CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES ON THE GALLIC WAR; AND THE FIRST BOOK OF THE GREEK PARAPHRASE; WITH ENGLISH NOTES, CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY, PLANS OF BATTLES, SIEGES, ETC., AND HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL INDEXES. (Spine title: "Anthon's Caesar.")

Caesar, Julius, 100 BC-44 BC. Charles Anthon, 1797-1867.

Published by New-York [New York]: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1845.

Early reprint (first published 1838). xx, 493 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 11.75cm. Contemporary full calf leather binding; boards well scuffed and rubbed with wear along edges particularly at bumped corners; slender splitting at front joint's top 4cm but still firm; shallow loss at spine head; slight right edge loss to spine's maroon title label but it retains easily legible gilt stamped lettering. Varied color fading to text block's marbled edges; dark stains to fore-edge penetrating into page margins; light to occasionally mild foxing throughout; moisture stains/tidelines on early and rear leaves; some page corners creased from fold-ins. Scattered pencil markings and occasional pencil marginalia; antiquarian ink signature "A.S. Fox" [Andrew Seguin Fox, 1832-?] at top of title page; pencil signature "Jas. A. Fox" [Reverend James Angel Fox, 1794-1881] at top of page iii; three-line pencil inscription "Eliza W. Fox | Woodburne | June 2nd/57" [Elisa Wood Fox, 1841-1915] at top of page xix; Andrew Seguin Fox pencil inscription on blank recto of plate between 38-39. All fourteen b/w plates present as called for on page xx "Engravings" list although with three not at their declared placement; eight plates are on unpaged leaves; toning and some tearing to foldout map "Ancient France" bound-in between pages xx-1; frontispiece retains tissue guard sheet. Two initial quires slightly pulled but binding is firm. Features text in the original Latin and Greek with Anthon's explanatory notes in English. Book acquired from a Vicksburg, Mississippi estate with aforementioned Fox family signatures/inscriptions attesting to an extended Mississippi provenance. Born in Connecticut in 1794, James A. Fox moved to Mississippi in 1819 with the intention of practicing law but switched to the Protestant Episcopal Church clergy organizing St. Paul's Church in Woodville (south of Natchez) in 1824 and establishing the Diocese of Mississippi in 1825. Presiding over the Diocese's early conventions, Fox ministered at various churches in southwestern Mississippi and was elected as president of Jefferson College in Washington, Mississippi in 1847. Fox retired to his farm, Woodburne Plantation, near Bovina on the Big Black River ten miles east of Vicksburg just before the onset of the Civil War. Four families resided at Woodburne during the siege and after with, upon the capture of Vicksburg in July 1863, the further imposition of the family land serving as General William T. Sherman's Union Army headquarters during the late summer and fall before the start of his Meridian Expedition. Married four times, Reverend Fox had, by varying accounts, either fifteen or sixteen children. Andrew and Eliza (or Elisa) were James Fox's second and seventh children with his second wife. {Antiq-Shelf#3}. Seller Inventory # CVA-00151

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Title: CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES ON THE GALLIC WAR; AND...
Publisher: New-York [New York]: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1845.
Binding: Hardcover