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    Lot 24

    PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius. Epistolarum Libri X. London: Ritchie and Sammells, 1790. 8°(160 x 100mm.). Errata leaf. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e. Provenance: Verso front endpaper signed by the writer William Danby, and dated 1793. - ANACREON. Poeta Lyricus. Cambridge: Edmund Jeffery, 1705. 12°(150 x 90mm.). Engraved folding portraits of the author, the Duke of Marlborough and Joshua Barnes. Contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., Provenance: Bookplates of Thomas Cajetani, and Alexander Peckover. - LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus. Pharsalia. Glasgow: Foulis, 1785. 8°(180 x 110mm.). Large paper copy, half-title. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e.,Provenance; Bookplate of Edward Sullivan. Gaskell 676. - CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. Opera. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1772. 12° in 6's(173 x 100mm.). Contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e. Gaskell 45; and four other Latin classics, 8°, all in contemporary red morocco. (8)

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    GBP 770

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    GBP 600 - GBP 800

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    PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius. Epistolarum Libri X. London: Ritchie and Sammells, 1790. 8°(160 x 100mm.). Errata leaf. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e. Provenance: Verso front endpaper signed by the writer William Danby, and dated 1793. - ANACREON. Poeta Lyricus. Cambridge: Edmund Jeffery, 1705. 12°(150 x 90mm.). Engraved folding portraits of the author, the Duke of Marlborough and Joshua Barnes. Contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., Provenance: Bookplates of Thomas Cajetani, and Alexander Peckover. - LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus. Pharsalia. Glasgow: Foulis, 1785. 8°(180 x 110mm.). Large paper copy, half-title. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e.,Provenance; Bookplate of Edward Sullivan. Gaskell 676. - CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. Opera. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1772. 12° in 6's(173 x 100mm.). Contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e. Gaskell 45; and four other Latin classics, 8°, all in contemporary red morocco. (8)

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