Heading: [Classics]
Title: Five eighteenth-century volumes by Classical Roman authors or on Roman history
Date Range: 1741-1790
Description: Group with three titles by Roman authors (Seneca, Persius, and Sallust), as well as two 18th-century titles on the history, religion, and dress of the Romans.
Group Details: 5 volumes. Comprises: Gabriel Bonnot de Mably. Observations sur les Romains. Seconde édition, Revue & Corrigée. Geneve [i.e. Geneva]: Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1767. xii, 426, [2] pp. Duodecimo. Period mottled calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled.. Light binding rubbing. Pages light toning, occasional spotting. *** Willem Hendrick Nieupoort. Explication Abrégee des Coutumes et Ceremonies Observées chez Les Romains. Pour Faciliter l'Intelligence des Anciens Auteurs. Ouvrage écrit en Latin, et Traduit par M. l'Abbe [Despontaines]. Paris: Jean Desaint, 1741. xx, 416 pp. Duodecimo. Period mottled calf, gilt spine, lettering piece, marbled endpapers. First French edition. Some binding wear and cracking, top of spine slightly chipped. Some light foxing. *** Persius. Satires de Perse. Traduction Nouvelle, avec le Texte Latin a Côté, et des Notes. Par M. l'Abbé le Monnier. Paris: Ch. Ant. Jombert, pere, et al., 1771. Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece by J. F. Rousseau after Cochin, with a tissue guard. This engraving is repeated in the text of this copy where it has a facing page of explanation. Facing Latin-French text. xviii, 224, [2] pp. Including the privilege leaf at rear. Octavo. Period boards backed in red straight-grain morocco gilt. Bookplate of Compton Mackenzie Moderate binding wear and darkening, minor worming at foot of spine. Second copy of the plate foxed, but text otherwise quite clean. *** Sallust. Salustio Traducido en Castellano... Las Quarto Elegantísimas y Gravísimas Oraciones que Pronunci&oacut; Ciceron contra Catalina. Madrid: En la Imprenta de Manuel Gonzalez, 1786. Engraved portrait following the editor's preface. [xii], 386, [2] pp. Early speckled sheep, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled.. Spanish translation of Sallust's orations regarding the Catilinarian conspiracy. Palou #288132. Binding lightly rubbed, some residues. Pages bright but often marred by worming, affecting text on many pages. *** Seneca. Selecta Senecae Philosophi Opera, In Gallicum Versa, Operâ & Studio P. F. X. D. [Pierre Francois Xavier Denis]. Paris : Typis Barbou, 1790. [4], 320 pp. Duodecimo. Edges untrimmed. Later green boards. Wide-margined and attractive exemplar of Barbou's printing. Boards lightly rubbed.

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