Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #143/1000cc of the medium octavo version, bound in vellum spine and board covers. Deckle edges, and uncut pages. Covers shelfworn and soiled.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.60 + shipping
Description: 1 of an edition of 1,000 copies on fine hand-made paper. Frontispiece, title in red & black. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches), 313-pages. Original quarter parchment, uncut. Binding soiled, spine slightly canted, corners rubbed through, crush damage to 1 1/2 inches of fore-edge of upper cover. The binding poor but internally very clean - an ideal candidate for rebinding and priced to allow for such.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cover shows heavy wear, missing spine, rubbing and edgewear. Foxed endpapers, pages are clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.74 + shipping
Description: OHalbpergament, gr.8°, (XXIII) 313 S., Frontispiz.Copy No.25. Zustand: Einbandrücken, oberes Kapitel angerissen,im Bund angebrochen, locker im Bund. Lat./engl. Including the Original Latin Text. Zum Titel:Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton, R.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., etc., etc., etc., and the Prose Portion, Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C.Smithers. de
Seller: Antiquariat Das Bücherdepot, Vienna, VIENN, Austria
Price: US$96.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition. xxiii, 313 pp. Half brown cloth over marbled boards, with purple title label and gilt lettering to spine. Externally clean. Some offsetting and spots to prelims but generally internally clean. Pages uncut; printed on handmade paper. Subscriber's edition, limited to 1000 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Catullus. Sir Richard Burton's translation of Catullus' erotic poetry. 8vo. Limited Edition
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, xxiii. 313 pages, half parchment One of the 1000 regular copies, on nice paper. With a prefatory letter by Isabel Lady Burton.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [xxiii], 313 pp. Cloth backed papered boards, gelt lettering & decoration, spine rubbed, corners bumped, else very good copy. (88185). Introduction by Leonard C. Smithers.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book in quarter cream vellum covers with grey board covers; slightly rubbed gilt titles to spine; edge of boards rubbed. Internally very good; bookplate to paste down; one of a LIMITED EDITION of1000 copies on small-paper and this is No. 180; tissue guarded frontispiece effigy of Catullus; printed on fine hand-made paper; binding tight; no foxing of note; offsetting tan to feps; fore and lower edges semi-trimmed; xiii + 313 pp
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$170.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Now First Completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton, K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., etc., etc., etc., and the Prose Portion, Introduction, and Notes Explanatory, and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers. 8vo. original 1/4 vellum backed grey paper boards gilt, handmade paper, uncut (papered board edges rubbbed away, minor soiling, slight darkening to vellum, endpapers & title page a little offset with residual stain to front pastedown where bookplate neatly removed, leaf-edges slightly tanned, otherwise internally clean & unmarked); pp. xxiv (last blank), 314 (last blank), with frontispiece & a couple of vignettes. Heavy item (1.2 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. Limited edition of 1000 copies. A very good copy. [Penzer 156-157].
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies. 8vo. Printed on hand-made paper. Rebound professionally in half purple morocco. Very Good condition
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$333.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. xxiii, 313. with half-title. title in red & black. engraved frontis. Uncut in original bds. (extremities rubbed, spine darkened). First Edition, one of 1,000 copies of the small-paper issue. Penzer pp. 156-57.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Burton, Richard F. & Smithers, Leonard C.. THE CARMINA OF CATULLUS. Privately Printed, London, 1894.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wear to extremities. Endpapers browned. Tissue guard to frontispiece shows small closed tear; Translator Burton was working on this epic poem when he died. Co-worker Smithers handled the prose portions and annotations. Privately printed edition for the translators limited to 1000 copies. Translated using the Latin text of Mueller from 1885, among others ; 8vo; 313 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Richard Francis Burton,. The Carmina of Cattallus. privately printed for the translator, 1894.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: long preface by Isabel Burton, illustrations by Leonard Smithers, spine rebacked good
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Burton, Richard Translator. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. privately printed, London, 1894.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: now first completely Englished into verse and prose. Small paper edition, 1,000 copies. Printed on hand made paper for private circulation only. Copy #124. 313 pp. Penzer p 156, 157.One of the more erotic books produced in the 1890s. Burton died before this was published so the prose portion was completed by L. SMithers. After the success of the Arabian Nights, Burton decided to take on translation of another erotic work. VG+ in orig. vellum over paper boards. Little wear at corners, spine nice. Crisp & clean throughout. Housed in a folding cloth covered case and then in a slipcase with gilt leather spine over cloth. Raised bands on spine. Box is a little better than vg, showing wear at tips, on edge of raised bands and corners. However, it has protected the book.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.