Select odes of Horace in English lyrics. A specimen of a new translation of the poet

by Gilbert Malcolm Sproat

$425 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill, 1857. Small 8vo, pp. iv, 123, 1 ; largely unopened; Latin and English on opposite pages; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; generally fine. One of the founders of the first sawmill on Vancouver Island, Sproat 1834-1913 a Scottish-Canadian businessman, government agent, Indian reserve commissioner, magistrate, and author, was also justice of the peace on the island and held other offices in British

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