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Oxford: E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1818 Book. Good. Full leather. xxix, [i], 528 pages. Text in Greek, notes in Latin. Browning and spotting to pages throughout. In full leather binding, front joint split along the lower third..

London: Printed by Sam Palmer for J. Knapton, R. Knaplock [et al], 1722 Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. Vol 1 - [viii], 464, [28] pages + 8 plates, one of which is folding. Vol 2 - [iv], 420, [34] pages + 3 pages of publisher's adverts at the rear + 22 plates, one of which is folding. ESTC T90028. Some occasional spotting and light browning, some offsetting also. In old full leather bindings, some marks and stains. Spines worn, joints split or splitting but boards holding firmly. Ink owner's name of John Popham Newport to the front free end papers of each volume..

Parisiis - Paris: Typis J. Barbou, 1779 Book. Good. Full-Leather. 6 volume set. Vol 1 - xxxvi, 496 pages + frontispiece. Vol 2 - [iv], 512 pages. Vol 3 - [iv], 552 pages. Vol 4 - [iv], 532 pages. Vol 5 - [iv], 480 pages. Vol 6 - [iv], 502, [2] pages. Bound in more modern green/blue leather which has faded to brown long the spines. Some rubbing to the edges of the spines. Small bookseller's ticket to each volume of William Jackson Aberdeen. The modern end papers are also browned and this affects adjoining pages. Some staining and spotting throughout, heavier in places. The final pages of each volume are generally more spotted and browned. Vol 3 page 201 heavily stained. Staining to page edges throughout. A heavy set, extra postage may be required to send outside the UK..

Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano,, 1697 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. [18], 130, [2], 38, [114] pages + frontispiece. The first part is in Latin, then 38 pages in Greek with Latin notes. AT the start of each chapter is a frame for a portrait, many of these are blank. In old full leather binding, new spine and lettering label. Damp damage and staining to the end papers at front and more particularly at the rear. But this only causes light staining to the text..

Viennae, Pragae et Tergesti: Typis et sumtibus Ioannis Thomae Trattner, 1757 Book. Good. Full leather. xx, 152, [2] pages. Pages lightly browned throughout, heavier in places. In original full leather binding. Worn and torn at the head and foot of the spine. Modern ink owner's name to the front free end paper..

Lugduni - Lyon: Apud Seb Gryphium, 1541 Book. Good. Full leather. 491. [17] pages bound with Petrus Victorius Explicationes suarum in Catonem, Varronem, Columellam castigationum same publisher, 1542, 144 pages. Page 136 of the second title is soiled and the final page is browned and spotted. Title page of Columella is soiled and there is a small hole towards the upper outer corner. Ink name and notes to a front free end paper dated 1799. In remains of old full leather binding - front joint completely split and board detached. Lacks the lettering label to the spine..

London: Impensis Hen. Clements, 1710 Book. Good. Full-Leather. [viii], 362, [2] pages. ESTC T131824 where it states that the work is mainly attributed to - Crotus Rubianus and Ulrich von Hutten, possibly in collaboration with Hermann von dem Busche. Title pages included in the pagination for vol 2 and also for Epistola Magistri Benedicti Passavantii. In old full leather binding - the boards would once have had arms in gilt - but these have been erased. The lettering piece to the spine has gone. Occasional light browning and spotting ot pages. Tear to the fore edge of pages [iii]/[iv] with an old paper repair - this affects a few words. Ink name and inscription to the title page for vol 2. Pencil owner's name to a front free end paper - RA Linscott Paris 1927. Ink note in French also..

London: Printed for B. Law and Son, No 13 Ave-Maria-Lane and F and C Rivington, No 62 St Paul's Church Yard, 1793 Book. Fair. Disbound. [8] pages + 33 plates. Stabhole through the lower inner margin of the preliminiary pages. This affects the os of London in the imprint on the title page and one column of the contents list. Remains of old half leather binding - lacks spine and both boards are detached. Worming to the upper margins of plates xv - xviii., just touching the printed outer line. Some spotting and browning to the final plate. Ink owner's name to the front inner cover. All pages and plates are double pages which are folded and mounted centrally at the rear. Some are glued together. ESTC T184971.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1751 Book. Good. Full-Leather. Vol 1 - [32], 447, [33] pages + frontispiece, published in 1751. Vol 2 - [26], 343, [21] pages + frontispiece and folding map, published in 1739. Vol 2 is ESTC ref T142246. Title page of vol 2 is printed in red and black. In old leather covered boards with modern replacement spines and also repairs to the corners and boards. Armorial bookplate to both volumes of Hugall. Some spotting and staining, more so to vol 2..

Oxford: Ex Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1780 Book. Good. Full leather. [xviii], 611, [47] pages. The appendix which makes up the unnumbered pages at the rear is dated 1782. ESTC T70806 and T70805. In old full leather now worn, lacking the lettering label to the spine. Joints split or splitting, the front board is held on with just a couple of cords. Browning and spotting to some pages..

Lugduni - Lyon: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1548 Book. Good. Hardcover. 3 parts in one volume with continuous signature but separate pagination - 491, [21]; 184, [8]; [168] pages. There are three title pages. The first is dated 154? the last digit is not clear, I have assumed that it is 1548. The second and third are clearly dated 1549. Browning and damp staining to pages throughout. Old paper repairs tot he fore edges of pages 9-16 and 25-28 in the first part and pages 93-4 in the second part. Some pages heavily spotted. Ink notes to the margins of pages 333-336 of the first part and a few marginal brief notes thereafter. Heavily stained in places. Hole to the lower part of page [31]-[32] of the final unnumbered part. In old vellum binding but the spine is very badly torn and damaged. The second title is Palladii Rutilii Tauri Aemiliani, viri illustris de re rustica libri xiiii. The third title is - Enarrationes vocum priscarum in libris de re rustica, per Georgium Alexandrinum; Philippi Beroaldi in libros… Read More

Querus, 2011 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. lxxxii, 579, [7] pages. Hardback with the dustwrapper. Just light signs of use..

Amstelodami - Amsterdam: Ex officina Elzeviriana - Elzevir, 1669 Book. Fair. Hardcover. [xvi], 614, [146] pages + folding map. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of Henry Downing. Ink owner's inscription to the front free end paper of Hen: Bow: Downing and an ink inscription in Latin. In the remains of old full leather binding, split and very worn along the edges with loss to the leather. Boards are holding on with the cords. Wax seal of a crest of a deer to the rear pastedown. Ink letters on the title page - H4-8. Engraved title page..

London: Curante et imprimente AJ Valpy , 1828 Book. Very Good. Full vellum. 2 volumes bound as one without the half title or title page to volume 2. iv, 956, lxxvi pages. Normally divided into 2 volumes after page 502. Bound in old full vellum with a worn and dried out leather lettering label to the spine. Vellum soiled. A couple of small tears to page edges but well away from the text. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of Adam Urquhart Esquire..

Ingolstadii - Ingolstadt: Adami Sartorii, 1602 Book. Good. Full-Leather. [xx], 892, [36] pages. Title page printed in red and black. Ink owner's inscription to the head of the title page. In old full leather which is worn. Wormhole to the fore edge of the text block affecting the lower margins only of pages 107-138, well clear of the text. Also a wormhole from the rear board affecting just the outer margin of the final 12 pages of the index. It appears that at some point various sections of text were covered over with paper - censored perhaps, or just attaching the reader's own notes?. At some later point this paper has been removed and it has caused some damage to pages in the process. This affects pages - 89, 100, 101, 107, 121, 131, 143, 144, 155, 164, 192, 193, 199, 204, 221, 222, 231, 232, 237 and 238. I may have missed a few. It affects some words on some of the pages. Pages 143, 221/2 and 231/2 have tears to the margins. Loss of some text on page 232. Pages 237/8 are torn at the edges… Read More

Oxford: J. Vincent, 1830 Book. Good. Hardcover. Engraved title page followed by 32 leaves which contain a total of 7 double page maps and plans and 18 single page maps, plans and illustrations. There are sometimes several illustrations to the page. Here without the publisher's adverts. In the original paper covered boards with printed paper label to the front board. The spine has been crudely repaired with a strip of red leather. A name has been trimmed off from the front free end paper. Light browning to pages throughout, spotting also - heavy in places. Dated variously 1826 or 1830s. Some small tears along the inner folds of the double pages..

Paris: Typis J. Barbou, 1759 Book. Good. Full leather. viii, 383, [1], 92 pages. In old full leather, worn spine. Joints split or splitting some sections of leather missing, but still holding firm. Light browning to pages throughout..

Amsterdam: Apud Thomam Lombrail, 1709 Book. Good. Full leather. [xvi], 375, 23 pages + portrait frontispiece of Menander and a plate of Philemon. There are two versions of pages 29/30 - one seems to have a corrected phrase in Greek. Bound with - Emendationes in Menadri et Philemonis reliquias - Utrecht: Ex officina Gulielmi vande Water; 1710 - [xl], 136 pages. Bound with - Philargyrii Cantabrigiensis emendationes in Menandri et Philemonis reliquias - Amsterdam: Apud Henricum Schelte; 1711 - 48, 174, [2] pages. Light browning to pages, heavier to the second and third titles. In old full leather, spine faded, rubbed and with damage to the head of the spine and front board. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of Edward Craven Hawtrey. Worming to the leather on the inner rear hinge of the binding..

a Geneve - Geneva: Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1767 Book. Very Good. Full leather. viii, [iv], 426, [2] pages. In old full leather binding, some cracking to the joints of the spine. Leather worn to the lower inner corner of the front board. 3 wormholes at the foot of the spine. Pencil owner's name to the half title page. A few brief pencil notes to margins and a page of pencil notes at the rear of the volume..

Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1828 Book. Good. Hardcover. xii, 220 pages. Some spotting and light browning throughout. Damage and tear to the rear free end paper. In old half leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, worn and scuffed. Modern pencil note to the front pastedown. Small bookbinder's ticket of Neil binder 175 Buchanan St Glasgow to the front pastedown..