Matyszak, Philip: The Rise of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 336-250 BC. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 168 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54645
McCall, Jeremiah: Clan Fabius, Defenders of Rome: A History of the Republic's Most Illustrious Family. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. 201. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54385
McHugh, John S.: Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, AD222-235. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 335 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54501
McNeill, Randall L. B.: Horace: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. First edition. 8vo., pp. 188. Hardback: green cloth, silver-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, lightly shelf-worn with creasing to edges but still very good. Ref: 53616
Meibom, Johann Heinrich: Maecenas, sive de C. Cilnii Maecenatis vita, moribus & rebus gestis: liber singularis. Accessit C. Pedonis Albinovani Maecenati scriptum epicedium, notis illustratum. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Johannem & Danielem Elsevier, 1653. Small 4to. (193 x 155mm), pp. [xii], 186, [viii], 11, [ix], including errata leaf usually lacking. Engraved portrait vignette to title-page, woodcut initials and head-pieces, small numismatic illustration in text. Sporadic light foxing a little heavier to a few leaves. Very neat modern binding, tan quarter calf, raised bands and red morocco gilt title label to spine, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed. Very slight shelf wear, a very good copy. An account of the early life of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (68 BC?8 BC) the famous patron of letters (notably to the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil), by the German physician and humanist Johann Heinrich Meibom (1590-1655). This copy includes the final errata leaf which, as Willems notes, appears to have been added afterwards and is missing in most examples. Schweiger II, 588; Willems 731 Ref: 52319show full image..
Meier. Christian: (Chase, Jefferson, trans.:) A Culture of Freedom. Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe. Oxford University Press, 2011. First English edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 315. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: brown cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light signs of use, still very good. First German edition published in 2009. Ref: 54203
Mellor, Ronald: The Roman Historians: London: Routledge, 1999. 8vo., pp. x, 212. Paperback: Light signs of use, edges lightly creased, still very good. Ref: 54220
Merrow, Alexander Caesar's Great Success: Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign. Barnsley: Frontline Books (Pen & Sword), 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 154 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54512
Minucius Felix, Marcus; Firmicus Maternus, Julius: (Ouzel, J., Meursius, J., a Wower, J., eds.; Baudouin, F., intro.:) Octavius [...] De errore profanarum religionum. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: ex officina Hackiana, 1672. 8vo. pp. xlviii, 352, 64, [xxxii]. With additional engraved title-page, woodcut printer's device to title-page and woodcut initials. Final leaf blank. Occasional very light spotting. Later vellum, old morocco gilt title label added to spine, edges sprinkled blue. Spine a bit yellowed, a few small marks and specks, endpapers foxed, ffep loosening, still very good. Large armorial bookplate of Viscount Downe to front paste-down, with some bookseller's pencilled notes. Pencilled ownership inscription of Brian (Langley?) dated 1966 to ffep. The Octavius is the only surviving work of Minucius Felix (died c.250AD) and comprises a dialogue between a Christian (the Octavius of the title) and a pagan. This edition was printed by the heirs of Frans Hacke in Leiden, who also produced books for Louis Elzevier. Already at the time Hack's printing style was rated as one of the best, and 'his publications are no less elegant than those of his famous competitors', the Elzevirs (Willems pp. 424-25). Not in Willems. Ref: 54659show full image..
(Morris, William, trans.:) Homer: The Odyssey of Homer Done Into English Verse. London; New York Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. 4to., pp. v, [i], 293, [i]. Printed in the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press, in red and black. Some bottom edges deckled. Occasional very light patches of foxing. Designer binding, illustrated paper boards backed in blue morocco with gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers, very good indeed. Blue cloth chemise and slipcase, the former with original paper label to spine, the latter with large and elaborately handwritten label. Though both chemise and slipcase show some significant dampstaining, the book itself is, barring a slightly musty smell, untouched. Bookplate of Eric Sweet to front pastedown. Colophon reads: First printed in 1887, and now reprinted at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, and finished on the thirtieth day of December, 1901. Published by Longmans, Green and Co. of London, New York and Bombay. Ref: 54956show full image..
