Claude ELIEN

Ailianou ta heuriskomena hapanta. Claudii Aeliani praenestini pontificis et sophistae, qui Romae ...

Apud Gesneros fratres ( Gessner), Tiguri (Zurich) 1556, In-folio (20 x31,5cm), (48) 655pp. (57) Sig : AZ6, az6,

Brand printer Andreas Gesner. Bilingual edition printing with double column, Greek one side, the Latin translation of the other; the two Greek columns form the middle of the book. Conrad Gesner Edition directed by, printed by Andreas Gesner and put on the market of the library by Hans Jakob Gesner. [...]

1 800 €

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VIRGILE

Publii Virgilii Maronis carmina omnia perpetuo commentario ad modum Joannis Bond

Ex typographia Firninorum Didot, Parisiis (Paris) 1858, 8x14cm, relié.

Beautiful typographic tiny edition with commentary distributed around the text. Text in a red frame. Engraved title, with Renaissance-type frame.
Illustrated edition of 27 photographs pasted albuminous as thumbnails at the top of chapters, while the photographic process to albumin had been [...]

750 €

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PLUTARQUE

Ploutarhou tou Haironeos Ethika suggrammata, en 'ois muria sfalmata katorthotai. Plutarchi ...

Per Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium, Basilae (Bâle) 1542, in-folio (20x30cm), (12) 877pp., relié.

Rare Greek edition of the Moralia (Moral and mixed works) given by the editor Jerome Froben and his brother-Nicolas Episcopium who continue the work of their father Johann Froben Basel making an important center of printing. Beautiful brand editor title page and a bandage over wood topped the first [...]

1 100 €

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First edition

PROCLUS & Georg HENISCH

Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Cui adiunctus est Computus Ecclesiasticus, cum Calendario ...

Typis Davidis Franci, Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg) 1609, in-4 (15x20cm), (8) 367pp. (20) (1), relié.

First edition, rare. Printing on both columns. Vignette of a sphere in the title page. 14 figures and in-text tables and many diagrams, including a timetable for the position of the stars and the zodiac figures, tables of latitudes and longitudes.Plein soft vellum vintage flap. Smooth back silent. [...]

1 600 €

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Quintus Curtius Rufus (dit) QUINTE-CURCE

Alexander Magnus et illum commentarius Samuelis Pitisci quo antiquitates persarum, macedonum, ...

Apud Petrum van Thol, Hagae-Comitis (La Haye) 1708, 2 tomes en un vol. Fort in 8 (11,5x19,5cm), 855pp. (168), relié.

New edition with commentary by Samuel Pitiscus mentioning third edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and title, Pitiscus portrait, 4 folding maps and 11 boards with 29 numbered figures (most folding) often very curious (the Gardens of Babylon) by Johan van den Avelen d "after G. Hoet. First [...]

650 €

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Publius Papinius STATIUS

Opera

Apud Ioan. Pillehotte, Lugduni (Lyon) 1608, in-16 (7,5x11,8cm), (8) 520pp. ; 207pp. (1), relié.

Lyon edition of this work done by Ioannes Bernartius in 1593 italics. Printing. The first part contains three great works of Statius and a second endowed with a title page reviews and ratings of various scholars. Full vellum vintage flexible flaps. Author's name in pen on the back. traces of [...]

450 €

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First edition

EURIPIDE & Jean-Paul SARTRE

Les troyennes

Gallimard, Paris 1965, 15x21,5cm, broché.

First edition of the adaptation by Jean-Paul Sartre, one of 80 numbered copies on Hollande, the tirage de tête.
Two slight traces of insignificant sunning to head and foot of spine, a very good copy.

450 €

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PERSE

Satires de Perse, traduites en français par Sélis

Dalibon, Paris 1822, 14x21,5cm, relié.

New edition of the French translation revised and expanded notes NL Achaintre. Bound in half calf navy glossy back with four nerves with traces of rubbing ornate gilt, flush caps, flat marbled, endpapers and contreplats of handmade paper, three snags on the cuts, contemporary binding. Ex-dono pen [...]

40 €

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