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Photography Books & Fine Books in All Fields
11:00 AM PT - Dec 12th, 2008

 

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Athenaeus Deipnosophistarum 1801

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Title: Deipnosophistarum libri quindecim.
Author: Athenaeus
Description: Edited by Johannes Schweighaeuser. 14 volumes. (8vo) 8¼x5, old calf backed boards, black leather spine labels. First Schweighaeuser Edition.A scholarly and desirable critical edition of Athenaeus. Without the works of Athenaeus much valuable information about the ancient world would be missing, and many ancient Greek authors would be entirely unknown. Book XIII is an important source for studies of sexuality in classical and Hellenistic Greece.
Heading: zzkPlace Published: Strassburg
Publisher: Typographia Societatis Bipontinae
Date Published: 1801-07

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Ex-library from the Newton Theological Institution with their bookplate and embossed stamps. Leather dry and brittle, edges and corners rubbed; else very good.

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