Langhorne William Translators (4 results)
Plutarch's Lives, Translated From The Original Greek ; With Notes Critical And Historical, And A Life Of Plutarch. A New Edition, With Corrections And Additions In Eight Volumes - Volume III [only]
Plutarch & Langhorne, John - Langhorne, William [translators] & Wrangham, Reverend Francis [editor]
Language: English
Published by Printed for J Mawman; F & C Rivington et al, 1810
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Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United KingdomEastleach Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. a new edition. Full tree calf, G+. 357pp, leather rubbed at the egdes spine scuffed, Ex Library [ Eccles Hotel, Bantry Bay ] with Occasional ink stamp, a nice copy. Odd volume. Covers the lives of Paulus Æmilius, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Cato The Censor, Philopmen, Titus Quinctius Flaminius & Pyrrhus. Po…pular translation on Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives' in which he give biographies of emminent Greeks & Romans & then offers comparisons on their virtues & morals. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus [ 46 - 120 ] 250 grams.
Published by Walter Scott, Ltd, London
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Seller: COVENANT HERITAGE LIBRIS, Saint John, NB, CanadaCOVENANT HERITAGE LIBRIS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. no date, "The Scott Library", good. shelf wear. S12 4.
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Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United KingdomRed-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. )
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Volume Five only of a six volume set. Leather boards have some light rubbing to edges and slight loss to top of spine, front hinge is just starting to split. Previous owners name and address Trinity College 1787! to free front end paper. No other inscriptions, frontespiece. Clean intern…ally with very little wear. Some slight spotting to page edges. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.
More imagesPlutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek; with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch
PLUTARCH (c. A.D. 46-120), [LANGHORNE, John and William, translators]
Published by London: Printed for Rivington, Longman, Mawman [etc.], 1801, 1801
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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basket[Ancient History and Biography] FINELY BOUND SIXTH EDITION. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (21 x 14 x 14cm). With an etched frontispiece by W. Ridley to volume I. Elegantly bound (circa 1870s) in tan half calf, with red and black labels, full gilt back, marbled sides, drab endpapers, edges speckled red. Some spotting within chi…efly to prelims and final gatherings. Bindings pleasingly aged with very little wear. A bright, fine set. An important English translation of Plutarch's parallel Lives, first published in six volumes in 1770. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Normanton, an Irish peer (almost certainly the 3rd Earl, James Agar, 1818-1896) a Peelite and Tory MP for Wilton, Hampshire).
