four-titles-from-the-18th-and-19th-centuries
Lot 1160
Four Titles from the 18th and 19th Centuries
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Xenophon; Thomas Hutchinson. XENOPHONTIS DE CYRI INSTITUTIONE LIBRI OCTO. London: Typis J. Bettenham, Impensis B. Barker & A. Bettesworth, 1730. Leather bound with gilt-fillet border and center blind stamp, rebacked in gilt-stamped polished calf with raised bands, edges red speckled, with fresh endpapers. 8vo; [4], 547, [1blank]pp. with index. Text in Greek and Latin throughout. Title page in red and black; engraved map frontispiece. (Age wear to original leather boards including dry cracking, scuffing, edgewear, and heavily rubbed corners; interior with toning and foxing.)

Joel Barlow. THE VISION OF COLUMBUS; A POEM IN NINE BOOKS. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for the author, 1787. First edition. Bound in full leather with gilt-titled red morocco label on the spine. 8vo; xxi, [4], 26-258, [12]pp. (final blank leaf). With (12)-page list of subscribers' names. Evans 20220; ESTC W29676. (General light age wear to boards, corners bumped, spine with light creasing and one wormhole, front joint rubbed; bookplate and writing on paste-down, offsetting, first free endpaper removed, typical staining from binder's glue; pages toned with scattered foxing and occasional stain; some leaves of subscriber's names extended.)

Samuel H. Wilcocke, trans.; Dr. J. G. Zimmermann. ESSAY ON NATIONAL PRIDE. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE AND WRITINGS. New York: Printed by M. L. & W. A. Davis, for H. Caritat, 1799. Rebound in brown cloth boards, with gilt-titled black label on the spine, fresh endpapers. 8vo; xl, [41]-300, [26]pp. With half-title, index, and final page of ads. (Faint discoloration, minor marks, and light edgewear to boards, with corners bumped/rubbed, spine with light wear; interior lightly toned with foxing, occasional grime/stain/mark, title page with pencil underlining and small area of thinned paper with associated loss and ink mark, (2) leaves with corner loss, and writing on final index page.)

Quintus Curtius Rufus. THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND REIGN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 2 vols. (complete). London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, by James Moyes, 1809. Gilt-tooled speckled leather, spine with raised bands, gilt decoration, and gilt-titled black morocco labels, edges and endpapers marbled. 8vo; xlvii, [1], [1]-463, [1]pp. with additional notes; [2], [1]-512pp. with index and additional supplement leaf. Vol. I with frontispiece and folding map. (Age wear to boards with numerous repairs including on boards and joints, edgewear, rubbed corners with some boards splitting, spines with chipping, both with cracking at joints with lower board of vol. II slightly loose; corner damp stain on frontis., cracking at hinges; pages with light toning, offsetting, and occasional grime and minor fraying, overall clean and bright.)

7 7/8 x 5 1/4 in; 7 11/16 x 5 in.; 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.; 8 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. each