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The grammarian's geography and astronomy ancient and modern, exemplified in the use of the globes terraqueous and cælestial. In which all the Terms of Art, Parts of the Globes, and Problems thereon to be performed, with the Use of Maps, are so plainly and methodically consider'd and treated of, as scarce ever to be forgot when once taught and shown by the diligent Tutor. In two parts. Particularly adapted to the Capacities of young Gentlemen studying the Classicks; as well as, useful and entertaining to all others, who; not having had Opportunity of acquainting themselves with Mathematical Calculations, are yet desirous of some Knowledge of the Earth and Heavens. The geographical part comprehending the ancient and modern names, Situation, Government, Religion, Bounds, Dimensions, Length; and Breadth of most Places in the World; including Land and Water, namely, Continents, Islands, Peninsulas, Isthmus's, Promontories, Capes, Coasts, Mountains, with Oceans, Seas, Lakes, Straits, Gulfs, Rivers, and Countries, Kingdoms, Cities, and Towns; with the Latitude and Longitude of the most principal Parts, and their Bearing and Distance from London; in View of the Latin and Greek Classicks, Homer, Virgil, Herodotus, Justin; Xenophon, Caesar, Plutarch, Livy, Thucidydes, Sallust, Dionysius Periegetes, Pausanias, Josephus, Eusebius, Silius Italicus, Lucan, Florus, Nepos, Eutropius, Quintus Curtius, and the rest: With the Adventures, Voyages, and Travels of Ulysses, Aeneas, Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, our Saviour Jesus Christ, St. Paul, the rest of the Apostles, and many others in both sacred and profane History. The astronomical part containing a description of the laws, Order, Number, Names, Distances, Magnitudes, Motions, and Appearances of the Heavenly Bodies, Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets, with the Problems belonging thereto; an Account of the several Systems of the Universe, and a Defence of the true Solar One; the History of the Rise, Progress and present Perfection of Astronomy; the Classical Stories relating to the Planets Signs and Constellations delineated on the Celestial Globe. With a Dramatick Epilogue called Caelum Reformatum. The Whole illustrated with necessary Maps and Schemes neatly engraved on Copper. By John Holmes, Master of the Publick Grammar School, in Holt, Norfolk .
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  • Holmes, John, 1703-1759.
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London : printed by W. Strahan; and sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLI. [1751]
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The voyages of Ulysses / illustrated by William M. Hutchinson.
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  • Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
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London, 1962.
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The voyages of Ulysses. / Illustrated by William M. Hutchinson
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  • Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
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London : Frederick Muller, ltd, [1962]
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The voyages of Ulysses / translated from the French and German by Kevin Smyth.
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  • Lessing, Erich,
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Macmillan, 1966.
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The Voyages of Ulysses ... Illustrated by William M. Hutchinson.
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  • Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
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London : Frederick Muller, 1962.
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The voyages of Ulysses. A photographic interpretation of Homer's classic / by Erich Lessing. With commentaries by Professor C. Kerényi, Michel Gall [and] Hellmut Sichtermann. With selections from T.E. Shaw's translation of the Odyssey and Ithaka, der Peloponnes und Troja, by Heinrich Schliemann. Bibliography and archeological data by Cornelia Kerényi. (Contributions ... translated ... by Kevin Smyth.).
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  • Lessing, Erich.
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London, 1966.
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The voyages of Ulysses : a photographic interpretation of Homer's classic / by Erich Lessing ; with commentaries by C. Kerényi, Michel Gall, Hellmut Sichtermann ; with selections from T.E. Shaw's translation of the Odysey and Ithaka, der Peloponnes und Troja by Heinrich Schliemann
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  • Lessing, Erich.
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Freiburg : Herder, 1965
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An elucidation of the Trojan war, exhibiting the places and nations spoken of by Homer & Vergil, with the voyages of Aeneas, Ulysses and Telemachus .
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[S.l.] : Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, Liverpool, 1816.
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[Die Odyssee.] The Voyages of Ulysses. A photographic interpretation of Homer's classic ... With commentaries by Professor C. Kerényi, Michel Gall, Hellmut Sichtermann. With selections from T. E. Shaw's translation of the Odyssey and Ithaka, der Peloponnes und Troja by Heinrich Schliemann. Bibliography and archeological data by Cornelia Kerényi. (Translated by Kevin Smyth.).
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  • Lessing, Erich.
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London, Melbourne; printed in West Germany : Macmillan, 1966.
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A view of the earth, : as far as it was known to the ancients. Being a short but comprehensive system of classical geography. Exhibiting 1. A Description of the several Empires, Kingdoms, and Provinces, their Cities, Towns, Rivers, and Mountains, mentioned in the Greek and Latin Classics, Homer, Virgil, Xenophon, Cæsar, Livy, Herodotus, &c. II. An accurate Abridgment of the whole Æneid of Virgil, and Odyssey of Homer, in a geographical Description of the Voyages of Æneas and Ulysses. With the Travels and Voyages of Saint Paul. Being a Work absolutely necessary for the right understanding of the Classics. Adapted to the use of schools and Academies. Illustrated with a new Set of Maps, corrected from the best Ancient Historians and Geographers, on Purpose for this Work. By R. Turner, Junior, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and author of the Heretical History.
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  • Turner, R. (Richard), 1753-1788.
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London : printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]
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Catalogue of voyages and travel, Americana, atlases and maps, autograph letters and historical documents : including the humble petition of Samuel Staats ..., 1698, Callender's The colony of Rhode Island, 1739, Washington's The journal of Major George Washington, 1754, and Day's Reflexions upon the present state of England, and the independence of America, 1782; books on Latin-America, including Rivero and De Tschudi's Antiguedades Peruanas, 1851, and Australia, including Phillip's The voyage of Governor Philip to Botany Bay, 1789, and Mann's The present picture of New South Wales, 1811; books in the Maori language; Berlinghieri's Geographia, (1482), Blaeu's Le thea^tre du monde, 5 vol., and Theatrum orbis terrarum, 6 vol., Jeffrey's The West-India atlas, 1775, and The American atlas, 1778, and atlases of Visscher, Delisle, Vaugondy, Zatta and others; maps including Chapman and André's Map of the county of Essex, 1777, Donn's Map of the county of Devon, 1778, and Scull's Map of the province of Pennsylvania, 1770; important 18th-century documents relating to Pennsylvania; a significant archive on the South American meat trade; a 17th-century manuscript of Voyages of the Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605), papers of Admiral Sir Charles Elliot (1818-1895) and Sir Charles Fernand Rey (1877-1968); letters relating to South Africa and Antarctic exploration; an autograph survey of Sir Henry Stanley; letters of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Emerson, James Russell Lowell and Mark Twain. Which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA ... ; day of sale: Monday, 12th June, 1972.
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  • Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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London : Sotheby & Co., 1972.
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The works of Homer, : the celebrated Grecian poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; Those very celebrated and universally-admited Epic or Heroic Poems. The Iliad-in twenty four Books-Being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy-Interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories, and containing a most sublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the Great and Valiant Achilles, the principal Hero of the War, after his Reconciliation with Agamemnon, slew Hector with his own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpse at his Chariot. Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and useful Maxims on Military Discipline, Stratagem, Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Resolution, Prudence, Oeconomy, and, in short, respecting all the various Offices and Duties of Human Life; and affording the most important, agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the most lively Manner, to Mankind in general. The Odyssey-Composed also in Twenty-Four Books-And containing, among a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, a most magnificent and delightful Description of the Voyages and Adventures of the wise and venerable Ulysses, King of Ithaca, in Greece, and one of the Princes who conducted the Siege of Troy, during his Absence for Twenty Years from his Queen Penelope. Exhibiting not only a just Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful System of Morality, Wisdom, Fortitude, Perseverance, Moderation and Temperance, instructive to all Degrees of Men, and filled with striking Images, Similies, Examples, and Precepts of Civil and Domestic Life. Including also that other excellent Piece of Homer, entitled The battle of the frogs and mice -in Three Books-A very beautiful, ingenious, satyrical, and interesting Production, replete with Wit, Humour, and Entertainment, allegorically describing the Valour and Intrepidity of those sagacious Animals. Carefully translated from the original Greek. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on Homer will be carefully consulted and attended to, viz. Eustathius, Dacies, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, Warburton, &c. particularly that hitherto most esteemed Translation by Alex. Pope, Esq. Illustrated with large and valuable notes, Critical, Historical, Philosophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholastic, Political, Moral, Entertaining, Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the most salutary Reflections and useful Remarks, with many important References to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal History, &c. &c. - To which will be carefully added, The Arguments at large to every Book or Chapter, and the most Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Homer; as also A New Essay on Homer's Battdes, &c. and a Complete Geographical Table of the Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. Being the most perfect and beautiful Edition of Homer ever published, and calculated to accommodate and please every Class of Readers. The whole embellished with A most Superb Set of Grand Quarto copper-plates, Designed and engraved by the most Capital Artists: so that these Elegant Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purchase-Money of the whole Work. The whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the New and Beautiful Quarto Edition of Telemachus,-The New Abridgment of the Roman History, &c. &c.
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  • Homer
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London : printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row; and sold by all other booksellers and news-carriers, in town and country, [1780]
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