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'In usum Delphini': from the celebrated series printed for the benefit of the son of Louis XIV, bound for a member of the noble Backer (van Leuven) family View picture(s) 1 COLLECTION of 8 works from the 'in usum Delphini' series of classical authors. Paris, F. Leonard a.o., 1675-1685. 8 parts in 5 vols. 4to. Contemporary uniform vellum, ribbed spines with black letterpress titles, all covers with large central gilt coat-of-arms of the noble family Backer van Leuven, panelled and with fleurons on all corners. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Genealogy & Heraldry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two nicely illustrated fable books by the Krausses at Augsburg View picture(s) 2 NOUVELLES FABLES CHOISIES, et mises en vers par les plus celebres auteurs François de ce tems. Traduites & mises en prose Allemande. AUSSERLESENE FABLEN, von denen berühmtesten Frantzösischen Autoren dieser Zeit in Reimen gebracht; Anjetzo aber in ungebundener Teutscher Rede verfasset. In Zweij Theil. Augsburg, Johann Jacob Krauss, 1721. Two parts in 1 volume. 4to. Later half calf, ribbed spine with 'Fables' lettered in gold. With 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, engraved allegorical plate for the preface, and 2 series of 24, resp.28 fable illustrations on 12, resp. 14 full-page engraved plates by Johann Ulrich Krauss. (10), 51, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare adaptation of Erasmus' collection of apophthegms, anecdotes and proverbs View picture(s) 3 (ERASMUS, Desiderius & Paulus MANUTIUS (ed.)). Apophthegmatum ex optimis u(trius)que linguae scriptoribus libri IIX. Pauli Manutii studio, atque industria, doctissimor. theologor. consilio, atque ope, ab omnibus mendis vindicati, quae pium, & veritatis Catholicae studiosum lectorem poterant offendere. Gregorio XIII. Pont. Max. hanc unam editionem approbante. ut in extremo libro videre est. Venice, Ex aedibus Manutianis (Aldus Manutius Jr.), 1577. 16mo. Modern full mottled calf in antique style with gilt, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, both covers with triple blind filets and one gilt filet along the edges with small gilt centre piece and corner pieces (crowned fish). Small circular woodcut portrait of Aldus Pius Manutius on title-page, woodcut head-pieces and initials. 706, (46) pp., incl. last blank leaf. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Biography  Classical Antiquity  Proverbs  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In very intriguing binding with the monogram 'HD' surrounded with four 'Closed S's on both sides View picture(s) 4 (VIRGIL & OVID). (Elegantes Variorum Virgilio-Ovidio-centones de opificio mundi, Christo Deo, Deique Matre, SS Francisco et Car. Borromaeo ...) Munich, A. Bergia for Raphael Sadeler, 1617). Sm. 8vo. Contemporary black morocco, spine ribbed, with alternately a small gilt fleur-de-lis ornament and a gilt 'closed S' in the 6 compartments, and the gilt monogram 'HD' surrounded by four 'closed S'-s (possibly of Henri IV and Gabrielle d'Estrées?) in centre on both sides, marbled endpapers. 98 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  French  Neo-Latin  Philosophy  Provenance  Royalty  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous Dutch School Aesop View picture(s) 5 AESOP. Fabulae Graecae & Latinae, nunc denuo selectae: Eae item, quas Avienus Carmine expressit. Acc. Ranarum & Murium Pugna, Homero olim asscripta: Cum elegantissimis in utroque libello Figuris, & utriusque Interpretatione, plurimis in locis emendata. Ex decreto DD. Hollandiae Ordinum, in usum Scholarum. utrecht, Ex off. Georgius à Poolsum, 1685. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. With small woodcut of a fox sitting under a tree on title, woodcut depicting Aesop with animals dancing around him and children wearing a crown looking in the door, illustrating Aesop's life, 40 woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, and 6 woodcuts illustrating the "Battke between the Mice and the Frogs", all by Christoph van Sichem. 134, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Schoolbooks  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Illustrated by Bernard Salomon View picture(s) 6 ALCIATI, Andrea. Emblematum libri duo. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, Guillaume Gazeau, 1547. 16mo. Full-grained orange morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt armorial supralibros of the Prince d'Essling in centre on both sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (LORTIC). Woodcut printer's device on title, variant woodcut printer's device on verso last leaf, and 113 almost half-page woodcut emblems by Bernard Salomon. 143, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Emblem Books  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful Bodoni edition from the library of one of the most outstanding book collectors of 19th century Russia View picture(s) 7 ANACREON. Anakreontos Teiou mele praefixo commentario quo poëtae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lect. Parma, in aedibus Palatinis (Typis Bodonianis), 1791. Sm. 4to in quires of f leaves (151 x 110 mm). Contemporary full green morocco with gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, gilt inside dentelles, purple endpapers: the pastedowns with a frame of small silver leaves pasted on. Engraved vignette of Anacreon in a roundel on title, engraved vignette of the dedicatee Jos. Nic. de Azara in a roundel on dedication page. (4), CXVIII, (2), 111 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Poetry  Provenance  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Including the often lacking second part View picture(s) 8 ARISTOTLE, Pseudo-. De mundo, Graece. Cum duplici interpretatione Latina. Priore quidem L. Apulei; altera vero Guilielmi Budaei. Cum scholiis & castigationibus Bonaventurae Vulcanii, tam in Aristotelem, quam in utrunque eius interpretem. Accessit seorsim Gregorii CYPRII, Encomium Maris, Graece, nunquam antea excusum. et Pauli SILENTIARII, Iambica. Leyden, Ex off. Plantiniana, apud Fr. Raphelengium, 1591. Two parts in one vol. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut printer's device on 2 titles. (16), 297, (7); 23, (5 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Inspired by Seneca's Hyppolitus and Hercules Furens View picture(s) 9 ARP, J. van. Prixus, Prins van Theben. Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn for Dirck Cornelisz. Houthaeck, 1640. 4to. Later blue paper wrappers. Woodcut title-vignette depicting a beehive ('Door Yver in liefde Bloiende'[sic!]), woodcut initials. (27), (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Classical Antiquity  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nearly contemporary commentary on Cicero's speeches from the Aldine Press View picture(s) 10 ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus. Explanatio in Ciceronis orationes in C. Verrem, in orationem pro C. Cornelio, in orationem contra competitores, in orationem pro M. Scauro, in orationem contra L. Pisonem, in orationem pro Milone. Scholia Pauli Manutii. Indices Duo. Venice, (Paulus Manutius), 1563. 8vo. Modern panelled blind stamped brown morocco in antique style with endpapers from an earlier binding, spine with 2 raised bands, both covers with blind stamped ornamental border. Aldus' woodcut printer's device on title-page. Printed in italics. (12),104 lvs. Collation: A8, 2A4, B-O8. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful large paper copy of the famous 4to edition, admired by Dibdin View picture(s) 11 BODONI.- ANACREON. Odaria praefixo commentario quo poetae genus traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia adumbratur. Additis var. lectionibus. Additis var. lectionibus. Parma, Ex Regio Typographeio, (1784-5). Large 4to. Contemporary citron morocco with blind-tooled ornamental border on both covers, gilt spine, gilt inside dentelles, inside covers and endpapers lined with blue silk, g.e. (PADELOUP), preserved in cloth slipcase. Engraved vignette of Anacreon on title, engraved coat-of-arms on dedication page of D.D. Nicolaus De Azara. (4), XCIV, 100, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Bodoni  Classical Antiquity  Literary History  Poetry  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare third edition of the first translation into Italian, with the coat of arms of the Gaetani family on both covers View picture(s) 12 BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius. Di consolatione philosophica volgare, nuovamente revisto & di molti errori porgato opera al tutto dignissima eccellente & bella. Don Anselmo Tanzo al pio lettore. Varie en le voglie, i stati & il valore ... (sonnet by A. Tanzo). Colophon: Venice, Marchio Sessa, December 1531. 8vo. 17th-century full green morocco, gilt title on spine, double gilt filets along edges and gilt central crowned coat-of-arms incorporating the arms of the GAETANI (or CAETANI) family on both sides, interesting paper pastedowns with stamped and coloured floral decoration, red painted edges. Title and fol. B1r within woodcut typographical border, some woodcut initials of which one historiated. (8), 104 lvs. [Collation: A-O8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the coins of Ancient France by the intendant of Quebec View picture(s) 13 BOUTEROUE D'AUBIGNY, Claude. Recherches curieuses des monoyes de France depuis le commencement de la monarchie. Paris, Edme Martin, 1666. Folio. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, ribbed spine with red title label lettered in gold, covers with gilt central armorial piece of 'The Society of writers to the Signet' and gilt triple ruling, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Title printed in red and black with engraved allegorical vignette by N. Bonnart, showing a press for coinage, numerous engravings in text of which seven full-page (on pp. 336, 342, 349, 354, 359, 364 and 370), engraved headpiece and initial, woodcut head- and tailpieces. (16), 398, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Canada  Classical Antiquity  Economy  France  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of 8 orations by the famous professor Petrus Burmannus the Elder (Utrecht and Leiden) and others (2, Leiden) View picture(s) 14 BURMAN the Elder, Pieter. Oratio funebris in obitum viri clarissimi Joannis Georgii Graevii, Magnae Brittanniae Regis historici, politices, historiarum & eloquentiae professoris ordinarii. Dicta XI. Kal. Martias MDCCIII. Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1703. 8 works in one vol. 4to. Contemporary half calf, ribbed spine, gilt with title lettered in gold, marbled covers with central gilt vignette of the 'Society of Writers to the Signet' on both sides. Woodcut coat-of-arms of Utrecht on title. 57, (26) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Law  Leyden  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Erotic imagery from the secret cabinet of the King of Naples View picture(s) 15 C.F. (= FAMIN, Cesar). Musée Royal de Naples. Peintures, bronzes et statues erotiques de Cabinet Secret, Avec leur explication par M.C.F. Paris, Abel Ledoux, 1836. 4to. Contemporary green half leather with matching marbled boards, gilt spine. With engraved frontispiece, 60 handcoloured numbered engraved plates by A. Delvaux, some printed in colour. (4), XXX, (1), 159, (1 blank), (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Art  Classical Antiquity  Erotica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Calepinus: another word for dictionary View picture(s) 16 CALEPINUS, Ambrosius. Dictionarium ex optimis quibusque authoribus studiose collectum: & rursus auctum: et multo diligentius ab Ascensio repositum: ita ut nullum vocabulum cornucopiae queratur praetermissum: is qui composita in simplicibus: & h ante i: & y scribenda suis locis inquirere norit. Quam fidem ipse Ascensius huic renovare impressioni suae praestare pollicitur: oratum faciens lectorem ut signum inspiciat. Nam sunt qui titulum nomenque Badianum mentiant: et laborem suffurent. Greci praeterea recognitum: accentibus discretum: et Latine expositum est. Paris, Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1519. Folio. Contemporary half vellum over wooden boards, spine ribbed, half vellum sides richly blind-stamped, remnants of 2 brass clasps. Title within richly designed ornamental woodcut borders, partly in white on black criblé and partly in black on white, with large woodcut printer's device in centre, the whole title printed in red and black; fine large criblé woodcut initials in the text. (398) lvs. printed in 2 columns. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dictionaries  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The copy owned by Arnoldus Buchelius View picture(s) 17 CANTERUS, Theodorus (Dirk CANTER). Variarum lectionum libri duo.Ad clarissimum virum Georgium Rattallerum Senatus Regii Ultraiectini praesidem dignissimum. Antwerp, Christoph Plantin, 1574. 8vo. Nineteenth-century black morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt double fillet borders on sides and large gilt coat-of-arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina in centre, gilt inner dentelles, marbled end-papers. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 2 circular woodcuts by Antoon van Leest in text (diam. 36 mm., p. 126), depicting both sides of a Roman coin with the portrait of the double-headed Janus; reverse: ship-bows and the inscriptions 'Roma' and 'Viri'. 141 (= 135) , (1 blank) pp. (Collation: A-H8, I4, with erroneous pagination in the last quire: 129, 132, 133, 136, 137, 140, 141). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most influential works of mythological commentary of the 16th and 17th centuries View picture(s) 18 CARTARI, Vincenzo (& Antoine du VERDIER). Imagines deorum, qui ab dntiquis colebantur: In quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: Olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio  domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo Indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur. Lyons, Guichardus Iullieron for Stephanus Michaelis (Etienne Michel), 1581. 4to. Modern vellum, ribbed spine with title in ink. With woodcut publisher's device on title, full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier within richly ornamented architectural Renaissance border, small woodcut illustration and 89 large beautiful woodcuts (130 x 95 mm) of mythological classical Gods and Heroes in text. (8), 359, (57) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Mythology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important Plantin editions of the works by the three most important Roman lyrical and elegical poets of the first century BC View picture(s) 19 CATULLUS, TIBULLUS & PROPERTIUS [Opera] Catullus Tibullus Propertius. Antwerp, Ex officina Chritophori Plantini, 1569. 16mo Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century calf with gilt ornamental border along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, g.e., marbled endpapers. With Plantin's printer's device on title. 173, (3, including last blank leaf) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Plantin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The basic reader of the great Humanists, written by the pioneer in spreading Greek literature in the West View picture(s) 20 CHRYSOLORAS, (Manuel). Erotemata. (In Greek). Venice, Victor Raban, 1540. Small 8vo. Later half calf, spine with black title-label, red marbled edges. Small woodcut printer's device on title and same large device on colophon last leaf. 270, (2, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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