Homer. Translated by William Cowper. 4 volumes. 
 
Joseph T. Buckingham: 1814. Hardcovers. Octavos. First American printing. Volumes 2 and 3 professionally re-backed to match original binding. Leaves also mended but the repairs are not noticeable. Some damp stained leaves and endpapers as well as foxing. Many of the leaves are cockled. 370, 422, 324, & 309 pages. Very good.  
 
Homer will always be singular for singing of war and peace, and Cowper one of the most important poets in English who reminded us. He worked earnestly to revise his translations of Homer when they came under extensive criticism, and the first American edition reprints his extensive work. Damned, melancholic, abolitionist radical, neither queer in any expected sense nor heteronormative - Cowper is everything we want when we read the British. His blank verse is Miltonic but has the common touch (he contributed the phrase "God moves in mysterious ways" to English). This professionally re-backed four volume set is unique, and, as it's admired and read, will be singular in any library.
 
"Muse, make the man thy theme, for shrewdness fam'd
And genius versatile; who far and wide
A wanderer, after Ilium overthrown,
Discover'd many cities. and the mind
And manners learn'd of men in lands remote."