Classics

Discover the timeless classics that have captured the hearts and minds of generations past, in our collection of previously sold books.

The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace 1729 DUNSTER'S EDITION - RARE

SOLD Horace's Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry, Done into English, With Notes. By S. Dunster, The Fourth Edition. Printed by T.W. for...

Aesop's Fables and Other Fables 1786; Dodsley Edition ILLUSTRATED 3 Vols in 1

SOLD Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. By R. Dodsley. A New Edition. London; Printed for J. Dodsley; 1786....

Boccaccio's Decameron Giunta 1527 (but 1729) Very Fine Facsimile Edition - RARE!

SOLD Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio Nuouamente Corretto et Con Diligentia Stampato. 1527 (but 1729). The colophon states this was...

The Works of Xenophon 1762-1767 STUNNING 12 Vols FINE BINDINGS; Ancient Classics

SOLD Xenophontis Graecorum Res Gestae; et Agesilaeus, 1762; Xenophontis Expeditio Cyri, 1764; Xenophontis Institutio Cyri, 1767. Andrew...

De Inventoribus Rerum by Polydore Virgil 1580 - A VERY RARE BANNED BOOK !

SOLD Polydori Vergilii Urbinatas de Rerum Inventoribus Libri Octo. Eiusdem in orationem Dominicam Commentariolum. Cum Indice & rerum...

Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise STUNNING FINE BINDING - Rare

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton and published by Houghton, Mifflin, & Co at the Riverside Press,...

The Works of Virgil 1650: Aeneid, Georgics, etc STUNNING MANUSCRIPT BINDING!

Publius Virgilius Maro: Virgilii Opera, Iam emendatior. Amstelodami, Apud Joannem Janssonium, 1650. The Works of Virgil, including the...

The Histories of Herodotus in 9 Volumes FOULIS PRESS 1761 Ancient Greek History

Herodoti Halicarnassensis Historia. Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, Glasguae, MDCCLXI. The Histories of Herodotus, published at...

Tales of Troy and Greece 1923 Andrew Lang - Ulysses ANTIQUE LEATHERBOUND BOOK

Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang. With Seventeen Illustrations by H. J. Ford and a Map. New Impression. Longmans, Green and Co.;...

The Works of Homer in English: Iliad & Odyssey 1760 FINE BINDINGS - 11 Vols RARE

SOLD The Odyssey and The Iliad of Homer in 5 and 6 volumes respectively, constituting an 11 volume uniformly bound set. The Alexander...

John Dryden's Ancient Poems 1727 STUNNING FULL CALF! Virgil, Milton, Homer, Ovid

Miscellany Poems. Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets: Together with several Original Poems. Published and...

The Ingoldsby Legends; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1898 VERY FINE BINDING!

The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and published in London by J.M. Dent &...

John Milton PARADISE LOST & REGAINED Poetical Works 1801 Samson Agonistes, Comus

SOLD The Poetical Works of John Milton, From the Text of Dr. Newton: With a Critical Essay. By J. Aikin, M.D. London; Printed for J....

History of the Literature of Ancient Greece 1847 Müller - HOMER AESCHYLUS PLATO

Library of Useful Knowledge: History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, to the Period of Isocrates. Translated from the German Ms. of...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Selected Letters 1849 LATIN Orations Ancient Rome History

Latin: M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Selectae Ac Temporum Ordine Dispositae. In Usum Scholarum Edidit Aug. Matthiae. Quartum Edidit,...

Ancient Classics: 1830 Livy, Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Caesar, ANTIQUE BOOKS

SOLD A set of ancient classics all translated into English and published in the early 1830s in London. To include works by Julius Caesar,...

Grimm's Fairy Tales FIRST EDITION FIRST IMPRESSION 1823-26 Brothers Grimm 1st ed

German Popular Stories, or Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jakob Ludwig Grimm and Carl Wilhelm Grimm. FIRST EDITION FIRST IMPRESSIONS of both...

The Fables of Phaedrus, the Freedman of Augustus 1817 INCLUDING 6th BOOK - ROMAN

Latin: Phædri Augusti Liberti, Et Fl. Aviani Fabulæ. Accedit In Hac Noviss. Edit Phædri Liber Sextus Repertus A Ioanne Antonio Cassitto...

Works of MARCUS TULIUS CICERO 1724 Opera VERY RARE Roman Law Philosophy Religion

AUCTION Ending 29/03/2023 at 19:26 GMT Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera Quae Supersunt, Omnia, Cum Asconio & Scholiaste Veteri. Ac...

Dante's Cantos 1894 DIVINE COMEDY C. Potter INFERNO PARADISE PURGATORY Antique

AUCTION ENDING 29/03/2023 at 19:36 GMT Cantos From the Divina Comedia of Dante. Translated into English Verse by C. Potter. Halifax;...

History of Herodotus 1880 MAPS History & Geography - John Murray - Bickers & Son

History of Herodotus. A New English Version, Edited with Copious Notes and Appendices, Illustrating the History and Geography of...

Euripides' Hecuba, Orestes, and Phoenissa 1748 Greek Tragedy FINE BINDINGS

SOLD. Latin: Euripidis Hecuba, Orestes, Et Phœnissæ, Cum Scholiis Antiquis; Ac Versione, Notisque Johannis King, Ferè Integris; Curante...

THUCYDIDES on the PELOPONNESIAN WAR 1866 - 1883 E. F. Poppo 8 vols in 4 STUNNING

SOLD. Latin: Thucydidis De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo. Ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem Editos. Explanavit Ernestus Fridericus Poppo....

Aeschylus 1847 2 Vols - Agamemnon Prometheus Persians STUNNING FINE BINDINGS

SOLD. Aeschylus All That Remains: Reviewed and Illustrated with a Brief Commentary by Frederick A. Paley, M.A. Once upon a time Coll....

TERENCE Comedies 1854 Andria, Hecyra, Heauton Timorumenos, Eunuchus, Phormio

SOLD. Latin: P. Terentii Afri Comœdiæ. Londini; Excudebat Carolus Whittingham; MDCCCLIV (1854). English: P. Terentius Afri Comedy....

HESIOD'S Poems 1891 - Codex Venetus - Theogony - Jannes Flach - Greek Mythology

SOLD. Latin: Hesiodi Quae Feruntur Carma Ad Optimorum Codicum Fidem. Recensuit Iannes Flach. Lipsiae; In Aedibus B. G. Teubneri; MDCCCXCI...

VIRGIL 1834 AENEID - Stunning Antique Leatherbound Book Ancient Greece Classics

SOLD. Latin: P. Virgilli Maronis Opera, Locis Parallelis Ex Antiquis Scriptoribus Et Annotationum Delectu Illustrata In Usum Juventutis....

SOPHOCLES Surviving Tragedy Plays & Fragments of of Lost Plays 1849 G. Dindorfii

SOLD. Latin: Sophoclis Tragodeiae Superstites Et Deperditarum Fragmenta. Ex Recensione G. Dindorfii. Editio Secunda Emendatior. Oxonii;...

The Works of VIRGIL 1767 & 1775 AENEID GEORGICS Poems - RARE V. EARLY! Classics

SOLD. Latin: P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Varietate Lectionis Et Perpetva Adnotatione Illvstrata A Chr. Gottl. Heyne. Accedit Index...

HERODOTUS Histories Explained by Heinrich Stein c.1880s MAPS Greece Persian War

SOLD. German: Herodotos Erklärt Von Heinrich Stein. Berlin; Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. English: Herodotus explained by Heinrich Stein....

Works of Statius 1876 - SILUAE - ACHILLES & THEBES - Roman Poems DANTE INFLUENCE

SOLD. Works of P. Papinius Statius. Volume One and Two. Leipzig; In the Houses of B. G. Teubnerl. Volume I: Siluae (Forests). Reviewed by...

The Orations of DEMOSTHENES 1870-90 William Dindorfil - Politics Law Democracy

SOLD. The Orations of Demosthenes From the Recension of William Dindorfil. Leipzig; Published and printed by B. G. Teubeneri. Volume I. :...

Selections From Greek Poets 1766 Homer Hesiod Pindar SAPPHO Ancient Greece RARE!

Latin: Selecta Ex Poetis Græcis. Cum Vulgata Versione Emendata, Ac Variis Partim Scholiastarum Græcorum, Partim Doctorum Recentiorum...

Plato's Complete Works 1881 - the Republic, Symposium, & Phaedo - Philosophy

Latin: Platonis Opera Omnia Uno Volumine Comprehensa. Ad Fidem Optimorum Librorum Denuo. Recognovit Et Una Cum Scholiis Graecis....

History of the Peloponnesian War By THUCYDIDES 1847 MAPS Ancient Greece SCARCE !

SOLD. The History of the Peloponnesian War, By Thucydides: Illustrated by Maps, Taken Entirely From Actual Surveys; With Notes, Chiefly...

Works of Q. HORACE Flacci 1881 VELLUM Reviewed by Mauricio Hauptio 4th edition

AUCTION ENDING 31/03/2023 at 20:59 GMT Latin: Q. Horatii Flacci Opera A Mauricio Hauptio Recognita. Editio Quarta. Ab Iohanne Vahleno...

The Satires of Persius and Juvenal 1845 Charles William Stocker 3rd edition

AUCTION ENDING 31/03/2023 at 20:58 GMT THIRD EDITION: The Satires of Persius and Juvenal: With English Notes, Partly Compiled, and Partly...

The Oration of Demosthenes Upon the Crown c.1890 Ancient Greek Athens Statesman

SOLD. Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books: The Oration of Demosthenes Upon the Crown. Translated into English, With Notes by Henry Lord...

ODES & EPODES of HORACE George Routledge Iambic Poems Roman c.1890

Sir John Labbock's Hundred Books: The Odes and Epodes of Horace. Translated by Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. London and New York; George...

Diogenes Laertius On the Life and Death of the Philosophers Book X 1551

SOLD Latin: Diogenis Laertii De Vita Et Mori Bus Philosophorum Libri X. Cum Indice Locupletißimo. Apud Ser Gryphium Lugduni. 1551....

HESIOD Mythological Historical Days Hercules Greek Poet Biographical c.1890

Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books: Hesiod. Translated by C. A. Elton. London and New York; George Routledge and Sons. -------------------...

Works of Alexander Pope in Ten Volumes 1757 Ovid Chaucer Horace Donne Pastorals

SOLD. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Ten Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with...

Homer's Iliad 1760 2 vols in 1 FULL VELLUM V Rare EARLY EDITION! Italian 1760

SOLD. Iliade D'Omero Tradotta Dall'original Greco in Versi Sciolti da Anton Maria Salvini. [i-viii], [1-336], [i-ii], [1-338] Homer's...

Ovid: Tristium Book 5 & Epistles from Pontus Book 4 VELLUM 1796 Latin Letters

SOLD. Latin: P. Ovidii Nasonis: Tristium Libri V. Cum Notis Novis, ac Perpetuis ad Modum Joannis Minellii. ad Optimos Codices Emendati Et...

Aesop’s Fables and Other Fables 1807 The Tortoise & The Hare STORIES EARLY AESOP

SOLD Fables of Aesop and Others: Translated into English with Instructive Application; And a Print Before Each Fable. By Samuel Croxall,...

Ancient Panegyrics 1728 VELLUM Panegyrici Veteres HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME - RARE

SOLD. Latin: Panegyrici Veteres. Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit. Jacobus de la Baune, Soc. Jesu, Jussy, Christianissimi Regis, Ad...

VIRGIL Aeneid Georgics Eclogues FULL VELLUM FOLIO 1624 STUNNING Incunable style

SOLD. The Works of Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) to include the Aeneid, Eclogues, and the Georgics. Opera P. Virgilii Maronis, Poetae...

Appian's Ancient Roman History 1545 FIRST EDITION ALDINE PRESS Post-Incunable !

SOLD. The first Aldine Press edition of the works of Appian Allesandrino, the ancient Roman historian, 3 volumes bound into 1, printed in...

Julius Caesar's Commentaries 1514 POST INCUNABLE WOODCUTS, MAPS Gaul, Rome RARE!

SOLD. Julius Gaius Caesar: Commentaria Caesaris prius a locundo impressioni data, posterius a nobis diligentissime reuisa, et cum...

Titus Livius (Livy) Histories ALDINE PRESS 1592 VELLUM FOLIO Ancient Classics

SOLD. Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri qui extant XXXV cum universae historiae epitomis. Aldinis caroli sigonii scholijs. Quibis ijdem...