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HORATIUS Flaccus, Quintus (65-8 B.C.). Opera. Cambridge: Jacob Tonson, 1699; Publius VERGILIUS Maro (70-19 B.C.). Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis. Cambridge: 1701; Publius TERENTIUS Afer (185-159 B.C.). Comoediae. Cambridge: 1701; CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. Opera. Cambridge: 1702. 4 works in 4 volumes, 4 (290 x 217mm). All ruled in red throughout. Engraved frontispieces, head and tailpieces. (Occasional browning, lower blank margin of frontispiece of the second work replaced at the time of binding.) Uniform contemporary red morocco panelled in gilt, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat decoration built up from small tools, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (spines faded). Quintus HORATIUS Flaccus (65-8 B.C.). Opera . Glasgow: J.Mundell, 1796. 4 (248 x 195mm). Contemporary diced russia gilt, upper cover and spine with arms of Sussex College Cambridge in gilt (upper joint split). Provenance : Sussex College, Cambridge (binding). Caius Julius CAESAR (102-44 B.C.). de Bellis Gallico et Civili Pompejano. Leiden and Rotterdam: 1727. 4 (265 x 207mm). Title in red and black. Engraved frontipiece, plates and maps, some folding. (Plates facing pp.1, 357 and 494 cut down and mounted.) Late 18th-century red straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with double fillet border, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second the others with repeat pattern made up of small floral tools, turn-ins with gilt pentaglyph and metope roll border, g.e. Provenance : George Heath (early signature). Titus LUCRETIUS Carus (c.99-c.55 B.C.). De Rerum Natura Libri sex. London: Richard Taylor & Co., 1813. 4 (300 x 240mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, decorative border in gilt and blind, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, the others with repeat geometric pattern made up from various small tools, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (light scuffing to joints, corners slightly bumped). Provenance : Simson (armorial bookplate); and three others (Titus Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Naturae Libri sex, London: 1824, 4; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officis, de amicitia et de senectute , Paris: 1796, 4; Caius Valerius Catullus , [ Opera ,] Padua: 1737, 4). (10)