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70 Imperfections Not Stated info@fonsiemealy.ie 481. Ambrosio Firmin Didot, Publishers Scriptorum Graecorum Bibliotheca; Dindorf (Ludovice) Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae Historicae quae supersunt, 2 vols. sm. folio Paris 1842, hf. titles, & 10 others sim., together 12 vols. all cont. full vellum, mor. labels. B.P.’s. Good. (12) * Other authors included, ‘.. Hesiodus, Homerus, Appianus, Xenophon, Aeschlus et Sophocles...’ €300 - €400 482. Dufresne (Carol),.... Du Cange, Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae et Infirmae Latinatatis, 6 vols. lg. folio Paris (Carol Osmont) 1733 - 1736. Engd. add. title, Vol. I with red & bl. title, & full page portrait, 6 hf. titles, plus Supplementum, 4 vols. lg. folio Paris (Le Breton Saillant .. Desaint) 1766. Hf. titles, full page engd. dedit & 11 full page plts., text illus. etc. Together 12 vols. in uniform cont. full mottled calf, profusely tooled gilt spines in panels, mor. labels. B.P.’s. V. good set. (12) €600 - €900 483. One of Dean Gaisfords Great Productions Gaisford (Thomas) Suidae Lexicon Post Ludolphum Kusterum ad Codices Manuscriptos, 2 vols. + Index. Together 3 vols. lg. folio Oxford (Academy) 1834. Titles with engd. vignettes, text with corrections and marginalia thro.-out, manuscript notes at front, cont. heavy hf. calf, gilt spines. B.P.’s. of the author. (3) * Contains some orig. A.L.s., prosepcti etc., concerning the above volumes loosely inserted. €500 - €700 485. Facciolati (James)ed. Totius Latinitatis Lexicon, Consilio et Cura Jacobi Facciolati Opera et Studio Aegidii Forcellini. 4 vols. lg. folio Patavii (Typis Seminarii, apud Thomam Bettinelli) 1805. Second Edn., hf. title & engd. port. frontis Vol. I, wd. cut device on titles, full sprinkled calf, gilt spine in panels, mor. labels. V. fine set. (4) €300 - €400 482 484. With Correspondence between the Author and Thos. Gaisford Clinton (Henry Fynes) Fasti Hellenici, The Civil and Literary Chronology, from the earliest Accounts to the Death of Augustus. 3 vols. lg. 4to Oxford (University) 1834, 1841 & 1851. Together with Fasti Romana, Vols. I (Tables), and Vol. II & Appendix 2 vols. 4to Oxford 1845 - 1840. Together 5 vols., all with engd. vignette on titles, all in uniform cloth, paper labels. B.P.’s. (5) * The first volume contains 7 original A.L.s. as follows: 1. Clinton to Gaisford, 17 Oct. 1827, providing a detailed respouse to a Review of the Second Edition of his Fasti which had appeared in that year. 2. N.D. [1827] the Reviewers reply to Clinton’s letter. 3. Clinton to Gaisford 16 Oct. 1834, pointing out some errors that had occurred in the printing, and discussing his plans for continuing the work down to the reign of Justinian. 4. Four letters, 4 Nov. 1852 to 24 Jan. 1853, between Clinton James Fynes Clinton, brother- in-law of Henry, who had died on 24 October, outlining plans for the sale of Henry’s library and the completion and publication of his Fasti Romani and other ‘literary remains’ (which were in fact published in 1854). €350 - € 500 485 483