[Rarebooks] FS: Works of Porphyry trans. by Thomas Taylor. 1st ed. 1823

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Porphyry. SELECT WORKS OF PORPHYRY; Containing His Four Books on Abstinence from Animal Food; His Treatise of the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and His Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. With an Appendix, Explaining the Allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses. By the Translator. London: Printed for Thomas Rodd. 1823. First edition. xx,271,(1)pp. Lacks the half-title. Early 20th c. 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, over cloth, 1" split near top of front hinge. Monogram of T. D. Kriton (a Greek translator) stamped in gilt on front cover, and his bookplate & signature on the front pastedown. Very scarce.    $850.00 (trade discount allowed)

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