[Rarebooks] FS: Anacreon in Greek & Latin. 1st ed. edited by Barnes. Cambridge: 1705

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Anacreon. ANACREON TEIUS, Poeta Lyricus Summa Cura & Diligentia, ad Fidem 
Etiam Vet. MS. Vatican. Emendatus... Item Anacreontis Vita... Accessere 
Ormanenti Loco Tres Eleganter-Sculptae... Opera & Studio Josuae Barnes... 
Cambridge: Recentioribus Typis Academicis, Imprensis Edmundi Jeffery. 1705. 12mo. 
First edition edited by Barnes (a professor of Greek at Cambridge 
University). (20),lxxv,(37),401,(7)pp. Index. Illustrated with 3 copper engraved 
folding portraits (the author, the editor, and the Duke of Marlborough). Cont. 
tooled, paneled calf, rebacked, gilt decorated spine with black morocco label. 
Hinges cracked but holding nicely. Engraved bookplate on front pastedown & 
the same owner's signature dated 1710 on a blank preliminary. One leaf with a 
repaired tear (no loss, but a bit discolored).                             
$350.00-28
See Dibdin, GREEK & LATIN CLASSICS, 4th ed. Vol. I, p. 260-261.

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