Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Chaldaean, Egyptian, Tyrian, Carthaginian, Indian, Persian, and Other Writers...
London: William Pickering, 1832. 2nd edition, revised and expanded. 4to, 22x14cm, [3], ii-lix, [3], 4-361, [1]pp. Errata at rear. 3/4 blind tooled calf, marbled boards. Expertly rebacked with original gilt decorated spine and black label laid down. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Former owner's stamps to front endpapers and two small, cut-out bibliographical descriptions of related titles pasted to verso of half title page. Otherwise clean and sound internally. A sharp copy.
Best edition of this compendium of translated, ancient fragments, being the most well known work from British scholar, Isaac Preston Cory (1802-1842).
F. Leigh Gardner notes in his Catalogue Raisonné, "all later [editions] are mutilated and practically useless," referring to the 1876 edition by E. Richmond Hodges which added more fragments, but removed several of Cory's.
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