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Two first Plantin editions of two classical epigrammatists bound together in contemporary tooled pigskin View picture(s) 1 AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus. D. Magni Ausonii Burdigalensis opera a Theod. Pulmanno Craneburgio in meliorem ordinem restituta, correcta, & scholiis illustrata: adiectis Graecis quibusdam epigrammatibus, ut conferri cum Latinis possint. Cum Latina Graecorum interpretatione, & duplice indice. Antwerp, C. Plantijn, 1568 (colophon: printed November 1567). 2 works in one. 16mo. Contemporary panelled pigskin over wooden bevelled boards, ribbed spine, both covers with blind stamped roll with the personifications of 'Fides', 'Fortit(udo)', and 'Carita(s)' around a central panel with decorated roll, original brass clasps and catches. Sm. woodcut printer's device on title. (16), 359, (25, 3 last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Philology  Philosophy  Plantin  Rhetorics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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'As famous for its unintelligibility, as it is sought after for its rarity' View picture(s) 2 BALTENSZ, Frans. Samaritane, ofte spieghel der godtsvreesentheyt en eerbaerheydt, ofte gespreeck van den Heere, met het rechtgeloovigh wijf van Samaria, oft uyt Jacob van Ephraim van Sichar, beschreven in het vierde capittel van den evangelist Johanne, in prijs voorghestelt, die met vergeldinghe vergolden wordt, volghens de woorden des Heeren. ... Ofte een woordelijcke verclaringhe, van het vierde capittel des evangelist Johanne. Ghedaen door F. B. Dordrecht, Frans Baltensz., 1648. 8vo. 18th century olive morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments with two red labels lettered in gold; richly gilt borders along the edges of both boards; inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. 51 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anatomy  Dutch  Education  Medicine  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important Plantin editions of the works of the finest Roman poets of the first century BC View picture(s) 3 CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. [Opera] Catullus Tibullus Propertius. Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1569. 2 works in one volume. 16mo. 17th- or 18th-century gold-tooled calf. With Plantin's printer's device on title. 173, [3, including last blank leaf] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Plantin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Printed by the Plantin office at Leyden View picture(s) 4 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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Classic Dutch herbal - also with a great impact on Japanese botany View picture(s) 5 DODONAEUS, Rembertus. Cruydt-Boeck, volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe: met biivoeghsels achter elck capitel, uyt verscheyden cruydt-beschrijvers: item, in 't laetste een beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Nu wederom van nieuws oversien ende verbetert. Antwerp ('Inde Plantijnsche Druckerije van') Balthasar Moretus, 1644. Folio Eighteenth-century (?) half calf, with richly decorated and gilt stamped thick wall-paper with floral motives pasted on both sides. Richly engraved title with a view into a fine garden seen through an architectural gate decorated with fruits and plants and 2 medallion portraits of Dodonaeus and Clusius below, and with 1470 woodcuts of herbs in text, large historiated woodcut initials, tail-piece with printer's device, and large printer's device of the Plantin workshop on the recto of the last leaf (verso blank). (36), 1492, (59, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Botany  Botany [Herbals]  Japan  Natural History  Plantin  Rangaku  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collected works of a brilliant but prematurely deceased student, edited by Janus Dousa and printed by Plantin View picture(s) 6 FRUTERIUS, Lucas. Librorum qui recuperati potuerunt reliquiae. Inter quos Verisimilium lib. II. Et Versus miscelli. Additus Iulii SEVERIANI prisci scriptoris liber. Omnia nunc primum edita, cura V. N. Iani Dousae a Nortwyck. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. 8vo. 17th or 18th century calf, triple gilt filets with four cornerpieces on both sides; spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, lettered in gold. Titles with two variants of the 'Labore et constantia' printer's device of the Plantin office; some woodcut initials. 172, (4), 27(28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Humanism  Neo-Latin  Philology  Plantin  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the most important books published on the Low Countries in the 16th century View picture(s) 7 GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali; rineduta di nuovo , & ampliata per tutto la terz a volta dal medesimo autore. Al gran're Cattolico don Filippo d'Austria. Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1588. Folio. Contemporary decorated gilt vellum, g.e., remnants of ties. With richly designed engraved allegorical frontispiece of Low Countries (Belgia), richly designed engraved architectural title in its first state with printed text, richly engraved plate with a border of the coat of arms of the 16 Provinces and that of Brabant together with coat of arms of Philip II in centre pasted in, engraved plate with allegorical depiction of the Arts and Sciences and architectural border with portrait of Philip II in centre, large woodcut coat of arms of Guicciardini, 64 double-page engraved maps and views, 6 full-page engraved maps and views, 4 single pages with on each 2 engraved maps, woodcut headpieces and initials. (24), 432, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Guide Books  Italy  Low Countries  Maps  Netherlands  Plantin  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important history of the Low Countries (1334-1477) from a Catholic point of view View picture(s) 8 HEUTER, Pontus de. Rerum Burgundicarum libri sex, in quibus describuntur res gestae Regum, Ducum, Comitumque utriusque Burgundiae; ac in primis Philippi Audacis, Ioannis Intrepidi, Philippi Boni, Imperij Belgici conditoris, Caroli Pugnacis; qui è Valesia Francorum Regum familia apud Burgundos imperarunt. Quorum postremus liber, qui est sextus, continet genealogias familiarum eorum maximè principum de quibus in universo opere sit mentio, docens quoque rationem stemmatum per avita insignia disponendorum. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum with title in ink and pasted old shelf marks on spine, red speckled edges, rests of ties. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut genealogical tables and initials in text. (8), 192, (11, 1 blank) pp. [Collation: +4, A-R6]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Low Countries  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of a successful edition and translation by the first Leiden Professor of Medicine View picture(s) 9 HIPPOCRATES & Johannes HEURNIUS. Aphorismi Graecè, & Latinè. Brevi enarratione, sidaque interpretatione ita illustrati, ut ab omnibus facilè intelligi possint. Cum historiis, observationibus, cautionibus, & remediis selectis. (Leyden), ex Officina Plantiniana by Christopher Raphelengius, 1601. 16mo. Contemporay vellum with title in ink on spine. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (16), 512, (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Leyden  Medicine  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A very nice set of 12 of Lipsius's most important works on Ancient Roman history, together with his 'Mirror of Princes' and his letters, all published during his lifetime by Joan. Moretus View picture(s) 10 LIPSIUS, Justus. Collection of 12 important works uniformly bound in contemporary blind tooled pigskin, in 3 vols. Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Joannes Moretus, 1596-1605. 3 vols. Large 4to. Original blind tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards (bound shortly after 1605), with three different rolls around a central panel with decorative roll, divided by triple lines: (1) roll with 4 scenes from the life of Christ with the captions 'Satisfa', 'Hic est', 'Ecce ag(nus Dei)', and 'Iustifi'; (2): roll with 4 portraits of Paul, David, and Christ with 4 captions: 'Apparuit benignit(as)', 'Ecce agnu(s) Dei qui to(llit)' (=Gospel acc. to John, I:29); 'Data est mihi omn(is)' (=Gospel acc. to Matth. I:18, and 'De fructu ventrist(uo)' (=Psalm 131:11); (3) roll with 4 different small portraits in roundels with coats-of-arms; the original brass clasps on leather thongs and catches, ribbed spines, two of them with two slips of yellow paper with the titles of Lipsius's works written in a neat Humanistic hand. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antiques  Classical Antiquity  History  Philosophy  Plantin  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of an early Plantin edition of a valuable work on Scandinavian customs and folklore View picture(s) 11 MAGNUS, Olaus. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus. Sic in epitomen redacta, ut non minus clare quam breviter quicquid apud Septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1558. 8vo. Early 17th-century gold-tooled calf. With woodcut printer's device and 135 fine woodcut illustrations by Arnaud Nicolai in text. [8], 192 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Plantin  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare and important humanist studies on ancient Dutch and German history View picture(s) 12 ORTELIUS, Abraham & Johannes VIVIANUS. Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1584. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 folding engraved plates, and 3 large engravings and some woodcut inscriptions in text. 76, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Archaeology  Dutch  France  Geography  History  Mercator  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the history and significance of the crown View picture(s) 13 PASCHAL, Charles. Coronae. Opus quod nunc primùm in lucem editur distinctum X. libris; quibus res omnis coronaria è priscorum eruta & collecta monumentis continetur. Paris, Ex officina Plantiniana apud Hadrien Perier, 1610. 4to. Contemporary vellum, ribbed spine decorated in gilt spine, large gilt coat-of-arms of Amsterdam in the centre, 4 smaller arms of Amsterdam as corner pieces, and gilt borders on both sides, sprinkled edges. Engraved vignette with the coats of arms of the French king Henry IV on title, woodcut head- and end pieces, woodcut initials. (16), 730 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Classical Antiquity  History  Nobility  Plantin  Provenance  Royalty  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Phaedrus-edition printed in the Netherlands View picture(s) 14 PHAEDRUS. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Nuper à P. Pithoeo V.C. primum editi. Et iam emendati atque illustrati notis à Cunrado Ritterhusio I.C. Acc., in eadem Fabulas Spicilegium Gasp. Schoppi: & alia quam plurima quae sequens pagella indicebat. Leyden, Ex off. Plantiniana, 1598. Small 8vo. 19th century half red morocco, spine ribbed and gilt (CAPÉ). 191, (1 blank), 55, (1 blank), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Fable Books  Greek & Latin  Plantin  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Plantin pocket edition of the works of Sallust with a Leiden imprint View picture(s) 15 SALLUSTIUS Crispus, Gaius. Opera, quae extant, una cum fragmentis. Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, Franciscus Raphelengius I, 1591. 32mo. Contemporary green morocco with two gilt decorative borders along the edges of both sides, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, gilt edges. Woodcut printer's device on title. 302 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  History  Plantin  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the commentary and notes by Martin Antoine Delrio (1551-1608) View picture(s) 16 SENECA, Lucius Annaeus. In L. Annaei Senecae Cordubensis poetae gravissimi tragoedias decem; scilicet Herculem Furentem, Herculem Oetaeum, Medeam, Hippolytum, Oedipum, Thebidem, Thyestem, Troades, Agamemnonem, Octaviam, ampplissima adversaria, quae loco commentarii esse possunt. Ex bibliotheca Martini Antonii Delrio. Antwerp, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1576. 4to. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum with remnants of ties. Printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (24), 381 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism  Jesuits  Plantin  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first good edition of the letters and poems of a fifth-century diplomat and bishop in Gaul View picture(s) 17 SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS, Caius Sollius Modestus. Opera. Jo. Savaronis studio & diligentia castigatiùs recognita. Paris, in officina Plantiniana, apud Hadrianus Perier, 1598. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, ms. title in ink on spine, remains of ties. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. (24), 362, (5) pp. *8, **4, A8-Y8, Z4, Aa4. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  France  History  Plantin  Poetry  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) 18 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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'Very scarce and valuable edition' of the classic plays of Terence View picture(s) 19 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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The standard Bible in the second half of the 16th century View picture(s) 20 [BIBLE - LOUVAIN - PLANTIN]. Biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria castigata. Quid in horum Bibliorum castigatione praestitum sit, subsequens praefatio latius indicabit. Antwerp, Chr. Plantina, 1567. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum, blindstamped gilt ornament in the centre, corner ornaments and double filets on sides, gilt and decorated spine, g.e. Title in richly decorated woodcut border with Plantin's printer's device, woodcut initials and endpiece in text. (8), 303 (1 blank); 74 (6, last blank). [Collation: *8, A-Z8, a-p8; Aa-Kk8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Bibles  Plantin  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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