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Famous Dutch School Aesop View picture(s) 1 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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Beautiful Bodoni edition from the library of one of the most outstanding book collectors of 19th century Russia View picture(s) 2 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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Important Apuleius edition printed by the Officina Plantiniana in Leiden View picture(s) 3 APULEIUS, Lucius. Opera omnia quae exstant. E quibus, post ultimam P. Colvii editionem, Philosophici libri ope vetustiss. Cod. Ms. innumeris mendis expurgati; quam plurimis locis aucti, per Bon. Vulcanium Brugensem. Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1594. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Woodcut printer's device and initials. (16), 80, 383 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Latin  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Including the often lacking second part View picture(s) 4 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) 5 ARP, Jan 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) 6 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. WIth Aldus' woodcut printer's device on title-page. Printed in italics. [12],104 ll. 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) 7 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) 8 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) 9 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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In memory of Classical Antiquity View picture(s) 10 BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius & [Tobias FENDT]. Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Editio nova. Aucta antiquis monumentis in agro trajectina repertis. Utrecht, Gysbert van Zyl, 1671. Folio. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red label with title lettered in gold, blindstamped sides, blue edges. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 125 full-page numbered engraved  plates (of which 88 with text on opposite page), and 2 full-page unnumbered engraved plates, all with grave-stones and tombs of famous Italian men. (2), 176, 8, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Classical Antiquity  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Comprehensive compilation of Roman legal terminology by a famous French jurist and philologist View picture(s) 11 BRISSON, Barnabé. De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, Libri VIII: Omnibus politioris litteraturae, cumprimis iurisprudentiae studiosis utiles & necessarii, In quibus varii bonorum auctorum loci emendantur, supplentur, notantur, illustrantur. Opus magno labore ab auctore congestum; nunc vero diligenter recognitum & a prioribus mendis purgatum. Adiecti sunt Rerum & verborum indices locupletissimi. Frankfurt a/Main, Ioannes Wechel & Petrus Fischer and consorts, 1592. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed & gilt, blue edges. Title in red & black, woodcut head- & tail pieces & initials. (8), 750 (= 760), (84) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Linguistics  Literary History  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) 12 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) 13 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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The copy owned by Arnoldus Buchelius View picture(s) 14 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) 15 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 of the finest Roman poets of the first century BC View picture(s) 16 CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. [Opera] Catullus Tibullus Propertius. Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1569. 2 works in one volume. 16mo. 17th- or 18th-century gold-tooled calf. 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 Greek grammar of the great Humanists, written by the pioneer in spreading Greek literature in the West View picture(s) 17 CHRYSOLORAS, Manuel. Erotemata. (In Greek). Latin text on the title: Erotemata Chrysolorae. De anomalis verbis. De formatione temporum ex libro Chalcondylae: Quartus Gazae de constructione. De encleticis. Sententiae monostichi ex variis poetis. Cato. Venice, Victor Raban, 1540. Small 8vo. Later half calf, spine with black title-label, red marbled edges. Small woodcut printer's device of a crowned mermaid within cartouche on title and the same (larger) device on the recto of the last leaf underneath the colophon. 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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A printer from Kampen abroad View picture(s) 18 CHRYSOSTOMUS, Joannes. Comparatio regii potentatus & diuitiarum, ac praestantiae, ad monachum in uerissima Christi philosophia acquiescentem. Paris, apud Collegium Sorbonae (colophon: Gerardus Morrhius), 1530. 8vo. 19th century half calf. Printer's device (Renouard 818) on last page. (20) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In an interesting original Antwerp panel binding View picture(s) 19 CHRYSOSTOMUS, Johannes. Van die beweechnisse des herten, tot berouwe der sonden. Met meer ander gulden tractaetkens des alder heylichsten joannis Chrysostomi: overgheset wt den Latine in duytsche, doer eenen religiosen der Regulier orden sancti Augustini. Antwerp, Symon Cock, 1546. 8vo. Very interesting contemporary Flemish (Antwerp) binding: full calf, panel with two portraits in roundels on both sides, interesting fastening of two bone buttons on small leather bands to be fastened on two loops. With title printed in red and black, some woodcut initials (8 lines). Collation: A-Q8, R4-1. (131) lvs. (including the mostly lacking quire (R) with the privilege, without last blank) Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Devotion  Dutch  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Composed by order of the Dutch State View picture(s) 20 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Orationum Selectarum Liber. Editus in usum Scholarum Hollandiae & West-Frisiae, ex decreto Illustr. D.D. Ordinum ejus Provinciae. Notas addidit Eduardus a Zurck. Rotterdam, Typis Regn. Leers, 1694. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum. With woodcut vignette on title. (8), 226, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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