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One of the few editions of Philes's poems (ca. 1300) describing all kinds of animals View picture(s) 81 PHILES, Manuel (Manuel PHILE). De animalium proprietate, ex prima editione Arsenii et libro Oxoniensi restitutus a Joannes Cornelio Pauw, cum ejusdem animadversionibus et versione Latina Gregorii Bersemanni. Accedunt ex eodem libro Oxoniensi non pauca hactenus inedita. Utrecht, Petrus Muntendam for Willem Stouw, 1730. 4to. Later mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with light brown morocco label, lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. Title printed in red and black, some nice head and tail pieces. (16), 347, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Poetry  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps View picture(s) 82 PINDAR. Olympia. Pythia. Nemesa. Isthmia. Callimachi hymni qui inveniuntur. Dionysius de situ arbis. Licophronis Alexandra, obscurum poema (in Greek). Venice, In aedib, Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, January 1513. Sm.8vo. Full-grained red morocco, spine ribbed with gilt title, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CHAMBOLLE-DURU). With Aldus' woodcut dolphin and anchor device on title, with the legend "AL" and "DUS" on either side. (16), 373, (1, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Roman comedies View picture(s) 83 PLAUTUS. Comediae viginti. Leyden, Ex off. Plantiniana, Franciscus I Raphelengius. 1593. 16mo. Old calf, spine with 3 raised bands. (2), 719, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Literature  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Antwerp edition of Pliny's letters in an interesting blind tooled pigskin binding View picture(s) 84 PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti. Panegyricus Traiano Caesari dictus. Et is ad vetustissimum exemplar emendatus. De viris illustribus rei militaris & administrandae reipub.Acesserunt argumento non admodum abhorrentia. Suetonii Tranquilli liber de claris grammaticis & rhetoribus. Item. Julii Obsequentis, Prodigiorum liber. Latina interpretatio dictionum ac sententiarum Graecarum, quibus Plinius utitur. Indices duo ... Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus, 1542. 8vo. Extraordinary well preserved contemporary blind tooled pigskin binding; rolls with square and oval portraits and panels with passion scenes and saints on both covers; floral motives are stamped in the central spaces of the covers and in the four compartments of the spine; in the middle of the front cover, between two paragraph signs, the initials 'E' and 'K' are stamped and decorated with black ink. Some woodcut initials. 3 fly-leaves, 494, (40) pp. and 3 fly-leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Literature  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The only complete copy of this issue of the Dutch translation of Plinius View picture(s) 85 PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. Des wijdt-vermaerden natuurkondigers vijf boecken. Handelende van de natuere, I. Van de menschen. II. Van de viervoetige en kruypende dieren. III. Van de vogelen. IV. Van de kleyne beestjes of ongedierten. V. Van de visschen, oesters, kreeften, &c. Hier zijn by-gevoeght de schriften van verscheyden andere oude autheuren, de natuur der dieren aengaende. En nu in desen laetsten druck wel het vierde part vermeerdert, uyt verscheyden nieuwe schrijvers en eygen ondervindinge: en met veel kopere platen verçiert. Amsterdam, Gillis Valckenier, 1662. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with author, place and date written in ink on spine. With charming engraved frontispiece with Adam and Eve in paradise with the engraved text "C. Plinius S. Van de Menschen, Beesten, Vogelen en Visschen" in a cartouche, and 53 half-page engraved plates in the text. 568, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Natural History  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early Flemish panel binding signed by Anthoine de Gavere View picture(s) 86 PLINIUS SECUNDUS. Epistolarum libri X.- Panegyricus Traiano principi dictus.- De viris illustribus in re militari, & in administranda Rep.- Item SUETONII TRANQUILLI De claris grammaticis & rhetoribus.- JULII OBSEQUENTIS Prodigiorum liber. Indices duo, quorum altero nomina referuntur eorum, ad quos Plinius scribit: altero quicquid memoratu dignum toto opere continetur. Latina interpretatio dictionum & sententiarum Graecarum, quibus Plinius utitur. Basel, per Andream Cratandrum, 1526, March. 8vo. Contemporary blindstamped calf, spine ribbed, each side with two different blindstamped rectangular panels with birds and animals in floral decoration, one signed by Anthoine de Gavere, gilt and gauffered edges. Woodcut printer's device on verso of the last blank and fine decorated woodcut initials in text. (24), 551, (41) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In a beautiful prize-binding of the Old-Catholic Seminary at Amersfoort by the Dissertatie-binderij at Utrecht View picture(s) 87 PLINIUS SECUNDUS. Panegyricus, cum notis integris F. Jureti, J. Livineji, J. Lipsii, P. Fabri, C. Rittershusii, J. Gruteri, Chr.G. Schwarzii, et selectis aliorum, curante J. Arntzenio, qui &  suas adnotationes adjecit. Accedit J. Masson Vita Plinii, editio tertia auctior. Amsterdam, Janssonius Waesbergius, 1738. 4to. Light brown spotted calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with orange titel-label, with richly gilt borders and inner panel on sides with flowered ornaments at the four corners and large richly gilt coat-of-arms of Amersfoort in centre on both sides, red painted edges. With engraved allegorical vignette on title, title printed in red and black, and richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by W. Jongman. (24), XCII, (4), 469, (57) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most influential Dutch translation of the 'lives' of Plutarch View picture(s) 88 PLUTARCH. T'Leven der doorluchtige Griecken ende Romeynen, tegen elck anderen vergeleken door Plutarchus van Chaeronea. Wt de Griecsche sprake overgeset door M. Iaques Amyot. Mitsgaders het leven van Hannibal, Scipio den Africaen, uyt het Latyn verfranscht by Carolus Clusius. Voorder het leven van Epaminondas, Philippus van Macedonien, Dionysius den ouden, Augustus Caesar, Plutarchus ende Seneca: ende noch het leven vande negen treffelijcke krijgs-oversten, beschreven door Aemilius Probus. Met een cort begrijp op elcx leven: leeringen op de kant, chronijck ende leer-registers: alles versamelt ende uytgegeven by S.G.S. Tesamen van nieus tot gemeen nut verduyscht, door A.V.Z.V.N.. ende ten deele by eenen anderen beminder. Delft, Adriaen Gerritsen van Beyeren & Felix van Sambrix, 1644. Folio. Contemporary calf with large gilt centre-piece on both sides, spine in compartments, with gilt red morocco label. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, dated 1644 with Romulus and Theseus - the subjects of the first two 'lives' presented as a pair - holding a cloth with the engraved title and an oval portrait of Plutarch at the top. Printer's device on the title with the motto 'Durate'. (6), 548, (4) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Biography  Classical Antiquity  History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most influential Latin edition printed outside Italy View picture(s) 89 PLUTARCH. Vitae Plutarchi Cheronei post Pyladen Brixianum longe diligentius repositae: cum moiore verioreque indice: necnon cum Aemilii Probi vitis. Paris, Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), 1514, November 13, preface dated 1 December 1514. Jodocus (Josse) Badius Ascensius & Joannes Parvus (Jean Petit), Folio. Half blind stamped 16th-century pigskin over the original wooden boards, with two clasps, spine in compartments with title written in ink: 'Plutarchus 35', title also in 16th-century hand on the wood of the front board. Title in splendid Renaissance woodcut border, with coat of arms left blank in the lower borderpiece (Renouard, Encadrement no. 1); in the middle the printer's device of Jodocus Badius Ascensus with the heading 'prelum Ascensianum' printed in red (Renouard, marque 3, ill. vol. 1, p. 43), lettering of the title, as well as certain elements in the border printed in red. Many beautiful woodcut initials in the text. (22), 393, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Plutarch's famous schoolbook View picture(s) 90 PLUTARCHUS. Aureus Libellus, Peri Paidoon A'Googès, id est, De  educatione liberorum, tum interpretatione Latinam, ad verbum ferè applicatam, & paraphrasi Gallico-germanicam, marginalibus etiam notis, & troporum figurarumque literis: tum analysi accuratam, Dialectam, Rhetoricam & Grammaticam, locis ethicis, historiis & exemplis memorabilibus, perspicuè explicatus, & hac secunda editione emendatus, & multis in locis auctus.- Petit Livret  de Plutarche, de la Nourriture des enfans, translaté en  François, & declaré.- Das güldene Büchlein Plutarchi, von  der Kinderzucht, eigentlich verteutscht und erklärt: Jetzundt  auff ein newes übersehen, und gemehrt. Authore Theodore Vietor. Frankfurt, Erasmus Kempffer, 1612. Sm.8vo. Contemp. green painted vellum. 175, (1) pp. in 2 columns. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Courtesy Books  Education  Greek & Latin  Schoolbooks  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Greeks and Romans compared View picture(s) 91 PLUTARCHUS. Tleven ende vrome daden vande doorluchtige Grieksche ende Romeynsche mannen, met haar figuren. Ende nu int corte begrepen, ende in Latijn gestelt, door Darius Tibertus. Hier by is gevoecht tleven vande excellente Veltheeren, door Aemilius Probus beschreven, ende van andere mannen, die in de naestvolgende sijde gestelt  zijn: met sommige nieuwe vergelijkingen, die nu eerst in tlicht zijn wtgecomen. In onse Neerduytsche sprake overgeset, door M. Everart. Hier is bygevoecht de tafel van de treffelickste ende voornaemste saken, in dit boeck begrepen. Leyden, Jan Claesz. van Dorp, 1601. Sm. 8vo. 19th century boards, with orange title-label on spine. With medaillon portrait of Plutarchus on title, and  56 woodcut medaillon portraits in text. (16), 834, (13, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Greek & Latin  History  Literature  Numismatics  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Plutarch in the unsurpassed 1478 Jenson edition. Illuminated copy of Petrus De Ginori in a fine contemporary Italian binding View picture(s) 92 PLUTARCHUS. Vitae parallelae. Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1478, 2 January. 2 vols. in one. Folio. Beautiful contemporary blind tooled brown calf over wooden boards; fillets, rolls and loose stamps; an octangular space in the center with two ornaments composed of four demi-circles of six lines, surrounded by a pattern of very tiny stamps; spine in six compartments tooled in a lozenge-shaped pattern; brass corner- and centerpieces; four clasps and catches: two at the fore edge and one at the top and lower edge. First text-page lavishly illuminated: the 12-lines initial (Q) in gold decorated with a exquisite freely painted spray of coloured flowers in blue, red, pink and yellow, green leaves and tiny gold rayed discs in a North Italian (Florentine?) style, extending in the left and top margins; a similar spray in the right margin surrounds a monogram 'PB' and a coat of arms: a blue field with a gold bar with three gold stars, in a green wreath in the lower margin.Very wide margins (405 x 20mm.); printed in the famous Jenson roman (Type 115 (111)R); capital spaces with guide letters. Collation: Vol. 1 : a(10), b(12), c-m(10), n(8), o-x(10), y-z(8), &(8) (= 234 leaves, including the first blank and the often lacking blank f. b7); one extra blank leaf; vol. 2: A-E(10), F-N(alt. 8/10), oo-pp(8), Q-Y(10), Z(8), &&(10) (= 226 leaves). Parchment double-leaves are bound in at the beginning and the end of the book-bloc, one of the leaves pasted to the boards. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Greece  Incunabula  Literary History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Only edition View picture(s) 93 PORPHYRIUS. Homericarum quaestio num liber. Eiusdem de Nympharum antro in Odyssea, opusculum. (In Greek). (Strasbourg), Wendelinus Rihelius, 1539. Small 8vo. Comtemporary vellum, ms. title on spine. 3 woodcut printer's devices. 74 , (2), (3 blank), (1), (56) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hippocrates updated View picture(s) 94 PORZIO, L.A. In Hippocratis Librum de veteri medicina. Rome, A. Bernabo, 1681. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. With illustrations on one folding engraved plate. (6), 205, (1 blank, 8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Work on the constitution of Athens by the famous Humanist Guillaume Postel View picture(s) 95 POSTEL, Guillaume. De magistratibus Atheniensium liber, Gulielmo Poyeto totius Galliae Cancellario dicatus, ad intelligendam non solum Graecorum, sed & Romanorum politiam, ac omnem veterum historiam, lectu utilissimus. Basel, Joannes Oporinus, 1543. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum; spine lettered in ink. Some nice woodcut initials. 151, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greece  History  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pocket edition of Postel's most succesful work View picture(s) 96 POSTEL, Guillaume. De republica, seu magistratibus Atheniensium liber. Ex. museo Joan Balesdens. Leyden, ex. off. Joannis Maire, 1635. 24mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with title in ink in ms. on spine. Title printed in red & black with printer's device, full-page engraved portrait of Postel as a geographer in text. 232, (6) pp. (= A8 (= incl. engr. portrait)- O8, P7). Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Philology  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An entertaining and adventurous way of teaching all aspects of life in Classical Antiquity View picture(s) 97 RAMSAY, (A.). De Gevallen van Cyrus. Nevens eene Redevoeringe over de Verdichtzelkunde. In 't Nederduitsch vertaelt. 's-Grav., Robertus Viejou, 1728. 2 parts in 1 vol. Contemp. vellum. With engraved vignette by D. Coster on 2 titles, titles  printed in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces by C. Duflos, and 8 fine engraved mythological or grotesque engraved headpieces. (6), 272; 154 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Dutch  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Literature  Scotland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ancient Roman life and customs View picture(s) 98 ROSINUS, IOAN. Antiquitatum romanarum corpus absolutissimum, cum notis Thomae Dempsteri. Cui acc. P. Manutii Liber II. De Legibus, et De Senatu, Cum A. Schotti electis, I. De Priscis Rom. Gentib. ac Familiis, II. De Tribubus Rom. XXXV. Rusticis atque Urbanis, III. De Ludis Festisque Rom. ex Kalendario vetere. Editio Postrema, ab innumerablilibus erroribus repurgata. Utrecht, Guil. vande Water, 1701. 4to. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt-lined with small rosettes in the compartments, with gilt double fillet borders and inner panel on sides with gilt flowered ornaments at the four inner-corners and gilt coat-of-arms of Rotterdam in centre on both sides, g. With richly engraved frontispiece, folding engraved plan of ancient Rome, illustrations after ancient coins and medals on 5 engraved plates and 2 folding engraved plates showing Romans fighting, a funeral, and a banquet by P. Philippe. (16), 956, (30) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Prize Binding  Rome  Rotterdam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a rare description of Rome and its antique monuments View picture(s) 99 RYCQUIUS, Justus (Josse de RYCKE). De Capitolio Romano commentarius. In quo, illustria eius olim aedificia, sacra, & profana: deorum, dearumque nomina: arcus item triumphales, columnae, statuae, Tropaea, colossi, caeteraque ornamenta adcuratè describuntur; & plura alia antiquitatis monimenta (sic) proferuntur, emendantur, explicantur. Ghent, Cornelius Marius (Cornelius van der Meeren), 1617. 4to. Contemporary vellum, sides with gilt border along the edges and gilt centre and corner pieces, spine lettered in ink. With engraved allegorical printer's device in roundel in an ornamental frame, with the inscription "Tantum mea nomina crescunt"; 2 half-page engraved plates, one of which representing the she-wolf with Romulus and Remus, one full-page woodcut of a plan of a temple by Palladio and numerous woodcuts of coins in the text. (16), 179, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Classical Antiquity  Numismatics  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"One of the monuments of French eighteenth-century book production" View picture(s) 100 SAINT NON (Saint-Nom-la-Bretêche), Abbé Jean Claude Richard de. Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie. Paris, Clousier, 1781-86. 4 parts in 5 vols. (Vol. 1 issued in 2 parts (part 2 taking the place of vol. 2), vol. 4 issued in 2 Large folio (51,5 x 35,5 cm.). 20th centruy half calf, with the old spines preserved and mounted: richly gilt in compartments with red and black title labels, lettered in gold. Each vol. with half-title, title with engraved vignette (four by Fragonard, one by Bertheaut) and many beautiful vignettes. In total: one folding, 8 double-page and one full-page maps, and 278 full-page plates with 363 plans, views and illustrations of paintings and antiquities. Vol. 1: with engraved dedication to the Queen, one folding map (unnumb.) of the 'Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile by Clermont', dated 1780, two double-page maps of The Golf of Naples and surroundings, numbered 118 and 110), one full-page plan of Naples, numbered 46 and 47 full-page plates, numbered: 16-7, 47-8, 33, 41-2, 40, 44, 60, 39, 57, 37, 15, 52, 89, 67, 92, 71, 70, 20, 8, 1, 9, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 56, 58, 66, 106, 93, 30-2, 35, 25, 64, 43-4, 53, 117, 111, 103, and 102; Vol. 2: one double-page map of the 'Golfe de Pouzzoles', numbered 96, one full-page unnumbered map of Naples and surroundings, and 79 full-page plates, numbered: 36, 30, 91, 61, 54, 62, 68, 38, 21-2, 55, 100, 109, 99, 104, 65, 114-5, 3-4, 13, 45, 101, 108, 107, 95, 28-9, 1bis-8bis, 73-88, 72, 63, 69, 5, 7, 6, 112-3, 105, 19, 59, 51, 27, 90, 49, 14, 23, 50, 116, 123, 125-6, 124, 119-22 (missing are plate 75bis and the unnumbered plate with antique phalluses, (not called for in the book, but according to Brunet to be present); 26 of the vignettes in this volume of antique works of art - most by Saint Non, one by Plessis Bertaux after a plate by Winkelman - are coloured in sepia;  Vol. 3: 4 double-page maps, numbered 11 (Southern Italy & Sicily), 25 (Region Bari, Otranto, Brindisi), 54 (Southern Italy) and one unnumbered: the Peutinger map, not called for in the book, and 60 full-page plates, 37 of which contain two views, numbered series 'Grand Grèce', 1-10, 12-24, 26-53, 55-86, 13 (=87), 24bis (=88; both those plates in first state (see Brunet)), 89-100; Vol. 4-5: one double-page map of Sicily (1784, numbered 1, 91 full-page plates of maps (nrs. 39 and 82), plans (nrs. 79, 106, 109), 48 of which contain two views; the plates are numbered 2-140. With numerous head and tail pieces and vignettes, including the 14 large vignettes (the 'doubles médailles') at the end of Chapter 1-14 of vol. 4,1 (Brunet calls for 14 extra leaves on which these vignettes are repated and separately bound in). The plates are designed, engraved and finished by many different, partly very famous artists of the time, including A(l)lix, Aubin, Auguste de S., Auvrai, Bertheaut, Bretin, Brunsault, Carpentier, Casas, Chasselet, Chastelet, Chofferd, Coyni, Dambrum, De Bosredon, De Ghendt, De Longueil, Delvaux, Denijs, Joh., Desmoulins, Desprès, Desquauvilliers, Du Parc, Du Plessis Bertaux, Duflos, P., Dumoulin, Durameau, Embrun, Epire, Fessard, Fragonard, H., Germain, Germain, Guttenberg, Charles, Guttenberg, H., Hovet, B., Lienard, Macret, Malbeste, Marilier, Martini, Masquelier, Mathieu, Nicollet, Paris, Queverdo, Queverdo, Racine, J.B., Renard, Robert, H., Sellier, Stagnon, Tierce, J.B., Vangelisti, Varin, Vernet, Volaire, and Weisbrod. (4), XV, 252; xxviii, 1-78, (2), 79-108, (6), 109- 284; (4), iv, xl, 1-112, (4), 113-130, 8, 131-201, 7-22; (4), xviii, (4), 292; iv, (2), 293-430 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Archaeology  Classical Antiquity  Illustrated Books  Italy  Sicily  Travel  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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