Aristotle: Politics. Books V and VI
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (2006). Reprint. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xvii, 265 pp. Glossy boards. Translated with a commentary by DAVID KEYT. Text in English. Uncommon in hardcover.
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Springs of Human Wisdom
New York: Herder Book Center, (1968). First Edition. Coil-bound. 3.5 x 4.875 in. Unpaginated. With color illustrations. Includes quotations from Ovid, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, et al.
The Canterbury Tales
New York: Modern Library, (1929). First Modern Library Edition. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. vii, 602 pp. + adverts. Toledano Binding Style No. 5 in plum balloon cloth, with Kent torchbearer device in blind on upper cover, gilt grape-vine to spine; purple Kent endpapers, with purple top-stain. Stated First Modern.....
The Portable Dante
(New York): Penguin, (2003). Later Printing. Thick 12mo. 5 x 7.75 in. 654 pp. + adverts. Pictorial wrappers. Translated, edited and with an Introduction and Notes by MARK MUSA. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer. A poor scholar's copy.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1854. First Thus. Volumes 1-4 of 5-volume set. 16mo. 4.5 x 7 in. Bound by B. Bradley & Co., Boston, in full brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine with seal & motto 'VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM'. Vol. I includes tissue-guarded portrait frontis. of.....
The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes. Volume Three. (Édition Nationale)
London: The Clarke Company, (1899). First Thus. 4to. 405 pp. Original green cloth, with printed title label affixed to spine, top edge gilt. Limited edition, numbered 505 of 1000 copies. Illustrated with several tissue-guarded plates. Vol. III only, containing Byron, Livy, Pindar, Hesiod, Sappho, Thucydides, etc. etc. etc. Text in.....
Ad Odysseam Eiusque Scholiastas Curae Secundae; Emendationes ad Scholia in Homeri Odysseam
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): E.J. Brill, 1881. First Edition. Two-volume set. 8vo. 6 x 9 in. 542 pp. in total. Emendations to the Scholia on Homer's Odyssey by Herman Jozef Polak. Publisher's plain paper boards, with handwritten titles to spines. Text in Latin & Greek. Scarce.
Odyssey, Books XIII-XXIV
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896. First Edition. 16mo. 202 pp. + 192 pp. notes. Original burgundy cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Uncommon. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature to front flyleaf, several pencil annotations.
The Works of the English Poets; With Prefaces Biographical and Critical
London: J. Buckland, J. Rivington, et al. 1790. Second Edition. Complete in 75 volumes. 8vo. 4 x 6.5 in. Contemporary tree calf, ornamented in gilt, beautifully marbled endpapers. This second edition is augmented with works from an additional fourteen poets. Illustrated with several engraved plates. Johnson's last major work, first.....
A Treasury of English Sonnets
New York: R. Worthington, 1881. A-3. First American Edition. 8vo. 6 x 8.5 in. viii, 470 pp. Forest green cloth, titles in gilt, ruled & ornamented in black and gilt respectively, top edge gilt, floral endpapers: publisher's handsome binding.
The Poetical Works of John Milton (Oxford Standard Authors)
London: Oxford University Press, (1960). Second Printing. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. 628 pp. Original full Oxford blue cloth, seal in blind to upper cover, titled in gilt on spine, blue top-stain. Published as part of the Oxford Standard Authors series, 'with translations of the Italian, Latin and Greek.....
The Symposium (Penguin Classics L24)
Penguin Books, (1974). Later Printing. 16mo. 121 pp. Original black, illustrated wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with Holly Maurer's Fall '75 ownership inscription to first page. Very sparse annotation.
As You Like It
London: William Jackson, 1930. First Thus. 4to. 7.875 x 10.125 in. xii, 113 pp. Full rich red cloth, printed title label affixed to spine (with an extra laid in at rear endpapers), with green & red pictorial title label inlay to upper cover. Illustrated with 6 tipped-in color plates, 15.....
Shakespeare's Word-Scenery with Some Remarks on Stage-History and the Interpretation of his Plays
Zürich: Polygraphischer Verlag, 1954. First Edition. 5.875 x 8.25 in. 34, [2] pp. Printed wraps. Paper read at the Second International Conference of University Teachers of English held in Paris in August 1953 and based on the Inaugural Lecture delivered in the Handels-Hochschule St. Gallen on June 6th, 1951. Veröffentlichungen.....
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera; Ex Antiquis Monimentis Illustrata Cura, Studio & Sumtibus Henrici Justice Armigeri, Rufforthii Toparchae
(The Hague): Henricus Justice, (1757-1765). First Thus. Complete in five volumes, bound in three. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. [18], 139 + [1]; [14], 142; [6], 155 + [1], [2] + 87 + [1] pp. Bound for Anatole de Montaiglon in polished red quarter-calf over brown marbled paper, titled in.....
P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Quartus
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1963). Third Printing. Crown 8vo. 212 pp. Original cranberry cloth, titled in gilt on spine, and plain typographic dust jacket printed in dark blue. Reprinted with corrections. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.
P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Lib. II (Elementary Classics)
London: Macmillan, 1932. Later Printing. Pott 8vo. 151 pp. Original blue cloth, stamped in black. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer.
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