libri desideratissimi

 

Fellow bibliophile,

I am prepared to pay good money or trade respectable books for any of the following, should they come your way:

 

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G. Nardi - De rerum natura libri sex. Una cum paraphrastica explanatione, & animadversionibus D. Ioannis Nardii Florentini. - A. Massa, Florence - 1647

E. Chilmead - Joannis Antiocheni cognomento Malalae Historia Chronica - Oxford University Press - 1691

R. Bentley - M. Manilii Astronomicon ex recension et cum notis Richardi Bentleii - H. Woodfall, London - 1739

The four first editions of Porson's four Euripides plays: Hecuba (1797), Orestes (1798), Phoenissae (1797), Medea (1801)

Kidd ed. - Miscellanea critica typis quinquies excusa prodeunt ex recensione et cum notis aliquanto auctioribus T. Kidd : Accedunt appendicis loco Dawesii Lusus juveniles, Miltoni P.A. Graecae metaphraseos specimen integrum, et excerpta e libello Anglice scripto, "Tittle-tattle-mongers", 2nd ed. thus - J. & J.J. Deighton, Cambridge - 1827 (earlier editions of less interest)

C.G. Zumpt - M. Tulli Ciceronis Verrinarum libri septem - Duemmler, Berlin - 1831

O. Ribbeck - Prolegomena Critica ad P. Vergilii Maronis Opera Maiora - B.G. Teubner, Leipzig - 1866

Blaydes' Sophocles OT, OC, Ant., Aias and Trach. - c.1870

F. Bockemüller - T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex / redigirt und erklärt von Friedrich Bockemüller - [Pockwitz], Stade, - 1873-4 (2 vols)

J.B. Mayor - Guide to the Choice of Classical Books, 3rd edn - G. Bell & Sons, London - 1885

w/ J.B. Mayor - Guide to the Choice of Classical Books: New Supplement (1879-1896) - Macmillan, London - 1896

A. Palmer - P. Ovidii Nasonis Heroides - Oxford University Press - 1898 (not repr.)

W.M. Lindsay - Nonii Marcelli De Conpendiosa Doctrina Libros XX Onionsianis copiis usu edidit W.M.L. - B.G. Teubner, Leipzig - 1903 (3 vols)

A.E. Housman - Manilii Astronomicon liber primus - G. Richards, London - 1903 (this ed. and vol. alone)

A. (=E.) Chatelain (ed.) - Lucretius: Codex Vossianus oblongus phototypice editus - E.J. Brill, Leiden - 1908

A. (=E.) Chatelain (ed.) - Lucretius: Codex Vossianus quadratus phototypice editus - E.J. Brill, Leiden - 1913

The Ashendene Lucretius - 1913

J. Soubiran - L' élision dans la poésie latine - Klincksieck, Paris - 1966

Some of the more obscure single-book editions of Lucretius by 20th century Italian scholars.

And, of course, any of the first five text editions of Lucretius (Brescia, 1473; Verona, 1486; Venice, 1495; Venice, 1500; Florence, 1512).

Any interesting manuscript material, or association copies, of noted Classical scholars.

Any manual or collection of Latin or Greek Verse composition(s) that I do not own.

Any pamphlet by J.M. Wyllie (mostly priv. pr., Guernsey) excluding The Oxford Dictionary Slanders: The Greatest Scandal in the Whole History of Scholarship (Guernsey, 1965)

 (updated 01/xi/09)

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