The Oresteia.
Franklin Center: Franklin, 1980. Translated by Richard Latimore. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael & Don Bolognese. 186 pages. Thin 8vo, gilt- stamped burgundy leather, a.e.g. Franklin Library. 1980. A fine copy.
Books
On the Use of the Ophthalmoscope in Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Kidneys.
Birmingham: Classics of Ophthalmology, 1985. Color frontispiece. 405pp. 8vo, full brown leather. a.e.g. (Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Ophthalmology, 1985). Fine. Facsimile of the 1871 edition.
Stage Antiquities of the Greeks and Romans and their Influence.
Illus. Small 12mo. London, (1927).
Lectures on the Human Eye in Its Normal and Pathological Conditions.
Birmingham: Classics of Ophthalmology, 1991. 95 text illustrations. 208pp. 8vo, full decoratively gilt green leather, a.e.g. (New York: Privately Printed for the Classics of Ophthalmology, 1991). A fine copy. German born ophthalmologist who founded the American Journal of Ophthalmology. Facsimile of the N.Y., 1880 edition.
Man's Quest For Political Knowledge; The Study and Teaching of Politics in Ancient Times.
tall 8vo, cloth, d.w. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, (1964).
Argonautica
Norwalk: Easton, 1999. Illustrations by A. Tassos. Short 4to, ornately gilt brown leather, a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press, (1999). Fine.
Summa Theologica
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1985. 2 volumes. Tall thick 8vo, full blue morocco, ornately gilt covers and spines, all edges gilt. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1985. Fine.
The Birds
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Introduction by Dudley Fitts, Illustrations by Marian Parry. xii + 52pp. on double fold paper, tall 8vo, leather-backed patterned boards in decorative board portfolio, slipcase; bump to foredge of portfolio. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. A fine copy. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.
Lysistrata
London: Odyssey, 1967. 8 full page black & white erotic illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Slim 4to, light blue paper covered boards, printed paper label on front cover. New York: Odyssey Publications, 1967. Limited edition. A fine copy in a faded and bumped lavender clamshell case. Number 5 of 515 numbered copies. This edition reproduces in facsimile the 1896 edition (100 copies) and is printed on handmade paper.
The Plays of Aristophanes.
Franklin Center: Franklin, 1982. 2 volumes. 8vo, full brown morocco, ornately gilt covers and spines, all edges gilt. Franklin: Franklin Center, 1982. Limited Edition. Fine.
The Birds, The Frogs.
Norwalk: Easton, 1979. The Birds illustrated by Marian Parry; The Frogs illustrated by John Austen. 52; 62pp. Thin 4to, gilt-stamped leather, a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press, (1979). A fine copy.
Five Comedies: The Knights, The Clouds, The Birds, Lysistrata, The Frogs.
Franklin Center: Franklin, 1982. Illustrated by Laszlo Matulay. 403 pages. 8vo, gilt-stamped black leather, a.e.g. Franklin Library, 1982. A fine copy. 100 Greatest Books of All Time series.
The Frogs.
Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Translated from the Greek by William James Hickie with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes and wood-engravings by John Austen. 64pp. Tall slim 4to, pale pictorial cloth, brown board slipcase (broken). New York & Haarlem: The Limited Editions Club, 1937. A very good(+) copy in a poor box. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, and printed in Haarlem by the office of Joh. Enschede en Zonen.
Lysistrata.
Norwalk: Easton, 1983. A new version by Gilbert Seldes. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. 117pp. Slim square 4to, gilt-stamped red leather, a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press, (1983). Spine a bit faded else near fine.
Lysistrata.
Norwalk: Easton, 1983. A new version by Gilbert Seldes. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. 117pp. Slim square 4to, gilt-stamped red leather, a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press, (1983). A fine copy.
Lysistrata.
New York: Heritage, 1983. A new version by Gilbert Seldes. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. 117pp. Slim small folio, cloth backed boards; publisher's slipcase. New York: Heritage Press, (1934). Near fine.
[Aristotelous Technes Retorikes Biblia Tria]
Oxford: Ex Tjheatrou en Oxonia, 1759. [8], 199, [1], cxcix, [21] page indexes. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound in full contemporary red straight-grained morocco with gilt-stamped covers, spine with inner and outer dentelles, all edges gilt; leather is lightly edgeworn and spine evenly faded; bookplate and faint remnant of bookplate on front endpaper. [Oxford & London]: J. Fletcher & J. Rivington, Ex Theatrou en Oxonia, 1759. A very good(+) clean copy in an attractive period binding. Title and imprint are Romanized...
Peri Politeias
Firenze: Felice Le Monnier, 1968. Main text in Greek, supplementary text in Italian. Introduction, critical text and commentary by Umberto Albini. 97pp; unopened. Thin 8vo, stiff wrappers (slightly edge worn). Firenze: Felice Le Monnier, 1968. A very good(+) copy. Biblioteca Nazionale: Serie Dei Classici Greci e Latini.
The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body.
Birmingham: Classics of Medicine, 1986. 314pp. 8vo, full black leather, a.e.g. (Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Medicine, 1986). Fine. "The above is the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy, treating the subject for the first time as independent science." GM 2281. Facsimile of the London, 1793 edition.
The Will of Zeus: A History of Greece from the Origins of Hellenic Culture to the Death of Alexander.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961. Illustrated, maps. xvi + 496pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper has sever small tears. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1961). First edition. A very good copy in a very good (-).
La Morale d'Epicure, Tiree de Ses Propres Ecrits
Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1758. Small engraved portrait on title page. One engraved plate. 374pp. + "Approbation". 12mo, full mottled leather; bookplate inside front cover, early ownership notes on title page, covers lightly worn with some minor loss at spine ends, front hinge mended. Paris: Chez desaint & Saillant, 1758, A very good copy.
Aegean Turkey; An Archaeological Guide.
London: Ernest Benn, 1967. Illus. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. chipped, corners of cloth lightly bumped. London: Ernest Benn, (1967). Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf.
The Discovery of Egypt.
Paris: Flammarion, 1990. Translated by Bambi Ballard. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w. 271pp. Tall 4to, red cloth, d.w. (Paris: Flammarion, 1990). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
Beowulf.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Translated into Modern Verse by William Ellery Leonard. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. 4to, cloth backed patterned boards; publisher's slipcase, slightly worn. New York.: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Fine. Limited to one of 1500 numbered copies.
A Treatise on the Membranes.
Birmingham: Classics of Medicine, 1987. Translated by John G. Coffin. 259pp. 8vo, full ornalely gilt brown leather, a.e.g. Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Medicine, 1987. Fine. "He (Bichat) is regarded as the founder of modern histology and tissue pathology." GM 537. Facsimile of the Boston, 1813 edition.