Classics. Isaeus & Jones (Sir William, editor), The Spee...

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£100 - £150

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Classics. Isaeus & Jones (Sir William, editor), The Speeches of Isæus [...], first edition thus, London: Printed by J. Nichols, for E. and C. Dilly, 1779, folding and full-page plates, contemporary mottled calf, gilt Greek key roll, rebacked and recornered, title blindstamp, 4to; Terence, Phaedrus,  Publilius Syrus & Bentley (Richard, editor), Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae, Phaedri Fabulae Aesopiae, Publii Syri et aliorum Veterum Sententiae, first edition thus, Cambridge: Cornelius Crownfield, 1726, general and divisional titles, engraved portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the dedicatee, contemporary speckled calf, repaired spine with later label, red speckled edges, 4to; another edition of Bentley's Terence, Amsterdam: R. & J. Wetstenios, & G. Smith, 1727, engraved allegorical frontispiece of Rome, rubricated title, rebacked early 19th c English calf, marbled endpapers, 4to; Cicero, Davies (John, editor) & Bentley (Richard, emendator), Tusculanarum disputationum libri quinque, first edition thus, Cambridge: Cornelius Crownfield, 1738, contemporary calf, red speckled edges, 8vo; Rawlinson's Geography, History, & Antiquities of Parthia, first edition, Longmans, et al, 1873, chromolithographed frontispiece, folding map, recent green half-buckram over cloth, marbled edges, 8vo; Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, third edition, with additions, 1858, rebacked contemporary calf prize binding, 8vo, (6)

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