First edition

Charles-Marie-René LECONTE DE LISLE & THEOCRITE

Idylles et odes anacréontiques

Poulet-Malassis & De Broise, Paris 1861, 12,5x19,5cm, relié.

First edition of the French translation prepared by Leconte de Lisle.
Binding in half red heartache, back with five nerves decorated with golden fillets and cold, traces of friction on the joints and on the edges, a little angular lack on the upper cap, preserved covers.
Some rare little foxinges.

60 €

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Oratio TOSCANELLA & PLUTARQUE

Gioie historiche, aggiunte alla prima [seconda] parte delle vite di Plutarco

Apresso appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, In Vinegia 1568, In-4 (14,5x21cm), (20) 268pp. ; (20) 121pp. (3) Sig : *4

New edition. Specific title page for the second part. Printer's mark on the title page. Pretty historiated drop caps, including that of Laocoon. Printing in italic and roman characters for the preliminaries.
Binding in full soft vellum of the 18th century with flaps. Smooth back. 2 title [...]

1 200 €

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (dit) HORACE

Les oeuvres

Chez Toussainct Quinet, à Paris 1652 , Fort in-8 (11,5x17,5cm), (48) 523pp. (17) et (16) 679pp. (25), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition of the translation of Michel de Marolles, bilingual, French compared to the Latin version.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Smooth back with title to the pen at the head. Soiling on the backs and boards. Several notebooks brought out in volume I, one in volume II. Good [...]

650 €

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HOMERE, QUINTUS DE SMYRNE

Odysseae Homeri libri XXIII. Raphaele Regio Volaterrano interprete [Ensemble] Quinti Calabri de ...

Seb. Gryphium, Lyon 1541, In-8 (10,5x16,5cm), 391pp. (9) ; 271pp. (1), relié.

New edition
Binding in full red morocco ca early nineteenth. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco. cover paper ca 1800. Lower joint split at the head with missing 2 cm. Traces of friction. Beautiful copy.

1 800 €

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ESOPE

Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae graece et latine

Hervigen, Bâle 1541, In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), 368 [363]pp. (5), relié.

Bilingual edition produced by Maxime Planude. The Latin version next to the ancient Greek text. Printer's mark on the title page and on the back of the last sheet.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Hard pale yellow wetting trace sheet 361 at the end.
Life of Aesop written by Maxime Planude.

1 500 €

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TERENCE

Terentius, in quem triplex edita est P. Antesignani Raspitagnensis commentatio

Antoine Vincent, Lyon 1560, (20) 532pp., relié.

New edition. The priviège was shared with Mathieu Bonhomme in Lyon, there are indeed perfectly similar copies but at different addresses.
Binding in full brown contemporary sheepskin. Back with nerves decorated with 4 florets. Title label in the first box, partially torn off. Central rectangle [...]

1 000 €

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Jacques TOUCHET, PLAUTE

La farce de la marmite

Emile Chamontin, Paris 1946, 13x19,5cm, broché.

Edition adorned with original illustrations by Jacques Touchet, one of the numbered copies on vellum.
Nice copy.

 

30 €

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Henri LAURENS, HOMERE

L'Odyssée (chants V et VI)

Henri Creuzevault, Paris 1952, 21,5x32cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

Illustrated edition of 14 original Henri Laurens woods, one of 125 numbered copies on laid Montval, single print after 25 Japan or China.
Beautiful copy despite small bites without gravity on the first guards and the page of false title.

1 200 €

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