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HORATIUS Flaccus, Quintus (65-8 B.C.). Opera. Edited by H.Homer and C. Combe. London: printed for W. Browne and J. Warren, sold by T. Payne and J. Edwards, 1792-1793. 2 volumes, 4 (278 x 218mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol.I. (Frontispiece and title spotted.) Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, decorative border, Greek-key, fillets and other rolls, spine in six compartments with double raised bands, lettered in two, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Brunet III, 322 ("Belle dition").
Publius VERGILIUS Maro (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Edited by C.G. Heyne. London: T. Rickaby for T. Payne, B.& J. White and others, 1793. 4 volumes in 8, 4 (294 x 230mm). Engraved frontispiece and title vignettes and numerous tail pieces. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco by Henry Walther, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (spines lightly soiled and scuffed). Provenance: Viscount Granville (armorial bookplate). A fine set of the quarto issue. Brunet V,1295.
Cornelius TACITUS. Opera. Edited by Gabriel Brotier. Paris: L.-F. Delatour, 1771. 4 Half-titles. Two engraved folding maps, folding letterpress genealogical chart. Contemporary French mottled calf gilt, g.e. (spines worn). Brunet V. 636 ("dition magnifiquement imprime"); and another (Xenophon, Memorabilia Socratis libris IV, in Greek, Oxford: 1812, 8. (12)
Publius VERGILIUS Maro (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Edited by C.G. Heyne. London: T. Rickaby for T. Payne, B.& J. White and others, 1793. 4 volumes in 8, 4 (294 x 230mm). Engraved frontispiece and title vignettes and numerous tail pieces. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco by Henry Walther, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (spines lightly soiled and scuffed). Provenance: Viscount Granville (armorial bookplate). A fine set of the quarto issue. Brunet V,1295.
Cornelius TACITUS. Opera. Edited by Gabriel Brotier. Paris: L.-F. Delatour, 1771. 4 Half-titles. Two engraved folding maps, folding letterpress genealogical chart. Contemporary French mottled calf gilt, g.e. (spines worn). Brunet V. 636 ("dition magnifiquement imprime"); and another (Xenophon, Memorabilia Socratis libris IV, in Greek, Oxford: 1812, 8. (12)