William Duncan Translator (5 results)

Hardcover. Limited Edition #43/140. Octavo, 36 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in red cloth with marbled paper to front board. White label with black lettering to spine. Soiling at tail of spine and bottoms of boards. Enumerated on limitation page in rear of textblock. Shelved under the Front Counter. 1408859. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

671pp. Parallel text in LATIN & ENGLISH. English translation by William Duncan. Front cover detatched, covers heavily rubbed, lacks front free endpaper & pages before title page, occasional marginalia in pencil & light foxing: Fair.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A new edition of these two important historical volumes bound into one. Two volumes bound into one. New edition. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. This volume includes: The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English; to which is Prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War, 1832. The collected first-hand accounts of Julius Caesar's time at war, covering the events of various battles and intrigues that took place during these conquests. With a discourse concerning the Roman art of war, written by William Duncan, a British historian. The History of the Conspiracy of Catiline, and the Jugurthine War, 1832. Written by Gaius Sallustius Crispus, a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar, circa 50s BC, and is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) remain extant. Translated by William Rose, a British translator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Age toning to the endpapers. Minor worming to the front few pages at the hinge. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Octavos, viii, 591 pp (Vol. 1); vii, 584 pp (Vol. 2). Fair; bound in contemporary leather with extensive surface marks and damp staining to covers, Vol 1. front board nearly separated and Vol. 2 has repair to front hinge; boards shaken but bindings else tight; text blocks age-toned; foxing to pages throughout; previous owner names on title pages in ink "Wm. A. Warfield" and "Charles Stuart;" ex-library copy with usual markings, including institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil; MF consignment. 1357647. Special Collections. …

First edition. First edition of Duncan's translation. Folio, 16 1/4" x 10 1/8". [xii], civ, 335, [1], [20] pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Caesar and 84 engraved plates (including 52 double-page, 23 single page, six folding maps, and three folding plates). Bound to style in full speckled tan paneled calf, red morocco spine label, stamped in black and in gilt; red speckled edges. Housed in brown cloth fall-down-back box. Very Good, subtle creasing to spine; spotting and offsetting to frontispiece and title-page; scattered light spotting to text and plates. Folding Buffalo plate present, laid down on tissue, with loss of printed title at bottom. Repaired closed tears in bottom edge of "Battle of the Elephants" plate, with separation in fold at bottom. An impressive first edition of William Duncan's great English translation of Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars, featuring stunning engravings of battlefield scenes and plans, maps of Italy, Egypt, Spain, Britain, and Rome, depictions of Druid, Picts, and German soldiers, as well as the iconic image of the Wicker Man. This copy with the scarce large folding plate of the buffalo, not often found in most copies. A beautiful example.…