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Mixed Lot, Classics, Casaubon, 18th Century, Four Volumes: Sir William Jones's (1746-1794) Poeseos Asiaticae , London: Richardson for Cadell, 1774, some toning to leaves, printed in Oriental types, bound in later three-quarter red morocco. Catullus Tibullus et Propertius , edited by Johannes Antonius Vulpius, Venice: Bettinelli, 1786, in two volumes, illustrated with engraved frontispiece in volume one, engraved titles in both volumes, extremely well preserved in original limp marbled paper wrappers, untrimmed and unopened throughout, on very clean paper, with the publisher's original letterpress labels intact on both spines; spines slightly sunned, minor water discoloration to exterior of spine, volume one. Isaac Casaubon's Epistolae , Rotterdam: Fritsch and Böhm, 1709, folio, title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author opposite page 217, bound in full contemporary parchment, pages toned. (4)


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