PAUSANIAS

DE TOTA GRACIA LIBRI DECEM, quibus non solum urbium situs, locorumq[ue] interualla accuratè est ...

Per Ioannem Oporinum., Basilae (Bâle) 1550, in Folio (21,5x33,5cm), (12) 438pp. (50). Signatures: A6 a-z6 2A-N6 O4 P-S6., relié.

First edition of the famous translation of Abraham Loesher, the best edition and the most faithful according Keyboard. The Princeps of this text dates from 1516 edition, printed by Aldus in Venice, but according to Brunet (Iv, 454), although rare, it was made on a bad script and was performed [...]

1 100 €

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LUCAIN

De bello civili, libri decem

Apud Antonium Gryphium, Lugduni (Lyon) 1569, in 12 (8x12cm), 294pp. (39) (1bc)., relié.

New edition. The earliest edition published by Sebastianum Gryphium, in 8 we have found is that in 1539, owned by BN France. Italic print. Full contemporary calf. Back tooled raised florets, roulette cold tail and cap. Hot boards struck a central medallion with Renaissance motifs. Nets coaching. [...]

600 €

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PLAUTE

Comédies de Plaute, traduites en françois par mademoiselle Le Fevre...

Chez Deny Thierry et Claude Barbin, à Paris 1691, fort in 12 (15,5x9cm), trois tomes reliés en un volume.

Comedies of Plautus, translated into French by Le Fevre miss, with remarks and a review under the rules of theater. New edition. Illustrated two headpieces. Misses the third frontispiece of Volume III replaced with a blank sheet. Full Sheepskin brown vintage. Back tooled raised. Title unreadable. [...]

200 €

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ERASME & Giovanni Battista EGNAZIO

Vitae caesarum quarum scriptores hi Suetonius Tranquillus, Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius ...

Froben, Basilae (Bâle) 1546, in-folio (33x22,5cm), (20) 810pp. -70., relié.

Colophon: Basileae per Hieronymvm Frobenivm and Nic. Episcopvm mense Septembri, MDXLVI. First edition. Adorned with many historiated initials. Brand of printer on the title page and the back of the last page. Absent the French catalogs, but this in English catalogs, 2 copies in Germany GBV (union [...]

1 100 €

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Caius Crispus Sallustius (dit) SALLUSTE

C. C. Sallustii Crispi quae supersunt opera. Conivratio catilinae. Bellum iugurthinum. Histoiarum ...

apud Petrum Santandreanum, s.l. [Lyon ?] 1574, fort in-8 (17x11,5cm), (16) 257pp. (1bc) (24), (57) 55pp. (1bc) (16) et 614pp., relié.

C. Sallustii Crispi opera quae supersunt. Conivratio Catilinae. Bellum iugurthinum. Histoiarum libri a collective Ludovico Carrione & restituti. Una cum annotationibus & scholiis. Rare first edition of the works of Sallust in Latin and Greek. Flemish contemporary vellum perfectly realized. [...]

1 200 €

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PLUTARQUE (Traduction)Jacques AMYOT)

Oeuvres morales et meslees. Translatées de grec en français, reveues & corrigées en plusieurs ...

Pour Samuel Crespin, à Cologni 1614, in-folio (38x25cm), (8f.) 674ff. (45f.)., relié.

The first edition of Amyot's translation dates back to 1572 in Vascosan Michel in Paris. Full contemporary calf, spine nerves 6, 6 jewels, double fillet border on covers. Jacques Amyot (1513-1594), was the tutor of the son of Henry II (future Charles IX and Henri III), it is also a professor at the [...]

1 500 €

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PRISCIEN DE CESAREE

Prisciani grammatici caesariensi Libri omnes. De octo partibus orationis XVI. Deg, constructione ...

Chez Nicolas Bryling, Bâle 1554, très fort petit in 8, (6) 936pp. -17., relié.

New edition. Although we have not found any trace of this edition of Basel, the first edition was published in Venice, Aldus in 1527 (with a different snack). Absent the BN of France and the French catalogs. Oxford has an edition of the same date. English catalogs mention multiple copies on [...]

1 600 €

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