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Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1762. In four volumes. Parallel Greek and Latin text. First seven words of the title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary vellum, contrasting brown calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed, a trifle marked and discoloured, loss, cracking, and chipping to spines/lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, worm-track to front endpapers of Vol. I, else internally clean and crisp. Later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I. An esteemed edition of the works of Xenophon, with the text in Greek and Latin, finely printed by Foulis of Glasgow; containing the texts of Hellenica, from the 1690 edition with commentary by Church of England clergyman and educationist Edward Wells (1667-1721), and classical scholar Thomas Hutchinson's (bap. 1698, d. 1769) highly regarded edition of the Cyropaedia (1727). Another edition, entirely in Greek, appeared in the same year. John Taylor… Read More

Romae, [i.e. Rome]: Apud Paulum Bladum Impressorem Cameralem, 1592. [4]ff. Disbound, with various edges uncut. Light dampstaining to fore-edge at head, evidence of a removed wax seal to verso of final leaf. With contemporary nine-line ink inscription to verso of final leaf. A confirmation of the privileges and position of the Benedictine hermetic Camaldolesi congregation granted by Gregory XIV, but published after both his death and that of his short-lived successor, Innocent IX. Rare, with USTC locating a single copy, in Perugia. OCLC adds no further. USTC 818024.. First edition. Quarto.

London: H. S. Nichols & Co., 1895. Limited edition of 500 copies. xii, 282pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines a trifle sunned. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Alexander Meyrick Broadley and recent book labels of Marion C. Walker to FEP, occasional spotting/browning. The private memoirs of Louis XV (1710-1774), as related by the lady's maid of Madame de Pompadour, his mistress. The French King's ineffectual rule contributed to the decline of royal authority that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. . 8vo.