Classical texts

TACITUS, P. CORNELIUS. Annales... Basel: Froben, 1533; BEATUS RHENANUS. Rerum Germanicarum libri tres. Basel: Froben, 1531, 2 works in one volume, folio, nineteenth-century calf over thick boards, some paper repairs
APPIANUS. Punica, sive Carthaginiensis, Parthica, Iberica [etc]. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1597, folio, vellum, bookplate of Benjamin Dickson
VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Leiden: Hack, 1655, 8vo, calf gilt, Osterley Park bookplate, lacking letterpress title-page, binding worn and crudely repaired
PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, C. Epistolarum libri X. Leiden: Hack, 1669, 8vo, contemporary calf, Osterley Park bookplate
HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE scriptores VI. Leiden: Hack, 1671, 2 volumes, 8vo, calf, Osterley Park bookplates, bindings worn and crudely repaired
PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, C. Panegyricus liber. Leiden: Hack, 1685, 8vo, calf, Osterley Park bookplate
JUVENAL and PERSIUS. Satyrae. Amsterdam: Wetsten, 1684, 8vo, calf, bookplate of William Talbot, Wodhull copy, bought from Payne, 17 June 1769 for 5s, upper cover detached
THEMISTIUS. Orationes XXXIII. Paris: Mabre-Cramoisy, 1684, folio, mottled calf, bookplate of John Putland, binding worn
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C. Naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Paris: F. Muguet, 1685, 5 volumes, 4to, calf, gilt edges, bookplates of Osterley Park, joints cracked, extremities rubbed
MACROBIUS. Opera. London: Dring and Harper, 1694, 8vo, calf, Osterley Park bookplate, binding worn and crudely repaired
PINDAR. Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia. Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1697, folio, contemporary mottled calf, bookplate of Thomas Stevens of Bradfield, binding rubbed
CALLIMACHUS. Hymni, epigrammata, et fragmenta. SPANHEIM. In Callimachi hymnos observationes. Utrecht: Halma and van de Water, 1697, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary mottled calf, Sunderland copy, with Quaritch bookplate, spines worn
HORATIUS FLACCUS, Q. [Opera]. Amsterdam: Wetsten, 1713, 4to, later calf gilt, gilt edges, boards detached
QUINTILIAN. De institutione oratoria (Declamationes XIX). Leiden: J. de Vivie, 1720, 3 volumes, 4to, contemporary smooth armorial calf with the arms of George, 5th duke of Marlborough, gilt edges, Gosford booklabel, boards detached
AUSONIUS. Opera. Paris: J. Guerin, 1730, 4to, diced russia, Wodhull copy, with his notes dated 2 May 1794, "White's sale", bought for £2-2s
POMPONIUS MELA. De situ orbis. Leiden: Luchtmans, 1748, 8vo, calf, Osterley Park bookplate, crudely repaired
DEMOSTHENES AND AESCHINES. Quae supersunt omnia. Paris: Pierre Didot, 1790, 4to, red morocco gilt by Charles Lewis with Gosford arms, edges gilt and marbled, binding slightly faded
OVIDIUS NASO, P. Opera. Paris: Barbou, 1793, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, gilt edges, bindings rubbed, joints weak
PINDAR. Carmina et fragmenta. Oxford: Bliss, 1807, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary smooth calf, marbled edges, bookplates of Edward Odell
CICERO, M.T. De re publica. Rome: Collegio Urbano, 1822, large paper copy, contemporary calf, rubbed

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