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Early Latin edition of the Hippocratic corpus

HIPPOCRATES and Janus CORNARIUS (translator). Opera quae ad nos extant omnia, per Ianum Cornarium Medicum Physicum Latina lingua conscripta, & recognita.
Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, 1558. Folio. With Frobens woodcut printers device on the title page, repeated on the otherwise blank verso of the final leaf, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 804, [116] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)
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From the library of the Dutch explorer and diplomat Pieter Nuyts, discoverer of the southern coast of Australia in 1627

HOMER [and Henri ESTIENNE (editor)]. Opera omnia, cum interpretat[ione]. lat[ina]. ad. verbum ... et breves notae marginales. Editio novissima.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1650. Small 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title (within collation) and a few woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, red painted edges. [16], 895, [1 blank], [14] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Australia Book History, Printing & Typography Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics
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Beautifully bound fundamental Italian translation of Homer's Illiad

HOMER. Iliade di Omero. Traduzione del Cav. Vincenzo Monti.
Milano, Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1812. 2 vols. Large 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm). Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled green calf (or sheepskin), with a light brown title-label on the spine lettered in gold. All boards show the large gold-tooled crowned coat of arms (of the French Barons Pavée de Vendeuvre - see to Rietstap 5, Pl. XXIII) within a gold-tooled frame, brown marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], 366; 386 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Greek & Roman Classics Italian Literature Italy
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An Antwerp union of the Iliad and Odyssey

HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528.
With:
(2) IDEM. Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked. 183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics
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Catalogue of van Hulthem’s enormous library

HULTHEM, Charles van (A. VOISIN, cataloguer). Bibliotheca Hulthemiana ou Catalogue méthodique de la riche et précieuse collection de livres et des manuscrits.
Ghent, J. Poelman, 1836-1837. 6 volumes. 8vo. With lithographed portrait of Charles van Hulthem as frontispiece. Contemporary half goatskin. Full description
€ 2,500
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One of the foundational texts of the Western legal tradition, printed by a woman for the first time

JUSTINIANUS I, Emperor and Jean CHAPPUIS (editor). Codex. Codicis d[omi]ni Justiani sacratissimi principis libri novem...
Paris, Yolande Bonhomme for Jean Petit, 1538. 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Thielman Kerver on the title-page, one full-page woodcut illustration, a near full-page woodcut illustration of emperor Justinian I, and numerous woodcut initials throughout. The title-page and text are printed in red and black. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, with the manuscript title on the spine and the front board. [40], CCCCCCCIIII, ll. Full description
€ 6,500
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century France Greek & Roman Classics Law & Politics Women History
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Early Antwerp edition of Roman poetry

JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius. Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine, brevis commentarii vice adiectis.
Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1540. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, with a central panel on both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border and a blank border, brown sprinkled edges. 64 ll. Full description
€ 4,750
Caricature & Satire Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Literature
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One of the first complete editions, richly illustrated with nearly 300 woodcuts

LIVIUS, Titus. Titi Livii deß aller redtsprechsten unnd hochberümptsten geschicht schreibers: Römische Historien ...
Mainz, Ivo Schöffer, 1533. 5 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 4 elaborate woodcut borders, 279 woodcut illustrations, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device on the final leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over boards, with remnants of brass fittings. [14], CCCCCXLV, [1] ll. Full description
€ 6,000
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Italy
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Two important works by Macrobius (5th cent. AD): one of the most important sources
for Neo-Platonism in the Middle Ages, with the famous World map

MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius. In somnium scipionis, lib. II. Saturnaliorum, lib. VII.
Lyon, Sebastien Gryphe, 1542. Large 8vo. With a woodcut printers device on the title page, woodcut initials, 6 small woodcut figures, and the well-known half-page woodcut world map in a circle with the winds blowing in the corners (79 x 80 mm). Contemporary vellum. 567, [73] pp. Full description
€ 950
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics
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The Hague illustrated edition of the ‘ad usum Delphini edition’ of Virgil by Charles de la Rue

MARO, Publius Virgilius. Opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruaeus, Soc. Jesu, ad usum Serenissimi Delphini. Editio nova, auctior et emendatior ... Iuxta editionem noovissimam Parisiensem A. 1722.
The Hague, brothers Vaillant & N. Prevost, 1723. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title, woodcut initials, an engraved folding map of the eastern part of the Mediterranean showing the route of Aeneas on his way home and 8 full-page engravings. XXIV, 637, 223 pp. Full description
€ 375
Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics
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