Classics & Foreign Language from Glenbower Books

London: Valpy, 1825. three volumes complete, recently rebound in green buckram, with new endpapers, paper labels on spine, folding map and all illustrations present, text blocks pristine. Text and notes entirely in Latin - notes and commentary take up half of volume 2, and all of volume 3. Scholarly work of the highest order. Weight is just under 3kg, so… Saber más sobre este artículo

Unknown: Unknown This is an 18th century rebind of a possibly earlier edition of Cicero's orations. It lacks title page and half-title, perhaps a page or two of a preliminary address 'ad lectorem'. It begins with a brief life of Cicero - xxx (30) pages, followed by the orations (536pp) and the index, unpaginated but complete. The outer leaves… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: D. Browne, 1739. original full calf, raised bands and gilt decoration on spine, hinges cracking at lower 3cm or so, leather somewhat scuffed and worn, internally generally fine, text block quite sound and clean, pages XVI, 416, publisher's advts page facing title page. The Latin and English versions are on facing pages, the translation given as prose rather than… Saber más sobre este artículo

Londres: Publisher Not Named, 1737. New edition, corrected and augmented, with engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette title page, pp XXXII, 364, in contemporary mottled calf,, gilt spine, morocco label. Text is in French.. Nouvelle Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London and Eton: Rivington and Others; Jos. Pote (Eton), 1764. contemporary full calf with some scuffing, front hinge cracking at top half, five bands on spine, title label lacking, owner signature on endpaper dated 1766, frontispiece folding map of Greece quite sound, text block clean and sound, text is in Greek and Latin, Pages xlvii, 380, three page catalogue of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge, London and Oxford: Thurlbourn and Woodyer, and Others, 1758. contemporary calf somewhat scuffed but with hinges sound, five raised bands on spine, text block clean and sound, 18th Century owner's signature on title page; preface and introduction followed by 520 pages of text, plus an extensive index.. An edition presumably aimed at Oxford and Cambridge scholars.. First Thus. Full-Leather.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: G. Bowyer, 1720. full contemporary calf binding a bit scuffed, five raised bands on spine, title label reads 'Xenophon Memorabilia', 286 pages of Xenophon's text in Greek with notes underneath in Latin, with further scholarly notes at the end. There are some small comments in ink on an introductory page of text, and the title page is dust-soiled, but… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Peltier, 1808. three volumes complete in contemporary half-calf and marbled paper boards, bindings all sound, clean and tight. Text is in French.. First Thus. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Amsterdam: Wetstenios & Smith, 1733. contemporary full calf binding somewhat scuffed but still sound, five raised bands on spine, spine label reads 'Pearce's Longinu', text block is clean, tight and sound throughout, frontispiece illustration of Longinus in a library holding forth, a couple of other vignettes on title page and dedication, Greek and Latin text on facing pages, with notes… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Chez Guillaume-François de Bure le Jeune, 1763. presumed original calf binding, lower third of spine and label missing, hinges cracked but binding cords still holding all together, library stamps of Dublin religious institution library on title page and a couple of other early pages, discolouring from old damp affecting margins near lower spine, not into text, otherwise clean and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1971. quarter-cloth and yellow paper boards binding, no title label on black cloth spine, book generally fine, though lacking dust jacket. The translator was an Irish Catholic bishop at this time, early in the Northern Ireland Troubles, and this sideline in the obscurer areas of the classics must have provided some relief from the troubles of his… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Valpy, 1820. two volumes bound in one, recent cloth, new endpapers, text block edges marbled, discreet (if smudged) ownership stamp on title page, of Dublin Jesuit residency; a few foxing spots in some outer leaves, but the text throughout is generally pristine, apparently rarely if ever consulted. Pagination: vi, 920. The book was part of a library set of… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Valpy, 1828. two volumes bound in one, recent cloth, new endpapers, text block edges marbled, discreet ownership stamp on title page, of Dublin Jesuit residency; a few foxing spots in some outer leaves, but the text throughout is generally pristine, apparently never consulted. Pagination: iv, 502, 503-956, 76-page index. The book was part of a library set of Valpy's… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Bell, 1890. fourth edition, some wear to cloth, inner paper hinges cracked, stamps of Classical Society Trinity College Dublin on endpapers, text block sound and clean. Translations into Latin and Greek verse of English poems, done by various old boys of Shrewsbury who had gone on to study at Oxbridge.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo -… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Garnier undated but probably late 19thC, maroon half-calf starting at top end of spine, binding generally bumped, a little foxing at foredge, but text block generally clean and sound, 407 pages.. Revised Edition,. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941. binding clean and sound, some neat student underlining and annotation on a few pages in the introduction and text.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1939. sound clean copy in the Dublin University Press series, 102 pages. Poem is in Latin - not a translation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Jacques Estienne, 1753. 1753 and 1754 (last few volumes), full calf bindings in traditional French style. Extra volume is due to vol. 11 being published as part 1 and part 2. Bindings are sound and tight, no weak hinges or such, Slight damage to top of spines in volumes 1 and 6. There is scuffing damage to the leather… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford: Clarendon Press undated but inscription dated 1944, black cloth nice and fresh, binding quite sound, but with student underlining and marginal comment throughout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

brown card wrappers, stapled collection of poems in typescript, inscribed by the author to Evana (McGilligan), about 20 pages. Blanchard was a French writer on mainly Catholic interest topics, occasionally Irish. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.