Latin Classics (7 results)

Large Spiral Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very slight overall wear. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. Book.

Hardback. Kiichiro Itsumi (Professor of Greek and Latin Classics, University of Tokyo), Oxford University Press. Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained obscure. Kiichiro Itsumi presents a new account of their metre. He separates the metre into two types and identifies a series of precise entities from which the verses are made, in this way imposing a new clarity and discipline on what had previously seemed a much vaguer process. Itsumi's analyses of individual poemsinclude a discussion of stanzaic structure, of textual problems, and of particular lines in the stanza and their exploitation within the text. These analyses will be an invaluable resource for seriousscholars of Pindar. Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 6.42x1.02x9.43 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Based entirely on original research, this is the most comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin and the first to focus on British Medieval Latin. Covering the 6th to 16th centuries, containing more than 55,000 entries and more than 435,000 illustrative quotations, the DMLBS is the key lexical reference work for anyone reading Medieval Latin. 05 Apr 2018.

13 vols, 12mo. Title-pages engraved, ruled in red throughout. Contemporary red morocco by Brindley?s workshop, boards bordered with gilt rules and gilt corner-pieces, spines divided by raised bands gilt, black morocco labels, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt with ?Golden fleece? tool, marbled endpapers (a different pattern in each volume). A little toning in places, first gathering of Caesar vol. 2 loose. Bindings rubbed, spines dulled, some spine ends worn or defective, a number of labels lost or chipped, several joints cracked but none detached, some creasing or cracking to a few spines. Armorial bookplate of Cosmo Gordon, Duke of Gordon and more modern Gordon Castle library shelf-labels to pastedowns, early shelfmark numbering in ink to head of title-pages. An unusual surviving example of a substantial portion of Brindley?s Latin classics in Brindley?s original trade bindings. This is the first thirteen volumes in the series, which was intended to rival the Elzevirs for small format and fine typography and which ultimately reached 24 volumes. Many of them - and all the ones here - were edited by Usher Gahagan (d.1749), an Irish scholar of some talent but either poor morals or poor choice of friends; he was arrested with a compatriot in 1748/9 for a plan to file coins and hanged a month later. The series may have gone on longer in his absence had Brindley himself not died in 1759; the last publication in it was a 1760 reissue of the Tacitus of 1754 with Brindley?s successor?s name added to the imprint. Brindley was bookseller and binder to Frederick, Prince of Wales, entitling him to use the ?Feathers? engraving on the title-pages of these volumes. As a binder Brindley also specialised in royal work and used a distinctive dolphin tool in a number of bindings, but the ?Golden fleece? present on the spines here is another tool regularly used by Brindley, especially for copies of his little Latin classics. These were available ready-bound in his shop on New Bond Street, and special small shelves to hold them remained in the premises into the 20th century. The elegant variation in endpapers on a set otherwise exactly matchingly bound is an attractive touch. This set represents the complete series as of the end of 1745. A Quintus Curtius followed in 1746 but there was then a pause until after Gahagan?s death, with the next volume being the Catullus of 1749. They were probably originally purchased by Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon (1720-1752), who entered the House of Lords in 1748 and may therefore have been too occupied elsewhere to complete the ongoing series. The full list present is: Horace (1744, ESTC T46227); Virgil (1744, ESTC T139210); Cornelius Nepos (1744, ESTC T83013); Juvenal and Persius (1744, ESTC T123550); Terence (1744, ESTC T137486 - the rarer variant); Julius Caesar (1744, 2 vols., ESTC T136731, this the variant state); Sallust (1744, ESTC T133040); Ovid, (1745, 5 vols., ESTC T99863).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Declamatiunculae aliquot, eaedemq[ue] Latinae, per Des.Erasmum Rot. Cum duabus orationibus Lysiae itidem versis, incerto interprete, & aliis nonnullis. Basel, Johann Froben, March (at end: 1st May) 1522. 4to. [114]f. Greek text with Latin translation on opposite pages. With ornamental woodcut borders and historiated initials after Hans Holbein; ornamental title woodcut border signed by U[rs] G[raf]. Large printer's device at end. Contemporary blind-tooled half pigskin over oak boards. Erasmus proved his linguistic skills in his Latin version of the collected speeches on set topics by the 4th century Greek rhetorician Libanius, his first attempt at translating a classical text. Working from a Greek manuscript at Louvain University, he corrected several errors and omissions, for the first printing in 1519. The remaining errors were eliminated for this 2nd edition prepared by Froben, in which a number of passages were given a more accurate form. Libanius, who taught at Antioch and Constantinople, was regarded as a model of style both in Christian Byzantium and in Renaissance Europe. He was advisor to both the pagan emperor Julian (362-3) and the Christian emperor Theodosius I (379-393). The volume additionally contains Latin versions of Isocrates' Orations (by Petrus Mosellanus), the declamations of Lucian of Samosata by Erasmus, and the orations of Lysias. The Latin translations are printed facing the Greek texts on parallel pages. The splendid woodcut title border is illustrated in Walter Lüthi, Urs Graf, Zürich 1928. A good copy with a contemporary manuscript entry on title and contemporary manuscript notes in Greek in a few blank margins; occasional light traces of waterstaining in blank margins, otherwise well preserved in its original binding. Adams L-630. Hoffmann II, 519; VD16-L1480. Signed by Author(s).

EIGHT VOLUMES. 4to. Vol. I, [vi] + xxx + [ii] + 307 pp.; Vol. II, [viii] + 294 pp.; Vol. III, 332 pp.; Vol. IV, 323 pp.; Vol. V, xxxi + [1] + 230 pp.; Vol. VI, 238 pp.; Vol. VII, 380 pp.; Vol. VIII, [4] + xxxv + [i] + 234 + [1] pp. All text in Latin. Bound in elaborate straight grained morocco with floral borders, gilt; spines in compartments with gilt bands, decorated gilt. Deckled edges. Pages uncut. Small damp stain at top of rear flyleaves of Vol. I, and some foxing confined to edges; otherwise a fine set. Bookseller's label of Bartolomeo Rigo on verso of first free endpaper, Vol. I. Illustrated by engraved portrait frontispiece of J. B. Sommariva, 2 folding maps and plan Eight volumes of the collection of Latin Classics with the works of Sallust, Virgil, Caesar and Terence, edited by leading scholars of the day with notes and commentaries, etc. Handsomely bound and finely printed with wide margins, in Brescia (Vol. I only) and Milan by Nicolas Bettoni, 1819-20. CLASSICS LATIN CLASSICS ANCIENT 19TH CENTURY LATIN FINE BINDING PRINTERS CLASSICS.