[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of "Anacreon Teius" edited by Joshua 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 (trade
discount allowed)
See Dibdin, GREEK & LATIN CLASSICS, 4th ed. Vol. I, p. 260-261.

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