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Kelsall (Charles)

The Two Last Pleadings of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Verres; Translated, and illustrated with notes,. To which is added a Postscript, containing remarks on the State of Modern Sicily.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, for White, Cochrane, and Co., - 1812.,

368.76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, United Kingdom)

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Author
Kelsall (Charles)
Publishers
London: Printed by T. Bensley, for White, Cochrane, and Co.,, 1812.
Keyword
TRAVEL SICILY ITALY MEDITERRANEAN

Description

First edition of this translation, 8vo, 230 x 140mm, half-title, viii, [4], 365, [3]pp., 4 plates (2 folding of antiquities, including 1 large folding, and 2 of Sicily), errata/advert. leaf at end, occasional spotting, original publisherís cloth-backed boards, uncut. Kelsall, author, traveller, eccentric, and neo-classicist par excellence; an avid student of Cicero, his translation of Ciceroís prosecution of the notorious Sicilian governor Verres (for the wholesale pillage of temples and cities for statues, gems, etc., to add to his huge collections) is supplemented by a useful sixty-page essay on Sicily in which he offers fresh material, including plates of Enna and Hycarra not found in ìCluver, Mirabella, Arezzo, Houel or Wilkins, for the antiquities, and. Brydone, and Swinburne, for the description of the modern state of the island.î Not in Pine-Coffin; or Moncada.
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