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Curculio Scholarly Books
Literature Catalogue I: Classical, Mediaeval

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Shipping:
Book Rate: $3 for one book + $1 for each additional book
First Class: $5 for one book + $1.25 for each additional book.
For the Spanish Clásicos Ebro series, shipping costs are half the usual rate.
Shipments sent via FedEx or UPS and all shipments outside the U.S. are charged actual cost. I can quote an estimated price before shipping.

Note: This symbol (U for 'unique') means that there are apparently no other used copies available anywhere in the world: . (If you find one, send me the URL, and I will very likely lower the price.) For returning visitors, books added in the last two months have the date appended: (12/07) or (1/08).

See the Ancient Philosophy and History page for texts of Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes of Oenoanda, and other ancient philosophers, and commentaries on them.

Classics:

Homer and Hesiod:

George Melville Bolling, The External Evidence for Interpolation in Homer, 1968 Oxford University Press reprint of 1925 first edition. Cloth, NF/VG+: one 1/2" tear in dj, which is also slight discolored with age. Contents entirely clean and tight. $10.00. (12/07)
Chapman's Homer, edited by Allardyce Nicoll, two volumes in slipcase: I. The Iliad, II. The Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica. Slipcase slightly battered and worn, DJ spines soiled, top and outer page edges slightly spotted, contents entirely clean and tight. $36.00. (12/07)
William W. Minton, Concordance to the Hesiodic Corpus, E. J. Brill, 1976. NF, no dj (as issued). Would be F except one tiny scratch on front cover. In print at $236.00. Our price: only $100.00.
Omero: Odissea, complete in six volumes, Greek text and commentary by A.Heubeck and S. West (volume I), J. B. Hainsworth (volume II), A. Heubeck (volume III), A. Hoekstra (volume IV), J. Russo (volume V), M. Fernandez-Galiano and A. Heubeck (volume VI), Italian facing translation by G. A. Privitera. Cloth, NF/NF. All six volumes are in print in Italy for Eu 27 each or roughly $217 total. Our price: $100 for all six. (12/07)
G. P. Shipp, Studies in the Language of Homer, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 1972 (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cloth NF/NF. In print in paper for $65.00. Why not buy the hardcover for the same price from me? (12/07)

Greek Drama:

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, translated into English verse from a scientifically conservative Greek text by Douglas Young. U. Oklahoma, 1974. VG/VG. $9.00.
Aristophanes, Clouds, ed. W. J. M. Starkie, MacMillan & Co., London, 1911. Cloth, no DJ, pages browned, some spotting, inked date ("28-IV-54") & inscription ("Frederick William Locke / Harvard University / Cambridge, Mass.") apparently not in the same hand, text entirely clean and unmarked. $50.00. (12/07)
Aristophanes, Knights, ed. R. A. Neil, 1966 Georg Olms reprint of 1901 Cambridge edition. Cloth, no DJ (as issued), Fine. $40.00. (12/07)
Euripides, Bacchae, edidit E. Chr. Kopff, Teubner, 1982. Cloth, no DJ. Fine. Out of print. $60.00.
Sophokles, Women of Trachis, a Version by Ezra Pound, New York, New Directions, 1957. Cloth, no DJ, NF-. $10.00.

Greek Historians and Xenophon:

I. A. F. Bruce, An Historical Commentary on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, Cambridge Classical Studies, 1967. Cloth, VG+/VG-: pos whited out, penciled price, corners bumped, cover a bit dingy and missing 1 square inch of top front edge, contents totally clean and tight. $35.00. (12/07)
Averil Cameron, Procopius, U. California Press, 1985. F/F. $17.00. (12/07)
Hartmut Frisch, The Constitution of the Athenians: A Philological-Historical Analysis of Pseudo-Xenofon's Treatise De Republica Atheniensium, Gyldendal, Classica et Meiaevalia Dissertationes II, Copenhagen, 1942. Paper, rebound in ugly cardboard and masking tape. Original cover dingy, penciled price, contents entirely clean and unmarked, some pages uncut. $25.00. (12/07)
Ivan M. Linforth, Studies in Herodotus and Plato, Garland Press, 1987. Ugly reprint, NF, no DJ (as issued). $60.00.
E. F. Poppo & I. M. Stahl (edd.), Thucydidis de Bello Pelopennesiaco Libri Octo, Garland Press reprint of 1875-1886 2nd and 3rd editions. Cloth, eight volumes. Fine except a few small (< 2mm) spots on page edges of several volumes, no DJ. Contents pristine. $240.00. (12/07)
Philip A. Stadter, Arrian of Nicomedia, UNC Press, 1980. Cloth, NF/NF except one small (1mm) spot on page edge. $30.00. (12/07)
Xenophontis Institutio Cyri, ed. W. Gemoll, editionem correctiorem curavit J. Peters, Teubner, 1968. Cloth, no DJ, pages very slightly browned, bookseller's sticker neatly glued across title page (obscuring nothing), contents totally clean and tight. In print at $52.50. Our price: $30.00. (12/07)

Greek Oratory:

Andocides, ed Fr. Blass, C. Fuhr, Teubner, Stuttgart, 1966 reprint of 1913 fourth ('correctior') edition. Paper, corners slightly bent, penciled price inside, contents clean and tight. $36.00.
Antiphon, Orationes et Fragmenta, ed. Fr. Blass, Th. Thalheim, Teubner, Stuttgart, 1966 reprint of 1914 first edition. Paper, faded strip on lower edge of front cover, small (1 mm) spot on back cover, corners slightly bent, 'sale' stamped on lower edge, previous price crossed out in ink inside, contents clean and tight. $18.00.
Demosthenis Orationes, edidit Immanuel Bekker, complete in 3 volumes, Tauchnitz, 1854-55. Half leather, half marbled boards, excellent condition for their age: covers worn around edges, bindings tight, pos crossed out, bookplates whited out, contents totally clean except <10 lightly penciled notes, all in volume I. $15.00.
Dio Chrysostom, Orations VII, XII, XXXVI, edited by D. A. Russell, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Imperial Library), 1992. Cloth, NF/NF except small remainder mark on bottom edge. In print at $35.00 in paper. Our price: $30 hardcover. (12/07)
L'Oraison Funebre de Gorgias, ed. [Carl] W[ilhelm] Vollgraff, Arno Press, 1979 (reprint of 1952 Leiden edition). Ugly library binding. Cloth, no DJ (as issued). $22.00. (12/07)
Isocrate, Discours II, volume 2 only of 4-volume Bude set. Contains: Panegyricus, Plataicus, Ad Nicoclem, Nicocles, Euagoras, Archidamos. Paper, pages cut, edges slightly bent, cover slightly smudged from being packed in newsprint, unobtrusive remainder stamp on top edge, previous price crossed out in ink inside, contents clean and tight except for lightly penciled translation notes on two pages of Euagoras. $5.00.

Hellenistic (and one Lyric):

R. J. Cholmeley, The Idylls of Theocritus, Books for Libraries, New York, 1971 reprint of "revised and augmented" 1919 edition. Ugly reprint, cloth, no DJ. VG+: cover a bit worn, pos, two small spots (< 2mm) on page edges, contents pristine though palely printed. $10.00. (12/07)
Maria Gracia Ciani, Lexikon zu Lycophron, Georg Olms, 1975. Cloth, NF, no DJ. Guaranteed to cure even the most severe insomnia. $12.00. (12/07)
Hermann Fränkel, Einleitung zur kritischen Ausgabe der Argonautika des Apollonios. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1964. Paper, contents pristine, cover slightly soiled and two corners slightly bent. NF/NF. In print at Eu 26,90 (~$35.00). Our price: $18.00. (12/07)
Ernestus Maass (ed.), Arati Phaenomena, Weidmannos, Berlin, 3rd edition, 1964. Paper, cover slightly browned, corners slightly bent, contents pristine. $40.00. (12/07)
Sonya Lida Tarán (ed.), The Greek Anthology II. 1987 Garland Press reprint of (a) Otto Knauer: Die Epigramme des Asklepiades von Samos, 1935. vi + 83p, (b) Carl Radinger: Meleagros von Gadara, eine litterargeschichtliche Skizze, 1895, vi+ 115p, and (c) Axel Mattsson: Untersuchungen zur Epigrammsammlung des Agathias, 1942, xi + 179p. Cloth, NF, no DJ. $30.00. (12/07)
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, Sappho und Simonides, Weidmann, Hildesheim, 1985. Unveränderter Nachdruck der 1. Auflage Berlin 1913. NF, no DJ. $75.00. (12/07)

Plutarch:

Themistokles: Literary, Epigraphical and Archaeological Testimonia, edited by Dr. Adolf Bauer, second edition, augmented and revised by Dr. Frank J. Frost, with 16 plates and illustrations. Argonaut, Chicago, 1967. Cloth, no DF. NF. $10.00. (12/07)
Frank J. Frost, Plutarch's Themistocles, a Historical Commentary, Princeton, 1980. NF/VG. $15.00. (12/07)
J. R. Hamilton, Plutarch: Alexander, a Commentary, Oxford, 1969. Cloth, NF/VG. Cover a bit dingy with one small tear, but all there. Two small (1mm) spots on top page edges. Contents entirely clean and tight. $30.00. (12/07)
C. B. R. Pelling, Plutarch: Life of Antony, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1988. Cloth, NF/NF. $30.00. (12/07)
Sarah B. Pomeroy (ed.), Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to his Wife, Oxford, 1999. Cloth, NF/NF. $22.00. (12/07)

Lucian:

Lucien, Le Navire ou Les Souhaits, ed. Geneviève Husson. Two volumes: I. Introduction, texte et traduction. II. Commentaire. Paris 1970. 73 + 102 pages + plates. Paper. VG: cover a bit skuffed and sun-faded on spine and elsewhere, back of volume I scratched at bottom, contents pristine, apparently unread. $20.00.
Lucien, Philosophes a L'Encan, ed. Thérèse Beaupère. Two volumes: I. Introduction, texte et traduction. II. Commentaire. Paris 1967. 59 + 149 pages. Paper. VG: cover a bit skuffed and sun-faded on spine and around some edges, contents pristine, apparently unread. $30.00.

Other Greek Authors:

Graham Anderson, Philostratus: Biography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century A.D., Croom Helm, 1986. Cloth, NF/NF. $140.00. (If that sounds like a lot, the only other copy on the web is priced at £344,70 or roughly five times as much.) (12/07)
The Tabula of Cebes, ed. John T. Fitzgerald and L. Michael White, Scholars Press (Texts and Translations 24, Graeco-Roman Religion 7), 1983. Paper, NF. In print at $25.00. Our price: $15.00. (12/07)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Three Literary Letters (Ep. ad Ammaeum I, Ep. ad Pompeium, Ep. ad Ammaeum II), the Greek Text Edited with English Translatin, Facsimile, Notes, Glossary of Rhetorical and Grammatical Terms, Bibliography, and Introductory Essay on Dionysius as a Literary Critic, by W. Rhys Roberts, 1901, reprinted by Garland Press, 1987. NF, no DJ (as issued). Out of print and hard to find. $110.00.
Euclides I: Elementa I-IV, post I. L. Heiberg edidit E. S. Stamatis, Teubner, Leipzig, 1969. Cloth, no DJ (as issued), NF. All other volumes seem to be in print: build a complete set with this one: $150.00. (12/07)
Richard Hunter (ed.), Studies in Heliodorus, Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume no. 21, 1998. Paper, NF. In print at £24,49 (~$50). Our price: $32. (12/07)
Three Greek Romances: Longus, Xenophon, Dio Chrysostom, translated by Moses Hadas. Macmillan, Library of Liberal Arts. Plain paperback, pages somewhat browned from age or poor quality to begin with. 1986 printing of 1953 original. Edges slightly worn, contents totally clean and tight. $6.00.

Half-Price Greek Loebs: (all 12/07)
All are clean and unmarked inside, except for pos or penciled price. All come with dust jackets, which may be slightly rubbed around corners but provide full coverage. As usual with Loebs, the pages are a mixture of white and off-white, as manufactured. Some are slightly shelf-worn on the bottom edges. In sum: they are 20 to 30 years old but mostly unread and all entirely unwritten-in. E-mail for further information about particular volumes. I will not break up the Apollodorus set, or Procopius I-V, and will knock down the price of Procopius from $67.50 to $60.00 for anyone who buys all six volumes (I-V. History + VI. Anecdota).

Apollodorus I-II, tr. Sir J. G. Frazer. $22.50 for both.
Aristotle: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, tr. H. P. Cooke and H. Tredennick. $11.25.
Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations, On Coming-to-Be and Passing Away, tr. E. S. Forster, On the Cosmos, tr. D. J. Furley. $11.25.
Aristotle: Posterior Analytics, Topica, tr. H. Tredennick and E. S. Forster. $11.25.
Aristotle's Poetics and 'Longinus', ed. W. Hamilton Fyfe; Demetrius On Style, ed. W. Rhys Roberts, 1982 reprint of 1932 revision of 1927 first edition. Since this has been superceded by a newer Loeb edition, it is priced at $6.00.
Demosthenes I: Olynthiacs, Philippics, Minor Public Orations (I-XVII and XX), tr. J. H. Vince. $11.25.
Demosthenes III: Meidias, Androtion, Aristocrates, Timocrates, Aristogeiton I and II (XXI-XXVI), tr. J. H. Vince. $11.25.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Critical Essays I, tr. Stephen Usher, $11.25.
Josephus I: The Life Against Apion, tr. H. St. J. Thackeray. $11.25.
Lysias, tr. W. R. M. Lamb. $11.25.
Minor Attic Orators I: Antiphon, Andocides, tr. K. J. Maiment. $11.25.
Nonnus I (only): Dionysiaca I-XV, tr. W. H. D. Rouse. $11.25.
Philostratus: The Life of Apollonius I-II, tr. F. C. Conybeare. $22.50.
Procopius I-V: History of the Wars, tr. H. B. Dewing. $56.25.
Procopius VI: Anecdota, tr. H. B. Dewing. $11.25.
Strabo I (only): Geography I-II, tr. H. L. Jones, $11.25.
Note: I also have the complete Loeb Plotinus, but can't seem to find a couple of volumes at the moment. Readers are welcome to put 'first dibs' on the set for when the other volumes turn up.

Cicero:

Karl Buchner, Somnium Scipionis: Quellen, Gestalt, Sinn, Hermes Einzelschriften Heft 36, 1976. Paper, NF-: penciled price on back cover, two corners very slightly worn, tiny streak on front cover, contents totally clean and tight. $75.00. (12/07)
A. J. Kleywegt, Ciceros Arbeitsweise im zweiten und dritten Buch der Schrift de Natura Deorum, Groningen, 1961. Paper, NF. $25.00. (12/07)
Sven Lundstrom, Zur Textkritik der Tusculanen, Uppsala, 1986. Paper, VG+, corners a bit bent, cover slightly faded, penciled price, contents totally clean and tight. $12.00. (12/07)

Other Latin Authors -- Texts and Commentaries:

Caesar, De Bello Gallico I, Edited with Introduction, Notes & Vocabulary by Colin Ewan, 1985 Bristol Classical Press reprint of the 1957 original. Paper VG+: contents totally clean and tight, cover slightly bent around edges, a bit of light spotting on edges. In print at $15.00. Our price: $8.00.
Plautus, Casina, edited by W. Thomas MacCary and M. M. Willcock, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1976. Paper, NF. In print at $25.99. Our price: $17.50.
Propertius, Elegies, Book I, edited by W. A. Camps, Cambridge University Press, 1961. NF/NF except some spotting on top edge, DJ laminated by previous owner. $18.00.
Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria, edidit L. Radermacher, two volumes, Teubner, Leipzig, 1971. NF, no DJ. In print at $87.00 for both. Our price: $54.00. (12/07)
Servianorum in Vergilii carmina commentariorum editionis harvardianae. Vol. III. Quod in Aeneidos libros III-V confecerunt Arthurus Fredericus Stocker & Albertus Hartman Travis. Oxford University Press, 1965. F except one tiny spot on page edge, in VG+ plain brown dj (smudged on back, otherwise would be F). $100.00.
Vergil, Bucolics and Georgics; Aeneid I-VI; Aeneid VII-XII, ed. T. E. Page. Macmillan, 1974/1898, 1967/1894, and 1959/1900. Cloth, no DJs. One cover a bit bumped on corners, another a bit soiled and worn. Contents of all three entirely clean and tight. Previous owner's signature and small bookplate in third volume. All three for $60.00.
Vergil, Aeneid Book XI, edited by K. W. Gransden, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1991, paper, NF, in print at $23.00. Our price: $16.00.

Translations:

Cicero, Oratory and Orators, Bohn translation of De Oratore, Brutus, and the letters to Quintus and Brutus. London, George Bell, 1891. G except binding weak in several places, first few pages entirely loose but present. Text unmarked. $25.00.
Petronius: The Satyricon; Seneca: The Apocolocyntosis, translated with introductions and notes by J. P. Sullivan. Penguin Classics, 1986 revision. Paper, NF except covers (especially back) dingy and soiled, contents a bit browned. Text totally clean. $5.00.

Textbooks:

D. P. Lockwood, A Survey of Classical Roman Literature, Volume I, University of Chicago Press Midway 1984 Reprint of original 1934 Prentice-Hall edition. Trade paperback. Edges worn, back cover and last 10 pages or so gouged as if by a knife-stab but entirely readable. Otherwise VG. $5.00.

Thematic Collections -- Greek and Latin:

Jonathan Barnes and Miriam Griffin (edd.), Philosophia Togata, Oxford, 1989, plus Philosophia Togata II, Oxford, 1997. Cloth: NF/NF. Out of print in cloth. Paperbacks list at $84.70 and $90.00. Our price: $150.00 for both in cloth. (12/07)
Christopher Gill and T. P. Wiseman (edd.), Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World, Austin, 1993. NF/NF. $100.00. (12/07)
D. A. Russell (ed.), Antonine Literature, Oxford, 1990. Contents: D. A. Russell, "Introduction: Greek and Latin in Antonine Literature", C. B. R. Pelling, "Truth and Fictionin Plutarch's Lives", E. L. Bowie, "Greek Poetry in the Antonine Age", G. Anderson, "The Second Sophistic: Some Problems of Perspective", H. G. Nesselrath, "Lucian's Introductions", M. B. Trapp, "Plato's Phaedrus in Second-Century Greek Literature", E. J. Kenney, "Psyche and her Mysterious Husband", D. A. Russell, "Aristides and the Prose Hymn". Cloth. NF/NF: corners bumped, otherwise would be F. $75.00. (12/07)

Grammar, Syntax, and Meter:

Carl Darling Buck, The Greek Dialects: Grammar, Selected Inscriptions, Glossary, 1973 University of Chicago 'Midway Reprint' of 1955 revised and expanded edition. Paper, NF: contents pristine, cover slightly rubbed around corners and edges. $20.00. (12/07)
A. M. Devine and L. D. Stephens, Language and Metre: Resolution, Porson's Bridge, and their Prosodic Basis, American Classical Studies 12, Scholars Press, 1984. Paper, VG+: edges slightly rubbed, corners a bit worn, contents clean and tight. In print at $12.00. Our price: $6.00.
Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes, Groningen : Bouma's Boekhuis B.V. Publishers, 1980. Orig. blue cloth. Gilt text on spine and front cover. Reprint of edition New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company, with Index added in reprint only. NF, no DJ. $60.00. (12/07)
E. Adelaide Hahn, Naming-Constructions in Indo-European Languages, published for the American Philological Association by Case Western Reserve Press, 1969. Cloth, NF/NF. In print at $35.00. Our price: $20.00. (12/07)
E. Adelaide Hahn, Subjunctive and Optative: Their Origin as Futures, American Philological Assocation, 1953. Cloth, no DJ. NF. $100.00. (12/07)
E. C. Woodcock, A New Latin Syntax, 1996 Bristol Classical Press reprint of 1959 text. Paper, VG: contents entirely clean and tight, cover slightly bent or robbed on various edges and corners. In print (with a different cover) at $30.00. Our price: $15.00.
S. C. Woodhouse, English-Greek Dictionary. Routledge, 1972. NF/NF. In print at $218.00. Our price: $125.00. (12/07)

Miscellaneous:

William S. Anderson, Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy, University of Toronto Press, 1996, paper, NF. In print at $20.95. Our price: $12.00.
Graziano Arrighetti and Franco Montanari (edd.), La Componente Autobiografica nella Poesia Greca e Latina fra Realta e Artificio Letterario, Atti del Convegno Pisa, 16-17 maggio 1991, Giardina Editori, Pisa, 1993. Handsome paperback. VG. Would be NF except cover very slightly soiled, one corner bent, pages cut. No DJ. $7.50.
Mary E. Barnard, The Myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: Love, Agon, and the Grotesque, Duke U. Press, 1987. VG/VG: would be F/F except for ugly remainder stripe on top edge, some coloring to edges of DJ. Out of print. Our price: $13.00.
Deborah Boedeker, Descent from Heaven: Images of Dew in Greek Poetry and Religion, American Classical Studies 13, Scholars Press, 1984. Paper, NF. In print at $22.00. Our price: $12.00.
G. W. Bowersock, Julian the Apostate, Harvard, 1978. Cloth, no DJ. NF. $6.00. (12/07)
Early Greek Thought: Three Studies. Contains: 1. E. Hofmann: "Qua Ratione Epos, Mythos, Ainos, Logos et Vocabula ab Eisdem Stirpibus Derivata in Antiquo Graecorum Sermone (usque ad annum fere 400) Adhibita Sunt" (Göttingen, 1922); 2. J. W. Beardslee: "The Use of Physis in Fifth-Century Greek Literature" (Chicago, 1918); 3. O. Jöhrens: "Die Fragmente des Anaxagoras" (Bochum, 1939). Garland Press, 1987. Ugly binding and (re)printing. but Fine condition, no DJ, as issued. Out of print. $60.00.
Lowell Edmunds, Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues, Johns Hopkins, 1985. Cloth, no DJ, F. $9.00.
Detlev Fehling, Amor und Psyche: Die Schöpfung des Apuleius und ihre Einwirkung auf das Märchen, eine Kritik der romantischen Märchentheorie, Akademie der Wissenschaften under der Literatur (Mainz), Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenshaftliches Klasse, Jahrgang 1977, Nr. 9. Paper, cover soiled (smudges on front), contents pristine. $55.00.
Lennart Håkanson, Textkritische Studien zu den Grösseren Pseudoquintilianischen Deklamationen, Acta Reg. Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Londensis LXX, Lund, 1974. Paper: contents pristine, pages uncut, cover slightly smudged on front left edge, edges of cover bent (as usual where covers are larger than pages), corners bumped. $20.00. (12/07)
M. J. McGann, Latin Poetry in Augustan Rome and Quattrocento Italy, Inaugural lecture delivered before the Queen's University of Belfast on 13 April 1977. 30 pages. VG: 1/8" of lower left corner scraped away, slight creasing, contents NF. $5.00.
Gerard O'Daly, The Poetry of Boethius, UNC Press, 1991. Cloth: NF/NF. $12.00. (12/07)
Colin Renfrew, Archaeology & Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins, Cambridge University Press, 1987. NF/NF except 4 tiny spots on front cover, small tear on 1 corner of jacket. $25.00.
Michael Roberts, The Jeweled Style: Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity, Cornell U. Press, 1989. Cloth: NF/NF. $20.00. (12/07)
J. H. D. Scourfield, Consoling Heliodorus: A Commentary on Jerome Letter 60, Oxford, 19xx, Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. F/NF. In print at $169.46. Our price: $85.00. (12/07)
Jocelyn Penny Small, Cacus and Marsyas in Etrusco-Roman Legend, Princeton, 1980. Cloth: NF/VG. $9.00.
Macklin Smith, Prudentius' Psychomachia: A Reexamination, Princeton, 1976. Cloth: NF/NF. $12.00. (12/07)
Sir Ronald Syme, Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta, Oxford, 1971. NF, no DJ, one scratch on front cover, penciled price, contents pristine. $80.00. (12/07)
Paul Veyne (ed.), A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cloth, VG/G: cover a bit wrinkled and scaly around the edges, but all there, and the illustration is bright and clear. In print at $52.50. Our price: $6.00. (See under History across Multiple Eras for a complete set.)

Journals:

Special Offer: All three for $12.
Materiali e Discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 33 (1994). Includes J. Farrell, "The structure of Lucretius' anthropology", S. J. Heyworth, "Some allusions to Callimachus in Latin poetry", A. Perutelli, "Il sogno di Medea da Apollonio Rhodio a Valerio Flacco", A. R. Sharrock, "Ovid and the politics of reading", more. 229 pages. VG. $6.
Materiali e Discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 34 (1995) Includes B. Franchi, "L'epos virgiliano e l'eziologia", T. K. Hubbard, "Allusive Artistry and Vergil's Revisionary Program: Eclogues 1-3", J. Kittmer, "Sophoclean Sophistics: A Reading of Philoktetes", M. C. J. Putnam, "Silvia's Stag and Virgilian Ekphrasis", more. 228 pages. VG. $6.
Materiali e Discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 35 (1996). Includes S. Casalì, "Altre voci nell' Eneide di Ovidio", A. M. Morelli, "Le preghiere di Fedra. Modelli della seduzione nella Phaedra senecana", E. O'Gorman, "On not writing about Augustus: Tacitus' Annals Book I", more. Damaged copy: some pages torn out or blank in first article (on Cicero). Other than that one article, the copy is VG. $3.

Religion I: Biblical Commentaries

Esther, translated with an introduction and notes by Carey A. Moore. The Anchor Bible, volume 7B, 1971. VG: pos, very slight musty smell, cover browned, edges spotted, contents clean and tight. In print only in paper at $17.95. Our price: $9.00.
Colossians and Philemon, A commentary on the Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon by Eduard Lohse. Translated by William R. Poehlmann and Robert J. Karris. Edited by Helmut Koester. Series: Hermeneia -- a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1971. Cover smudged and slightly worn, mostly on edges, pos, 1/2" brown (coffee or tea?) stain on right page edges, contents totally clean and tight. In print at $43.00. Our price: $19.00.

Religion II: Miscellaneous

David Noel Freedman, Divine Commitment and Human Obligation: Selected Writings: Volume 1. Ancient Israelite History and Religion, Volume 2. Poetry and Orthography, Eerdmans, binding of Volume 1 slightly week, otherwise F/F. Both volumes: $8.00. (1/08)
Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent. Random House, 1988. NF/NF. $11.00.

Mediaeval Latin Literature

Alan of Lille, De Planctu Naturae (Estratti dagli "Studi Medievali" 2), critical edition of Latin text ed. Nikolaus M. Haring, Spoleto, Centro Italiano di Studi sull'alto Medioevo, 1978. Paper,NF+: edges slightly bent, a few smudges on back cover, contents pristine, apparently unread. $125.00.
Saint Augustine, Against the Academicians, tr. Sister Mary Patricia Garvey, Marquette University Press, 1973 reprint of 1943 first edition. Paper, no DJ. VG: covers worn on edges, soiled (smudges plus two half-inch ink marks on front), corners a bit bent, pos (ink), contents totally clean and tight. $8.00.
Iani Douzae a Noortwyck Epigrammatum Lib. II, with introduction and notes by Chris L. Heesakkers, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1976. Series: Textus Minores L. Paper, contents Fine or even Mint, front cover slightly rubbed and smudge. Out of print. $21.00.
Eginhard and The Monk of St. Gall, Early Lives of Charlemagne, Translated and edited by Professor A. J. Grant. Cooper Square, 1966. Cloth, NF, no DJ. $15.00.
Economou, George D.: The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature; Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1972, F/VG, O.P. $20.00.
K. P. Harrington, Mediaeval Latin, 1925, reprinted by University of Chicago Press, 1962, though this copy seems much newer. An anthology, with notes. Paper, NF. $13.00.
Ramon Llull, Selected Works, ed. Antony Bonner. Two volumes, 9.5 x 6.25", 1329 pages, Princeton University Press, 1985. Gilt-embossed cloth, no DJ (as issued). NF: would be F except a bit of spotting on page edges of Volume II. Contents pristine, apparently unread. $320.00. (12/07)
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards, foreword by Marina Warner. Persea Books, New York, 1982. Paper, NF. In print at $11.95. Our price: $6.00. (12/07)
The Poems of Walter of Wimborne, edited by A. G. Rigg, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 1978. Series: Studies and Texts, 42. Paper, corners bumped, one of them badly, a few small spots of what appears to be rust on cover, otherwise NF. $12.00.

Renaissance Latin Literature

Musae Reduces, Anthologie de poésie latine de la Renaissance. Textes choisis, présentés et traduits par Pierre Laurens, avec la collaboration de Claudie Balavoine. Two volumes, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1975. Cloth, no DJ (as issued), NF: covers a bit bowed, corners of II rubbed in two spots, light streak on back, contents pristine, apparently unread. $200.00. (12/07)
Two Neo-Latin Menippean Satires: Justus Lipsius: Somnium; Petrus Cunaeus: Sardi Venales, edited with introduction and notes by C. Matheeussen and C. L. Heesakkers, Leiden, E. J. Brill, Textus Minores LIV, 1980. Paper, NF: cover slightly sunfaded in rectangular pattern, two tiny dents in front left edge, contents pristine, apparently unread. $12.00. (12/07)
George Buchanan, Tragedies, edited by P. Sharratt and P. G. Walsh, Scottish Academic Press, 1983. Cloth, NF/VG -- DJ slightly sunfaded but all there. $40.00. (12/07)
J. A. Comenius, The Angel of Peace, facing Latin text and English translation, Pantheon, 1944. VG/VG. Slightly browned inside front and back covers. $11.00.
Desiderius Erasmus, Ausgewahlte Schriften, Vol. V (of VIII): Iulius Exclusus e Coelis, Institutio Principis Christiani, Querela Pacis, Latin text with facing German translation, ed. Gertraud Christian, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1968. Cloth, no DJ (as issued), F. $20.00. (12/07)
Desiderius Erasmus, Ausgewahlte Schriften, Vol. VI (of VIII): Dialogus cui Titulus Ciceronianus sive De Optimo Dicendi Genere, Adagiorum Chiliades (Adagia Selecta), Latin text with facing German translation, ed. Theresia Payr, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972. Cloth, no DJ (as issued), F. $20.00. (12/07)
Desiderius Erasmus, Ausgewahlte Schriften, Vol. VII (of VIII): Colloquia Familiaria, Latin text with facing German translation, ed. Werner Welzig, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967. Cloth, no DJ (as issued), F. $20.00. (12/07)
Philip J. Ford, George Buchanan: Prince of Poets, with an edition (Text, Translation & Commentary) of the Miscellaneorum Liber by Philip J. Ford and W. S. Watt, Aberdeen University Press, 1982. Cloth, NF/NF. $40.00. (12/07)
I. D. McFarlane, Buchanan, Duckworth, 1981. Paper, NF: cover slightly sunfaded, a bit wrinkled on corners, edges a bit worn, first two pages wrinkled, penciled price, contents pristine, apparently unread. $40.00. (12/07)
I. D. McFarlane (edd.), Renaissance Latin Poetry, Manchester U. Press / Barnes & Nobel, 1980. Series: Literature in context. Bilingual anthology. Cloth: NF/NF. Pages slightly browned or just printed on cheap paper -- not clear which. $8.00. (12/07)
St. Thomas More, Latin Poems, Volume 3, Part II of the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More., edited by Clarence H. Miller, Leicester Bradner, Charles A. Lynch, and Revilo P. Oliver. Yale, 1984. Cloth: NF/VG. $75.00. (12/07)
Ianus Pannonius, Opera, undated (1970s?) reprint of the 1569 Vienna edition 'ex officina Caspari Stainhoferi'. Includes 52-page pamphlet in Hungarian in pocket inside back cover, also undated. Pamphlet title is 'Janus Pannonius, Reneszánszkori Értékelése és Költöi Metódusa (1472-1972)', publisher is 'Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest', and author's name (handwritten and only partially legible) is 'Kai***s Tibor' (probably the same as Tiberius Kardos in the next item). Cloth, DJ of clear plastic, missing on bottom 3rd of back. Contents F: pristine, apparently unread. Cover VG: corners rubbed, one badly. $100.00. (12/07)
Jani Pannonii Carmina Selectiora / Poemes Choisis, Recognovit, Praefatione et Notis illustravit Tiberius Kardos, Traduxit Janus Rousselot, Michael Manoll, Paulus Chaulot. Collectanea UNESCO Operum Illustrium, Editio Corvina, Budapest, 1973. Note: This is not a book but a handsomely bound photostat of a book. The copies are singled-sided, so most of the translations do not face their texts. The paper is high quality, copying less so. Cloth, cover bowed, otherwise NF. $12.00. (12/07)
Petrarch's Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul, a Modern English Translation of De remediis utriusque Fortune, with a Commentary by Conrad H. Rawski, five handsome volumes, Indiana U. Press, 1991. Cloth, no DJ. NF: would be F except small spot (2mm) on page edges of Volume IV, stickers with set ISBN pasted on backs of all five. In print at $198.00. Our price: $100.00. (12/07)
Angelo Poliziano, L'Orfeo del Poliziano (Medioevo e Umanesimo 61), ed. Antonia Tissoni Benvenuti, Editrice Antenore, Padova, 1986. Paper, NF+: pages uncut. $60.00.
Roy Strong, Henry Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance, Thames & Hudson, 1986. Numerous b/w plates. Cloth, F/NF. $12.00. (12/07)
Ioannes Ludovicus Vives, Praefatio in Leges Ciceronis, Aedes Legum, ed. C. Mattheeussen, Teubner, Leipzig, 1984. Fine, no DJ (as issued). In print at $21.95 as a U. Michigan Press import. Our price: $14.00.
Juan Luis Vives, In Pseudodialecticos, a Critical Edition, by Charles Fantazzi (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought XXVII), E. J. Brill, 1979. Fine in VG DJ (edges a bit wrinkled, a few tiny spots, but untorn and providing full coverage). Out of print. $54.00.
Ralph G. Williams, The De Arte Poetica of Marco Girolamo Vida, translated with commentary and with the Text of c. 1517, Columbia U. Press, 1976. Cloth, F in flimsy waxpaper DJ. $40.00. (12/07)
Frances Yates, Astraea, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Cloth, NF/NF. $40.00. (12/07)
Frances Yates, Collected Essays: I. Lull & Bruno; II. Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution; III. Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982-83-84. Cloth: NF/NF. Small and pretty bookstore stickers inside front covers of II and III. Set: $360.00. (12/07)
Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, U. Chicago Press 1979 Midway Reprint of 1964 first edition. Paper, NF: cover very slightly rubbed around edges, spine slightly wrinkled, contents pristine. $17.00. (12/07)
Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980 reprint of 1979 first edition. Cloth, NF/NF. $80.00. (12/07)
Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ark Paperback 1986 reprint of 1972 first edition. Paper, VG+: back cover slightly soiled, pages slightly browned or just made of cheap paper, contents pristine. $7.00. (12/07)
Frances Yates, Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Small and pretty bookstore sticker inside front cover. Cloth, NF/NF. $80.00. (12/07)
Frances Yates, Theatre of the World, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978 reprint of 1969 first edition. Cloth, NF/NF. $90.00. (12/07)
Frances Yates, The Valois Tapestries, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Cloth, NF/NF: one small (1mm) spot on top page edges. Quarto. 150 pages, 48 plates. $40.00. (12/07)