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Five interesting and important early humanistic works printed in the second decade of the 16th century, bound together View picture(s) 1 AGRICOLA, Rudolphus. Dialectica. Dorpius studiosis. Ut rectis studiis consulator studiosi, excusa sunt vobis haec Agricola dialectica. Louvain, Theodor [Dirk] Martens, 1515, 4 January. With title-page printed in red and black with the famous large printer's device of Theodorus Martens (13.2 x 9 cm) flanked by 10 separate decorated and floral woodblocks. 62 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Catholicism  Church History  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Law  Mathematics  Netherlands  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Prize binding from Gouda; with two impressive battle scenes by Romeyn de Hooghe View picture(s) 2 AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. Ope mss. codicum emendati ab Frederico Lindenbrogio & Henrico Hadrianoque Valesiis cum eorundem integris observationibus & annotationibus, item excerpta vetera de gestis Constantini & regum Italiae. Omnia nunc recognita ab Jacobo Gronovio, qui suas quoque notas passim inseruit & necessariis ad Ammiani illustrationem antiquis nummis ac figuris exornari curavit. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1693. 4to. Contemporary vellum, ribbed decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in ink, sides with central gilt-stamped coat-of-arms of Gouda, surrounded by a thorn branch (Spoelder, p. 568: 'Gouda 2'), and double gilt filets along edges, red speckled edges. Full-page engraved allegorical frontispiece with Minerva sitting on a pedestal on with title in letterpress, printed title with engraved vignette, full-page engraved portrait of Gronovius by A. v. Zylvelt, 2 dated (1692) folding engraved battle scenes signed by Romeyn de Hooghe (ca. 232 x 355mm), folding engraved plate (468  x 328mm) of the famous Ramses obelisk erected in Rome, showing the hieroglyphs on all of its four sides, 6 full-page numbered engraved plates with Roman coins, 8 full-page engraved plates with Roman emperors on coins (space for title left blank), one half-page engraved illustration of Lacus Ascanius, and one engraved headpiece in text, woodcut end piece and initials. (68, incl. frontispiece), 724, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greek & Latin  History  Numismatics  Rome  Romeyn de Hooghe  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) 3 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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Rare edition of an interesting collection of works by Arrian View picture(s) 4 ARRIAN(US), Lucius Flavius. [Title in Greek & Latin] Ars tactica, aciers contra Alanos periplus Ponti Euxini, periplus Maris Erytraei, Liber de venatione, Epicteti Enchiridion, ejusdem Apopthegmata et fragmenta, quae in Joannis Stobaei Florilegio, et in Agelli noctibus Atticis supersunt. um interpretationibus Latinis, & notis ex reccensione & museo Nicolai Blancardi. Amsterdam & Leipzig, Arksteus & Merkus, 1750. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (dated Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesbergen, 1683), 2 folding engraved maps of the Indian Ocean (397 x 467mm), and the Black Sea (170 x 215mm), and folding engraved battle plan (265 x 412mm), 4 full-page and 7 half-page engraved battle plans in text, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Facing Greek and Latin texts. (14, incl. frontispiece), 450, (4, Errata) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Printing [Greek]  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 16th-century Lyon edition, from the library of Joachim Gomez de la Cortina View picture(s) 5 AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus. Opera, tertiae ferè partis complemento auctiora, & diligentiore quàm hactenus, censura recognita. Cum indice rerum memorabilium. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1558. 8vo. 19th-century purple morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, triple gilt fillet borders and central gilt oval coat-of-arms on sides with text 'J. Gomez De La Cortina et amicorum. Fallitur hora legendo', gilt inner sides, marbled endpapers, g.e. Woodcut portrait of author in medallion on title, woodcut round vignette on verso of last text leaf. (16), 290, 12, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bindings  Greek & Latin  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Catholic Mass explained View picture(s) 6 BECHOFFEN, Johannes. Quadruplex missalis expositio: Litteralis scilicet: Allegorica: Tropologica: et Anagogica: sit ordinata: ut etiam populo expediat predicari publice quo ad litteralem sensum, allegoricum et etiam tropologicum usque ad oblationem. Basel, Michael Furter, 1512. 4to. Modern boards. Title printed in red and black, large woodcut printer's device at the end, and some fine woodcut initials in text. (87, 1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Church History  Devotion  Greek & Latin  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most beautiful written Latin schoolbooks for children at the end of the Middle Ages View picture(s) 7 BEROALDUS, PH. Libellus quo Septem Sapientum Sentensiae Discutiuntur. Bologna, Benedict Hector, 1502, Die X Octobris. 4to. Modern half vellum. With large white on black woodcut printer's device at the end. (24) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Children's Books  Education  Greek & Latin  Proverbs  Schoolbooks  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) 8 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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Pioneering study of Roman coinage: the best book on the subject written up to that time View picture(s) 9 BUDÉ, Guillaume. Libri V de asse, & partibus eius post duas Parisienses impressiones ab eodem ipso Budaeo castigati, idque authore Io. Grolierio Lugdunensi Christianissimi Gallorum regis secretario, et Gallicarum copiarum quaestore, cui etiam ob nostram in eum ob servantiam à nobis illi dicantur. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Asulani Sorceri, September 1522. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title in ink on spine, parts of ties preserved. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. [12], 262 [=260], [2] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Numismatics  Typography  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The nature of men derived from the characters of famous historical persons View picture(s) 10 CAPELLA, Galeazzo. L'anthropologia. Venice, heirs of d'Aldo Romano, & d'Andrea d'Asola, 1533. 8vo. 19th-century vellum, with red and green morroco title labels on spine. With woodcut printer's device of Aldus on title, and on verso of last blank. 74, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anthropology  Education  Greek & Latin  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Eugène Paillet, one of the greatest tastemakers of late 19th century French bibliophily View picture(s) 11 CATULLUS, TIBULLUS & PROPERTIUS. [Opera] Pristino nitori restituti, & ad optima exemplaria emendati, cum fragmentis C. Gallo inscriptis. Paris, J. Barbou, 1754. 3 parts in one. 12mo. Nineteenth-century brown morocco, ribbed spine with red title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, polished gilt edges, marbled endpapers. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces (one for each part), engraved and typographical head- and tail-pieces, engraved initials. xvi, 96, (2), 97-168, (2), 169-344 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliophily  Greek & Latin  Poetry  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Composed by order of the Dutch State View picture(s) 12 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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Printed by the Plantin office at Leyden View picture(s) 13 CLAUDIANUS. (Opera) quae exstant: Ex emendatione virorum doctorum. (Leyden), Ex off. Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1616. 16mo. Contemp. vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title. 263, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Plantin  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare schoolbook for studying Virgil View picture(s) 14 DONATUS, Aelius Tiberius [=Tiberius CLAUDIUS]. P. Virgiliu Maronis vita scripta ab Aelio Tiberio Donate ut Hermolaus Barbarus: et Janus Parrhasius: antiquis exemplaris titulus comprobant. Ad studiosos Virgilii latineque lingue Joannis Murmelij Ruremundensis distichon. Munster, Lorenz Borneman, [ca. 1510]. 4to. Disbound. With woodcut of the Deposition on the title-page. [6] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  History  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Seventeenth century prize book & certificate from the Latin School at Leiden View picture(s) 15 EPICTETUS. Enchiridium, unà cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Graecè & Latinè: ex recensione Abrahami Berkelii, cum ejusdem animadversionibus & notis: quibus acc. notae Wolfii, Casauboni, Caselii & aliorum, cum Graeca paraphrasi. Leiden & Amsterdam, Ex Off. Daniel, Abraham & Adriaan à Gaasbeek, 1670. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with blind double ruling and corner pieces and a large gilt-stamped figure of Minerva, holding an escutcheon with the coat-of-arms of the city of Leyden, and underneath lettered "Lugd. Bata.", in centre on both covers. With richly designed frontispiece including the full-length portrait of Epictetus, and beautiful large folding allegorical plate, both etched by one of the most celebrated print makers of the late seventeenth century, Romeyn de Hooghe and dated '1670'. (24), 250, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Leyden  Philosophy  Prize Binding  Romeyn de Hooghe  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare and beautiful Hoorn prize-binding View picture(s) 16 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Colloquia cum notis selectis variorum. Addito Indice Novo. Delft, Leiden, A. Bemans, S. Luchtmans, 1729. Vellum, spine gilt-lined with gilt flower-heads in the compartments, with gilt double-fillet borders on sides and gilt double-fillet inner panel with small gilt ornaments at the four outer-corners and the gilt central coat-of-arms of Hoorn comprising a finely designed unicorn leaning over a shield, red mottled edges, remnants of green ties. With engraved frontispiece showing Erasmus with three other scholars in his study, woodcut printer's device on title, and title printed in red and black. (16), 784, (22) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Erasmus  Greek & Latin  Hoorn  Linguistics  Prize Binding  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Annotated by Cornelis Schrevelius View picture(s) 17 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Colloquia, Cum notis selectis Variorum, Addito Indice Novo, Accurante Corn. Schrevelius. Leyden, Ex Off. Hackiana, 1664. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, gilt decorated side-edges, blue marbled edges. With fine engraved title-plate showing four men sitting round a table talking, among them Erasmus looking straight at the viewer, with above the printer's bird-device holding the title and below the printer's address. (12), 784, (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Erasmus  Greek & Latin  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Elsevir-edition View picture(s) 18 ERASMUS, Desiderius. Colloquia, nunc emendatiora. Leyden, Ex Off. Elseviriana, 1643. 12mo. Contemp. red morocco, spine richly gilt, with gilt fillet borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With fine engraved title with full-lenght's portrait of Erasmus, by Corn.Cl. Duysend. (24), 672, 44 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Erasmus  Greek & Latin  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps, assuring the history of Greek drama: Thomas More made his hero Raphael to give a copy to the Utopians! View picture(s) 19 EURIPIDES. [Greek text] Tragoediae septendecim [=18], ex quibus quaedam habent commentaria. & sunt hae. Hecuba Orestes Phoenissae Medea Hippolytus Alcestis Andromache Supplices Iphigenia in Aulide Iphigeniae in Tauris Rhesus Troades Bacchae Cyclops Heraclide Helena Ion. Venice, Aldus Manutius, February 1503. 2 volumes. 8vo. Limp vellum: leaves from a sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript with a large decorated initial painted in blue, red and gold with white pen flourishes on the front cover of the first volume, blue painted edges. With the famous printer's device of Aldus on the last leaf of both volumes, printed throughout in Aldus' beautiful Greek characters. [268]; [190] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Printing [Greek]  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive notes on Cicero's Philippics by an Italian philologist, printed by Paulus Manutius View picture(s) 20 FERRARIUS, Hieronymus (Girolamo FERRARI). Ad Paulum Manutium emendationes in Philippicas Ciceronis. Venice, Paulus Manutius, (March) 1542. 8vo. Later vellum, spine raised in compartments with title lettered in ink, pastedowns of gilt paper with blue floral decorations. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. [126] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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