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First edition of the commentary and notes by Martin Antoine Delrio (1551-1608) View picture(s) 81 SENECA, Lucius Annaeus. In L. Annaei Senecae Cordubensis poetae gravissimi tragoedias decem; scilicet Herculem Furentem, Herculem Oetaeum, Medeam, Hippolytum, Oedipum, Thebidem, Thyestem, Troades, Agamemnonem, Octaviam, ampplissima adversaria, quae loco commentarii esse possunt. Ex bibliotheca Martini Antonii Delrio. Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1576. 4to. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum with remnants of ties. Printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (24), 381 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Jesuits  Plantin  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first good edition of the letters and poems of a fifth-century diplomat and bishop in Gaul View picture(s) 82 SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS, Caius Sollius Modestus. Opera. Jo. Savaronis studio & diligentia castigatiùs recognita. Paris, in officina Plantiniana, apud Hadrianus Perier, 1598. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, ms. title in ink on spine, remains of ties. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. (24), 362, (5) pp. *8, **4, A8-Y8, Z4, Aa4. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  France  History  Plantin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most important Aldine edition of this highly important work on Roman chronology View picture(s) 83 SIGONIUS, Carolus (Carlo Sigonio) Fasti consulares, ac triumphi acti a' Romulo rege usque ad Ti. Caesarem. Eiusdem in Fastor, et triumphos, idest in universam Romanam historiam commentarius. Eiusdem de nominibus Romanorum liber. Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1556. Folio. Later half mottled calf, boards covered with marbled paper. Title written on bottom edge. With the woodcut Aldine printer's device within wreath on general and part titles, woodcut initials and two small woodcuts in text. 16, 169 [=165], [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition of Statius View picture(s) 84 STATIUS, Publus Papinius. Sylvarum libri quinque. Thebaidos libri duodecim. Achilleidos duo. [Together with:] (Marcus MUSURUS), Orthographia et flexus Dictionum Graearum omnium apud Statium cum accentib(us) et generib(us) ex variis utriusque linguae autorib(us). Venice, Aldus Manutius, November 1502 (the Achilleidos libri duo: in Augus 2 parts in 1 volume. Old vellum with red morocco title label on spine, lettered in gold: 'Statii et Pontani opera Aldus 1502. 1503' (The Pontano apparently later taken out of the binding and replaced  by blank leaves), blue painted edges. With Aldus' printer's device at the end of the Orthographia; printed in italics; some Greek words. 40, 256 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Poetry  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Aldus edition, for the first time together with Erasmus' annotations View picture(s) 85 SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius. (De vita Caesarum). In hoc volumine haec continentur. C. Suetonii Tranquilli XII Caesares. Sexti Aurelii Victoris à D. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropii gestis Romanorum Lib. X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII ad Eutropii historiam additi. Index rerum memorabilium per singulos Tranquilli Caesares ab Ioanne Baptista Egnatio Veneto compositus. Annotationes eiusdem Egnatii in omnes Tranquilli Caesares. Annotationes etiam Erasmi in Suetonium, Eutropium, & Paulum Diaconum per literarum ordinem. Venice, Aldus and Andreae [= heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea d'Asola], May 1521. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf, spine lettered in gilt. Aldus' woodcut printer's devica on title-page and on final page. [60], 320 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Roman emperors portrayed by the King of the Architects View picture(s) 86 SWEERTIUS, Franciscus. XII Caesarum Romanorum Imagines. E numismatibus expressae, et historica narratione illustrata. Antwerpen, Ioannus Baptista Vrintius, 1603. Sm.4to. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label. With title within richly engraved ornamental borders, with a small circular illustration of Romulus and Remus with the she-woolf above, and a bust with lauer-wreath below, and 12 full-page engraved plates with small oval portraits of  the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Domitian within large square ornaments, richly engraved with numerous figures, animals, grotesque scenery etc. against a hatched background, by Hans Vredeman de Vries. 29, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Classical Antiquity  Ornaments  Portraits  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three important texts on the early history of the Netherlands and Germans View picture(s) 87 TACITUS, Cornelius (Pieter Cornelisz. HOOFT (translator)) & Hugo GROTIUS Antiquitates Germanicae, of Hoogduitsche oudtheden; waar in de gelegentheid en zeeden der Germaanen, beschreeven door Tacitus, naaukkeurig opgeheldert worden: benevens H. Grotius verhandeling van de oudtheid der Batavische Republyk (with half-title: Hugo GROTIUS, Verhandeling van de outheidt der Bataviische, nu Hollandsche Republyk. Metv de aanteekeningen des schryvers, uit het Latyn vertaalt). Amsterdam, Jacob van Royen, 1714. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments, gilt binding edges. With engraved printer's device on title and 26 full-page engraved plates, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. (16), 224, *1-118*, (26) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Dutch  History  Latin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the few seventeenth-century literary bibliographies View picture(s) 88 TEISSIER, Antoine. (TEISSERIUS). Catalogus auctorum qui librorum catalogos, indices, bibliothecas, virorum litteratorum elogia, vitas, aut orationes funebres, scriptis consignarunt: Ab Antonio Teisserio, uno è viginti sex Academiae Regiae Nemausensis adornatus. Cum Philippi Labbaei bibliotheca nummaria in duas partes tributa. I. De antiquis numismatibus, Hebraeis, Graecis, & Romanis. II. De monetis, ponderibus & mensuris. Et mantissa antiquariae supellectilis, ex annulis, sigillis, gemmis, lapidibus, statuis, obeliscis, inscriptionibus, ritibus, similibusque, romanae praesertim antiquitatis, monimentis collecta. Geneva, Samuel de Tournes, 1686. Large 8vo. Contemporary blind stamped vellum, title in ink on spine. Title page printed red and black. (8), 559, (1), 27, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Art  Book History  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Classical Antiquity  Libraries & Collections  Numismatics  Ornaments  Switzerland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of Jacob Westerbaen's Dutch adaptation of one of Terentius' comedies View picture(s) 89 TERENTIUS Afer, Publius. Adelphi, dat is De Gebroeders, in Nederduytsche rymen gebraght door Jacob Westerbaen, Heer van Brandwijck, &c. The Hague, Joannes Tongerloo, 1662. 4to. 19th century blue wrappers. Woodcut ornament on title, large woodcut initial. 58, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Popular Books  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'Very scarce and valuable edition' of the classic plays of Terence View picture(s) 90 TERENTIUS Afer, Publius. Coemoediae n. VI. Et in aes: Aelii Donati vc. oratoris urbis Romae et Eugraphii veteris grammatici commentaria. Fr. Lindenbruchius. Collatis Mss. veteribusque exemplaribus recensuit, auxit, & observationibus inlustravit: adiecto indice uberrimo. Paris, Ex officina Plantiniana, for Hadrianus Perier, 1602. 2 works in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Title in red & black with woodcut printer's device, repeated on verso of last page, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (26, 2 blank), 654, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Latin  Plantin  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In a The Hague prize-binding from the "Eerste stadhouderlijke binderij" View picture(s) 91 TERENTIUS. Comoedia Sex, Cum interpretatione Donati et Calphurnii, et Commentario Perpetuo. Cur. A.H. Westerhovius. The Hague, I. vander Kloot, 1732. Vellum, spine gilt-lined with small gilt ornaments with 3 acorns in the compartments, with gilt double-fillet borders on sides with small ornaments with 3 acorns at the four corners and large gilt central figure of Minerva with a standing shield bearing the coat-of-arms of The Hague, and the legend underneath "Hagae Comitis" on both sides, red mottled edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, and engraved vignette on title. (6), 1322, 46 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Literature  Prize Binding  Schoolbooks  The Hague  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Great and important edition of the Greek bucolic poets in beautiful contemporary red morocco binding View picture(s) 92 THEOCRITUS et al. Theocriti, Moschi, Bionis, Simmii quae extant: cum Graecis in Theocritum scholiis & indice copioso: omnia studio & opera Danielis Heisii. Accedunt Iosephi Scaliger, Isaaci Casauboni, & eiusdem Danielis Heinsii notae & lectiones. [Heidelberg], Heirs of Hieronymus Commelin, 1604. 4to. 18th-century red morocco, also the insides of the covers, triple gilt fillets along the edges with tiny gilt flower in the four corners, spine gilt in compartments, lettering in gold: 'Theocrit/ Heinsii/ Gr. Lat.', gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With printer's device on title-page and on p. 285, 4 engravings of medals, and some woodcut initials. Title and columns ruled in faint red ink, text in Greek and Latin. [28], 432 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nice contemporary Italian binding View picture(s) 93 THUCYDIDES. Delle guerre fatte tra popoli della Morea, et gli Atheniesi, nuovamente dal Greco idioma, nella lingua Thoscana, con ogni diligenza tradotto, per Francesco di Soldo Strozzi Fiorentino. L'annotatione, & dichiaratione di tutti i luoghi difficili, con la tavola copiosissima di tutte le guerre, le paci, gli accordi, le triegue, le leghe, le battaglie navali, le giornate, le citta prese, i por tenti accaduti, i pronostiche fatti, i luoghi spianati, arsi, & distrutti, che nell'historia si contengono: posti tutti per ordine dell'alphabeto. Venice, segno di Laocoonte, 1550. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt double fillet and dentelle borders on spine, around the word "Thucydide" in gilt letters, two frames of double fillet and gilt borders on sides, with gilt fleurons in the four corners of the inner frame. Woodcut vignette on title and on verso last leaf on a larger block, both used as devices, depicting Laocoon and his children being suffocated by the snake, historiated initials, printed in italics with marginalia in small roman. (12), 440 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Prize book from the Latin School at Haarlem - one of the best editions of Tibullus View picture(s) 94 TIBULLUS, Albius. Carmina libri tres, cum libro quarto sulpiciae et aliorum.Novis curis castigavit Chr. G. Heyne. Leipzig, Ex officina Dürria for Joannes Gottlob Feindius, 1798. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, both sides with gilt lines and floral borders around a gilt centre piece: Minerva sitting under a tree, and holding a book with her left hand and leaning with her right arm on the coat of arms of the city of Haarlem with the motto 'Vicit vim virtus' underneath (=Spoelder, Haarlem, nr. 3); spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, incl. the original ties (exactly the same binding as described by Coppens for his nr. 63). With elegant engraved title vignette and engraved vignettes for each of the 4 books. XCII, 222, (2), 343 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Haarlem  Literature  Prize Binding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The important Plantin/Pighius edition of the famous 'Nine Books' of Valerius Maximus View picture(s) 95 VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX. Infinitis mendis ex veterum exemplarium fide repurgati, atque in meliorem ordinem restituti per Stephanum Pighium Campensem. Accedunt in fine eiusdem annotationes in loca plusquam DCCC. Item hac altera recognitione fragmentum de praenominibus antiquum incerti auctoris, quod decimi libri locum in multis exemplaribus occupat. Antwerp, Christoph Plantin, 12 June 1574. Modern marbled boards. With woodcut printer's device (nr. 20) on title. 392, 99, (13-, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Virgil translated by the Antwerp rhetorician Cornelis van Ghistele View picture(s) 96 VIRGIL. De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos: In Duytsche talen door Cornelis van Ghistele Rhetorijckelijc overghezet: plaisant ende weerdich om lesen. Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut portrait of Virgil on title and 12 woodcut illustrations in text, one to each book. 264, (3, 1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Virgil in Elzevir's famous duodecimo format View picture(s) 97 VIRGIL. Opera, Nic. Heinsius rec. Amsterdam, Ex off. Elzeviriana, 1676. 12mo. 19th-century morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with gilt borders on sides. With fine engraved allegorical title with a large swan, and double-page folding engraved map of the sea-voyage of Aeneas from Troy to Italy. (64), 387, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Elzevier  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition by Daniel Heinsius of Virgil's works View picture(s) 98 VIRGIL. Opera; nunc emendatiora. Leyden, Ex off. Elzeviriana, 1636. 12mo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with richly gilt and blindstamped borders on sides and gilt fillet inner panel with gilt fan-ornaments at the four corners, gilt decorated inner borders, g.e. (P. GREFFIER). With fine engraved allegorical title with a large swan, woodcut of two sides of a medal with the portrait of Virgil, 2 pages printed in red, and double-page folding engraved map of Aeneas' sea-voyage from Troy to Italy. (40), 411, (43) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The 'Welser-Chronik': the most important early history of Augsburg View picture(s) 99 WELSER, Marcus & Achilles Pirmin GASSER. Chronica der weitberuempten keyserlichen, freyen und deß h. Reichs Statt Augspurg in Schwaben, von derselben altem Ursprung, schöne gelegene, zierlichen Gebäwen unnd namhafften gedenkwürdigen Geschichten (...) in unser teutschen Spraach in Truck verfertigt, durch Engelbertum Werlichium, der Historien Liebhabern. Frankfurt am Main, Heirs of Chr. Egenolff, 1595. 3 parts in one volume. Folio. Eighteenth century full calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with light-brown morocco title label lettered in gold. Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous small woodcut portraits after the engravings by Alexander Mayr. (8), 110; 282; 141 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Germany  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare: on the bean that killed Pythagoras View picture(s) 100 WORM, Castanus. Dissertatio. De faba Pythagorica quam superiorum permissu publico examini subjicit Castanus Worm ... respondente ingeniosissimo juvene Johanne Begtrup, in auditorio Collegii Regii anno M.DC. XCVI. die 28. Martii horâ  post meridiem prima. Hafniae, (Copenhagen), Joh. Jac. Bornheinrich, 1696. Sm. 4to. Later half calf with sprinkled boards, red sprinkled edges. (2), 26 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Medicine  Philosophy  Universities  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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