SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius (86-35 B.C.). Caii Crispi Sallusti quae exstant... accedunt fragmenta veterum historicum... Edited by Gottlieb Korte. Venice: J.B.Pasquali, 1737. 2 volumes, 4 (262 x 185mm). Title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved headpieces. Contemporary calf, spines gilt (damage to leather on upper cover of vol.I, some scuffing joints of vol.I slightly split). Provenance : Walter Bowman, FRS, FSA, Mem. Soc. Dil. (1699-1782, signature, inscriptions noting the gift of the book from William Hurrock). Brunet V.86. Caius Julius CAESAR (100-44 B.C.). Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. Paris: Michel Vascosan & Jean Rogny, 1544. 2 (338 x 220mm). 7 woodcut illustrations (including a map of France and a second of Spain). (Light brwoning and soiling.) Early 18th-century English red morocco gilt (joints reapired, upper cover detached). Adams C-37. [PHALARIS]. Epistolae. Groningen: Jacob Bolt, 1777 [ Bound with :] Richard BENTLEY Dissertatio de Phalaridis... Groningen: Jacob Bolt, 1777. 2 volumes in one, 4 (266 x 208mm). Contemporary speckled calf, gilt. Provenance : John Dunn Gardner (armorial bookplate). Bentley proved the supposed letters of Phalaris (a tyrant of Acragas in Sicily, c. 6th century B.C.) to be forgeries. Brunet IV, 592. Publius TERENTIUS Afer (185-159 B.C.). Comoediae. Birmingham: John Baskerville 1772. 4 (290 x 230mm). Contemporary russia tooled in gilt and blind (rebacked). Provenance : Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811, inscription dated 1776); Rev.J.Blummer (signature). Gaskell 46; and eight others in nine volumes (Lucius Apuleius, Opera , Paris: 1688, 2 vols., 4; Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Opera , Paris: 1730, 4; Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera , Edinburgh: 1806, 4; Aristophanes, Comoediae undecim, graece et latine , Amsterdam: 1710, 2; Gaius Sallustius Crispus and Lucius Annaeus Florus, [ Opera ], Birmingham: 1773, 4; Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis , Birmingham: '1757' [i.e. 1770], 4; Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae , Birmingham: 1772, 4; Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera , Paris: 1641). (14)
SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius (86-35 B.C.). Caii Crispi Sallusti quae exstant... accedunt fragmenta veterum historicum... Edited by Gottlieb Korte. Venice: J.B.Pasquali, 1737. 2 volumes, 4 (262 x 185mm). Title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved headpieces. Contemporary calf, spines gilt (damage to leather on upper cover of vol.I, some scuffing joints of vol.I slightly split). Provenance : Walter Bowman, FRS, FSA, Mem. Soc. Dil. (1699-1782, signature, inscriptions noting the gift of the book from William Hurrock). Brunet V.86. Caius Julius CAESAR (100-44 B.C.). Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. Paris: Michel Vascosan & Jean Rogny, 1544. 2 (338 x 220mm). 7 woodcut illustrations (including a map of France and a second of Spain). (Light brwoning and soiling.) Early 18th-century English red morocco gilt (joints reapired, upper cover detached). Adams C-37. [PHALARIS]. Epistolae. Groningen: Jacob Bolt, 1777 [ Bound with :] Richard BENTLEY Dissertatio de Phalaridis... Groningen: Jacob Bolt, 1777. 2 volumes in one, 4 (266 x 208mm). Contemporary speckled calf, gilt. Provenance : John Dunn Gardner (armorial bookplate). Bentley proved the supposed letters of Phalaris (a tyrant of Acragas in Sicily, c. 6th century B.C.) to be forgeries. Brunet IV, 592. Publius TERENTIUS Afer (185-159 B.C.). Comoediae. Birmingham: John Baskerville 1772. 4 (290 x 230mm). Contemporary russia tooled in gilt and blind (rebacked). Provenance : Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811, inscription dated 1776); Rev.J.Blummer (signature). Gaskell 46; and eight others in nine volumes (Lucius Apuleius, Opera , Paris: 1688, 2 vols., 4; Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Opera , Paris: 1730, 4; Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera , Edinburgh: 1806, 4; Aristophanes, Comoediae undecim, graece et latine , Amsterdam: 1710, 2; Gaius Sallustius Crispus and Lucius Annaeus Florus, [ Opera ], Birmingham: 1773, 4; Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis , Birmingham: '1757' [i.e. 1770], 4; Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae , Birmingham: 1772, 4; Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera , Paris: 1641). (14)
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