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The Doctrinale with the authoritative commentary by Johannes Synthen: one of two copies known View picture(s) 1 ALEXANDER DE VILLA DEI and Johannes SYNTHEN. [Doctrinale part 1, with the commentary by Johannes Synthen]: Glosa super prima parte doctrinalis Alexandri. Per Joannem Synthen Daventriae extremo labore collecta. Deventer, Jacobus de Breda, [between 5 April and 21 May 1490]. 4to. Binding lost except front cover: a vellum leaf from an early 15th-century rhetorical manuscript, rubricated in red. Not rubricated; only 2 initials executed: first chapter: a red R with red pen work and a red V at the beginning of Chapter 5 (damaged). [130, out of 134] ll. Collation: a8-4, b-y6. Full description >> Related Subjects: Deventer  Incunabula  Latin  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important Apuleius edition printed by the Officina Plantiniana in Leiden View picture(s) 2 APULEIUS, Lucius. Opera omnia quae exstant. E quibus, post ultimam P. Colvii editionem, Philosophici libri ope vetustiss. Cod. Ms. innumeris mendis expurgati; quam plurimis locis aucti, per Bon. Vulcanium Brugensem. Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1594. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, title in ink on spine. Woodcut printer's device and initials. (16), 80, 383 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Latin  Literary History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Discussions and critical reviews of 100 books, from the incunabula period till the first quarter of the 18th century by a German philologist View picture(s) 3 BEYER, Augustinus. Memoriae historico-criticae librorum rariorum, accedunt  Evangeli Cosmopolitani notae ad Jo. Burch. Menckenii De charletaneria eruditorum declamationes, in quibus exempla  nonnulla praecipue Hispanorum adferuntur. Dresden & Leipzig, Fred. Hekel. 1734. 8vo. Modern white cloth, red speckled edges. Woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (16), 301, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliography  Books about Books  French  Latin  Pamphlets  Satire  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Aldine edition of the famous canon of classical texts on agriculture View picture(s) 4 CATO, Marcus Porcius [et al.]. Libri de re rustica. Venice, heirs of Aldus & Andrea Soceri, December 1533. Large 8vo. Later blind- and gold-tooled calf ('a l'antique'). With 2 woodcut Aldine devices and some woodcut geometrical figures in text. [54], 295, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Aldus Manutius  Gastronomy  Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Copy from the library of the Dukes of Saxony and Brandenburg View picture(s) 5 GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae, regionum descriptio. Recens ex idiomate Italico, ad exemplar tertium ac postremum ab ipso auctore recognitum, magnaque passim accessione locupletatum, in Latinum sermonem conversa. Regnero Vitellio Zirizaeo interprete ... Adjectisque, supplendo & illustrando Guicciardino, nonnullis additamentis. Amsterdam, Guiljelmus Ianssonius (Willem Jansz. Blaeu), 1613. Folio. Contemporary richly blind tooled pigskin over boards, ribbed spine with title written in ink in three compartments, three decorative and floral borders on sides surrounding a central panel with the coats-of-arms of August, duke of Saxony on the front, and of Johann Georg, duke of Brandenburg on the back cover, above the arms on the front cover is stamped and painted black: 'M C D O' (?), and beneath the arms the binding is dated: '1617'; remains of ties. Full-page engraved plate with the coats-of-arms of the XVII Provinces of the Dutch Republic on *6v (16 in a richly decorated border surrounding the coat-of-arms of Brabant proudly in the centre), 67 double-page maps and plans, 17 double-page views, 11 full-page maps and plans (numbered 1-100: 1-41, (42-44 not numb.), 45, (46 not included), 46-60, (61 missing as in most copies), 62, 63 (here not num.), 64-83, 84 (here not numb.), 85, 86-91: 6 plans on 3 leaves, 92-95, 96-97: 2 plans on one leaf, 98-100; woodcut printer's device on title and colophon, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (12), 315, (12, 1 blank) pp. [Collation: *6, A-2C6, 2D-E4]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Latin  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Latin dialogues by the rector of the Deventer Illustre School, leading humanist and teacher of Erasmus and Pope Adrian IV View picture(s) 6 HEGIUS, Alexander. Dialogi. Deventer, R. Pafraet, 1503, Dec. 31th. 4to. Boards. Large blue painted initial, rubricated throughout. (85) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Deventer  Latin  Post Incunabula  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rare first Livius translation into Dutch printed in the Northern Netherlands View picture(s) 7 LIVIUS, Titus. De Roomsche historie oft gesten, door den alder welsprekensten ende vernaemsten histori-schrijver Titum Livium beschreven. Waer uut niet alleen alle wereltlijcke staten tot vromicheyt ende ridderlijcke manlijcke feyten beweecht ende ghedronghen, maer oock alle ander staten tot grooter recreatien ende gheneuchten des herten ghetrocken sullen worden. Leiden, Jan Paedts Jacobszoon & Jan Bouwenszoon, 1585. 4 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary full paneled calf over thick beveled wooden boards blind tooled with two decorated rolls, the outer one with the portraits of four reformers (Johann Friedrich, Philippus Melanchton, ....land?, and Luther), and the highly interesting inner one with three burlesque portraits within floral motives, dated 1571! ribbed spine and leather ties fastened to brass clasps. Large printer's device showing David and Goliath in an oval with the caption 'Hy heeft gewelt gedaen doer zynen arm ende de hoveerdige in haers herten gedachten verstroit' within richly decorated architectural border, repeated on the three part-titles, woodcut initials. (12) 301 ff.; Collation: *-2*6, A-3C6, 3D8-1 (last blank lacking). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Latin  Leyden  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The best text of the sixteenth century established by Lambinus View picture(s) 8 LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. De rerum natura libri sex. A' D. Lambino Monstroliensi litt. Graec. Lutetiae doctore Regio nuper ope veterum codicum à multis mendis vindicati, nunc ab eodem recogniti, & perpurgati. Accessserunt aliquot ab Adr. Turnebo emendationes. In calce libri variae lectiones: et verum insigniorum index. Paris, In aedibus Rouilii, 1565. 16mo. 17th-century vellum with author's name in ink on spine with the armorial bookplate of William Viscount Bateman pasted to the front cover, g.e. Title printed within beautifully decorated woodcut border, woodcut initials. (16, including the last blank), 287, (12, including last blank) lvs. (collation: *8, +8, A-S8, T4, V8). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Latin  PMM  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting early work on Latin abbreviations: an early 'Capelli' View picture(s) 9 NICOLAI, Johannes. Tractatus de siglis veterum omnibus elegantioris literaturae amatoribus utilissimus, in quo continentur, quae ad interpretationem numismatum, inscriptionum,  juris et fere omnium artium requiruntur, cujus subsidio facile literae explicari possunt. Leyden, Abraham de Swart, 1703. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine, red painted edges. Title printed in red & black with engraved vignette with motto 'Deus providebit', 8 engravings in text of which 1 full-page, depicting several inscriptions; woodcut characters and abbreviations in text, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (22), 314 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  Latin  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Petronius' 'Satyricon' including Nodot's spurious supplements View picture(s) 10 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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93 classic fables with comments in Swedish View picture(s) 11 PHAEDRUS. Fabularum Aesopiarum, Libri V. Eller Phaedri Fabler, Med Swänska Anmärkningar. Första Uplagan. Westeras, Johan Laur. Horn, 1781. Sm.8vo. Contemp. half calf. With charming woodcut vignette of two baby children playing on title. (2), 134 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Latin  Sweden  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With medieval manuscript fragments of Schutken's bible translation in Dutch View picture(s) 12 PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius. Accius Plautus ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus: ab eodemque commentariis explicatus. Nunc denuo plurimis, quae in praecedentibus editionibus irrepserant, mendis, repurgatus: multisque in locis in gratiam antiquariorum illustratus. Additit quoque sunt duo Indices copiosissimi: Prior, verborum, locutionum & sententiarum: Posterior, eorum quae commentariis D. Lambini continentur. [Geneva], heirs E. Vignon, 1595. 4to. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine reinforced with strips of manuscript leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces, embellished initials. (8), 920, (52) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Bibles  Classical Antiquity  Latin  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Including plates of a mermaid, an orangutan and a dodo View picture(s) 13 PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. Des wijdt-vermaerden natuer-kondigers vijf boecken ... Hier zijn by-gevoeght de schriften van verscheyden andere oude autheuren, de natuur der dieren aengaende. Amsterdam, widow of Michiel de Groot, 1681. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. With engraved frontispiece with Adam and Eve in paradise, and 53 half-page engraved plates in text. 568 [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Engravings  Latin  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition View picture(s) 14 SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius. De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem de bello Iugurthino. Eiusdem oratio contra M.T. Ciceronum. M.T. Ciceronis oratio contra C. Crispum Sallustium. Eiusdem orationes quator contra Lucium Catilinam. Porcii Latronis declamatio contra Lucium Catalinam orationes quaedam ex libris historiarum C. Crispi Sallustii. (Colophon: Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Asulanus (Torresanus) Socer, April 1509). 8vo. 18th-century vellum with title in ink on spine, red painted edges. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last page. [16], 279, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Latin  Politics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Earliest Latin grammar founded on scientific principles View picture(s) 15 SCALIGER, Julius Caesar. De causis linguae Latinae libri tredecim. [Heidelberg], heirs of Hieronymus Commelin, 1609. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf, with a large gilt coat of arms in the centre. With printer's device on title-page, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. [29], [2 blank], 451 [= 455] pp Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Italy  Latin  Linguistics  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous biographies of the twelve Roman Emperors, printed by the Giunta's View picture(s) 16 SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius. Vitae duodecim Caesarum diligentissime recognitae. Florence, Filippo Giunta, March 1515. 8vo. Later vellum, ribbed spine with title lettered in ink. Woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf. 184, (8) ff. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Latin  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) 17 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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'Very scarce and valuable edition' of the classic plays of Terence View picture(s) 18 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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Providing an humorous and interesting view on daily student life at the German Universities during the 16th and 17th centuries View picture(s) 19 [SATIRE - GERMAN - UNIVERSITIES]. Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est jocoseriorum fasciculus novus, exhibens varia variorum autorum scripta, non tam lectu jucunda & jocosa, amoena & amanda, quam lectu verè digna & utila, multisve moralibus ad mores seculi nostri accomodata, illustrata & adornata. (Rostock?, no pr.), 1627. 17 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine, some parts uncut. 18 title-pages (including general title-page) of which the two first in red & black, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Erotica  Forbidden Books  German  Latin  Poetry  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Better than all preceding editions View picture(s) 20 [TROGUS, Gnaeus Pompeius & Aemilius PROBUS (=Cornelius NEPOS)], ed. by Marcus Junianus JUSTINUS. Trogi Pompei Externae historiae in compendium ab Iustino redactae. Externorum imperatorum vitae Aemylio Probo. Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andrea Asulani, January 1522. 8vo. 18th-century mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. With woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. 204 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Latin  Literature  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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