Lot 512
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
The works ... with an essay on his life and genius, notes supplements, &c. by Arthur Murphy. New edition. London: for John Stockdale, 1805. 8 volumes, 8vo, folding maps, 19th century half light tan, marbled boards, red and green morocco lettering pieces; Horace The odes, epodes, and carmen seculare translated into English prose … by David Watson. London: J. Oswald, 1760. 2 volumes, 8vo, title-page in red and black, text in Latin and English, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, rubbed and with wear to heads and tails, some spots and stains; Martial Epigrams with mottoes from Horace; translated by the Rev. Mr Scott. London: Wilkie, 1773. Second edition, 12mo, later full tan calf, spine decorated gilt; Polybius The general history of Polybius translated from the Greek by Mr. Hampton. Oxford: Baxter, 1823. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary panelled and sprinkled calf, red and green morocco lettering pieces; Euripides The tragedies translated by R. Potter. London: Longman, etc., 1808. 2 volumes, 8vo, 19th century half calf, marbled boards; Sophocles The tragedies translated by R. Potter. New edition. Oxford: Bliss & Baxter, 1813. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spine decorated gilt; Homer The Iliad [Odyssey] translated into English blank verse by the late William Cowper. London: Johnson, 1802. Second edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red morocco lettering pieces, spines a little rubbed; Homer The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, translated by William Sotheby; illustrated by the designs of Flaxman. London: G. and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1834. 4 volumes, 8vo, plates, maps, original cloth, printed paper labels; Lucretius De rerum natura. Glasgow: excud. R. et A. Foulis, 1759. 8vo, contemporary calf, outer joints splitting ( Gaskell 370) and two others (29)