£100 - £150
Classics. Fine Bindings: Homer & Pope (Alexander, translator), The Iliad, Adorned with Plates, six volume set, London: Printed for F.J. Du Roveray, 1813, divisional titles, engraved frontispieces and plates, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt, green endpapers, neat reference library bookplates to verso and recto pastedowns only, 8vo; Wells (Edward, DD), A Treatise of Ancient and Present Geography, fifth edition, London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for R. Wilkin, et al, 1738, frontispiece engraved by Robert Spofforth, contemporary calf boards, rebacked, 8vo; Xenophon & Hudson (Thomas, editor), [Cyropaedia], Xenophontis de Cyri institutione libri octo, first edition thus, Oxonii: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1727, frontispiece engraved by George Vertue, folding engraved map of the Persian Empire, contemporary speckled calf boards, rebacked, contemporary red speckled edges, 4to, (8)
Provenance: 3rd: Earl Cornwallis; early 19th c armorial bookplate.
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