GREECE
Kresphontes and Archelaos
Leiden: Brill, 1985. Introduction, Text and Commentary by Annette Harder. xi + 302 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985. A near fine copy. More
Nova Fragmenta Euripidea in Papyris Reperta
Berlin: walter de Gruyter, 1968. Edited by Colinus Austin. 116pp., 12mo, printed wrappers. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1968. A near fine copy. Kleine Texte Fur Vorlesungen Und Ubungen. More
Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae.
Norwalk: Easton, 1980. Newly translated by Philip Vellacott. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. 184 pages, 4to, gilt-stamped red leather, watered silk endpapers. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1980. A fine copy. More
The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos.
London: Macmillan, 1921. Volumes 1 -3 only, bound in 4 parts. Thousands of in-text illustrations, plans & tables, some folding. Frontispiece and many other plates, some in color, in each volume. Short thick 4to, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, t.e.g. London: Macmillan, 1921, 1928, 1930. First editions. A near fine set, just barely worn at spine ends. Lacking Volume IV and Index, which were published later in 1935. Each volume is complete in itself. Volume I: The Neolithic and Early and..... More
The Shaft Graves and Bee-Hive Tombs of Mycenae and their Interrelation.
London: Macmillan, 1929. 68 black and white illustrations 93 pages. Slim 8vo, gilt-lettered burgundy cloth (corners bumped, covers rubbed). London: Macmillan, 1929. A very good(-) copy. More
Greece Archipelago and Part of Anadoli
London: William Faden, 1791. Map. Engraving with original hand outline. 23" x 31" Finely engraved map of Greece and western Turkey extending from Lecce to the Black Sea, and from Macedonia to Crete. Topography is rendered my hachure in beautiful detail. Coastal features, cities, and rivers are extensively labeled. Many place names are labeled with multiple toponyms, with variations in Italian, Greek, or Turkish. Ancient place names are underlined. An elaborate title cartouche in the lower left, featuring iconography referencing..... More
Les Aventures de Telemaque, Fils d'Ulysse.
Clermont: Lanriot, 1805. Portrait, folding map, and 24 fine copperplates. 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, leather spine labels, top edge gilt; some foxing. Clermont: Lanriot, An 13 (1805). Very Good(+). More
Les Aventures de Telemaque.
London: White, Cochrane, 1812. Frontispiece portrait, and engraved plates throughout. 2 volumes. Small 8vos, full contemporary brown calf, with blind-stamped covers and spines, red leather spine labels (chips in each spine and corners worn; internally clean). Londres: White, Cochrane et Co., 1812. Nouvelle Edition. Overall very good. More
Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran Charioteer
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. 274 pages. 8vo, cream cloth, d.w. Los Angeles: University of California Press, (1981). A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. More
Passport to Greece.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Illus. 8vo, two-toned cloth, d.w. slightly chipped and very lightly soiled. Garden City: Doubleday, (1964). More
Aegean Quest; A Search for Venetian Greece.
New York: Norton, 1970. Illus. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. lightly soiled. New York: Norton, (1970). More
Greek Ports: 1900-1940
Piraeus: Argo, 1999. Text in English, Greek, Italian, French, and German. Illustrated with b/w photos throughout. 167 pages. Small oblong 4to, pictorial boards. (Piraues: Argo, 1999). A near fine copy with a touch of rubbing along spine edges. More
Fulgentius the Mythographer.
Ohio: Ohio State University, 1971. Translated from the Latin by Leslie George Whitbread. 258 pages. Slim 8vo, grey cloth-backed boards, price clipped d.w. (Ohio): Ohio State University, (1971). Fine. More
Griechische Plastik: In Archaiser und Klassischer Zeit
Zurich: Atlantis, 1938. Text in German. Illustrated with black & white gravures and several drawings. lxxi, 264 pages. 4to, natural cloth with brown lettering at the front cover and spine. Zurich: Atlantis-Verlag, (1938). Cloth slightly frayed, and with foxing at the front cover and front endpapers; outer page edges sunned; top margins wavy. A very good(-) copy. A fully-illustrated account of ancient and classical Greek sculpture. More
Sculptors of the Cyclades: Individual and Tradition in the Third Millennium B.C.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1990. Illustrations in color and black and white throughout. 254 pages. 4to, gray cloth with gilt design, d.w. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1990). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
Greek and Roman Sundials
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Some b/w illustrations. 421 pages. 8vo, black-lettered gold cloth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Near fine. Yale Studies in the History of Science and Medicine, 11. More
L'Ordalie dans la Grece Primitive
New York: Arno Press, 1979. In French. 135pp. Thin 8vo, green leatherette (very slightly scratched on back). New York: Arno Press, 1979. Reprint of the 1904 edition. A very good (+) copy. Arno Press collection: Morals and Law in Ancient Greece. Advisory Editor: Gregory Vlastos. More
Die Geschichte des Griechischen Skeptizismus
Leipzig: Weicher, 1905. 8vo, original printed boards, worn and re-backed in plain cloth with hand printed spine label; inner hinges reinforced. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher, 1905. First edition. A good copy. Ownership signature of art historian Meyer Schapiro, and with many ink and pencil notations throughout, presumably from Schapiro. More
Faust: A Tragedy
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Translated into blank verse by Bayard Taylor. Illustrations by Ary Scheffer. Wilheml von Kaulback et. al., hand-colored frontispieces in 2 states in each volume, colored and uncolored. 4 volumes, 4to, magnificently rebound by the Riverside Press in full green crushed morocco mulitple gilt fillet borders: inner dentelles, and fully inlaid panels with floral borders and silk moire flyleaves, top edges gilt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Fine. Large paper edition. Number 4 of 650 copies... More
Hellas und Rom: Die Entstehung des Christentums.
Berlin: Propylaen, 1931. 33 mounted color plates and facsimiles, hundreds of text illustrations. 630pp. + ads. Thick 4to, 1/2 red leather. Berlin: Propylaen, 1931. Very good (+). Vol. II of the Propylaen Welt-Geschichte, on Ancient Greece, Rome and the origins of Christianity. More
Demosthenes Against Midias
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1906. 188 pages. Slim 8vo, olive green cloth, small library number on spine and school bookplate (with owl) on front endpaper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1906. Very Good. More
Elegy and Iambus: Being the Remains of all the Greek Elegiac and Iambuc Poets From Callinus to Crates... with the Anacreontea.
London: Harvard Univ. Press/ Heinemann, 1968. Translated by J.M. Edmonds. 2 volumes, 12mo, green cloth, price-clipped d.w. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press/ London: Heinemann, 1968. Reprint Edition. A fine pair in near fine dust wrappers. Loeb Classical Library, Books #258, #259. Text in Greek and English. More