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Literary Letters of (Not QUITE So) “Ancient” Greece? 
Alciphron. Alciphronis rhetoris epistolae ex fide aliquot codicum recensitae cum Stephani Bergleri commentario integro, cui aliorum criticorum et suas notationes, versionem emendatam indiculumque adiecit Ioannes Augustinus Wagner. Lipsiae: Sumptibus officinae librariae Muellerianae, 1798. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 2 vols. in 1. XIV, 362, [2], XXX, 176, 161 (i.e., 177)–367, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Brunet, I, 150; Dibdin, I, 254; Schweiger, I, 20. 19th-century paper-covered boards, spine with hand-inked paper label; paper rubbed and chipping over edges, joints, and spine extremities, with spine label darkened. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; title-page with inked numeral in upper margin; back pastedown with inked numeral. Edges untrimmed.
Florentine Humanist's Translation Appianus, Alexandrinus. Historia delle guerre esterne de romani. [colophon: Firenze: Bernardo Giunta], 1531. 8vo (15.8 cm; 6.25"). 191, [1] ff. 
Click the interior images for enlargements. The text is printed in italic with guide letters. The printer's device appears on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf (often lacking).
Provenance: Two old signatures on title-page, i.e., “Gilbert Boucher” and another.
• Adams A1355; Index Aurel. 106.553; Renouard 115; Petras 223; Schweiger, I, 40. Late 18th-century quarter sheep with plain sides. Spine tooled in gilt, rubbed, part of small label with date missing. Occasional light foxing. (20626)
Illustrated & AnnotatedArabian Nights. The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights’ entertainments. London: Charles Knight & Co., 1839–41. 8vo (25.3 cm, 10"). 3 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., xxiii, [3], [xxv]–xxxii, 618 pp.; illus. II: Add. engr. t.-p., xii, 643, [1] pp.; illus. III: Add. engr. t.-p., xii, 763, [1] pp.; illus.
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A lavishly produced set, attractively illustrated and bound.
Greek & Latin — Large Paper Copy — Handsome!Aristophanes. Aristophanis comoediae ex optimis exemplaribus emendatae studio Rich. Franc. Phil Brunck Argentoratensis. Argentorati: Joh. Georgii Treuttel, 1781–83. 4to (26.8 cm, 10.5"). 3 vols. I: Frontis., [16], 295, [1], 182, 291, [1] pp. II: [2], 310, 199, [1], 257 (i.e., 259: 63/64 repeated in pagination), [1] pp. III: [2], 291, [1], 128, 228, [160 (index)] pp.
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• Brunet, I, 453–54; Dibdin, I, 301–02; Graesse, I, 207; Schweiger, I, 46. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-dotted raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. All edges gilt. Vol. I title-page with inked ownership inscription dated 1884 in upper outer corner; frontispiece with ink stain to outer margin not touching image (in our picture above, this misleadingly looks like it could be a wormhole). Faint spots of foxing in some sections, pages otherwise clean.
Spanish
City of GodAugustinus, Aurelius, Saint.
La ciudad de Dios. Amberes: Geronymo Verdussen, 1676. Folio. [4] ff., 582 pp., [1] f. 
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Provenance: Ownership inscription on front pastedown of Juan de Porras, dated Madrid, 1687; and another on the title-page of José de Quitana y Azevedo, an Audiencia judge, dated Santafé de Bogotá, 1732. Bookplate of a 20th-century American collector who lived for a while in Bogotá — pictured.
• Palau 28935; Peeters-Fontainas, Bibliographie des impressions espagnoles des Pays-Bas Méridionaux, 72. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of button and loop closures. Title on spine in old ink; raised bands and remnants of a paper spine-label. Interior waterstaining and many pages dog-eared; half-title and title-page missing pieces, not affecting any text. Library stamp on title-page partially eradicated; charming old (20th-century) private bookplate inside front cover. (20850)
Anacharsis in English — Anything But Dry!
[Barthelemy, Jean-Jacques]. Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece. During the middle of the fourth century, before the Christian æra.... The first American edition. Philadelphia: Pr. by Bartholomew Graves and William McLaughlin for Jacob Johnson & Co., 1804. 8vo signed in 4s (22 cm, 8.625"). Vol. I: xviii, 419, [1 (blank)] pp.; fold. map; II: [1] f., iii, [1 (blank)], 403, [1 (blank)] pp.; III: vii, [1 (blank)], 463, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking half-title); IV: vii, [1 (blank)], 496 pp. (lacking half-title).
the daily life and culture of ancient
Greece, primarily centered around Athens, this lengthy work is "so written,
that the reader may frequently be induced to imagine he is perusing a work of
mere amusement, invention, and fancy" (p. iii). Footnotes citing a multitude
of classical sources back up Barthelemy's 
imagined
journey, which is illustrated with an attractive engraved
map by du Bocage.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 5809. Recently rebound in period-style tan cloth over light blue paper sides, spines with paper labels. Contemporary ownership inscription to front fly-leaf in each volume. Map with light offsetting and short tear just starting along one fold. First 20 leaves of vol. II waterstained and last 10 foxed; scattered incidences of spotting in all volumes, pages generally clean. Nice-looking set, and a relatively painless method of absorbing ancient history.
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“Second Benjamin”Benjamin, Israel Joseph. Eight years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855. Hanover: Pub. by the author, 1859. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.45"). xv, [1], 332 (i.e., 328), [4] pp. (pagination skips 317–20); 1 fold. map.
This is the second English-language edition, following the original French edition of 1856 (“Cinq Années”) and the subsequent, expanded German edition of 1858. 
The oversized, folding map marking Benjamin’s route was engraved by Engel & Co.
• 19th-century quarter black morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; back joint and paper edges slightly scuffed. Front pastedown with institutional rubber- stamp (no other markings). Pages very faintly age-toned, else clean.
First Printing in Europe of theBhagavadgita(Bhagavadgītā Bhagavad-Gita).
Bhagavadgītā Bhagavad-Gita, id est Thespesion melos sive
almi Krishnae et Arjunae colloquium de rebus divinis, Bharateae episodium. Textum
recensuit, adnotationes criticas ed interpretationem latinam adiecit Augustus
Guilelmus a Schlegel. Bonnae: in Academia Borussica Rhenana Typiis Regis, Prostat
apud E. Weber, 1823. 8vo (23 cm; 9"). xxvi, 189 pp.
Click either imageProvenance: From the collection of 19th-century scholar Dr. Johann August Neander (1789–1850), a convert from Judaism who became a leading scholar of Christianity.
Uncommon: Of U.S. institutional copies we trace fewer than 10.
• 19th-century German black mottled paper over boards. Binding shows wear. Ex-library with call number tag on spine; bookplate.
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Lovely French Printing — GORGEOUS! French BindingBoileau
Despréaux, Nicolas. Œuvres diverses du Sieur D*** avec le traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, traduit du Grec de Longin. Paris: Claude Barbin (pr. by Denys Thierry), 1674. 4to (25.3 cm, 10"). π2A–R4S8T–Y4Z
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• Brunet, I, 1056; DeBacker, Auteurs du XVIIe siècle, 1020; Tchemerzine, II, 271. Binding as above, nearly perfect save for just a touch of rubbing to the spine extremities, in cloth-covered slipcase, worn, with cloth starting to split over edges. Frontispiece and title-page separating from binding; title with red-tinted signs, near edges, that the marbling process did not go entirely smoothly; upper margins of several other leaves with hints of very faint waterstaining. Otherwise, clean and quite lovely.
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Adapted from theFrench & Printed in Dublin Boissy, M. de [Louis]. False appearances; a comedy. Altered from the French, and performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. By the Right. Hon. General Conway. Dublin: Pr. for Messrs. Chamberlaine, Gilbert, Byrne, etc., 1789. 12mo. viii pp., [2] ff., 63, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Removed from a nonce volume and now in recent marbled paper wrappers. One page very faintly stamped by now-defunct library; author’s prologue (one page) shaved at bottom, losing one line.
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Not Just Your Usual LanguagesBopp, Franz. A comparative grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic languages ... second edition. London & Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate; New York: B. Westermann & Co., 1860. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). 3 vols. in 1. [8], xvi, 456, [2], [457]–952, [2], [953]–1462, [2] pp.
• NSTC 2B41650. Contemporary half red morocco with paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; sides and edges showing minor scuffing, spine slightly darkened. Front pastedown with bookseller’s ticket of B. Westermann & Co., private collector’s 19th-century bookplate, and institutional stamp (no other markings). Pages faintly age-toned. A sturdy copy of this hefty tome.
Catholic Orthodoxy Defended — An Edition in ENGLISHBossuet, Jacques Bénigne. An exposition of the doctrine of the Catholic Church, in matters of controversy. To which is added, the approbation of his Holiness Pope Innocent the XI.... [London?, ca. 1785]. 8vo (20.1 cm, 7.9"). viii, 112 pp.
Click the image to the left ESTC and OCLC find only four U.S. holdings of this edition.
• ESTC T106709. Recent quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and with gilt-stamped decorative devices within compartments. Title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution; one page with offsetting to inner margin from a now-absent bookmark; volume otherwise clean and in fact a nice copy.
Mr. Brecht! Bring Down This“Fourth Wall” Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny opera. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. 4to. Frontis., [10 (5 blank)], 11–155, [5 (1 blank)] pp.; 12 plts. (incl. frontis.).
Binding: Full black linen, stamped in gold on the front cover from a design by Levine. The slipcase is covered with black paper and bears a gilt title on the spine.
The colophon is signed by both the designer and the illustrator. This offering includes the monthly newsletter.
Binding, slipcase, and illustrations all properly evoke the grittiness of the London underworld.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 529. Bound as above, in original glassine wrapper and slipcase; wrapper with tiny nicks and chips in a couple of places. A fine copy, in a fine slipcase. (22080)
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