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HOMER, Hesiod, and others. Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli.Geneva : 1566
First edition. "This is unquestionably Estienne's typographic masterpiece" (Schreiber). Estienne's edition of the Greek epic poets based on the collation of the ancient scholia and variants of all available manuscripts "created the basis of the modern vulgate of Homer" (Silver, Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France). The collection devotes... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 105969
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HOMER. [In Greek:] Works.Florence : 1488/89]
Editio princeps of the writings attributed to Homer, including the Iliad and the Odyssey, two of the earliest, most important and influential works of European literature. "The Iliad and the Odyssey are the first perfect poetry of the western world. They spring fully grown, their predecessors lost, and the magic has persisted ever since. The legends... Learn More£250,000.00Stock Code: 131684
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ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo. The Songs of Meleager.London : [1937]
First edition, first impression, a notably attractive copy. This edition is printed with the English translation alongside the original Greek text. From the library of Hardy Amies, with his neat bookplate to the front pastedown. Amies held the Royal Warrant as dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II, who worked for her from her accession to the throne 1952... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 145607
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HELIODORUS. Historiae Aethiopicae libri decem,Basle : 1534
Editio princeps of Heliodorus's Aethiopica, a contender for the status of the earliest novel. The only known work of Heliodorus of Emesa, the Aethiopica, written in the third or fourth century CE, remained largely unknown until the sack of Buda in 1526, when Matthias Corvinus's manuscript of the text was seized. Printed eight years later in the present... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 126325
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HOMER. Iliados... Odysseias... [in Greek].Glasguae : 1756-8
First edition of the Foulis Press Homer, described by Edward Harwood as "One of the most splendid editions of Homer ever delivered to the world its accuracy is equal to its magnificence" (Harwood, 4-5). The text was carefully edited by the Glasgow professors James Moor and George Muirhead (Moor was Robert Foulis's brother-in-law) and the book was printed... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 115338
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STATIUS, Publius Papinius. [Opera.]Venice : 1502
First Aldine edition of the collected works of the first-century poet Statius (d. 79 CE), best remembered for his epic poem, the Thebiad. He is also known for his appearance as a guide in the Purgatory section of Dante's Divine Comedy.
The Orthographia which opens the book, and is sometimes absent or bound the end, is an etymological dictionary... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 143931
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ISOCRATES. Logoi tines [Graece]. In Usum Scholae Wintoniensis.Oxford : 1726
First edition thus, uncommon, translated by Philip Fletcher of New College, Oxford, and prepared for use at Winchester College; presented here in an appealing period binding. Isocrates (436-338 BC) was a distinguished Athenian rhetor, or teacher of rhetoric, and writer of rhetorical texts. His works represent "Attic prose at its most elaborate" (The... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 144998
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PHALARIS (attrib.) Phalaridis Agrigentinorum tyranni. Epistolae.Oxford : 1718
Second British edition in the original Greek, following the first of 1695, with translations into English having been printed in 1699 and 1706. The work is printed in Greek with the Latin translation underneath. Phalaris was a tyrant king in Sicily in the 6th century BC, who was rehabilitated by Lucian into a humane leader and a patron of literature.... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 128998
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MAXIMUS OF TYRE. Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes,London : 1740
First edition edited by the "outstanding classical scholar" Jeremiah Markland, described by the printer and publisher John Nichols as "one of the most learned and penetrating critics of the eighteenth century" (cited in ODNB). This handsome quarto was printed by the learned and highly accomplished William Bowyer. Maximus of Tyre was a second century... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 141409
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BIBLE; Greek. Novum Testamentum.Amsterdam : 1670
An attractively bound copy of the New Testament in Greek, with pleasing provenance, passed down through three generations of the Wilks family, with three subsequent gift inscriptions on the first blank in pencil.
The book was first presented to Rebecca Emma Langstone Wilks (1792-1861) by a friend in 1810; she was was the wife of Samuel Wilks... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 145910
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HOMER - WOLF, Friedrich August. Prolegomena ad HomerumHalle : 1795
First edition of one of the most important books in the history of classical studies, in which Wolf applied recognizably modern philological methods to the "Homeric Question", the long-standing debate about the authorship and composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. The subjects Wolf addressed dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 132587
