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.
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.
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.
New York: Viking Press, 1947. First Thus. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.75 in. 662 pp. Beige cloth stamped in red, all edges red; in fire-engine red typographic dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction, by PAOLO MILANO. Containing the Divine Comedy, complete, translated by LAURENCE BINYON with notes by C.H. GRANDGENT; La.....
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.....
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.
Lipsiae [Leipzig]: B.G. Teubner, 1857-1858. Fourth Edition, Revised. Two volumes in 8vo. 4.625 x 7.125 in. 243 pp. Vol. I, Parts I-II of the 'Homeri Carmina', Iliadis I-XXIV. Dark teal cloth, roan spine label titled in gilt. The text of The Iliad in Greek, with Preface, Notes, etc. in Latin.....
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.....
New York: Benziger Brothers, (1926). First Thus. 32mo. 3.375 x 5.25 in. 416 pp. Full black flexible cloth (imitation leather), titles in gilt, all edges red, with green ribbon-marker; in publisher's spider-web glassine dustwrapper. 'To Which Are Added Practical Reflections and a Prayer after Each Chapter together with an Appendix.....
New York: Benziger Brothers, (1926). First Thus. 32mo. 3.125 x 5.25 in. 512 pp. Full black flexible cloth (imitation leather), titles in gilt with gilt IHS monogram, all edges red. 'With Appendix Containing Prayers For Mass and Other Devotions.' Illustrated with three black & white plates, including frontis., viz. the.....
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.
London: Henry Frowde, 1906. First Thus. Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.25 in. xiii, 554 pp. Green leatherette, titled & ornamented in gilt, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. A nice copy overall in special binding.
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.....
(London): Folio Society, 1958. First Thus. Small 4to. 6.75 x 9 in. 116 pp. Full blue cloth, blocked in black and gilt with a design by John Westwood, in matching blue printed dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color designs for sets & costumes by Loudun Sainthill. Introduction by Sir John.....
London: Folio Society, (1989). 8vo. 6.25 x 9 in. Unpaginated. Navy quarter-buckram over decorative paper, top edge sprinkled dark blue; presented in publisher's red paper slipcase. Illustrated with engravings by Simon Brett, Peter Reddick, Harry Brockway, Peter Forster, Jane Lydbury, George Tute, and Michael Renton. Introduction by Katherine Duncan-Jones.
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.....
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.....
New York: Hinds & Noble, [c. 1900]. Reprint. 18mo. 4 x 6.125 in. 247 pp. + adverts. 'Pocket' book in full brown cloth, titled & ornamented in black; floral victorial endpapers. The 'Oxford Translation', revised with notes, from the Bohn Classical Library. Text in English, literally translated from the Latin.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1981). First Thus. Small 4to. 7.375 x 10.25 in. xvi, 413 pp. Full green cloth, with green pictorial dust jacket. New, 'Bi-Millenial Edition' of Allen Mandelbaum's verse translation, accompanied by 13 black & white illustrations by Barry Moser. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in.....
(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.....