Contains anecdotes of Remarkable Cases of Flogging, and of Celebrated Flagellants. A most curious work on the subject.
39 Flagellation. The Rodiad. By George Coleman. 18mo. original red boards, leather backs (new.) London, 1810 (reprinted.) Scarce. $3.00
40 Antique Gems from the Greek and Latin, with original Text and Translations. Embracing ANACREON, APULEIUS, APOLLONIUS of RHODES, CATULLUS, HORACE, LONGUS, LUCIAN, LUCIUS, MUSAEUS, OVID, PROPERTIUS, SAPPHO, TATIUS, THEOCRITUS, and VIRGIL. Translated into English by eminent scholar-poets, beginning with Sir Philip Sydney and including Marlow, Dryden, and Milton, among earlier writers, and Andrew Lang of the present day. Text is specially printed on Imperial Japanese vellum. With over two hundred beautiful illustrations. Limited edition de luxe, 12 volumes, top edges gilt. Printed for subscribers only. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons.
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41 Arabian Nights. Burton (Sir R. F.). Unexpurgated Edition. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with introductions, explanatory notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights, by Richard F. Burton, 10 vols.; together with the Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with notes, Anthropological and Explanatory, by Richard F. Burton, 7 vols.; enlarged by the addition of all the characteristic illustrations by Lalauze, Letchford, Stanley Wood, and others. 17 volumes, Imp. 8vo. gray buckram, top edges gilt, uncut. Privately printed for members of The Burton Club only. Limited to 1,000 sets. Original cost to members $170.00. $39.50
This edition is the very scarce unexpurgated reprint of the Benares edition, (which is at present extremely rare) with the numerous plates on Japan vellum, which never appeared in the first issue.
A fine set in a substantial binding.
42 Arabian Nights. Burton (Sir R. F.). Unexpurgated Edition. With all the characteristic illustrations by Lalauze, Letchford, Stanley Wood, and others. 17 vols., Imp. 8vo.; newly and very handsomely bound in ¾ dark green morocco, gilt tooled backs with Crescent inlays, gilt tops, uncut edges. Privately printed for members of the Burton Club only. Edition limited to 1,000 sets.
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