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With a remarkable illustration by Romeyn de Hooghe View picture(s) 61 MEIBOOM, Marcus. De fabrica triremium liber. Amsterdam, (Christoffel Cunradus), 1671. 4to. Contemporary plain vellum, spine lettered in ink. With the often lacking beautiful folded etched plate by Romeyn de Hooghe with five separate illustrations of the construction of triremes; some figs. in the text and some interesting woodcut initials. The woodcut printer's device is used by the printer Christoffel Cunradus who was active in Amsterdam from 1650 till 1677 (see: Huisstede & Brandhorst, Dutch printer's devices, 598, vol. 1, p. 360). (16), CLXXXIV pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Romeyn de Hooghe  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of Christ. Vurstisius's edition of two classical Latin geographers View picture(s) 62 MELA, Pomponius & Gaius Julius SOLINUS. Pomponii Melae de orbis situ, libri III. et C. Iulii Solini, Polyhistor. Quorum ille descriptionem singularum Orbis terreni partium atque regionum: Hic vero praeter eadem, quae ubique memorabilia sint loca, animantia, plantae, gemmae, & similia, compendiose enarrat. Basel, Henric Petri, 1576, 2 works in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary vellum over boards with title in contemporary hand writing on spine. With woodcut printer's device on title and larger variant on verso last leaf, 20  numbered double-page woodcut  maps in the first part (nrs. 1 and 13 lacking), and 13 (of 14) full-page woodcut  maps in the second part, numbered 21-25 (26 lacking), 27, 28/29 on folding leaf, 30-32, 33 folding leaf with two full-page maps two folding, in second part, and numerous charming woodcut  initials. (30), 363 (=365), (3) pp.; collation: a8-1 (blank lacking), *8, A-Z8, including the blank I8. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Cartography  Classical Antiquity  Geography  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two scholarly works on Ancient Greece from the Elsevier press View picture(s) 63 MEURSIUS, Johannes. De populis Atticae liber singularis. In quo antiquitates Atticae plurimae. Leyden, Ex officina Ludovicus Elzeviri, Typis Godefridi Basson, 1616. Sm. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt title on spine, gilt ruled covers, red sprinkled edges. Title with woodcut printer's device. (12), 149, (25) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Elzevier  Greece  Greek & Latin  History  Humanism  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hebrew expressions and proverbs collected by Louis-Henry Daquin View picture(s) 64 MISHNAH, Nezikin. [HEBREW TEXT].Sententiae et proverbia rabbinorum. Ludovico Henrico Daquin interprete.Ad illustrum Cardinalem Francescum de la Roche-Foucault magnum Franciae Eleemosynarium, episcopum Sylvanectensem. Paris, Sebastian Cramoisy, 1620. 16mo. Contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in ink. (4), 160 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Hebraica & Judaica  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Navigating through centuries: the first naval history View picture(s) 65 MORISOT, Claude Barthélemy. Orbis Maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia: in qua inventiones navium, earundem partes, armamenta. Instructiones Classium, navigationes, praelia maritima, arma, stratagemata, trophea, triumphi, naumachiae. Urbes & coloniae maritimae, periplus orbis antiqui, & novi. Magistratus, praefecturae & officia classica apud omnes Gentes. Leges navales, lustrationes classium, causae & genera ventorum, usus pixidis nauticae, histiodromice, marium diversi motus, aestusque, atque exundationes, aliaque omnia ad rem maritimam pertinentia. Opus unicâ centuriâ contentum, quae in duos libros divisa & partita est: Primus: res in mari, aut circa mare gestas continet, ab initio navigationum ad Costantini Magni obitum, cum descriptione littorum antiquis cosmographis cognitorum. Secundus: A Constantino Magno ad hanc usque diem res pelago, & in oris gestas complectitur, cum descriptione littorum antiquis incognitorum. Dijon, Petrus Palliot, 1643. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin with marbled boards. Engraved title by Spirinx, title printed in red and black, double-page plate of an ancient sea battle (Naumachia) and 44 engraved plates in text, including a full-page plate of an antique statue with six antique vessels attached to it, 23 maps, 9 plates of antique coins with representations of the sea, and 11 views of various (sailing) ships, including one propelled by oxen, all engraved by Palliot. (24), 725, (19) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Classical Antiquity  Europe  Geography  Maritime History  Medals  Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life of Alexander the Great and other educational stories for children View picture(s) 66 MÜLLER, J.F.L. & WEISSMAN DE VILLEZ, C.A.P. Leven en Karakterschets van Alexander den Macedoniër, benevens Mengelingen van Onderscheidenen Aard. Amst., F. Kaal, 1829. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards, later blue cloth spine with orig. title cut and mounted as title-label. With 2 titles, a serial and a volume title, and 4 full-page engraved plates by J. Mulder after J. Steyn. (12), 252 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Primary source for the history of Byzantium, the 12th century in particular View picture(s) 67 NICETAS CHONIATES (ACOMINATUS) & Francesco SANSOVINO ed. Della historia di Niceta Coniate delle cose dell'Imperio di Costantinopoli. Libri VII. Ne' quali si contengono I fatti de gl'Imperatori Greci, cominciando da Alessio Comneno doue lascia il Zonara, fin'all'anno MCCCCLVII nel qual fu presa quella Citta da Mahomet Secondo. Con le postille a suoi luoghi dinotanti le cose di maggiore importanza. Et con molte altre cose ulti & necassarie a lettori. Venice, Appresso Francesco Sansovino, 1562. 4to. Contemporary (?) boards with title in ms. on spine. Woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. (4), 111, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Turkey  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bound for the Dutch statesman Johannes Mepschius, later in Jan Six's library View picture(s) 68 OVID. Ars Amatoria.- Metamorphoseon libri XV.- Fastorum Lib. VI. Tristium Lib. V. De Ponto Lib. IIII. Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1547. 3 vols. 16mo. Contemporary Lyonese red morocco bindings in Italian style, spines richly gilt in compartments, with 3 raised bands, sides with double lined gilt border and central panel: quadrilobe cartouche, with four small gilt flower tools, on the front covers with the abbreviated titles and on the rear covers with the name of the original owner Joannes Mepschius in gilt lettering, gilt and gauffered edges. Printer's device on the three titles; many woodcut initials in text. 421; 453; 431 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Rembrandt  Renaissance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Frankfurt edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses with 178 woodcuts by Virgil Solis View picture(s) 69 OVID. Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumenta. Ex postrema Jacobi Micylli recognitione. Frankfurt an Main, Christophorus Corvinus for Johannes Feyerabend, 1582. 8vo. Beautiful contemporary full pigskin binding blind-tooled with floral rolls and cornerpieces. Later on, probably in 1627, those cornerpieces are gilt and the central panels filled with gilt oval centre-pieces: one with floral motives on the back and one with a coat of arms on the front cover; in the compartment above this central panel the gilt initials 'I.W.E.A.P.' are stamped, almost certainly the owner of the book in 1627 and of the coat of arms; in the compartment below '1627' also in gilt. With printer's device on the title and the 178 beautiful woodcuts (ca. 60x80mm.) by Virgil Solis. (16), 573, (19) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Literature  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare Blaeu edition View picture(s) 70 OVID. Metamorphoseon, sive transformationum libri quindecim, aeneis formis ab Antonio Tempesta incisi, et in pictorum, antiquitatisque studiosorum gratiam nunc primum exquisitissimis sumptibus a Petro de Iode in Lucem editi. Amsterdam, Wilhelmus Ianssonius (= Willem Jansz. Blaeu), (ca. 1610). 4to. Contemporary vellum, with ties. With engraved title within allegorical borders with the portrait of Ovid at the top, and 150 full-page engraved plates by Pieter de Jode after Antonio Tempesta, all with one line of explanatory text underneath engraved on the plate. (151) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Emblem Books  Engravings  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Roman Baths as measured and represented by Palladio: a major contribution to European classicism View picture(s) 71 PALLADIO, Andrea, Ottavio BERTOTTI SCAMOZZI & Richard BOYLE, Earl of BURLINGTON. Le terme dei Romani disegnate da Andrea Palladio e ripubblicate con la giunta di alcune osservazioni da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi giusta l'esemplare del Lord Conte di Burlinthon impresso in Londra l'anno 1732. Vicenza, Giovanni Rossi, 1797. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt ornamental border between two blind fillets along the edges of both sides, gilt spine with yellow gilt title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, 17 folding and 8 full-page engraved plates by Antonio Mugnoni. 55 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  18th Century  Architecture  Classical Antiquity  England  Italy  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded edition by an unknown printer in Rees of a very rare pedagogical work View picture(s) 72 PALUDANUS, Gerardus. Nova tabula Paludana: claves artium liberalium, ac ipsius eruditionis, rei literariae studiosis perquam utiles & necessariae: quippe quarum adminiculo vel usu facilis ad earum cognitionem atque scientiam aditus patet, & sine quibus illuc nunquam pervenitur. Rees, in Cleve, Petrus Stommel Coloniensis, 1583. Small 8vo. Modern boards. Title within typographical woodcut borders; large woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Rees on verso of the last leaf; large woodcut coat-of-arms of the Duchy of Cleve and of the city of Rees in the preliminaries, both coloured by hand, woodcut portrait of Christ within typographical borders preceeding the 'Claves', woodcut of the Trinity at the end of the 'Claves', and 4 woodcut devices on the author's name or monogram in the epilogue. (33) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  German  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the history and significance of the crown View picture(s) 73 PASCHAL, Charles. Coronae. Opus quod nunc primùm in lucem editur distinctum X. libris; quibus res omnis coronaria è priscorum eruta & collecta monumentis continetur. Paris, Ex officina Plantiniana apud Hadrien Perier, 1610. 4to. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine decorated in gilt spine, large gilt coat-of-arms of Amsterdam in the centre, 4 smaller arms of Amsterdam as corner pieces, and gilt borders on both sides, sprinkled edges. Engraved vignette with the coats of arms of the French king Henry IV on title, woodcut head- and end pieces, woodcut initials. (16), 730 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Classical Antiquity  History  Nobility  Plantin  Provenance  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A gorgeous early seventeenth-century print-series illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses View picture(s) 74 PASSE, Crispijn de. - OVID. P. Ovid. Nasonis XV. Metamorphoseon librorum figurae elegantissime a Cr[i]spiano Passaeo laminis æneis incisae. Quibus subiuncta sunt epigrammata latine ac germanice conscripta ... autore Guilhelmo Salsmanno. (Cologne & Arnhem), Crispijn de Passe I & Jan Jansz., 1607. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Engraved title-page (152 x 123 mm) and two unnumbered and 132 numbered engravings (ca. 83 x 134 mm) by Crispijn de Passe I. 136 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Third Dutch edition with 100 plates of statues in Rome, enlarged with extensive explanatory text View picture(s) 75 PERRIER, François. Kunstkabinet, besluitende hondert der allerberoemste antique stantbeelden staende binnen Rome. Op eene uitvoerige wyze, naer de origineele afgeteekend, denende tot een vervolgh op de Beschryving van het oude en nieuwe Rome van den heer François Desseine, en, om hunne uitmuntentheit, in het koper gebraght door de twee Cornelissen van Daelen. Een werk zeer nuttigh voor alle beeldhouwers, schilders, graveerders en teekenaers. Hier by komt eene uitvoerige Beschryving van yder stantbeeld, aentoonende de plaetsen alwaer de zelve vertoond werden, de naemen der werkmeesters en de historie der zelve, Alles uit de oudheit der Schryvers opgedolven. The Hague, Bernardus van der Cloese, 1737. Large folio. Contemporary vellum, spine ribbed and blind-stamped with title in ink, with double fillet blind-stamped filets on sides,  inner panel with corner pieces and large blind-stamped ornament in centre, gilt edges. With large engraved printer's device on title, title printed in red and black, richly engraved allegorical title heading the print-series, and 100 full-page plates of Roman classical statues, engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, both the Elder and the Younger, after designs by François Perrier. (2), 54, (2) pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Classical Antiquity  Modelbooks  Rome  Sculpture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Incunable edition of one of the great Roman satirists, edited by Bartolomeo Fonzio View picture(s) 76 PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus. Satirarum opus. Venice, Dionysius de Bertochis & Pelegrinus de Paschalibus Bononienses, 10 September 1484. Sm. folio (292 x 205 mm). Vellum over boards (rebacked). Woodcut printer's device on last leaf (Device A), not rubricated (capital spaces not filled in), printed in Roman type: 110R and 83R. Collation: a-d6, e4; (28) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Incunabula  Italy  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well produced school edition of the popular satires by Aulus Persius Flaccus View picture(s) 77 PERSIUS, PUBLIUS AULUS (= PERSIUS FLACCUS). Familiaris explanatio cum Iohan. Britannici eruditissima interpretatione. Argumenta satyarum de prefationis Persiane per Iodocum Badium. Lyon, Pierre Ungre Antoine Doulcet, 1510. 4to. Modern half green morocco, spine ribbed with 2 black title-labels. With 3 woodcut initials on title and several fine woodcut initials in text. 84 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Linguistics  Literature  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A contemporary glimpse of one of the most famous French 'Wunderkammer' View picture(s) 78 PETAU, Paul (Paulus PETAVIUS). Explication de plusieurs antiquités. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulme, 1757. 2 parts in one. 4to. Half contemporary vellum. 47 engraved full-page plates (numbered 1-22, (A=23)  A-X, 24-27), with over 500 figures of Egyptian, Roman and medieval antiquities, sculptures, monuments, coins utensils, including a full-page portrait of author at his age of 41 (1609)  and a series of 21 plates (A-X) of antique and Carolingian coins with separate engraved title (plate 23/A): Veterum nummorum gnorisma (Paris, 1610). The first 13 plates are coloured by a contemporary hand. 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Art  Cabinet of Curiosities  Classical Antiquity  Egypt  Engravings  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Petronius' 'Satyricon' including Nodot's spurious supplements View picture(s) 79 PETRONIUS (& François NODOT). Petrone Latin, et Francois, traduction entiere, suivant le manuscrit trouvé a Bellegrade en 1688. Avec plusieurs remarques & aditions qui manquent dans l'edition qui paroît depuis peu. (No place; = Amsterdam (?), no printer), 1694. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full polished calf with gilt coat of arms of François Raymond Joseph de Narbonne Pelet, Vicomte de Narbonne and triple gilt-rules borders on sides, richly gilt and decorated spine in compartments with darker brown title labels lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, blue endpapers, red edges. Engraved frontispiece 'Petronii Satyricon' by I Sauvé and facing engraved erotic vignette with Nodot's motto 'Nodi Solvuntur A Nodo' in both vols., woodcut ornament on title-pages, 9 engraved plates of which 2 folding, by I. Sauvé (1 folding and 1 full-page in vol. I; 1 folding and 6 full-page in vol. II), woodcut headpieces and initials. (92), 471 [i.e. 473], (1 blank); (6), 551 [i.e. 549], (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  French  Latin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Phaedrus-edition printed in the Netherlands View picture(s) 80 PHAEDRUS. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Nuper à P. Pithoeo V.C. primum editi. Et iam emendati atque illustrati notis à Cunrado Ritterhusio I.C. Acc., in eadem Fabulas Spicilegium Gasp. Schoppi: & alia quam plurima quae sequens pagella indicebat. Leyden, Ex off. Plantiniana, 1598. Small 8vo. 19th century half red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt (CAPÉ). 191, (1 blank), 55, (1 blank), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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