(Classics, Ancient Greece, Rome.) A collection of 20 volumes...

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(Classics, Ancient Greece, Rome.) A collection of 20 volumes, majority ex Repton School library, including Arthur J. Evans: 'Scripta Minoa; The Written Documents of Minoan Crete With Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos. Volume 1: The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes with an Account of the Discovery of the Pre-Phoenician Scripts, Their Place in Minoan Story and Their Mediterranean Relations', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1909, 1st edition, 13 plates, 26 tables & 132 figures in text as called for, large 4to, original cloth gilt, later rebacked, top edge gilt, J.C.L. de Sismondi: 'History of the fall of the Roman Empire: comprising a view of the invasion and settlement of the Barbarians', L, Longman et al, [1851], 2 volumes, engraved vignette title pages, old half calf gilt worn, inner joints weak/reinforced, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson: 'An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1912, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt, H.B. Cotterill; Patten Wilson (ill.): 'Homer's Odyssey', London, Harrap, 1911, 20 b/w plates as called for, 4to, orig. cloth gilt, top edge gilt, William Scott Ferguson: 'Hellenistic Athens', L, Macmillan, 1911, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, Andrew Lang: 'The World of Homer', L, Longmans, 1910, 1st edition, frontis + 13 plates as called for, orig. cloth gilt, Justin [Justinus] and Johann Karl Theodor Otto: 'S. S. Iustini Philosophi et Martyris Opera Quae Feruntur Omnia: ad Optimos Libros MSS. Partim Nondum Collatos Recensuit Prolegomenis Adnotatione Versione Instruxit Indes Adiecit', Ienae [Jena], Mauke, 1847-1849, 2 volumes in 3, uniform contemporary full vellum, m/s titles to spines, R.D. Hampden: 'The Fathers of Greek Philosophy', Edinburgh, 1862, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, plus 9 others including Cicero, Plato, Homer, Great Persian War etc (20) (E) £50-75 (R) £0

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