Search Results: Classical Studies from Antiquarian Book Shop

Athens: American School of Classical Studies. Very Good. 1942. First Edition Thus. Stiff Wrappers. 193-211 pages; Offprint in stiff tan wrappers from HESPERIA, Volume XI, No. 2, April-June 1942. Numerous b&w illustrations. Crease in front wrapper. From personal library of Francis Walton noted bibliophile and classical scholar who specialized in the study of ancient Greek religion. Born in Philadelphia in 1910 he received his B.A. at Haverford College in 1932, and his Doctorate at Harvard University in 1938. He was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome for two years in the late 1930s, prior to returning to the United States to teach. He taught classics at Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Chicago. From 1952 to 1960 he served as the Chairman of the Classics Department at Florida State University. He was member of the ASCSA in 1956-1957. In 1961 Walton was appointed as the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School… Read More

London: Humphrey Milford Amen House. Very Good. 1935. First Edition Thus. Stiff Wrappers. 17 pages; A memorial tribute From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XXI. Printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. OCLC: 40738455 Alfred Chilton Pearson (8 October 1861 – 2 January 1935) was an English classical scholar, noted for his work on Greek tragedy. Despite a life spent outside academia, Pearson was elected in 1919 as the Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool, subsequently becoming in 1921 the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano. Good. 1821. Hardcover. iv, (3 folding tables), 410 pages; Former owners' names on ffep "Chas. E. Howard"; "Rev. Sidney N. Ussher"; "J. J. McElhinney"; contents clean and securely stitched; bottom half of backstrip missing; hinges tender. Green cloth binding with printed title label at spine (much eroded). Latin text with extensive notes and commentary. .

Berlin: Gottlieb August Lange. Very Good-. 1757. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 p.l. & 140 pages; Contemporary pattern printed paper-covered boards, green paper label on spine titled in ms. OCLC: 504805539 First edition of this translation into German verse of Theocritus, a third century B.C. poet usually thought of as the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry. The Idylls are grouped here, as usual, with works by Moschus and Bion. During his brief lifetime [1730-1761] the translator, Christian Gottlieb Lieberkühn studied theology at the University of Halle, preparing a dissertation under Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten. He served in the Prussian Army during the Silesian Wars, and as a chaplin during the Seven Years War. Somehow he found the time to publish at least five original literary works, and also earned a reputation as a translator. In addition to the present translation of Theokritos, Moschus and Bion, Lieberkühn also published a translation of the Pastorals of… Read More

London: Printed For Jonah Bowyer. Fair. 1713. First Edition. Leather. (2), x, (14), 228 pages; London: Fair. 1713. First Edition. (2) , xx, (14) , 228 pages; Contents complete and unmarked in original full calf binding; lower edge of text block damp rippled, tide marks at mid page in first few signature, ffep and title page stained along bottom; binding has damage at same lower area: leather shrunken and pulled away from boards, split at lower spine and missing leather in some areas. An affordable example of this noted work on Classical Studies. OCLC 9489571 Signed in the plate at the end "Henry Felton, Belvoir, Dec. 29. 1710." The author Henry Felton (1679-1740) was an English clergyman and academic. In 1708 Felton undertook the care of the English church at Amsterdam, but returned to England in the following year, and became domestic chaplain to John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, an office which he retained under three successive dukes. His Dissertation on Reading the Classics,… Read More

Athens: American School of Classical Studies. Very Good. 1959. First Edition Thus. Stiff Wrappers. Autograph; 299-343, 16 pages; Offprint in stiff tan wrappers from HESPERIA, Volume XXVIII, No. 4, October-December 1959. Corner bumped. Illustrated with16 plates & 9 b&w drawings. Inscribed "To Frank and Mary - Greetings from Corinth - O.B." From personal library of Francis Walton noted bibliophile and classical scholar who specialized in the study of ancient Greek religion. Born in Philadelphia in 1910 he received his B.A. at Haverford College in 1932, and his Doctorate at Harvard University in 1938. He was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome for two years in the late 1930s, prior to returning to the United States to teach. He taught classics at Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Chicago. From 1952 to 1960 he served as the Chairman of the Classics Department at Florida State University. He was member of the ASCSA… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. xxvi, 257, (170) pages; Contents clean and secure in original cream cloth binding with lettering in red in edgeworn dustjacket with chipping at extremities. Profusely illustrated. From the dustjacket: "In this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site planning, the author adopts a hitherto undeveloped view of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully treats the temples as physical embodiments of the gods in landscapes which had for the greeks divine attributes and sacred connotations. He explores the meanings inherent in the calculated interaction between the man-made sculptural forces and the natural landscape, and relates this to our understanding of Greek culture from the pre-Greek Aegean to the Hellenistic period." .

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962-63. First Edition. Hardcover. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Near Fine in Very Good dust jackets. 1962-63. First Edition. A very attractive set of this classic work. Clean and secure in original red cloth bindings in very good dustjackets; some chipping to DJ spine ends of Volume 1. ; Philosophy and Religion, Classical Studies, Most Recent Listing .

Athens: American School of Classical Studies. Fine. 1944. First Edition Thus. Stiff wrappers. 58-77 pages; Offprint in stiff tan wrappers from HESPERIA, Volume XIII, No. 1, January-March 1944. Numerous b&w illustrations. From personal library of Francis Walton noted bibliophile and classical scholar who specialized in the study of ancient Greek religion. Born in Philadelphia in 1910 he received his B.A. at Haverford College in 1932, and his Doctorate at Harvard University in 1938. He was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome for two years in the late 1930s, prior to returning to the United States to teach. He taught classics at Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Chicago. From 1952 to 1960 he served as the Chairman of the Classics Department at Florida State University. He was member of the ASCSA in 1956-1957. In 1961 Walton was appointed as the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at… Read More

London: Phaidon Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 352 pages; B/w map on front endpapers. 239 b/w plates and 137 text illustrations. The author discusses the Minoan and Mycenaean origins of Geometric art and compares the various Geometric styles of the Greek mainland with local movements on the islands. 1971 Phaidon Press First English Edition. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Göttingen: Johann Georg Rosenbusch (Band 2: Johann Friedrich Röwer). Very Good+. 1797, 1801. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. xiv, 308; viii, 311 pages; Contemporary brown half calf over pattern-printed paper-covered boards, five raised bands on the spine, gilt-lettered labels in tan and light blue, plain endpapers, edges decoratively stained red. Two volumes bound in one. These volumes form part of a larger series: Geschichte der Künste und Wissenschaften seit der Wiederherstellung derselben bis an das Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Von einer Gesellschaft gelehrter Männer ausgearbeitet. Of which these volumes form the fourth division -- [Vierte Abtheilung. Philologie. I. Geschichte des Studiums der griechischen und römischen Litteratur. Bände 1 und 2)]. The esteemed German historian Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren was born October 25, 1760 in Arbergen; and died March 6, 1842 in Göttingen. He studied at the University in Göttingen --… Read More

Place Not Identified: Publisher Unstated. Very Good. 1790. First Edition. Softcover. 2 p.l. & 92 pages; Very scarce first edition of Count Xaverio Broglio d'Ajano's verse translation of odes by Anacreon into Italian. It was probably printed somewhere in Italy around 1790, though there is no date printed. It probably was made in the Marche, near Macerata, where the translator was a Senator in the Repubblica romana. (The date comes from a catalogue entry in the database of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche - ICCU). This handsome octavo version was printed to celebrate the wedding of Carlo Teodoro Antici de' marchesi di Pesci and donna Marianna Mattei de' duchi di Giove - which does contribute some element of precision to the estimate of its date of issue. It is bound in jolly contemporary wrappers with a printed floral pattern. This is a large copy in original condition, with large margins -… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press. Near Fine. 1997. Original Pictorial Wrappers. x, (2), 392 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Extensively illustrated A description and interpretation of the great Villa built by Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli, as it existed in Roman times, together with a description of how the Villa has influenced artists and architects in history, from the Renaissance through to the present day."This lavishly illustrated book ... is the most ample and informed work on the villa, its figurative decoration and sculpture collection, and the first study of its reception over the past 500 years. ... An essential source of information on one of the glories of Western architecture." [Ackerman, TLS] .

Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Former owner's name crossed out on ffep, otherwise clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum April 14 - May 20, 1973. Contents include: Manuscripts and the Liturgy by George Galavaris; Hymnography and Illustrated Manuscripts by Doula Mouriki; The Psalter by Herbert L. Kessler; Byzantine Lectionary Illustration by Shigebumi Tsuji; The Illustrated Gospels by Robert Deshman; Portraits of the Evangelists in Greek Manuscripts by Robert P. Bergman; Catalogue of the Exhibition. .

Upsaliæ [Uppsala, Sweden]: apud Joh. Edman. Very Good-. 1779. First Edition. Softcover. [2], 20 & [1, engraved plate] pages; Instrumenta Graecorum rustica ex Hesiodo illustrata, adprob. ampl. ord. philos. in reg. academ. Upsal. praeside mag. Johanne Flodero ... pro gradu publico examini tradit Salomon Eklin, stip. reg. Wexionia-Smolandus, in audit. Gustav. maj. d. V. Maji MDCCLXXIX. Horis ante meridiem solitis. Small 4to. A rare dissertation, stiched and sewn as issued, never bound. With the engraved plate depicting Greek farm implements, with a printed legend recording names [in Greek letters] for 11 parts of these tools. Faint circular stain to the front cover, minor scrappyness to the uncut edges -- with trimming to the lower part of the gutter margin of the plate, to enable this leaf, slighlty larger than the text, to be folded. This disseration was defended by Salomon Eklin [1756-1803]. The thesis advisor was Johan Floderus [1721-1789], who spent most of his life at… Read More

Quebec / Leyde: Les Presses De L'Universite Laval / E. J. Brill. Fine. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Tome I: Text. Tome II: Planches. Leyde, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill Hardcover. 476pp, 73 plates and 2 maps. Two large quarto volumes in original publishers blue buckram bindings with gilt lettering.. xviii, 476, [2]; (xiv), (75), [1, blank] pp. Volume II is the plates volume, with 256 figures on 73 plates plus two maps at rear. Fine set, as issued without dustjackets.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Como: figli di Carlantonio Ostinelli. Very Good+. 1827. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 304; 429 pages; Two volumes, bound in contemporary half vellum over pattern-printed paper covered boards, flat spines with leather labels in red and black, lettered in gilt. Bindings display just a touch of light soiling, but a handsome, tight and clean set. This charming 1827 first edition of Tommaso Gargallo's esteemed translation of Horace from Latin into modern Italian has a most interesting provenance: it was the property of two generations of one of the leading families of the American Abolitionist movement -- the son and grandson of Samuel J. May. There are ownership signatures in each volume: "Joseph May / Roma / June 1898." Joseph May, the son of the Rev. Samuel Joseph May and Lucretia Flagg Coffin May, was born in Boston on January 21, 1836. By that time, his father, Samuel J. May, had achieved a position among the religious and intellectual leaders of New England. He… Read More

New York: Collins and Hannay. Good. 1825. Hardcover. 531, [1], 122 pages; Full contemporary sheep, flat spine, front cover now detached. This 1825 edition of the Screvel Greek-Latin lexicon - as edited for anglophone students by Joseph Hill; John Entick; William Bowyer; Peter Steele - is the third American edition, first published in Philadelphia in 1808. It is not a rare book, but the provenance of this copy is fascinating. Mounted to the front paste-down endpaper is the printed booklabel of the "PLATTEVILLE ACADEMY / Library of Philozaetean Society." This printed label is pasted over an ink inscription, but the first line is clearly visible: "Library of Platteville ..." This refers to the Platteville Academy, in Grant County, Wisconsin -- the first institution of higher learning in the Wisconsin Territory, established in 1839, nine years before Wisconsin became a State. Platteville was founded by Major John H. Rountree, a veteran of the Black Hawk War, who… Read More

New York: Fortune. Very Good. 1932. Print. This 1932 halftone print of the Propylaea in Athens measures approximately 11 x 14 inches; image size 8 x 11 inches. The photograph is credited to Arnold Genthe at the lower left corner with a caption at the bottom of the page which reads: "Moonlight miraculously restores the Propylaea." extracted from "Athens - The Eye of Greece" in Fortune, January 1932. .

Athens: American School of Classical Studies. Fine. 1962. First Edition Thus. Stiff Wrappers. 30-35 pages; GENNADIAN NOTES,I. Offprint in stiff tan wrappers from HESPERIA, Volume XXXI, No. 4, October-December 1962. From personal library of Francis Walton noted bibliophile and classical scholar who specialized in the study of ancient Greek religion. Born in Philadelphia in 1910 he received his B.A. at Haverford College in 1932, and his Doctorate at Harvard University in 1938. He was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome for two years in the late 1930s, prior to returning to the United States to teach. He taught classics at Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Chicago. From 1952 to 1960 he served as the Chairman of the Classics Department at Florida State University. He was member of the ASCSA in 1956-1957. In 1961 Walton was appointed as the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He… Read More