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Early Antwerp edition of Pliny's letters in an interesting blind tooled pigskin binding View picture(s) 41 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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Greeks and Romans compared View picture(s) 42 PLUTARCH. 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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"L'une des plus belles éditions qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine" View picture(s) 43 POLIZIANO, Angelo. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice vedere licet. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1498. Folio. Early 18th-century (?) polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red morocco title label, both sides with triple gilt fillets along the edges and large gilt oval coat-of-arms in the centre, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The coat of arms is of Henri-Louis Loménie, comte de Brienne (1658-1743), son of Louis Henry Loménie de Brienne. [452] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Italy  Literary History  Literature  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Influential work which became an important source for the study of mythology for more than a century View picture(s) 44 POMEY, Franciscus. Pantheum mythicum, seu fabulosa deorum historia, hoc epitomes eruditionis volumine breviter dilucidéque comprehensa. Editio septima, denuo recensita, à quampluris erroribus repurgata, & aenis figuris ornata. Utrecht, Willem vande Water, 1717. 8vo. Contemp. vellum with title written on spine. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by G. Schouté, title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette with view of Utrecht, and 27 engraved plates, 4 of which are folding, of classical gods and heroes, by J. van Vianen, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. (16), 298, (14) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Education  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Mythology  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare edition of a standard medieval textbook View picture(s) 45 PORPHYRIUS. Eisagoge, sive institutiones quinque uocum, ad Chrysaorium: Item, Aristotelis categoriae, & de Interpretatione liber: Joachimo Perionio Cormoeriaceno interprete, unà cum eiusdem annotationibus. Adiectus quoque est Danielis Barbari in Porphyrij Institutiones commentarius, acrerum verborumque in hisce omnibus memorabilium locupletissimus index. Basel, Joannis Oporinus, August 1545. 8vo. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine, ties lacking. Woodcut initials. (8, last 2 blank), 469 (35, last 5 blank) pp. [Collation: a4 a-z8 A-F8 G4 H-I8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Post Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pocket edition of Postel's most succesful work View picture(s) 46 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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Amongst the earliest examples of the catenic form of commentary on the Bible, written in ca. 500 AD View picture(s) 47 PROCOPIUS GAZAEUS. In libros Regum, et Paralipomenon scholia. Joannes Meursius nunc primus graecè edidit, & Latinam interpretationem adiecit. Leiden, Isaac Elzevier, 1620. 4to. Contemporary vellum with pasted red morocco title label on spine with title lettered in gold. Woodcut printer's device on title. Printed in Greek and Roman type. (8), 396, (10, 6 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Elzevier  Greek & Latin  Leyden  Printing [Greek]  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The art of saying much with few words View picture(s) 48 PUTEANUS, Ericius. De laconismo syntagma. Adjuncti Thyrsi Philotesii, Stili & sermonis Aculei.- IDEM. Thyrsi Philotesii, sive Amor laconissans. Stili & sermonis Aculei. Louvain, Gerardus Rivius, 1609. 12mo. Modern half parchment; marbled paper over boards. Printer's device on the title-pages and nice woodcut initials. 118, (2)(Privilege); 78, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Linguistics  Philology  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Aldus edition of the most important Roman work on rhetorics, from the library of Joseph Romilly View picture(s) 49 QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. Institutionum Oratorium libri XII diligentius recogniti M D XXII. Index capitum totius operis. Conversio dictionum Graecarum, quas ipse author in latinum non transtulit. Venice 'In Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri' (André d'Asola & sons), January 1521. 4to. Seventeenth-century (?) red morocco with refined gilt centre-piece within double gilt ruled border with gilt corner pieces on both sides ('Style le Gascon'), gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, (later) matching red morocco spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, g.e. Aldus' famous printer's device (53 mm.) on the first and last leaves. (4), 230 lvs. (Collation *4, a-z, A-E8, F6). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The important first Aldus edition of the Roman world's greatest work on rhetoric View picture(s) 50 QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. [Institutiones oratoriae]. Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andre d'Asola ('Aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri'), August 1514. 4to. Seventeenth-century (?) red morocco with refined gilt centre-piece within triple gilt ruled border with gilt corner pieces on both sides ('Style le Gascon'), gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, spine with (later) black title-label lettered in gold. Aldus famous printer's device (53 mm.) on the first and last leaves. [4], 230 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ancient Roman life and customs View picture(s) 51 ROSINUS, Johannes. 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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The Roman tragedies in the spotlight of two famous Leiden philologists; one part in an unrecorded variant issue View picture(s) 52 SCRIVERIUS, Petrus (ed.). Collectanea veterum tragicorum, Livii Andronici, Q. Ennii, Cn. Naevii, M. Pacuvii, L. Attii, aliorumque fragmenta; et circa ipsa notae breves. Quibus accedunt singulari libello Castigationes & Notae uberiores Gerardi Joannis Vossii. Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1620. 2 parts in one vol. 8vo. 17th-century dark brown calf, triple fillets along the edges with blind tooled delicately ornamented centre piece, ribbed spine with brown leather label lettered in gold, red painted edges. With Maire's printer's device (Breugelmans, Ill.1, device 2) on title; device on second title (see Bibl. Belg. V, p. 127). LXXII, 190, (2); VIII, p. 1-176, 179-192, (2, blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Literary History, Drama & Comedie  Netherlands  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare complete copy of Glazemaker's translation of Seneca's Moral works View picture(s) 53 SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (& Jan Hendrik GLAZEMAKER). De zedige werken van L. Annaus Seneka...Door J.H. Glazemaker uit het Latijn in de Nederlantsche taal vertaalt. Amsterdam, Tymon Houthaak for Gerrit van Goedesberg & Alex. Jansz. for Johannes Dalé (3rd part, 1671), 1657-71. 4 parts in 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Woodcut printer's devices or fleurons on titles, woodcut endpieces and initials. Vol. I: (16), 536; 308 pp. Vol. II: (8), 712 pp. Vol. III: (12), 372 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Both Seneca's, father and son, in a school edition printed by Raphelengius in Leiden View picture(s) 54 SENECA, Lucius Annaeus the Younger (Seneca Philosophus) & Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus SENECA the Older (Seneca Rhetor) Quae extant opera. Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius (II): Ex officina Plantiniana. Raphelengii, 1609. 24mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, spine with title written in ink. With a woodcut printer's device of the Officina Plantiniana on the title. 980, (4, blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important early Latin - Dutch dictionary View picture(s) 55 SERVILIUS, Joannes (or KNAEP(IUS), Jan). Dictionarium triglotton, hoc est tribus linguis, Latina, Graeca, et ea qua tota haec inferior Germania utitur, constans: non tantum eas voces omnes quas Latina agnoscit Resp. sed & praecipuas quasque ab autoribus usurpatas phrases, vernaculo sermone expressas, continens. Adpositae suo loco sunt, voces eae omnes quae in priore editione desiderabantur. Antwerp, Joannes Graphaeus for Joannes Steelsius, 1560. 8vo. Very interesting strictly contemporary Flemish (Antwerp) full calf  binding, blind tooled with a roll with the four portraits of Venus, Juno, Pallas and Paris (the protagonists of the Judgment of Paris; roll: ca. 20 x 127 mm.) along the edges of both sides enclosing a rectangular centre area with floral roll and small floral stamps. With printer's device of Steelsius on the title and small woodcut initials. (451) lvs. (A-Z, 2A-2Z, 3A-3K8, L4-1 (last blank lacking). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  Greek & Latin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'Esteemed as the first critical edition of Statius's works' View picture(s) 56 STATIUS, Publius Papinius. Opera quae extant. Placidi Lactantii in Thebaida et Achilleida commentarius. Ex bibliotheca Fr. Pithoei collatis MSS, veteribusque exemplaribus, recensuit; partim nunc primum edidit, Fr. Tiliobroga. Adiectis variarum lectionum observationibus, indiceque uberrimo. Paris, Ex. Off. Plantiniana, for Hadrianus Perier, 1600. 4to. 19th-century full brown calf with border of double blind fillets and blind-stamped floral corner ornaments on sides, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold on light brown title-label and small blindstamped ornaments painted black in five compartments, marbled endpapers, red painted edges (J.O. SANDFORD, Shrewsbury). Title in red & black, woodcut head-pieces and initials. (8), 115 (1), 512, (14), 513-536, 116 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greek & Latin  Paris  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition of Statius View picture(s) 57 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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Most amusing collection of remarkable epitaphs View picture(s) 58 SWEERTIUS, Franciscus. Epitaphia Ioco-Seria, Latina, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Lusitanica, Belgica. Coloniae, Iodocus Kalcoven, 1645. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt. (12), 323, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Schoolbooks  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) 59 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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British standard edition View picture(s) 60 THEOCRITUS & Thomas WARTON (ed.). Theocriti Syracusii quae supersunt. Cum scholiis Graecis auctioribus, emendationibus et animadversionibus in scholia editoris et Joannis Toupii. glossis selectis ineditis, indicibus amplissimis. Praemittuntur editoris dissertatio de Bucolicis Graecorum, vita Theocriti a Josua Barnesio scripta, cum nonnullis aliis auctariis. Accedunt editoris et variorum notae perpetuae, epistola Joannus Toupii de Syracusiis, ejusdem addenda in Theocritum, necnon collationes quindecim codicum. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1770. 2 parts in 2 vols. Large 4to. Early 19th-century dark blue morocco, sides with elaborately gilt ornamental border decoration with triple gilt ruled border, richly gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold, gilt sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Vol. I: (4), LXX, (2), 1-134 (4), 135-236 (80). Vol. II: (4), 1-388 (i.e. 390), (4), 389-412 (i.e. 391-414); VII (1), 45 (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Bibliophily  England  Greek & Latin  Typography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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