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London & New York: William Heinemann & Doubleday, Page, 1912. hardcover. Recased in light gray cloth spine and marbled boards. Teg. Fine. Rackham, Arthur. 224 pages, 29.5 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 1135 of 1450, signed by Rackham. Thirteen mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, and 53 drawings in black and white. LATIMORE & HASKELL p.38-39. Text generally clean, a few margins or corners toned.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Hardcover. Orig. Three quarter brown morocco back strip lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 82 pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 194 of 350. Printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings, A.C. Cooper the Pressman. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. CHANTICLEER 80. Bright, fresh copy with wide text margins, raised bands.

Parma: Bodoni, 1785. Hardcover. Contemporary marbled paper over pasteboard with paper spine label. Very good in red cloth clam shell box. [6], LXXXII, 103, [1]. 30.5 x 23 cm. Engraved title followed by a second page with engraved vignette at head, the entire work printed in capital letters. Wide text margins. Latin commentary followed by Greek text. Commentary written by P. Paciaudi. DIBDIN, Vol. I, p.151. "There is a copy in the British Museum. It was the author's intention to have embellished the work with suitable engravings. but the plates were stolen by some person he employed......." BROOKS. COMPENDIOSA BIBLIOGRAFIA DI EDIZIONI BODONIANE. 287. Bookplate of Bibliotheca Giuliari. Interior very fresh and clean, joints rubbed but firm, backstrip head lacks two centimeters.

Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Decorated and gilt lettered covers and spine. Fine in fine slipcase. Harry Bennett. 144 pages. 30 x 22 cm. Translated into English verse by Elizabeth Wycoff (corresponding texts printed on facing pages), Introduction by D.S. Carne Ross, illustrated by Harry Bennett with eight full page illustrations, and 15 monochrome text images. Printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen in Holland. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Bennett. NEWMAN & WICHE 489. As new copy.

London: William Heinemann, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum, front cover decorated in gilt. Near fine in chipped slipcase.. 340 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 2036 of 1825, signed by the author, printed o handmade paper. Clean, fresh copy, beveled edges.

Paris: L'Intermediare Du Bibliophile, 1929. Wraps. Contents loose as issued in original printed wrappers with glassine overwrapper. Near fine. Chimot, Edouard. 258 pages. Folio, 33.5 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 294 of 300 (of a total of 325) on Papier de Rives, inscribed and signed by Edouard Chimot. 16 colored engravings by Chimot. The Greek goddess of love born as legend has it when Cronus cut of Uranus' testicles, threw them into the sea, and from which arose Aphrodite in the roiling sea. Clean, fresh copy, wide text margins, spine slightly toned.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth with triangular front cover paper label. Fine. 32 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Keepsake of an Essay for subscribers and friends in which Hoyem explains the profundity of Solomon in a one page laid-on introduction. As a Lutheran, Hoyem became first interest in the Apocrypha as a college student. Barry Moser's copy with his bookplate.

London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Very good. 189 pages. Fifty-one plates, many are gate-folds. Contents include: "Christian Antiquities of Tripolitania." "The Temple of the Imperial City of Luxor," "Roof-bosses in St. George's Chapel, Windsor," Some Seventeenth-century Houses in Great Yarmouth." Index. Volume 95 (Second Series, Vol. 45).

London: Faber and Faber, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 222 pp. Illustrated with ninety-six pages of photographic reproductions and numerous line drawings in the text. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I53. "An extended essay on the fundamental problem of monumentality in the art of the ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete)." Small owner blind stamp.

New York: Abrams, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 315 pages. 30 x 24 cm. 174 plates in color and black and white. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER I62. "A comprehensive, authoritative survey of pre-Hittite and Hittite art up to c.760 BC. Superb plates.

Balmes: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white illustrated cloth a bit soiled. 267 pages. Illustrated with 133 photographs and reproductions in black and white and in color. Text in Spanish, English, French and German. Asturias still maintains, almost intact, a series of pre-Romanesque buildings, with slight restorations; thus, they have recovered their primitive state.

Philadelphia: Anthony Finlay, 1827. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter maroon roan, backstrip and extremity wear. Very good. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Ten hand-colored engraved maps (one double page), colored double-page chart of time, two folding letterpress text leaves. Maps include (1) Terra Veteribus Nota, (2) Graecia Antiqua, (3) Orientis Tabula, (4) Asia Minor, (5) Romanum Imperium, (6) Italia Antiqua, (7) Places Recorded In The Five Books of Moses, (8) The Land of Moriah Or Jerusalem and the Adjacnent Country, (9) The State of the Nations at the Christian Era, (10) An Historical Chart and Chronological Chart of Universal History and Biography. Text of Terra Veteribus reinforded with archival tape, a sound unsophisticated copy, maps clean, Finley's publisher ticket mounted to rear pastedown.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 221 pages. 125 figures in the text. Extensive Bibliography. General Index. Museum Index. Primary stress has been given the vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The author includes new material from that of her two-volume catalogue, "Red Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum," published in 1936. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M70. "A basic, chronological survey of Attic red-figured vases." LUCAS p21.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Green cloth spine decorated and lettered in gilt and decorated boards. Fine in fine green slipcase. David Gentleman. 232 pages. 28 x 18 cm. Introduction by Jim Lees, illustrated by David Gentleman, eight full page auto lithographs in color and numerous miniature line drawings in the text. Printed at Cambridge University Press. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by David Gentleman. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 508. Bright, fresh copy.

New York: The Thisle Press, 1959. Hardcover. Orig. quarter black calf, decorated parchment sides. Fine in fine decorated chemise in fine slipcase. 418 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 1298 of 1500 signed by Marian Parry. Pen and ink drawings by Marian Parry in colors and black and white. With an Introduction by Dudley Fitts. Laid-in the Monthly Letter of the LEC, and the "Number Eight" LEC slip. 60 double fold pages. NEWMAN & WICHE 299.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1979. Hardcover. Orig. quarter sheepskin and brown linen boards. Fine in fine matching brown slipcase. Gross, Chaim. 160 pages, 32 x 26 cm. Illustrated with 11 full-page water colors by Chaim Gross. Introduction by Franklin H. Littell, printed by A. Colish, composed in 18 point Goudy Bible type, and the chapter initials were also used by Bruce Rogers set in the World Bible. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Gros and H. Littell. NEWMAN & WICHE 1264. Very fresh, bright copy with LEC Montly Letter laid-in.

San Francisco: John Howell, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue boards with paper spine label. Near fine. 92 pages. Limited edition, one of 480 copies printed by Taylor, Nash and Taylor. Brunelleschi (1377-1446) was Filippo di Ser Brunellesco Lapi. Nice copy, well-printed with wide text margins.

Roma: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1727. First edition. leather_bound. 19th century three quarter calf and marbled boards. Very good. (8) 87 pages. 35 x 24 cm. Seven copper engraved plates, six are fold-outs, title page in red and black with engraved vignette. A study of funerary inscriptions of slaves, freedmen, and other officials in the household of the Roman Emperor Augustus excavated on the Appian Way, with plates engraved by Buonamici after Rossi. The author, a philosopher and scientist worked for the curia of three popes, including being camiere d'honore of Clement XI, librarian to Cardinal Ottoboni (later Pope Alexander VIII). Extensive index. BRUNET, Vol.I, p.847. CICOGNARA 3617. OLSCHKI 16462. Armorial bookplate, some intermittent internal toning, binding tight and firm.

Dublin: Stewart and Spotswood, 1772. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine.. 279 [XXIV] pages. As a stylist Sallust enjoyed great fame for his artistic and epigrammatic speeches with their vividly delineated characters. The only extant works by him is the work here the year Cicero was consul -- the war against the Numidian chieftain Jugurtha, brought to its conclusion by the great soldier and populist politician Marius. List of Subscribers. Bright, fresh and very crisp copy,

Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1931. Hardcover. Orig. half beige spine lettered and decorated in gilt, and thick cream beveled boards. Near fine. Blair Hughes-Stanton. 26 pages. 28 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 186 of 250 on Japanese vellum with frontispiece and six characters in costume designed and engraved on wood by Blair-Hughes Stanton. Bright, very fresh copy, wide text margins, the only blemish a slight puffing to front cover board. Book arranged by William MacCance on a hand press, and set by hand and printed by Idris Jones.