61. [Knight, Chareles].

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.

62. 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.

63. 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 dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

64. [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.

65. 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.

66. [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].

67. 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]

68. 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.]

69. 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.

70. [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].