(Classics, Ancient Greece, Rome.) A collection of nineteen a...

Hammer

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(Classics, Ancient Greece, Rome.) A collection of nineteen assorted works, including Anacreon; John Addison: 'The works of Anacreon translated into english verse; with Notes Explanatory and Poetical. To which are added the Odes, Fragments, and Epigrams of Sappho.', London, John Watts, 1735, 1st Addison edition/1st thus, [22],279,[1]pp, engraved portrait frontis depicting Anacreon plus engraved portrait plate depicting Sappho as called for, 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, Robert Proctor: 'The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century', Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1900, [10],217pp, large 4to, rebound cloth gilt, ex Repton School Library with bookplate to front pastedown and inkstamps at front and end, inscription on title page "B.A. Neil Given me by Sir John Evans April 1901", Sir John Evans (1823-1908), English Archaeologist and Geologist, Dr Chrestos Tsountas & J. Irving Manatt: 'The Mycenaean Age: A Study of the Monuments and Culture of Pre-Homeric Greece', London, Macmillan, 1897, 1st edition, frontis + 169 plates/maps/ills. as called for, ex Repton School library, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt, Dr. C. Schuchhardt: 'Schliemann's Excavations an Archaeological and Historical Study', London, Macmillan, 1891, 2 portraits, 7 maps/plans + c.300 illustrations, ex Repton School library, orig. cloth gilt, The Earl of Carnarvon: 'Agamemnon. Translated from Aeschylus', L, John Murray, 1879, 1st edition, ex Repton School library, orig. cloth gilt, N.G.L. Hammond: 'Sir John Edwin Sandys 1844-1922', Cambridge University Press, 1933, 1st edition, inscribed on FFEP "Presented by the Author. Dec. 1933", N.G.L. Hammond (1907-2001) was a British historian, geographer, classicist, and an SOE operative in occupied Greece during WW2. Ex Repton School Library, original cloth gilt, J. Moyr Smith: 'Ancient Greek Female Costume. Illustrated by One Hundred and Twelve Plates...', L, 1882, 1st edition, frontis + 111 plates as called for, ex Repton School lib, original pictorial cloth (worn), Sir William Ridgeway: 'The Early Age of Greece', Cambridge University Press, 1931, 2nd impression, 2 volumes, frontis (vol 2) + 312 ills. in text as called for, ex Repton lib., uniform orig. cloth gilt, Ellen Churchill Semple: 'The Geography of the Mediterranean Region Its Relation to Ancient History', London, Constable, 1932, 1st UK edition, frontis + 14 maps as called for, ex Repton School lib, original cloth gilt, W. Warde Fowler: 'The Religious Experience of the Roman People from the earliest times to the age of Augustus', L, Macmillan, 1911, 1st edition, ex Repton School lib, orig. cloth gilt, plus 9 others Aristotle, Epicurus, Homer, Battle of Plataea, Vigil of Venus etc, mainly ex Repton School library (20)