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Lot 579

HOMER: 'THE ILIAD' AND 'THE ODYSSEY'

Latin text, edited by Samuel Clarke, each with volumes 1 and 2, both published by Knapton, London 1732 and 1740 respectively, all in matching gilt tooled brown leather binding with Bridehead bookplates; together with Cicero: 'Opera', volumes 1-9, published by Coignard et al, Paris 1740, full leather bound with gilt tooled spines; and a quantity of antiquarian Greek and Latin text works (24)

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Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer price: £600
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

The Clarke Iliad and Odyssey do not contain plates with the exception of a portrait frontis piece vol. 1 Iliad. 


The remaining 11 titles in this work comprise:

A Greek three volume edition of Homers 'Iliad,

A four volume edition of Virgil's Work translated by Burmann,

two volumes of Sallusti,

a volume of comedies and plays including Aesop's Fables, edited by Richard Bentley, published by Knapton, London 1726,

and

a volume of Martialis letters, published by Cellier, Paris 1680

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