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Concerning the lives and work of Greek and Roman poets, historians, philosophers, and leaders. Various translators. London: A.J. Valpy, M.A., and Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830-34. Various editions. Hardcovers; half calf over marbled paper-covered boards with raised bands and gilt on spine, all edges and endpapers marbled. To include:
Plutarch vols. I-VII,
Livy vols. I-VII,
Tacitus vols. I-V,
Ovid vols. I and II,
Cicero vols. I-III,
Homer vols. I-III,
Caesar vols. I and II,
Thucydides vols. I-III,
Herodotus vols. II and III,
Virgil vols. I and II,
Horace vols. I and II,
Aeschylus,
Hesiod, etc.,
Sallust,
Pindar and Anacreon,
Sophocles, and
Juvenal and Persius.
Each 5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.
From the Estate of the late International Interior Designer Terry Parsons, Pittsboro, North Carolina Wear to boards and corners rubbed with some losses to leather and paper, vol. I of
Caesar missing front cover and spine detached; occasional cracking at hinges and missing pages, all with previous owner writing on first free endpaper, toning and scattered foxing as expected, light offsetting from frontispieces; with most spine titles clear, many with bookmark ribbons; poor to good condition.