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TERENTIUS AFER, Publius (185-159 B.C.). Comoediae. Birmingham, John Baskerville 1772. 4 o (297 x 232 mm). (Lightly spotted throughout). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE RIALTO, VENICE AND VERONA; modern cloth slipcase (some light soiling and staining, hinges just split). Provenance: Bellingham Reginald Graham (ownership signature in ink). Weber I, pp.42, 64, and 136. -- PLUTARCH (46?-120?). Pemberton, Stephen, editor. Plutarchi Chaeronensis. Oxford: Tho. Randolph, 1768. 8 o (206 x 121 mm). Text in Greek and Latin (some light browning). Contemporary red morocco, covers with wide ornamental gilt border, green morocco gilt label on spine, edges gilt concealing a fore-edge painting of ETON COLLEGE (upper hinge just split, some light rubbing and staining). Provenance: Newton Charles Ogle (bookplate). Weber I, p.136. -- JUNIUS, Pseud. Stat Nominis Umbra. London: T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood Poultry, 1805. 2 volumes, 8 o (198 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece and engraved title in each volume, 19 engraved plates (spotting throughout). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with wide gilt and blind toll-tooled border and large gilt central lozenge, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments, a repeated gilt ornament in the rest, inner covers gilt and blind-tooled, edges gilt concealing fore-edge paintings of TYBURN TOLLGATE and CARLTON HOUSE (joints lightly rubbed, upper hinge just split in volume 2, spines faded). Provenance: John Spicer (bookplate). Weber I, p.147. Provenance for the lot: Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's New York, 21 February 1989, lots 1945 and 1959). (4)
TERENTIUS AFER, Publius (185-159 B.C.). Comoediae. Birmingham, John Baskerville 1772. 4 o (297 x 232 mm). (Lightly spotted throughout). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE RIALTO, VENICE AND VERONA; modern cloth slipcase (some light soiling and staining, hinges just split). Provenance: Bellingham Reginald Graham (ownership signature in ink). Weber I, pp.42, 64, and 136. -- PLUTARCH (46?-120?). Pemberton, Stephen, editor. Plutarchi Chaeronensis. Oxford: Tho. Randolph, 1768. 8 o (206 x 121 mm). Text in Greek and Latin (some light browning). Contemporary red morocco, covers with wide ornamental gilt border, green morocco gilt label on spine, edges gilt concealing a fore-edge painting of ETON COLLEGE (upper hinge just split, some light rubbing and staining). Provenance: Newton Charles Ogle (bookplate). Weber I, p.136. -- JUNIUS, Pseud. Stat Nominis Umbra. London: T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood Poultry, 1805. 2 volumes, 8 o (198 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece and engraved title in each volume, 19 engraved plates (spotting throughout). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with wide gilt and blind toll-tooled border and large gilt central lozenge, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments, a repeated gilt ornament in the rest, inner covers gilt and blind-tooled, edges gilt concealing fore-edge paintings of TYBURN TOLLGATE and CARLTON HOUSE (joints lightly rubbed, upper hinge just split in volume 2, spines faded). Provenance: John Spicer (bookplate). Weber I, p.147. Provenance for the lot: Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's New York, 21 February 1989, lots 1945 and 1959). (4)