Literature & Linguistics / Greek & Roman Classics

THEODOSIUS. Sphaericorum libri tres, nunquam antehac graece excusi.
Paris, André Wechel, 1558. Small 4to (21 x 14 cm). With woodcut publisher's Pegasus device on title-page (repeated on last page), numerous woodcut mathematical diagrams in text, woodcut headpieces and decorated initials. 18th-century tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine and board edges. [8], 54, [2], 70, [2] pp. Full description

[THEOPHRASTUS? (pseudo ARISTOTLE)] and Simone PORZIO. De coloribus libellus, à Simone Portio Neapolitano latinate donatus, & cometariis illustratus: una cum euisdem praefatione, qua coloris naturam declarat.
Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1548. 4to. With 2 large woodcut historiated initials. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, manuscript spine-title, with 4 fragments of a Latin manuscript in an upright humanistic hand on vellum used as spine lining. 197, [3] pp. Full description

THEOPHRASTUS. Characteres ethici, sive Morum descriptiones. Graecè et Latinè. Cum notis & monitis Ioannis à Werdenhagen.
Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1653. 24mo. With a vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments, the work is partly printed in Greek type. Contemporary vellum. 359, [1] pp. Full description

TORRENTINUS, Hermannus (Herman van der BEKE). Elucidarius poeticus co[n]tinens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas regiones, urbes, fluvios, mo[n]tesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, …
Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoogstraten, 1527. With the title in an elaborate woodcut border.
With: (2) [FIOCCHI, Andrea Dominico (Andras Dominicus FLOCCUS)] under the name of Lucius FENESTELLA. De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iamprimum nitori restitutus.
[Cologne, Hero Fuchs, 1527]. With the title in a finely cut 4-piece woodcut border. 2 editions in 1 volume. 8vo. 16th-century(?) limp vellum (formerly used for a slightly thinner book). The binding is an interesting example of a spine reinforced with a horizontal metal rod at the central sewing support to give more support and prevent the bookblock from becoming concaved or developing sharp kinks; probably bound in Flanders. [88]; [88] ll. Full description

ULPIANUS of Emesa. Commentarioli olynthiacas; philippicaque; Demostenis orationes. Ennarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis.
Including: HARPOCRATION, Valerius. Dictionarium decem Rhetorum.
Venice, (heirs of) Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, June 1527. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With Aldus' woodcut printer's device on the title page and an older but very similar version on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in Greek type (the Upianus in 1 column; the Harpokation in 2 columns) with incidental roman. Early 18th-century gold-tooled diced brown calf. 119, [1] ll. Full description

ULPIANUS of Emesa and Valerius HARPOCRATION. Commentarioli in olynthiacas, philippicasque Demosthenis orationes. Enarrationes saneque necessariae in tredecim orationes Demosthenis. ...Dictionarium decem Rhetorum. [preceded by the titles in Greek].
(Colophon: Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius, and his father-in-law Andrea Torresano d'Asola [& sons], June) 1527. Folio (31 x 21 cm). With Aldus's famous woodcut dolphin device on the title-page and an older but very similar version on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Set in Greek type (the Upianus in 1 column; the Harpokation in 2 columns) with incidental roman. Recased in 18th-century vellum over flexible boards. 119, [1] ll. Full description

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Dictorum factorumq[ue] memorabilium exempla. adjecto indice propriorum nominum rerumq[ue] memoria dignarum locupletissimo
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535. 8vo (14.6 x 9.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end. Old half vellum. 237, [11] ll. Full description

VALERIUS MAXIMUS and Conradus MIRKINIUS (translator). Negen boecken, van ghedenck-weerdighe, loflicke woorden, daden ende gheschiedenissen der Romeynen en de uytlandsche volcken. Overgheset uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederduytsche tale, door Conradus Mirkinius.
Rotterdam, Jan Leendertsz. Berewout, 1614. 8vo. With woodcut publisher's device on title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript author on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [8], 610, [26] pp. Full description

VEEN, Otto van and Antoni Jansen van ter GOES. Zinnebeelden getrokken uit Horatius Flaccus, naer geestrijke vinding van den geleerden.
Amsterdam, Justus Dankerts, 1683. 4to. With a copper-engraved vignette on the title page and 103 copper-engraved emblems. (Near-) contemporary gold-tooled red morocco. [8], 205, [3] pp. Full description

VIRGIL and Cornelis van GHISTELE (translator). De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos.
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Virgil on the title page, and 12 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 264, [3], [1 blank] ll. Full description