51. [Homer] Moncrieff, A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope).

Classic Myth and Legend. [With the beautiful Introduction-Essay: “The Growth of Myths” and a wonderful Plate, showing Homer “A blind man, sweetest he sings”].. With Illustrations in Colour & Monochrome from famous Paintings & Statuary.

Deluxe Edition. London, Gresham, no year [c. 1921]. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. 440 pages. Illustrations in black and white and colour throughout. Original illustrated hardcover in protective covering. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Pages XV & XVI of the index have cleanly detached and are loosely inserted. Beautifully illustrated and the beautifully tooled binding in bright and firm condition. [Myth and Legend in Literature and Art].

52. [Homer] Norwood, Gilbert.

The Writers of Greece.

Second Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1935. Small Octavo. 142, [2] pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition. Name of preowner on endpaper.

53. [Homer] Patrick, Samuel.

Clavis Homerica: Sive Lexicon Vocabulorum Omnium, Quae continentur in Homeri Iliade Et potissima parte Odysseae. Cum Brevide Dialectis Appendice. Nec Non Mich. Apostolii Proverbiis Graeco-Latinis. Accessere etiam huic postremae Editioni Varia Elogica seu Testimonia de Homero, Ex diversis Auctoribus, tum antiquis, tum neotericis collecta. Hanc Præterea Editionem pluribus in locis auxit, non pauca emendavit, atque scholis utiliorem reddidit Samuel Patrick.

First Edition. London Typis H.Woodfall, 1758. Octavo. Pagination: 348, [60 unnumbered], 36 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on boards. Binding stronger rubbed but firm. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and several manuscript name-entries (look like handwriting-practices) and dated October 21st in 1777.

54. [Homer] Webster, T.B.L.

From Mycenae to Homer – A study in early Greek literature and art.

London / Totowa [New Jersey], Methuen & Co. / Rowman and Littlefield, 1977. Octavo. XVI, 333 pages plus a section with 38 photographic illustrations of ancient greek archaeological finds (Vases etc.) on 24 plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

55. [Hope, Thomas] / [Anastasius Hope].

Anastasius : Or, Memoirs of a Greek ; Written at the close of the Eighteenth Century.

First Edition. In Three Volumes. London, John Murray, 1819. Octavo (12.2 cm wide x 19 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: III, 376 pages/ Volume II: 429 pages / Volume III: 457 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and marbled-paper-covered boards. Dampstain fading from pastedown, endpapers to page 80 of Volume I. All Volumes in beautifully firm and strong bindings and with some rubbing to the marbled paper covered boards with some lesions to the paper. Interior in general very good with occasional foxing. A very, very rare set in its orginal bindings and the only version of the frst edition of this important publication we ever were able to handle in our 32 years as antiquarian bookdealers.

56. Inwood, Brad / Gerson, L. P.

Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory Readings. Translated with Introduction and Notes by Brad Inwood and L.P.Gerson.

Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1997. 8°. XXI, 441 pages, including Index. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

57. [Jones, Sir William] / [Franklin, Benjamin] / John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth.

Memoirs of The Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones [With a little Essay by Jones on the Grecian Orators: “De Graecis Oratoribus”].

A New Edition. London, Sold by John Hatchard (Bookseller to her Majesty), 1807. Octavo (13.6 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). XIV, [3], 636 pages including an Appendix. Hardcover / Original, very decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Bining a bit rubbed but overall in a firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The interior in bright and excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

58. Kanta, Katherine G.

Eleusis. Myth, Mysteries, History, Museum [The Myth of Demeter / Homer].

Greece, Athens, 1979. 21 cm. 159 pages. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Original softcover with illustrated dustjacket in Protective Mylar. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear, for example slight rubbing at spine edges.

59. [Knight, Charles].

The Penny Magazine of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge – Volume I: Number 1 – Number 48. [The Inaugural Volume – With an article on “The Elgin Marbles” and the two illustrations: “Remains of the Parthenon” and “Western Side of the Acropolis of Athens” ].

London, Charles Knight, Pall-Mall East, March 1832 – December 1832. Quarto. Folded Frontispiece, 389 pages with 215 illustrations throughout plus two pages of Index and a List of Illustrations. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Front endpaper detached, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This being the very rare, inaugural Volume in unusually excellent condition.

60. Kott, Jan.

The Eating of the Gods. An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy.Translated by Boleslaw Taborski and Edward J. Czerwinski.

First Edition. London, Eyre Methuen, 1974. Octavo. XIX, 334 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small stain to rear endpaper.

61. Ladis, Fondas.

Routes Through Athens. A Unique Tour Through The Sites of the Historical Centre of the City.

Athens, Mnimes, 2003. 17 cm x 22 cm. 40 pages with illustrations on every page. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

62. [Lancelot, Claude] Nugent, Thomas.

A New Method of learning with facility the Greek Tongue : Containing Rules for the Declensions, Conjunctions, Resolution of Verbs, Syntax, Quantity, Accents, Dialects, And Poetic Licence. Digested in the clearest and concisest order. With Variety of solid remarks, necessary for the attaining A complete knowledge of this language; And for understanding the Greek writers. Translated from the French of the Messieurs de Port-Royal, And improved by Thomas Nugent, LL.D.

A New Edition, carefully revised and corrected. London, Printed for Wingrave, in the Strand, Successor to Mr. Nourse, 1808. Octavo. XXX, [10], 476 pages. Hardcover / Original, full leather, with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Upper hinge slightly split. Besides a minor discoloration to the front board, in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

63. Lucian / Lucian of Samosata [Tiberius Hemsterhuis Edition].

Luciani Samosatensis Opera – Graece et Latine – Ad editionem Tiberii Hemsterhusii et Ioannis Frederici Reitzii accurate expressa, cum varietate lectionis et annotationibus. Studiis Societatis Bipontinae.

Ten Volumes (complete) / 10 Volumes (complete). Biponti [Zweibruecken], Ex Typographia Societatis, 1789-1793. Octavo (13.4 cm wide x 20 cm high). Ten Volumes with c. 4500 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering and golt ornament to spine. Armorial supralibro on covers of each Volume. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

64. [Lucian] Lucian of Samosata.

Lucian Works in Eight Volumes. With an English Translation by A.M.Harmon of Yale University (Volume I-V), K.Kilbrun of Battersea Grammar School (Volume VI), M.D.MacLeod, Lecturer in Classics, University of Southampton (Volume VII and VIII).

[Bilingual Edition in Greek and English]. 8 Volumes [complete set]. Cambridge (Mass.) / London, Harvard University Press / William Heinemann, 1969-1979. Small Octavo (11.3 cm wide x 17 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: XIV, 471 pages / Volume II: X, 520 pages / Volume III: VI, 491 pages / Volume IV: VIII, 422 pages / Volume V: IX, 537 pages / Volume VI: X, 496 pages / Volume VII: XI, 467 pages / Volume VIII: X, 534 pages // Hardcover / Original Publisher’s geen cloth with gilt lettering on spine. As usual with this set we have some foxing to edges and the bindings but the overall condition of this set is very clean and firm and in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Text in excellent condition with NO text-markings. [Loeb Classical Library – Edited by G.P.Goold].

65. Maisch, Richard / Barnett, L.D. (Translator).

A Manual of Greek Antiquities.

London, J.M. Dent & Co., 1903. 10 cm x 15 cm. Frontispiece (Photograph entitled “Auditorium and Orchestra of the Theatre of Epidaurus”), XI, 184 pages. Some black and white illustrations and maps throughout. Original Hardcover with debossed crest of a winged horse on cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discolouration to endpapers only. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on endpaper dated 1904. Highly decorative title page. Main body of text and print bright and clear. [The Temple Primers]

66. Merrills, A. H.

History and Geography in late Antiquity [including a chapter: “Challenges to the classical ‘Weltbild’” and the discussing of the Greek Historiography].

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. 434 pages. Original Softcover. Few pages with very minor dogears. Some very few markings and annotations in pencil ! Otherwise in very good condition. [Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth Series.]

67. Neilson, William / [Mac Néill, Uilliam].

Greek Exercises, In Syntax, Ellipsis, Dialects, Prosody, And Metaphrasis. To which is prefixed, A Concise but Comprehensive Syntax. With Observations on some Idioms of the Greek Language. By the Rev. William Nelson, Late Professor of Greek and Hebrew in Belfast College.

A New Edition. London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. Octavo. VIII,236 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt ornament to spine. Working copy of Daniel Conner with his name in ink to endpaper. With a further inscription in ink verso: “JGrant & D Conner, Esq. – Brothers – Two good boys”. Two endpapers missing at front and rear. With annotations to rear pastedown and last page. Last two pages creased. Otherwise in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

68. [Odysseus / Euripides] Henson, Rev. J.

The Cyclops of Euripides. With Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary and a List of Irregular Verbs used in the Play. With Illustrations.

London / Glasgow, Blackie & Son Limited, no year (c.1925). Small Octavo (11.5 cm wide x 17 cm high). Frontispiece-Illustration of a Satyr, XV, 84 pages with numerous text-illustrations in black-and-white plus two wonderful colour-illustrations: 1.Maenads with Thyrsus, Cymbal, Double-Flute and Torch and 2. Odysseus putting out the Cylops Eye. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor signs of text-markings. A wonderful little publication. [Blackies Illustrated Greek Series – With Vocabulary].

69. [Pallas Athene] Kerényi, Karl.

Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion. A Study of Pallas Athene. Translated from German by Murray Stein.

Postfach, Spring Publications, 1978. 21cm x 14cm. 106 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

70. Papastavrou, Johannes / [Franz Hampl].

Arxaia Istopia (APXAIA IZTOPIA) – Tomos A’ and Tomos B’.

Thessaloniki, 1950-1953. 8°. 271, 544 pages with numerous illustrations. Original softcover / Unopened, uncut pages. Very good condition. UNCUT. Inscribed by Johannes Papastavrou to german historian Franz Hampl / Widmungsexemplar aus der Bibliothek des Althistorikers Franz Hampl: “Meinem lieben und hochverehrten Kollegen und Freund, Franz Hampl ! In Verehrung – J.Papastavrou”.

71. Petrakos, Basil.

Ephor of Antiquities in Attica National Museum. Sculpture – Bronzes – Vases.

Athens, “CLIO” Editions, 1981. 17 cm x 24 cm. 191 Pages with numerous photographs throughout. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

72. Plato.

The Last Days of Socrates. [Annotated Copy from the library of Philosopher Graham Parkes].

London, Penguin Books, 1993. 13 cm x 20 cm. 237 Pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight tear on the front cover. Annotations throughout the book. A small ink stain on few pages. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

73. [Plato] Pangle, Thomas L. (Translator).

The Laws of Plato.

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1988. 15 cm x 23 cm. 562 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with his name to the endpaper.

74. [Plato] / Hackforth R. (translator).

Plato’s Philebus.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1972. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. VII, 143 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. A few underlinings in pencil.

75. [Plato] Edman, Irwin.

The Works of Plato. Selected and Edited by Irwin Edman.

New York, The Modern Library, 1956. Small Octavo. XLVIII,577 pages. Hardcover without dustjacket. The binding and the bookblock in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. A few text-markings within the text (some very few with ballpen and somewith yellow highlighter]. The majority of the text is clean !

76. [Plato] McClain, Ernest.

The Pythagorean Plato – Prelude to the Song itself.

First Paperback Edition. York Beach (Maine), Nicolas-Hays, 1984. Octavo. VII, (3), 192 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare !

77. [Plato] Nehamas, Alexander / Woodruff, Paul.

Plato Symposium.

Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company, 1989. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 80 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

78. Potter, John.

Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece – Volume the Second – Containing: I. The Military Affairs of the Grecians [With the complete set of illustrations on Ancient Military Strategy] / II. Some of their Miscellany Customs.

The Eighth Edition. London, Printed for A.Wilde, H.Whitridge, J.Whiston etc., 1764. Octavo. [2], 420 pages plus 11 unnumbered pages of an Index for Volume I and 22 unnumbered pages of Index Dictionum & Locutionum & Proverbiorum Latinorum. With Hardcover / Original 18th century full calf with gilt ornament to spine. Binding solid and firm and only minor signs of wear to lower spine and some corners. Original spine-label missing. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. All plates in excellent condition.

79. Reeve, C.D.C.

Socrates in the Apology – An Essay on Plato’s Apology of Socrates.

Indianapolis / Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, 1989. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. XV, 207 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with his name to the endpaper.

80. Robinson, C.E.

Everyday Life in Ancient Greece.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. Octavo. 159 pages. Illustrated. Map to the rear. Softcover. Poor condition due to cut-outs to cover, endpaper and title (see image). Otherwise this precious little book is in very firm and very good condition.

81. Ruth, Emilus Conrad Fred.

De Initiis Philosophiae Graecae.

Frankfurt, August Osterrieth, 1833. 4°. 26 Seiten. Originale Broschur mit Gebrauchsspuren. Etwas angestaubt. Inaugural-Dissertation der Universität Heidelberg.

82. [Socrates] Stone, I.F.

The Trial of Socrates [With a chapter: “Socrates and Homer”].

First Edition London, Jonathan Cape, 1988. Octavo. XI,282 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Name and date of preowner on endpaper. Newspaper-clipping with a Review of this book by Peter Levi, loosely inserted / Newspaper-clipping of an article related to the book by Peter Jenkins also loosely inserted: “Socratic questions for today’s society”.

83. Swaddling, Judith.

The Ancient Olympic Games.

London, British Museum Publications Ltd., 1984. 16 cm x 24 cm. 80 pages with many photographs and illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Handwritten note on last page. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

84. [Telemaque] Fenelon, François de Salginac de la Mothe.

Les Aventures de Telémaque, fils d’Ulysse. Avec un petit Dictionnaire Mythologique & Geographique : Nouvelle Edition. Revue exactement sur toutes les precedentes, corrigee avec soin, et Enrichie de Figures en taille-douce. [With 11 engravings and a larger fold-out-map: “Carte des Voyages de Telemaque”].

A Londres [London], Chez Nourse & Vaillant, 1756. Octavo (10.8 cm wide x 18 cm high). Pagination: Frontispiece, XXXII, 386 pages plus 22 unnumbered pages of a Dictionary for Mythology and Geography to the rear of the volume. With ten engravings plus one folded map throughout the Volume [resulting in 11 engravings including Frontispiece plus Map]. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine-label. Edges of bookblock and binding slightly rubbed. Overall in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Few dogears. Front free endpaper partially torn, name of pre-owner, Reverend Richard Meade, verso the frontispiece. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate loosely inserted.

85. [The Bekker – Translation of Homer’s Ilias and Odyssee] – [Homer] Bekker, Immanuel.

Carmina Homerica – Volumen Prius: Ilias / Volumen Altertum: Odyssea [Odyssey].

Bonn, Apud Adolphum Marcum, 1858. Octavo. VI, 594 pages / 480 pages. Hardcover / Original, 19th century half-vellum with marbled-paper-covered boards. Bookseller-Sticker of William McGee (College Bookseller – 18 Nassau Street – Dublin) to the pastedowns of both Volumes. Both bindings with staining and wear. The Odyssey – Volume with minor split to lower spine. Interior in excellent condition besides an occasional appearance of a fainted dampstain.

86. [Thucydides] Bauer, Carl Ludwig.

Thucydides – De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Cum Versione Latina Et Variis Lectionibus Ex Editione Caroli Ludovici Baueri Accurate Expressi.

Bilingual Edition (Greek-Latin). Three Volumes [complete set]. Oxford, J.Parker, 1811. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I:XXIV, 440 pages / Volume II: 418 pages / Volume III: 266 pages plus 60 unnumbered pages of Index Rerum and Index Verborum. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Occasional annotations and textmarkings. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.Hinges all attached with only the front boards of Volume I and II slightly starting. Besides a few dogears a nd minor signs of only occasional foxing in very good + condition. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. This is a rare version of this text !

87. Tyrwhitt, Rev. R.St. John.

Greek and Gothic – Progress and Decay in The Three Arts of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting.

London, Walter Smith, 1881. Octavo. XI, 388 pages. Hardcover / Extremely beautiful and decorative full leather with marbled edges all around and marbled paper covered pastedown and endpaper. Prize-Binding with armorial board of Haberdasher’s “Monmouth Grammar School” with their Motto “Serve and Obey”. Excellent and firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

88. Vulliamy, Lewis / Spiers, R. Phene.

Examples of Classic Ornament from Greece & Rome. Drawn from the Originals by Lewis Vulliamy [Architect, Gold Medallist and Travelling Student of the Royal Academy]. A Series of Twenty Plates [Plate No. VI missing]. Selected from the Original Published Work and with Introductory & Descriptive Notes by R. Phene Spiers.

London, B.T. Batsford, 1907. Large Folio (43 cm x 50 cm). Preface and Notes, 19 plates (of 20). Original Hardcover with original ribbons in place. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The plates in excellent condition with only very minor signs of foxing. Very Rare publication !

89. Wheelwright, Philip (Editor).

The Presocratics.

New York, The Odyssey Press, Inc., 1966. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. 337 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes with his name on endpaper. Some foxing to the edges and an ink mark on bottom edge. Some annotations in pencil throughout the book.

90. Xenophon / Hutchinson, Thomas.

Xenophontis de Cyri Institutione – Libri Octo.

Edition Decima [Bilingual in Greek and Latin]. London, Impensis W.&W.Ginger, ad insignia Collegii Westmonasteriensis juxta Scholam Regiam, 1797. Octavo. Frontispiece-Map, [2], 548 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

91. Xenophon / Schneider, Johann Gottlieb.

Xenophontis Historiae Graecae – Libri Septem – Notas Io. Car. Zeunii in Librum Primum et Indices Adiecit Io. Gottl. Schneider, Saxo.

[Bilingual in Greek and Latin]. Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1791. Octavo. XX, 474 pages plus 28 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Binding expertly restored by using the original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some pages unopened. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.