Bishop, M. C.: Lucius Verus Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. xv, 197 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new. Ref: 54644
Boardman, John: Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical. Thames & Hudson, 2001. Large 4to. (312 x 242 mm), pp. 409. Illustrations. Hardback: brown cloth. Dust-jacket. Fine. Ref: 53638
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus; (Bernaerts, Jean, com; Oudaert, Nicolaus, ed.:) De Consolatione Philosophiae, Libri Quinque. Antverpiae [Antwerp]: ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1607. 8vo., pp.[xvi], 394, [vi]. Printer's device to title page, to I8 recto and on leaf b8 recto at end; printed marginal notes; tail-pieces; woodcut initials. Colophon at end of 'De consolation philosophiae' (p. [142]) dated 1604. Dampstaining to edges, especially bottom fore-edge corner. Occasional wax spots, worming to bottom fore-edge corner of gatherings F-I, tiny worm trail to fore-edge margin of final gathering, small patch of final leaf stuck to rear paste-down. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, board edges slightly overlapped, edges red. Vellum a bit grubby, some stains, good sound copy. Inscription of William Fleming(?) dated Feb. 18th 1827 to front paste-down. Considered by Dibdin 'an elegant and correct edition'. The second, larger part of the volume contains Bernaert's commentary with separate half title: 'Ioh. BernartI ad AnicI ManlI SeverinI BoetI De Consolatione philosophiae libros V. commentarius. Dedication signed by the editor: Nicolaus Oudaert. Dibdin I (4th edn.), 352; Schweiger II.i. 32-33. Ref: 54590show full image..
Boissier, Gaston: La Religion Romaine. D'Auguste aux Antonins. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1906. 2 vols. in 1. Small 8vo., pp. xiv, 403; 413. Cream cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated, spine label, spine browned, boards grubby, slight shelf wear to edges, endcaps and corners, edges dusted, top edge gilted, foxing to free end-papers, still very good. Gilt-embossed stamp 'Schola Civitatis Londinensis' (City of London School) to upper board. Ref: 48781
Bryen, Ari Z.: Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. 363. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. In the publisher's "Empire and After" series. Ref: 53618
Caesar, Gaius Julius: Opera Quae Exstant. [Heidelberg:] apud Hieronymum Commelinum, 1595. 24mo., pp. 504, [xlviii]. Woodcut border to title-page, head-pieces and initials, single-line borders around text. Some fore-edges unopened. Occasional pencil notes (numbers) to margins. Smudgy mark to title-page, old and yellowed tape repair to leaf D1, hole to bottom margin pp.461-472, smudged monogram(?) to p.477 obscuring some text, leaf G1 with small hole at head affecting two words, worming to final 5 leaves affecting text to the last two (index). Contemporary limp vellum, title inked to spine and faintly to upper board, and to bottom edge of text block. Ties lost, new endpapers stuck in with small loss to old ffep, bottom corner of old rear free endpaper torn away. A very scarce miniature edition by the great Flemish scholar-printer J?r?me Commelin (1550?-1597), which escapes the notice of both Dibdin and Schweiger. Scarce in the British Isles, with COPAC locating only two copies in the Bodleian and one at Eton College. VD16 ZV 5270 Ref: 54143show full image..
Caesar, Gaius Julius: (Clarke, S., ed.; Hirtius, A. ed.:) C. Julii Caesaris et A. Hirtii De Rebus a Caesare Gestis Commentarii cum Fragmentis. Accesserunt indices [?] Omnia ex recensione Samuelis Clarke fideliter expressa. Glasguae [Glasgow]: in Aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1750. Folio, pp.[iv], 378, [xiv]. Large paper copy, wide margins. With half-title. Very faint sporadic foxing, faint dampstain to bottom fore-edge corner towards rear. Contemporary dark brown calf recently rebacked in a slightly lighter shade, raised bands, title tooled directly to 2nd compartment, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed. A bit rubbed, scrape to upper board, corners a bit worn, very good overall. The Foulis' 1750 edition of Caesar appeared in three forms: 8vo., 4to., and folio. The 8vo edition is in 3 vols. and is distinct from the others, which correspond line for line though the folio holds more lines per page. Described by Schweiger as very clean, and by Brunet as a beautiful edition. Gaskell 139; Brunet I, 314; Schweiger II pt.i, 47-8 Ref: 54559show full image..
Caesar, Gaius Julius: (O.Donnell, James J., trans.:) The War for Gaul: A New Translation. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xlv, 275. Map of Gaul to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54504
Callimachus: [Bentley, Thomas, ed.:] Hymni et epigrammata: quibus accesserunt Theognidis carmina: nec non epigrammata centum septuaginta sex ex anthologia Gr?ca, Quorum magna pars non ante separatim excusa est. His adjuncta est Galeni suasoria ad artes. Notas addidit, atque omnia emendate imprimenda curavit Londini [London]: Londini : impensis Gul. Thurlbourne Bibliopolae Cantab. Veneunt apud J. Nourse, P. 1741. 8vo., pp. xviii, 243, [i], 52, [i]. Parallel Greek and Latin texts. Some woodcut ornaments. Very clean internally. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with title label, edges sprinkled red. Boards a little scuffed, very good indeed. Thomas Bentley (1693-1742) was a nephew of the much more celebrated Richard Bentley (1662-1742), and this edition is sometimes erroneously attributed to the latter. It seems that the editors of Museum Criticum, referred to by Dibdin, were particularly alive to this ambiguity and gave the following scathing assessment: 'An edition of the Hymns and a few epigrams, with notes for the use of schools, was printed in 1741 and reprinted in 1751 by Thomas Bentley, the nephew of the Doctor, in the same volume with parts of Theognis, and the A?yos IpoTpeus of Galen. Of this publication Mr. Blomfield, as far as we have observed, takes not the slightest notice: which is surprising, if he were aware of the character given to it by the prince of Bibliographers, Dr. Harwood, who declares it to be 'not inferior to any edition of Callimachus'. Were it not for the fear of differing from so great authority, we should certainly pronounce the notes to be flimsy, drivelling, and useless. Our motive for naming the book at all, is this: No name appearing in the title-page, (though it is quoted as Thomas Bentley's by Ernesti and others), the booksellers, well knowing the advantage of a name in marking a price, entitle this work in their Catalogues Callimachus Bentlei, and purchasers are deluded by the idea of its being the production of the illustrious Master of Trinity College, whose name every body has heard associated with that of Callimachus.' Museum Criticum or Cambridge Classical Researches Vol. II, 1826 (p.150). ESTC T83008; Dibdin I 4th ed. 369. Ref: 54215show full image..
Castleden, Rodney: The Attack on Troy. London: Pen & Sword, 2006. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 165 + plates. Illustrations to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint only of shelf-dust, fine. Ref: 54060
