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Click Here to Start Viewing Images, or click any image to view its enlargement Homer, Iliad, French transl. by Anne Dacier (Paris, 1711) Friedrich August Wolf, Prolegomena to Homer (Halle, 1795) Anacreon: Poems and Fragments, Greek/Latin ed. by Joshua Barnes (Cambridge, 1705) Pindar, Odes of Pindar, English transl. by Gilbert West (London, 1753) Gilbert West, A Dissertation on the Olympick Games (London, 1753)
The Orations of Lysias and Isocrates, English transl. by John Gillies (London, 1778) Lysias, A Proposal for Dissolving the Ancient Government of Athens, English transl. by John Gillies (London, 1778) Plato, Republic, Greek/Latin ed. by Edmund Massey (Cambridge, 1713) Plato, Works Abridged, English transl. from French transl. of Andre Dacier, 3rd ed. (London, 1739). This copy was once owned by John Wilkes. Plato, Works Abridged, English transl. from French transl. of Andre Dacier, 3rd ed. (London, 1739). This copy was once owned by John Wilkes.
Plato, Works, Russian (St. Petersburg, 1780) Table of contents of Plato, Works, Russian (St. Petersburg, 1780) Plato, Philosophy of Plato, Greek text of H. Stephanus, Latin transl. of M. Ficino, ed. Societas Bipontina (1781) Aristotle, Poetics, Greek/Latin ed. by James Upton (Cambridge, 1696) Aristotle, Ethics, German transl. by Christian Garve (Breslau, 1798, 1801)
Aristotle, Politics, German transl. by Christian Garve (Breslau, 1799, 1802) Epictetus, Works, Greek/Latin ed. by John Upton (London, 1741) Epictetus, Works, Greek/Latin ed. by John Upton (London, 1741) Lewis Crusius, The Lives of the Roman Poets (London, 1733) Cicero, Offices, French (Paris, 1691)
Petronius, Satyricon, Latin, ed. Societas Bipontina (1790) Hippocrates, Works, Latin (Lausanne, 1784) Proclus, Commentaries on Euclid, English transl. by Thomas Taylor, 2nd ed. (London, 1791) Proclus, Commentaries on Euclid, English transl. by Thomas Taylor, 2nd ed. (London, 1791) John Spencer, Ritual Laws of the Hebrews, Latin, 2nd ed. (The Hague, 1686)