(Classics, Ancient Greece, Rome.) A collection of 29 volumes...

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(Classics, Ancient Greece, Rome.) A collection of 29 volumes, including Xenophon; [William Smith]: 'Xenophon's History of the Affairs of Greece by the translator of Thucydides', London, 1816, engraved folding map, bound together with Xenophon; Edward Spelman: 'The Expedition of Cyrus into Persia; and Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks', L, J. Davis, 1812, engraved folding map, Abbe Barthelemy (translated): 'Travels of Anarchasis the Younger in Greece, during the middle of the fourth Century before the Christian era', L, 1816, 7th edition, 4 volumes in 1, Mr. Littlebury (translated): 'The History of Herodotus', L, 1818, 2 volumes in 1, G. Booth (translated): 'The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian', L, J. Davis, 1814, 2 volumes, Polybius: 'The General History of the Wars of the Romans', translated Mr. Hampton, L, 1812, 'The History of Count Zosimus...of the Roman Empire', L, J. Davis, 1814, plus 'the Ancient Chronicles of Sir John Froissart...', L, J. Davis, 1814-1816, 4 volumes, all uniform contemporary half diced calf gilt, "Corpus Historicum" spine titles, Herodotus: 'Herodoti Halicarnassensis Musae.', Leipzig, Hahn, 1856-1861, 4 volumes, uniform old full calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, 'The Journal of Hellenic Studies', London, "Published by the Council and Sold on Their Behalf by Macmillan and Co", 1880-1887, volumes I-VIII, uniform old half calf gilt, Plutarch: 'Opera Omnia', Paris, Firmin Didot, c.1850, volumes 1-5, Rudolfus Menge & Siegmundus Preuss: 'Lexicon Caesarianum', Leipzig, Teubner, 1890, armorial bookplate of Lawrence Arthur Burd (1863-1931), expert on the works of Niccolò Machiavelli, notable philatelist, Repton Schoolmaster 1886-1923, where he became the Classical Sixth Form Master, and stocked, almost from scratch, the school library there, making it one of the best in the country, the Repton library building being still known as the Burd Library, uniform rebound polished buckram, leather gilt title labels to spines, all ex Repton School library (29)