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First edition in the original Greek of the oldest treatise on spherical geometry

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

€ 9,500

First edition of an important and one of the earliest works on colour, formerly attributed to Aristotle

[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

€ 12,500

Rare 1527 edition of classical dictionary, owned by the neo-Latin poet Renier Tengnagel (d. 1565)

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

€ 9,500

Commentaries and scholia on Demostheness orations, & Harpocrations dictionary:
second edition, in the original Greek, by Aldus's successors, based on his own first edition

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 dAsola [& 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

€ 12,000

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Literature & Linguistics / Greek & Roman Classics

First edition in the original Greek of the oldest treatise on spherical geometry

First edition of an important and one of the earliest works on colour, formerly attributed to Aristotle

Rare 1527 edition of classical dictionary, owned by the neo-Latin poet Renier Tengnagel (d. 1565)

Commentaries and scholia on Demostheness orations, & Harpocrations dictionary:
second edition, in the original Greek, by Aldus's successors, based on his own first edition

The first German edition of Boswell's Account of Corsica with a folding map

Cross-cultural mapping of the Red Sea: Bruce's chart in an early Egyptian manuscript copy

Ethnography of the Xhosa people of South Africa, with the very rare album with four attractive hand-coloured aquatints

An early account of Timbuktu by an American sailor

3 little-known works by Italian scientist on astronomy, hydrostatics and navigation

Very rare thesis on nephritis, printed and published in Rio de Janeiro

8 large illustrated volumes of the most important voyages from the 15th to the end of the 17th century

First edition of a sumptuous account of a voyage to Russia, Persia and the East Indies,
with large folding views of Moscow and Isfahan (194x42 cm)

Including a manuscript leaf by Burton

Fauna of the Indian Sea, with 98 illustrations

First Latin edition, printed by Plantin, of Belon's illutrated oriental travel account, with 43 woodcuts


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Literature & Linguistics / Greek & Roman Classics

First edition in the original Greek of the oldest treatise on spherical geometry

First edition of an important and one of the earliest works on colour, formerly attributed to Aristotle

Rare 1527 edition of classical dictionary, owned by the neo-Latin poet Renier Tengnagel (d. 1565)

Commentaries and scholia on Demostheness orations, & Harpocrations dictionary: second edition, in the original Greek, by Aldus's successors, based on his own first edition

The first German edition of Boswell's Account of Corsica with a folding map

Cross-cultural mapping of the Red Sea: Bruce's chart in an early Egyptian manuscript copy

Ethnography of the Xhosa people of South Africa, with the very rare album with four attractive hand-coloured aquatints

An early account of Timbuktu by an American sailor

3 little-known works by Italian scientist on astronomy, hydrostatics and navigation

Very rare thesis on nephritis, printed and published in Rio de Janeiro

8 large illustrated volumes of the most important voyages from the 15th to the end of the 17th century

First edition of a sumptuous account of a voyage to Russia, Persia and the East Indies, with large folding views of Moscow and Isfahan (194x42 cm)

Including a manuscript leaf by Burton

Fauna of the Indian Sea, with 98 illustrations

First Latin edition, printed by Plantin, of Belon's illutrated oriental travel account, with 43 woodcuts

Commentaries and scholia on Demostheness orations, & Harpocrations dictionary:
second edition, in the original Greek, by Aldus's successors, based on his own first edition

First edition of a sumptuous account of a voyage to Russia, Persia and the East Indies,
with large folding views of Moscow and Isfahan (194x42 cm)