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The Library of a Greek Bibliophile: Travel books, Aldines and an important Qur’an
24 June - 28 July 2020 • London
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1. Euripides. Tragoediae septendecim. Venice, Aldus, 1503. 2 volumes, contemporary bindings
2. Herodotus. Libri novem. Aldus, Venice, 1502. nineteenth-century calf gilt
3. Hesychius. Lexikon. Venice, Aldus, 1514. modern crushed morocco in period style
4. Hippocrates. Omnia opera. Venice, Aldus, 1526. modern snakeskin binding
5. Pausanias. Venice. Aldus, 1516. later vellum
6. Plato. Omnia Platonis opera. Venice, Aldus, 1513. modern pigskin, the Garden copy
7. Plutarchus. Opuscula moralia. Venice, Aldus, 1509. nineteenth-century red morocco gilt
8. Sophocles. Tragaediae septem. Venice, Aldus, 1502. later red morocco gilt
9. Strabo. De situ orbis. Venice, Aldus, 1516. later red morocco, Macclesfield copy
10. Suidas. Lexikon. Venice, Aldus, 1514. later calf
11. Thucydides. Venice, Aldus, 1502. eighteenth-century calf gilt
12. Aeschylus. Tragoediae. [Geneva], Estienne, 1557. later red morocco gilt in the style of Roger Payne
13. Apollonius Rhodius. Argonauticon, [Geneva], Estienne, 1574. binding by Hatton of Manchester, Macclesfield copy
14. Appianus. Romanae historiae; Arrianus, De expedit. Alex. Magni, [Geneva], 1592 & 1575. modern half calf
15. Archimedes. Opera omnia. Basel, 1544. later calf gilt
16. Aristophanes. Comoediae. Basel, 1547. modern crushed burgundy morocco gilt
17. Aristotle. Opera. Basel, 1550. later calf
18. Estienne. Poetae Graeci principes. [Geneva], 1566. later calf
19. Euclid. Stoicheion bibl. ie. Basel, 1533. modern half calf
20. Julian. Opera quae supersunt omnia. Leipzig, 1696. contemporary vellum
21. Pindar. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Frankfurt, 1542. modern burgundy morocco gilt
22. Plato. Omnia opera. Basel, 1556. later calf
23. Xenophon. Opera. Basel, Isengrin, [c. 1545]. 2 volumes, old vellum
24. Qur'an. copied by Ahmad al-Nayrizi, illuminated. Persia, Safavid and Qajar. 1122 AH/1710 AD
25. Firdausi. Shahnameh, copied by Muhammad Akram Kashmiri. North India, Kashmir. late 18th/early 19th century
26. Persian manuscript. 57ff, 10 full page miniatures. India. nineteenth-century
27. Barbier & Boylesve. Le carrosse aux deux lezards verts. Paris, 1921, green morocco
28. Bartholdy. Voyage en Grèce. 1807. 2 volumes, half calf, blue marbled boards
29. Belon. Les Observations de Plusieurs Singularitez & Choses Memorables, trouvees en Grece... 1555. calf
30. Blackwood. The Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea. 1857. 2 volumes in one. modern half calf
31. Blouet. Expédition scientifique de Morée. 1831-1838. 3 volumes. modern red half morocco
32. Brondsted. Voyages dans la Grèce. 1826-1830. 2 volumes, folio, original boards
33. Chalcondylas. Histoire generale des turcs. 1662. 2 volumes, folio, calf
34. Chandler. Travels in Greece. 1776. contemporary tree calf
35. Choiseul-Gouffier. Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce. 1782-1809-1822. 2 volumes bound in 3. contemporary mottled calf
36. Cockerell. Temples of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina, and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, in Arcadia. 1860. half morocco
37. [Coronelli]. Memorie istoriografiche de' Regni della Morea. [1686]. modern vellum
38. Coronelli. Isola di Rodi. 1688. contemporary vellum
39. Dalton. [Antiquities and views in Greece and Egypt. 1791]. contemporary half calf
40. [Dalvimart]. The Costume of Turkey. 1804, [plates watermarked 1819]. folio. red morocco gilt
41. Dapper. Description exacte des isles de l'archipel. 1703. folio. contemporary speckled calf
42. Society of Dilettanti. The unedited antiquities of Attica. 1817. folio. nineteenth-century half morocco
43. Dodwell. A classical and topographical tour through Greece. 1819. 2 volumes in one. modern half calf
44. Dodwell. Views in Greece. 1821. folio. coloured plates. contemporary morocco
45. Dodwell. Views and Descriptions of Cyclopian, or, Pelasgic Remains, in Greece and Italy. 1834. folio
46. Drummond. Travels through different cities of... Greece. 1754. folio. modern calf
47. Dupre. Voyage a Athenes et a Constantinople. Paris, 1825. folio, colour plates, twentieth-century blue half morocco gilt
48. Dubois Maisonneuve. Introduction à l'étude des vases antiques. 1817-[1834]. folio, green morocco by Selenka