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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) 1 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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Famous text edition of a Greek Platonist, with translation into Latin and notes by Daniel Heinsius View picture(s) 2 MAXIMUS TYRIUS. Dissertationes XLI. Graece. Cum interpretatione, notis, & emendationibus Danielis Heinsii. Accessit Alcinoi in Doctrinam Platonis introductio ab eodem emendata: & alia ejusdem generis. Leiden, Joannes Paets, 1607. 3 parts in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping scheep, title written on spine, ties lacking. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device on title. (24), 408 pp. (collation: *8, 2*4, a-v8, x4, y-z8, 2a-2c8) Full description >> Related Subjects: Greek & Latin  Leyden  Literary History, Classics  Netherlands  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ovid in Swedish translation View picture(s) 3 OVID [REENSTIERNA, Jacob]. Nägre fabler af Ovidii Metamorphoses, förswanskade (af Jacob Reenstierna). Stockholm, Julius G. Matthiae, 1708. 8vo. (printed on half sheets) Contemporary half calf, giolt spine with title lettered in gold. With woodcut printer's mark on title, engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication, 19 engraved small illustrations in text by N. Guerard (c. 50 x 60 mm), and woodcut haed- and tail-pieces and initials (8), (69) lvs.; collation: )(-2)(4, A-R4, (S)2-1. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Literary History  Literary History, Classics  Literature  Philology  Sweden  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) 4 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) 5 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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The Roman tragedies in the spotlight of two famous Leiden philologists; one part in an unrecorded variant issue View picture(s) 6 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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Both Seneca's, father and son, in a school edition printed by Raphelengius in Leiden View picture(s) 7 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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Commentaries and scholia on the Greek orator Demosthenes & the dictionary of Harpocration: second edition of Aldus' editio princeps View picture(s) 8 ULPIANUS of Emesa (or: of Antioch) & Valerius HARPOKRATION [Greek text: Oulpianou rhetoros, prolegomena eis te tous olunthiakous, kai philipikous demosthenous logous - Exegesis anankaiotate, eis dekatreis tou demosthenous logous - Harpokrationos, lexikon tou deka rhetoron] Commentarioli in olynthiacas, philippicasque Demosthenis orationes. Enarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis. Arpocrationis dictionarium decem Rhetorum. Venice, 'In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri' (André d'Asola & sons), June 1527. Folio. Later overlapping limp vellum. With Aldus' famous printer's device (in border, 108 x 78 mm, with text 'Aldus') on title-page and on the verso of the last leaf (with text 'Aldus. M.D.'). 120 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Literary History, Classics  Philology  Printing [Greek]  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First separate edition together with the Latin translation of the famous collection of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic poems: the Sibylline oracles View picture(s) 9 [CASTELLIO(N), Sebastianus]. [Greek text] Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri VIII. Addita Sebastiani Castalionis interpretatione Latina, quae Graeco erigionè respondeat. Cum annotationibus Xysti Betuleij in Graeca Sibyllina oracula, & Sebastiani Castalionis in translationem suam: quae annotationes numeris marginalibus signantur. Quae praeterea huic editioni ultra priorem accesserint, diligens lector ex praefationibus & collatione facilè deprehendet. Basel, Joannes Oporinis, August 1555. 8vo. Early eighteenth-century three-quarter vellum with later title label. With woodcut initials. 333, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Hebraica  Judaica  Literary History, Classics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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