[Rarebooks] PS: Porphyry's very scarce early text on vegetarianism translated by Thomas Taylor.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

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. Modern 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, over old marbled boards. Very scarce early (third century) text  on vegetarianism.    $850.00  (trade discount allowed)

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