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.