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1 Aeschines. IN CTESIPHONTEM [with] Demosthenes DE CORONA [THE ORATIONS OF AESCHINES AGAINST CTESIPHON , AND DEMOSTHENES CONCERNING THE CROWN].
Oxford E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1726 Editio Quarta Overall wear, but quite sound and presentable, contents clean 
[xvi], 151p, 182p, [xviii, index]. Engraved title page and three portraits. Text in Greek translated into Latin by P. Foulkes and F. Freind. Bound in period calf with maroon spine label gilt, double gilt rules around the bands and covers

 
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2 Caesaris, C. Julii [Caesar, Caius Julius]. COMMENTARII DE BELLO GALLICO ET CIVILI: CUM NOTIS SELECTIS THOMAE BENTLEJI, ET JACOBI JURINI
Venice Thomam Bettinelli 1783 Contents bright as new, a few stains and two small holes to vellum, new spine labels. Very nice copies 
Two volumes. 8vo. [iv] 406p; [ii] 536p. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and four folding maps. Bound in full vellum with red speckled text block edges

OCLC cites only five copies. 
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3 La Baume, Jacobus de. PANEGYRICI VETERES. INTERPRETATIONE ET NOTIS ILLUSTRAVIT JACOBUS DE LA BAUME SOC. JESU. JUSSU CHRISTIANISSIMI REGIS AD USUM SERENISSMI DELPHINI.
Oxford Simonem Benard, via Jacobaea, e regione Collegii Claromonatani Societatis Jesu 1676 Very minor foxing, a fewspots to the text block edge, gutter margin of frontipiece a little close, quite a nice clean copy 
Quarto. [xxiv], 350p i.e. 346p as 145-148 omitted from pagination sequence], [clviii, Index Vocabulorum Omnium]. Copper-engraved frontispiece of "Arion and the dolphin" by L. Cessin, engraved title-page vignette of angel with herald trumpets, engraved headpieces and initials with portraits in the text. Rebound in full dark blue morocco with marbled endpapers, gilt spine titles and fancy dentelles

Part of the celebrated series of the Delphin Classics. [Of this series], "the only distinctly scholarly edition was that of the Panegyrici Veteres by De La Baume.." (Sandys. History of Classical Scholarship. II, 292). Includes Pliny's famous panegric of Trajan, and others including Mamertinus and Eumenius. 
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4 Locke, John. THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING [with] ESSAYS, MORAL, ECONOMICAL, & POLITICAL by Francis Bacon.
London Baynes and Son, et. al. 1825 Some rubbing and discoloring, but tight and VG 
24mo (5" X 3 5/8"). 240p. Engraved frontispiece and title page. Bound in period red straight grained morocco, a.e.g., gilt spine titles and richly gilt spine panels, the covers with gilt borders of flowers and vines surrounding a similar border in blind, gilt dentelles

 
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5 Sallust (86-34 B.C.) [Gaius Sallustius Crispus]. CAII CRISPI SALLUSTII QUEA EXSTANT CURA JO. JAC. HOTTINGERI [WORKS].
Turkey Orelli Gessneri Fuessl. et Socc. 1778 Bookplate partially removed, small scrape to rear cover, remarkably clean and bright 
Small 8vo. xx, 443p. Engraved title vignette portrait of Sallust, Latin historian and Senator. Edited by Johann Jacob Hottinger (1750-1819). Bound in full calf with period endpapers, text block edges stained red, the spine with brown title label gilt and with extensive gilt ornaments

 
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6 Sophocles. THE TRAGEDIES OF SOPHOCLES, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY, ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES.
Oxford John Henry Parker, Whittaker 1844 First Mitchell edition A few light pencil annotations, foxing to preliminaries, bindings with wear, but all quite sound, about VG 
Two volumes. Each play separately paginated. Edited by T. Mitchell. Text of the plays in Greek, commentary and notes in English. Bound by Henry Young & Sons, Liverpool, in quarter calf with marbled sides, endpapers, and text block edges, the spine with red title labels gilt and with panels borders in blind and gilt

 
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7 Virgilius Maro, Publius. PUBLII VIRGILII MARONIS CARMINA OMNIA: PERPETUO COMMENTARIO AD MODUM JOANNIS BOND EXPLICUIT FR. DUBNER
Paris Firmin Didot 1858 Some discoloration to the pages, but quite a nice copy 
12mo. xv, 472p. Illustrated with many small mounted photographs on thin paper. Bound by Smeers in full red morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and floral panel ornaments, the covers with central oval gilt devices and floral corner ornaments, fancy dentelles

 
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