- condition with some pages being a little dusty and only one of the 24 engravings/ illustrations detached and loosely inserted. One of the rare opportunities to buy Alexander Pope’s Homer and collected works in an entire, original 18th century private library-set. From the collection of Daniel Conner, with his Exlibris / Bookplate to the pastedown //

44. [Homer] Apollonius of Rhodes / Apollonius Rhodius / August Wellauer.

Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica – Ad Fidem Librorum Manuscriptorum Et Editionum Antiquarum Recensuit, Integram Lectionis Varietatem Et Annotationes Adiecit, Scholia Aucta Et Emendata Indicesque Locupletissiomos Addidit Augustus Wellauer.

Two Volumes (complete set). Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1828. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: XIV, 293 pages / Volume II: 318 pages. Hardcover / Very decorative, original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor signs of a faded dampdstain to outer margins

45. [Homer] Bothe, Friedrich Heinrich.

[The Odyssey] Homeri Carmina. Recognovit et Explicuit Fridericus Henricus Bothe: “Odysseae” – Volumen Primum. Lib. I – VIII / “Odysseae” Volumen Alterum. Lib. IX – XVI / “Odysseae” Volumen Tertium, Lib. XVII-XXIV. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni. Epigrammata et Fragmenta Carminum Epicorum. / Epigrammata.

Three Volumes plus Epigrammata in One Volume [complete]. Leipzig, Hahn, 1834-1835. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: 272 pages / Volume II: 272 pages / Volume III: 358 pages / Epigrammata with continued pagination – pages [359] – page 552. Hardcover / Very decorative, original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. Unusually excellent, near fine condition with only minor signs of wear and the front board only minimally starting.

46. [Homer] Cowper, William.

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, by the Late William Cowper, Esq. In Four Volumes (Complete set of the Third Edition) / [Plus: Uniformly bound: “The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq. – With Remarks on Epistolary Writers, by William Hayley, Esq. – A new Edition].

Eight Volumes in Total (complete set of Iliad, Odyssey and Life of Cowper). London / Chichester, Printed for J.Johnson, St.Paul’s Churchyard, 1809. Large Octavo (15 cm wide x 24.5 cm high). Pagination of Four Volumes of The Iliad and Odyssey: Volume I: XLII, 506 pages / Volume II: 462 pages / Volume III: 352 pages / Volume Four: 343 pages // Pagination of “The Life of and Letters of William Cowper”: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece, 399 pages plus 7 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume II: 441 pages plus 7 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume III: 458 pages plus 10 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume IV: 460 pages plus 4 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. ALl Volumes firm with some minor cracks to the bottom of the spine of Volume II of the Homer (no effect on the usage of the Volume) / Some splitting to half of the spine of Volume I of Cowper’s Life. Overall a very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All eight Volumes in firm condition. A stunning set ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

47. [Homer] Felton, Henry / [Duke of Devonshire].

A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and forming a Just Style [Including the Chapters: “The Opinion that Homer wrote loosly [sic] and without any premeditated Scheme, considered and refuted” and “The late Duke of Devonshire’s Character as a Scholar”]. Written in the Year 1709 and addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, the present Marquis of Granby by Henry Felton, D.D. Rector of Whitwell in Derbyshire.

The Third Edition, corrected. London, Printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-street, 1718. Small-Octavo. XX, [6], 230 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full leather with a new spine in the style of the period. Original spine-label preserved. Excellent restoration by a master-bookbindery. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

48. [Homer] Kirk, G.S.

The Language and Background of Homer – Some Recent Studies and Controversies. Selected and introduced by G.S.Kirk, Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Professor of Classics, Yale University.

Cambridge / New York, Heffer / Barnes & Noble, 1967. Octavo. XVI, 159 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

49. [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.

50. [Homer] Macurdy, Grace Harriet.

Troy and Paeonia – With Glimpses of Ancient Balkan History and Religion. By Grace Harriet Macurdy, Professor of Greek in Vassar College.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1925. Large Octavo. XI, 259 pages. Original Hardcover / Decorative Publisher’s half-cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Gutter to front free endpaper slightly defect.

51. [Homer] Moncrieff, A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope).

Classic Myth and Legend. [With the beautiful Introduction-Essay: “The Growth of Myths” and a wonderful Plate, showing Homer “A blind man, sweetest he sings”].. With Illustrations in Colour & Monochrome from famous Paintings & Statuary.

Deluxe Edition. London, Gresham, no year [c. 1921]. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. 440 pages. Illustrations in black and white and colour throughout. Original illustrated hardcover in protective covering. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Pages XV & XVI of the index have cleanly detached and are loosely inserted. Beautifully illustrated and the beautifully tooled binding in bright and firm condition. [Myth and Legend in Literature and Art].

52. [Homer] Norwood, Gilbert.

The Writers of Greece.

Second Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1935. Small Octavo. 142, [2] pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition. Name of preowner on endpaper.

53. [Homer] Pope, Alexander.

The Iliad and Odyssey. With notes and Introduction by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A. F.S.A.

London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1888. 14 cm x 20 cm. 850 pages with illustrations throughout. Original, decorative Hardcover. Very good and firm condition with signs of external wear such as a sunned spine. Some foxing to half-title and first few pages as well as the edges but the majority of the text in clean and excellent condition.

54. [Homer] Webster, T.B.L.

From Mycenae to Homer – A study in early Greek literature and art.

London / Totowa [New Jersey], Methuen & Co. / Rowman and Littlefield, 1977. Octavo. XVI, 333 pages plus a section with 38 photographic illustrations of ancient greek archaeological finds (Vases etc.) on 24 plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

55. Inwood, Brad / Gerson, L. P.

Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory Readings. Translated with Introduction and Notes by Brad Inwood and L.P.Gerson.

Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1997. 8°. XXI, 441 pages, including Index. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

56. Kanta, Katherine G.

Eleusis. Myth, Mysteries, History, Museum [The Myth of Demeter / Homer].

Greece, Athens, 1979. 21 cm. 159 pages. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Original softcover with illustrated dustjacket in Protective Mylar. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear, for example slight rubbing at spine edges.

57. Kott, Jan.

The Eating of the Gods. An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy.Translated by Boleslaw Taborski and Edward J. Czerwinski.

First Edition. London, Eyre Methuen, 1974. Octavo. XIX, 334 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small stain to rear endpaper.

58. Ladis, Fondas.

Routes Through Athens. A Unique Tour Through The Sites of the Historical Centre of the City.

Athens, Mnimes, 2003. 17 cm x 22 cm. 40 pages with illustrations on every page. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

59. [Lancelot, Claude] Nugent, Thomas.

A New Method of learning with facility the Greek Tongue : Containing Rules for the Declensions, Conjunctions, Resolution of Verbs, Syntax, Quantity, Accents, Dialects, And Poetic Licence. Digested in the clearest and concisest order. With Variety of solid remarks, necessary for the attaining A complete knowledge of this language; And for understanding the Greek writers. Translated from the French of the Messieurs de Port-Royal, And improved by Thomas Nugent, LL.D.

A New Edition, carefully revised and corrected. London, Printed for Wingrave, in the Strand, Successor to Mr. Nourse, 1808. Octavo. XXX, [10], 476 pages. Hardcover / Original, full leather, with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Upper hinge slightly split. Besides a minor discoloration to the front board, in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

60. Lowe, J.E.

Ecclesiastical Greek for Beginners.

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. Publishers to the Holy See, 1931. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. XII, 148 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

61. Lucian / Lucian of Samosata [Tiberius Hemsterhuis Edition].

Luciani Samosatensis Opera – Graece et Latine – Ad editionem Tiberii Hemsterhusii et Ioannis Frederici Reitzii accurate expressa, cum varietate lectionis et annotationibus. Studiis Societatis Bipontinae.

Ten Volumes (complete) / 10 Volumes (complete). Biponti [Zweibruecken], Ex Typographia Societatis, 1789-1793. Octavo (13.4 cm wide x 20 cm high). Ten Volumes with c. 4500 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering and golt ornament to spine. Armorial supralibro on covers of each Volume. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

62. [Lucian] Lucian of Samosata.

Lucian Works in Eight Volumes. With an English Translation by A.M.Harmon of Yale University (Volume I-V), K.Kilbrun of Battersea Grammar School (Volume VI), M.D.MacLeod, Lecturer in Classics, University of Southampton (Volume VII and VIII).

[Bilingual Edition in Greek and English]. 8 Volumes [complete set]. Cambridge (Mass.) / London, Harvard University Press / William Heinemann, 1969-1979. Small Octavo (11.3 cm wide x 17 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: XIV, 471 pages / Volume II: X, 520 pages / Volume III: VI, 491 pages / Volume IV: VIII, 422 pages / Volume V: IX, 537 pages / Volume VI: X, 496 pages / Volume VII: XI, 467 pages / Volume VIII: X, 534 pages // Hardcover / Original Publisher’s geen cloth with gilt lettering on spine. As usual with this set we have some foxing to edges and the bindings but the overall condition of this set is very clean and firm and in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Text in excellent condition with NO text-markings. [Loeb Classical Library – Edited by G.P.Goold].

63. Maisch, Richard / Barnett, L.D. (Translator).

A Manual of Greek Antiquities.

London, J.M. Dent & Co., 1903. 10 cm x 15 cm. Frontispiece (Photograph entitled “Auditorium and Orchestra of the Theatre of Epidaurus”), XI, 184 pages. Some black and white illustrations and maps throughout. Original Hardcover with debossed crest of a winged horse on cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discolouration to endpapers only. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on endpaper dated 1904. Highly decorative title page. Main body of text and print bright and clear. [The Temple Primers]

64. Merrills, A. H.

History and Geography in late Antiquity [including a chapter: “Challenges to the classical ‘Weltbild’” and the discussing of the Greek Historiography].

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. 434 pages. Original Softcover. Few pages with very minor dogears. Some very few markings and annotations in pencil ! Otherwise in very good condition. [Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth Series.]

65. Mitford, William.

The History of Greece. [The very rare Large Paper Quarto-Edition / NOT the Octavo Edition].

Five Volumes (complete set). London, Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln’s-Inn Fields for T.Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1808 – 1818. Quarto (22.3 cm wide x 27.7 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: VII, 590 pages / Volume II: VIII, 551 pages / Volume III: VIII, 572 pages / Volume IV: XII, 647 pages plus Errata / Volume V: XI, 565, [3] pages. Hardcover / Original, full 19th century leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. All boards firm and sturdy attached with only Volume III and IV with minor traces of splitting to upper spine but firmly holding. Volume IV with minor loss to upper spine. Overall better than very good condition with some signs of external wear in form of lesions to the leather. All Volumes in expertly applied, protective Mylar. The interior of this set in stunning condition. Very unusual and rare set, the only complete Quarto-Version on the international market. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. [Important: This set also comes with the important 1835-edition of “The History of Greece” – From the Earliest Period to the Death of Agesilaus. By William Mitford but continued to the Death of Alexander the Great by R.A.Davenport. A reading-copy with some defect but an important addition to the rare Quarto-set (8 Volumes, London, 1835) (see images)].

66. Neilson, William / [Mac Néill, Uilliam].

Greek Exercises, In Syntax, Ellipsis, Dialects, Prosody, And Metaphrasis. To which is prefixed, A Concise but Comprehensive Syntax. With Observations on some Idioms of the Greek Language. By the Rev. William Nelson, Late Professor of Greek and Hebrew in Belfast College.

A New Edition. London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. Octavo. VIII,236 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt ornament to spine. Working copy of Daniel Conner with his name in ink to endpaper. With a further inscription in ink verso: “JGrant & D Conner, Esq. – Brothers – Two good boys”. Two endpapers missing at front and rear. With annotations to rear pastedown and last page. Last two pages creased. Otherwise in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

67. [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].

68. [Pallas Athene] Kerényi, Karl.

Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion. A Study of Pallas Athene. Translated from German by Murray Stein.

Postfach, Spring Publications, 1978. 21cm x 14cm. 106 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

69. Papastavrou, Johannes / [Franz Hampl].

Arxaia Istopia (APXAIA IZTOPIA) – Tomos A’ and Tomos B’.

Thessaloniki, 1950-1953. 8°. 271, 544 pages with numerous illustrations. Original softcover / Unopened, uncut pages. Very good condition. UNCUT. Inscribed by Johannes Papastavrou to german historian Franz Hampl / Widmungsexemplar aus der Bibliothek des Althistorikers Franz Hampl: “Meinem lieben und hochverehrten Kollegen und Freund, Franz Hampl ! In Verehrung – J.Papastavrou”.

70. Petrakos, Basil.

Ephor of Antiquities in Attica National Museum. Sculpture – Bronzes – Vases.

Athens, “CLIO” Editions, 1981. 17 cm x 24 cm. 191 Pages with numerous photographs throughout. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

71. Plato.

The Last Days of Socrates. [Annotated Copy from the library of Philosopher Graham Parkes].

London, Penguin Books, 1993. 13 cm x 20 cm. 237 Pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight tear on the front cover. Annotations throughout the book. A small ink stain on few pages. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

72. [Plato] Pangle, Thomas L. (Translator).

The Laws of Plato.

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1988. 15 cm x 23 cm. 562 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

73. [Plato] / Hackforth R. (translator).

Plato’s Philebus.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1972. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. VII, 143 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. A few underlinings in pencil.

74. [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 !

75. [Plato] McClain, Ernest.

The Pythagorean Plato – Prelude to the Song itself.

First Paperback Edition. York Beach (Maine), Nicolas-Hays, 1984. Octavo. VII, (3), 192 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare !

76. [Plato] Nehamas, Alexander / Woodruff, Paul.

Plato Symposium.

Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company, 1989. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 80 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

77. Reeve, C.D.C.

Socrates in the Apology – An Essay on Plato’s Apology of Socrates.

Indianapolis / Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, 1989. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. XV, 207 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on endpaper.

78. 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.

79. Rollin, Mr. [Charles].

The History of the Arts and Sciences of Antients [with all 52 plates complete] – Under the following Heads : In Three Volumes. Volume I: Agriculture, Commerce, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, the Art Military / Volume II: Art Military, Grammar, Philology, Rhetoric, Poetry / Volume III: Poetry, History, Eloquence, Philosophy, Civil Law, Metaphysics and Physics, Physic, Botany, Chymistry [Chemistry], Anatomy, Mathematics, Geometry, Astronomy, Arithmetic, Geography and Navigation. By Mr. Rollin, Late Principal of the University of Paris, Professor of Eloquence in the Royal College and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French. The Second Edition. Illustrated with Fifty-two [52] Copper Plates, representing the Civil and Military Architecture of the Antients, their Temples, Machines, Engines of War, Painting, &c.

3 Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1768. Octavo. Volume I: [12], 374 pages with 12 plates (as called for) / Volume II: [4], 360 pages with 40 plates (as called for) [pages 71 – 74 and the two plates these two pages are holding, loosely inserted], [Plate on page 104 loosely inserted] / Volume III: [4], 516 pages including a thorough Index. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spines of all three Volumes. All Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All Volumes firm and all plates complete and in really excellent condition and strong imprints. All plates folded beautifully without tears ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Rare in this complete and excellent condition. It is common to find this work with plates missing which makes this complete set extremely scarce.

80. Ruth, Emilus Conrad Fred.

De Initiis Philosophiae Graecae.

Frankfurt, August Osterrieth, 1833. 4°. 26 Seiten. Originale Broschur mit Gebrauchsspuren. Etwas angestaubt. Inaugural-Dissertation der Universität Heidelberg.

81. [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”.

82. Swaddling, Judith.

The Ancient Olympic Games.

London, British Museum Publications Ltd., 1984. 16 cm x 24 cm. 80 pages with many photographs and illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Handwritten note on last page. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

83. [The Bekker – Translation of Homer’s Ilias and Odyssee] – [Homer] Bekker, Immanuel.

Carmina Homerica – Volumen Prius: Ilias / Volumen Altertum: Odyssea [Odyssey].

Bonn, Apud Adolphum Marcum, 1858. Octavo. VI, 594 pages / 480 pages. Hardcover / Original, 19th century half-vellum with marbled-paper-covered boards. Bookseller-Sticker of William McGee (College Bookseller – 18 Nassau Street – Dublin) to the pastedowns of both Volumes. Both bindings with staining and wear. The Odyssey – Volume with minor split to lower spine. Interior in excellent condition besides an occasional appearance of a fainted dampstain.

84. [Thucydides] Bauer, Carl Ludwig.

Thucydides – De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Cum Versione Latina Et Variis Lectionibus Ex Editione Caroli Ludovici Baueri Accurate Expressi.

Bilingual Edition (Greek-Latin). Three Volumes [complete set]. Oxford, J.Parker, 1811. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I:XXIV, 440 pages / Volume II: 418 pages / Volume III: 266 pages plus 60 unnumbered pages of Index Rerum and Index Verborum. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Occasional annotations and textmarkings. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.Hinges all attached with only the front boards of Volume I and II slightly starting. Besides a few dogears a nd minor signs of only occasional foxing in very good + condition. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. This is a rare version of this text !

85. [Thucydides] Smith, William.

The History of the Peoloponnesian War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides. To which are Annexed Three Preliminary Discourses: I. On the Life of Thucydides / II. On his Qualifications as an Historian / III. A Survey of the History. By William Smith, Rector of the Parish of the Holy Trinity in Chester and Chaplain to the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Derby.

A New Edition. Two Volumes with Two Maps [complete set]. London, Printed for J.Walker, 1812. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of William Smith, Dean of Chester, XXIV, LXXI, Large Fold-Out-Map, 427 pages / Volume II: [2], Large Fold-Out Map, 398 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

86. 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.

87. Vulliamy, Lewis / Spiers, R. Phene.

Examples of Classic Ornament from Greece & Rome. Drawn from the Originals by Lewis Vulliamy [Architect, Gold Medallist and Travelling Student of the Royal Academy]. A Series of Twenty Plates [Plate No. VI missing]. Selected from the Original Published Work and with Introductory & Descriptive Notes by R. Phene Spiers.

London, B.T. Batsford, 1907. Large Folio (43 cm x 50 cm). Preface and Notes, 19 plates (of 20). Original Hardcover with original ribbons in place. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The plates in excellent condition with only very minor signs of foxing. Very Rare publication !

88. Wheelwright, Philip (Editor).

The Presocratics.

New York, The Odyssey Press, Inc., 1966. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. 337 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes with his name on endpaper. Some foxing to the edges and an ink mark on bottom edge. Some annotations in pencil throughout the book.

89. Xenophon / Hutchinson, Thomas.

Xenophontis de Cyri Institutione – Libri Octo.

Edition Decima [Bilingual in Greek and Latin]. London, Impensis W.&W.Ginger, ad insignia Collegii Westmonasteriensis juxta Scholam Regiam, 1797. Octavo. Frontispiece-Map, [2], 548 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

90. Xenophon / Schneider, Johann Gottlieb.

Xenophontis Historiae Graecae – Libri Septem – Notas Io. Car. Zeunii in Librum Primum et Indices Adiecit Io. Gottl. Schneider, Saxo.

[Bilingual in Greek and Latin]. Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1791. Octavo. XX, 474 pages plus 28 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Binding expertly restored by using the original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some pages unopened. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.