Continental books
Collections of works including editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th-18th century
£756
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Homer. Ilias. Cum M. Aemilii Porti, Francisci Porti Cretensis F. Latina ad verbus interpretatione. [Geneva]: Jean de Tournes, 1629. 16mo, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, woodcut border to title-page, Greek and Latin text on facing pages, lacking free endpapers, title-page somewhat softened and frayed, h4-5 with tears to corners, marginal worming to H-I, H8 with tear in text, Uu8 (first leaf of index) with closed tear, a few other small worm-tracks and blemishes [USTC 6701784];
Idem. Odyssea … eiusdem Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, et Epigrammata. Omnia cum M. Aemilii Porti, Francisci Porti Cretensis F. Latina ad verbus interpretatione. Geneva: Jean Vignon, 1609. 16mo, contemporary blind-ruled calf, woodcut border to title-page, Greek and Latin text on facing pages, printer's waste endpapers [USTC 6703025];
Perez, Antonio. Institutiones imperiales erotematibus … Editio octavo. Amsterdam: apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, 1657. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, engraved and letterpress title-pages [USTC 1841837];
Justinian. Institutiones. Paris: Guillaume de Luyne, 1676. 12mo, contemporary calf, engraved and letterpress title-pages, text in red and black;
and 11 others (not collated), generally 12mo, in contemporary calf (apparently British), many with engraved title-pages, 18th-century ownership inscriptions of Anthony Murray throughout, including: Homer, Opera [volume 2 title-page: Odyssea, etc.], Amsterdam: ex officina Wetsteniana, 1707, 2 volumes; Virgil, [Opera], Amsterdam, 1717; Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, Amsterdam, 1668; Terence, Comoediae, Rotterdam, 1702; Claudianus, [Opera], Amsterdam, 1688; Bougeant, Amusement philosophique sur le langage des bêtes, The Hague, 1739; and similar (18)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.