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First Aldine edition of the collected commentaries on the rhetorical works of Cicero View picture(s) 1 COMMENTARIA. In omnes de arte rhetorica M. Tullii Ciceronis libros, item in eos ad C. Herennium scriptos, doctissimorum virorum commentaria, in unum veluti corpus redacta, ac separatim a' Ciceronis contextu, quem a' diversis impressum nemo iam in sua bibliotheca non habet, ne quis inani sumptu gravaretur, edita. Accessit in omnes libros rerum ac verborum memorabilium plenissimus index. Venice, sons of Aldus Manutius, 1546. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Magnificent nineteenth-century red morocco binding in Renaissance style: ribbed and gilt and blind-tooled spine with title lettered in gold, sides tooled in blind and gold with gilt border, corner pieces and partly gilt central ornament of two entwined eclipses, gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, marbled endpapers, blue painted edges. With woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and on verso of last leaf, woodcut initials. (20) pp, 624 cols.; cols. 1-492, (8) pp, cols. 493-824 (i.e. 826). With 2 columns per page. (Collation: *10, A-S8, T-V6; a-o8, p-q6, r-z8, aa-dd8). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Bindings  Latin  Rhetorics  Venice  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) 2 LIBRI DE RE RUSTICA. M. Catonis lib. I. - M. Terentii Varronis Lib. III. - L. Junii Moderati Columellae Lib. XII. - Eiusdem de arboribus liber separatus ab alijs. - Palladii Lib. XIIII. - De duobus dierum generibus: simulque de umbris, & horis, quae apud Palladium. - Index omnium ferè rerum ... - Index graecorum dictionum. - Enarrationes priscarum vocum per ordinem literarum digestae. Venice, heirs of Aldus & Andrea Soceri, December 1533. Large 8vo. Later full calf, tooled 'a l'antique', both sides with two blind ruled frames (consisting of 6 blind and one gilt lines) and one lozenge-shaped frame in the centre with gilt title in the top and centre-piece in the middle, gilt little stars and trefoil as corner-pieces, and gilt initials 'S.V.' on front cover, red speckled edges. Woodcut Aldine device on first and second title and on verso of last leaf, some woodcut geometrical figures in text. (54), 295, (1) ff. (Collation: *4, A-E8, F10, a-z8, A-O8). 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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Better than all preceding editions View picture(s) 3 (TROGUS 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, gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold on red morocco title label, red edges. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last blank. (4), 5-204 ff. (Collation a-z8, A-B8, C4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Latin  Literature  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition of Apuleius' works, including a text attributed to Hermes Trismegistus View picture(s) 4 APULEIUS, Lucius & ALCINOUS and others, & ALCINOUS. Metamorphoseos, sive lusus Asini libri XI. Floridorum IIII. De Deo Socratis I. De Philosophia I. Asclepius Trismegisti Dialogus eodem Apuleio interprete. Eiusdem Apuleij liber de Dogmatis Platonicis. Eiusdem liber de Mundo, quem magna ex parte ex lib. Aristotelis eiusdem argumenti in latinum traduxit. ... Apologiae II. ALCINOUS, Isagogicus liber Platonicae philosophiae, Graece impressus. Nam commodius visi sumus facere, si hunc librum graecum imprimeremus, quam latinum, cum inepta tralatione cuiusdam Episcopi Ttropiensis (sic) barbarus esset. (Colophon: Venice, heirs of Aldus the Elder (Andrea Asulani & sons), May 1521). 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary richly blind ruled full calf with three blind tooled decorated rolls, red speckled edges. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. 266 (i.e. 264), (28) ff. [Collation: a-z8, A-K8 (Rom.), (1-3)8, (4)4 (Arab.)]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Bindings  Greek & Latin  Greek Printing  Philosophy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A commentary on and epithome of Laurentius Valla's De Elegantiis View picture(s) 5 BIENATO, Aurelio. In elegantiarum sex libros Laurentii Vallae disertissimi epithomata nuper recognita. Venice, Ioan. Antonio de Nicolinis de Sabio for Melchiore Sessa, 1539. Small 8vo. Later three quarter vellum, gilt and ribbed spine, boards covered with decorated paper. Charming woodcut printer's device showing a cat with a mouse in its mout, with motto 'Dissimilium infida societas' underneath, repeated on verso of last leaf. 63, (1) lvs. (Collation: A-H8). Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Humanism  Neolatinism  Pedagogy & Didactics  Venice  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) 6 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 [i.e. 260; f. 158 numbered 158-160], (2) ff. [Collation: aa8 bb4 a-t8 u6 A-N8]. 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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Very rare pamphlet by Casanova on difficulties between the Dutch Republic and Venice View picture(s) 7 CASANOVA, Giacomo. Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda. No pl. (Vienna?), no printer, 1785. 8vo. Contemporary blue marbled wrappers. LXX pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  History  Netherlands  Pamphlets  Venice  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) 8 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 vols. 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. Vol. 1: (268), foliated by a sixteenth-century hand; vol. 2: (190) lvs., including all blanks. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Greek Printing  Literary History, Classics  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) 9 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) ff. [Collation: A10 B-P8 Q4]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition of the intriguing Attic Nights recording many fragments of classical works now lost View picture(s) 10 GELLIUS, Aulus. Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginti. Venice, Aldus Manutius & André d'Asola ("In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri"), September 1515. 8vo. Seventeenth (or Eighteenth)-century sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with a stamp of an eagle in four compartments and a red morocco label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, g.e. With the famous Aldine printer's mark on the title and on the verso of the last leaf. Printed in Italics. (32), 289, (51) lvs. (Collation: AA-DD, a-z, A-T8, V4). Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Literary History, Classics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch poem in praise of Venice View picture(s) 11 HOOGSTRATEN, Jan van. Afzetzel van de Republyk of Vrye Staat van Venetie, begrepen in drie boeken. Amsterdam, Hendrik vande Gaete, en Johannes van Leeuwen, 1715. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved  vignette on title, and engraved armorial head-piece for the dedication to Mr. Gerrard van Brandwyk, Lord of Bleskensgrave and Hoogeveen, burgomaster of Gouda, all by J. Wandelaar, and woodcut tail-pieces. (52), 152 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Poetry  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Horace in the (partly first) Italian translation by Lodovico Dolce View picture(s) 12 HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus. I dilettevoli sermoni, altrimenti satire, e le morali epistole, insieme con la poetica. Ridotte da M. Lodovico Dolce dal poema Latino in versi sciolti volgari. Con la vita di Horatio. Origine della Satira. Discorso sopra le Satire. Discorso sopra le Epistole. Discorso sopra la Poetica. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1559. 8vo. Marbled paper wrappers. Woodcut printer's device on title, large woodcut illustration (variant of Ferrari's printer's device of an eagle staring at the sun with the motto 'Semper Eadem') on the recto of the last leaf (verso blank; Marques typogr. de G. Giolito: Ascarelli, nrs 119 et 123), woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. 318, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Greek & Latin  Italy  Philosophy  Poetry  Satire  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important edition of Livy with accurate criticism on the chronology of Roman history View picture(s) 13 LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri qui exstant XXXV cum universae historiae epitomis Caroli Sigonij scholia, quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim etiam explanantur, ab auctore multis in partibus aucta. Venice, in aedibus Manutianis (= Paulus Manutius & Aldus Manutius the younger), 1572. 3 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Modern vellum with title in ink on spine, new endpapers. Title to each part with large woodcut printer's device surrounded with an allegorical border. 590 lvs. (ff. (54), 1-399 (1 blank); 1-109 (1 blank); pp. 1-52. [Collation: a6, a-f8, A-Z8, Aa-Zz8, A2a-D2d8; A-N8, O6; a-e4, f6]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only Aldine edition of three astronomical treatises View picture(s) 14 MACROBIUS, Theodosius Ambrosius & CENSORINUS. In somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis VI libro de rep. eruditissima explanatio. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Censorinus De die natalia, additis ex vetusto exemplari nonnullis, quae desiderabantur. Venice, In aedibus Aldi & Andreas Asulanus, April 1528. 8vo. 19th-century blind ruled brown calf, new endpapers. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf, some astronomical woodcuts and a world-map (k5r) in text. (8, the last 2 blank), 322, (323: colophon), (2, the first blank) ff. (Collation: *8, #8, a-z8, &8, A-Q8, R4]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astronomy  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  World Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nice copy of the first Aldine edition View picture(s) 15 MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius. [Epigrammata]. (Colophon: Venice, Aldus Manutius the Elder, December 1501). 8vo. 17th-century calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. (192) ff., including the last blank. [Collation: A-Z8 &8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Latin language: the most important Renaissance dictionary/encyclopaedia, together with the three main classical texts on the subject View picture(s) 16 PEROTTUS (PEROTTO, PEROTTI), Niccolò. In hoc volumine habentur haec. # Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae commentarij diligentissime recogniti: atque ex archetypo emendati. # Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium ... # Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynij epistola ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. # Cornelij Vitellij in eum ipsum libellum Sypontini annotationes. # M. Terentij Varronis de lingua Latina libri tres: Quartus. Quintus. Sextus. # Eiusdem de analogia libri tres. # Sexti Pompeij Festi undeviginti librorum fragmenta. # Nonij Marcelli Compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est: non ante impressa ... Colophon on K8r: Venice, in aedibus Aldi & Andrea Soceri, May 1517. Colophon on Y7v: Venice, in aedibus Aldi Folio. Modern brown calf with gilt title on spine, new endpapers. Woodcut printer's device on title repeated on verso of last leaf. 440 lvs., ff. 1-79 (1 blank), cols. 1-492 494-495 495-602 563-564 606-967 668-669 970-1018 1021-1022 1021-1024 1013-1014 1027-1408 1397-1398 1411-1436, ff. (1 blank) [Collation: '*'-10'*'8 a-z8 A-Y8 (Q3 unsigned)]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Italy  Venice  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) 17 POLIZIANO, Angelo. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice vedere licet. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1498. Folio. 17th/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) lvs.Collation: a-p4, q-r5, s-t4, A-I4, K2, L-P4, Q-R5, S4, T5, V3, X-Y5, Z4, &5, iterum2a-iterum2b4, 2a5, 2b-2h8, 2i3, 2k5. 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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In the manner of Erasmus' Adagia View picture(s) 18 RHODIGINUS, Ludovicus Caelius (RICCHIERI, Lodovico). Sicuti antiquarum lectionum commentarios concinnarat olim Vindex Ceselius, ita nunc eosdem per incuriam interceptos reparavit Lodovico Caelius Rhodiginus, in corporis unam velut molem aggestis primum linguae utrisque floribus, mox advocato ad partes platone item, ac platonicis omnibus, necnon Aristotele, ac haereseos eiusdem viris aliis, sed et theologorum plerisque ac jureconsultorum, ut medicos taceam, et mathesin professos. Ex qua velut lectionis farragine explicantur linguae Latinae loca, qu adrigentis haud paucio rafere, vel aliis intacta, vel pensiculate parum excussa. Opto valeas, qui leges, livore posito [Greek text]. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Soceri (= Aldus Manutius & his son-in-law Andreas Torresano de Asula), February 1516. Folio. 18th-century vellum, boards covered with 18th-century decorative paper, gilt title on spine. Title printed in red with Aldine printer's device also in red, repeated in black on verso of last leaf. (80), 862 (6) pp.(Collation: AA-CC8, DD4, EE8, FF4, a-z8, &8, ?8, R8, aa-zz8, 2&8, 2?8, 2R8, A8, B10). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Anatomy  Art  Dance  Encyclopædic Works  Law  Music  Theology  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition View picture(s) 19 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. (Collation: a-s8 t4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Latin  Politics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most important of Italian late 16th century text books on military science View picture(s) 20 SAVORGNANO, M. Arte Militare Terrestre, e Maritima; Secondo la Ragione, et uso de piu valorosi capitani antichi, e moderni. Gia descritta, e divisa in quattro Libri. Venice, Seb. Combi, 1614. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title, 2 double-page tables, and 23 double-page woodcut plates. (20), 266 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Militaria  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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