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[CLASSICAL & HUMANIST WORKS] (i) JOSEPHUS, Flavius. The Wars of the Jews ... translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Manchester: printed by J. Harrop, 1767, 4°, woodcut portrait frontispiece, woodcut ornaments (some browning, generally light, occasional soil marks, later leaves somewhat affected by damp, verso of final leaf soiled), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (upper joint splitting).
(ii) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Moriae Encomium; or, A Panegyrick upon Folly ... illustrated with above fifty curious cuts ... by Hans Holbeine, [translated by White Kennett], London: printed and sold by J. Woodward, 1709, 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece, 24 engraved plates, 4 engraved illustrations (clean tear affecting "Fig. 17," [d8] with clean tear affecting headline and 7 lines of text, some margins rather grubby, several leaves with short, marginal tears), contemporary panelled calf (joints cracked, spine badly chipped).
(iii) LUCRETIUS. Of the Nature of Things ... translated into English verse by Tho. Creech, London: by J. Matthews for G. Sawbridge, and sold by J. Churchill [and others], 1715-14, 2 volumes, 4°, engraved frontispiece (some page edges a little browned, 3X3v and 4Xr heavily soiled in lower part of page, occasional marginal soiling), contemporary speckled calf, spines with raised bands ruled in gilt (joints splitting). [Gordon 331F]
With 10 other volumes. (14)
(ii) ERASMUS, Desiderius. Moriae Encomium; or, A Panegyrick upon Folly ... illustrated with above fifty curious cuts ... by Hans Holbeine, [translated by White Kennett], London: printed and sold by J. Woodward, 1709, 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece, 24 engraved plates, 4 engraved illustrations (clean tear affecting "Fig. 17," [d8] with clean tear affecting headline and 7 lines of text, some margins rather grubby, several leaves with short, marginal tears), contemporary panelled calf (joints cracked, spine badly chipped).
(iii) LUCRETIUS. Of the Nature of Things ... translated into English verse by Tho. Creech, London: by J. Matthews for G. Sawbridge, and sold by J. Churchill [and others], 1715-14, 2 volumes, 4°, engraved frontispiece (some page edges a little browned, 3X3v and 4Xr heavily soiled in lower part of page, occasional marginal soiling), contemporary speckled calf, spines with raised bands ruled in gilt (joints splitting). [Gordon 331F]
With 10 other volumes. (14)
Provenance
The Josephus has the dated [(?) 1781] inscription of Thomas Foxcroft and the place name "Halsleads," to the front free endpaper; a detailed ownership inscription to the title reading: "Revd. Thos. Foxcroft A. M. Pet. Coll. Cam. Rector of Beauchamp Rooding Essex, Vicar of Stoke Gifford Gloucestershire & Domestic Chaplain to the Marquess of Downshire & to the Prince of Wales"; and the armorial bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft. The Erasmus has the ownership stamp "W. Nelson 1784" to verso of frontispiece, the signatures of P. Boynton and William Slade to the title, and the armorial bookplate of Edward Talbot Day Foxcroft. The Lucretius has the ownership signature of Edward Foxcroft to both titles and the bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft.