First edition

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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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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Signed book

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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Cornelius NEPOS

Vitae excellentium imperatorum

Pierre Didot l'Aîné, Paris 1799 (An VII), In-12 (10x15,8cm), (4) 150pp., relié.

One of the first stereotype editions of Pierre Didot, printed in louvre, in the premises of the royal printing office. Copy on vellum paper.
Binding full green morocco contemporary. Smooth back of 4 florets and nets. title label of morocco green. Greek coaching roulette on boards. interior frieze.

250 €

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LUCIEN DE SAMOSATE

oeuvres de Lucien, traduites du Grec

Chez Jean-François Bastien, à Paris 1789, In-8 (13x20cm), (12) iij-xxxj (1) 446pp. et (4) 568pp. (2) et (4) 602pp.

First edition translated by Bellin of Ballu.

Binding in full marbled brown sheepskin. Back with nerves adorned with 4 small florets, nets and a roulette tail. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in green morocco. 4 corners slightly blunted. Part of tomaison of volume 3 [...]

450 €

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