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Famous Italian verse translation of the Oedipus, set to music by Rossini

[BODONI]. SOPHOCLES and Giambatista GIUSTI (editor). Edipo Coloneo ... recata in versi Italiani dal Cavaliere Giambatista Giusti.
Parma, Co 'Tipi Bodoniani, 1817. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With: GIUSTI, Giambatista. All'Amica. Odi ... Terza edizione riveduta e corretta dall'autore.
Parma, Co 'Tipi Bodoniani, 1817. Contemporary orange boards. [4], LI, [1 blank], 170, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 87, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 950
Greek & Roman Classics Italian Literature Music, Theatre & Dance
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Reintroducing Roman law to the Renaissance

THEOPHILUS ANTECESSOR and Jacobus CURTIUS (translator). Institutionum juris civilis libri quatuor ... è Graeco in Latinum per D. Iac. Curtium Brugensem Iurisconsultum conversi, ac iterum excusi.
Antwerp, (colophon: Joannes Grapheus for) Joannes Steelsius, 1539. 8vo (15.4 x 10.4 cm). With a large woodcut folding table at the end, a woodcut device of Steelsius on the recto of the otherwise blank last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin. [8], 221, [3] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Law & Politics
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A popular 16th-century compendium of natural philosophy

VALERIUS, Cornelius Physicae, seu de naturae philosophia institutio.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1574. 8vo (16.1 x 10 cm). With Plantin's woodcut device on the title page. Modern binding using older printer's waste, with the author, title, and year lettered in grey ink on the spine, red edges. 103, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Philosophy & Humanism School & Textbooks
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Memorable deeds and sayings of Imperial Rome

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Dictorum factorumq[ue] memorabilium exempla. adjecto indice propriorum nominum rerumq[ue] memoria dignarum locupletissimo
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1535. 8vo (14.6 x 9.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame, and a woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end. Old half vellum. 237, [11] ll. Full description
€ 950
Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Philosophy & Humanism
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Beautifully illustrated travel account, including a full history of the recent war
between the Dutch East India Company and Makassar

VERMEULEN, Gerrit Gedenkwaardige voyagie van Gerret Vermeulen naar Oost-Indien, in't jaar 1668, aangevangen, en in't jaar 1674. voltrokken...
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1676. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 6 almost half-page engravings in the text, and a decorated woodcut initial. Modern blind-tooled sprinkled half calf. [4], 91, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia VOC
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Perspective of the rainbow

VOLCKAMER VON KIRCHENSITTENBACH, Christoph Gottlieb and Johann Christoph STURM (praeses). [Greek] Thaumantiados thaumasia. Sive iridis admiranda. Sub rationis accuratius examen revocata, eruditorumque ventilationi publicae in Alma Altdorffina Universitate exposita, Sub Praesisio Joh. Chr. Strumii.
Nuremberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1699. Small 4to (ca. 21 x 16.5 cm). With 4 folding engraved plates by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz after designs by the author. Modern limp sheepskin parchment. [2], 185, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Optics & Perspective
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Rare first edition of a philological aid to the Bible

WESTHEIMER, Bartholomaeus. Phrases seu modi loquendi Divini Scripturae, ex sanctis & orthodoxis scriptoribus ... (&c.).
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. Small 8vo. With 15 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf. 340, [8] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Non-Western Types Language & Linguistics Religion (16th Century)
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Europe described, the future foretold, and Ethiopia revealed; the rare first edition

ZELL, Anselm and Christoph ZELL. Europae descriptio lucidissima D. Caroli V Romanorum Imperatori dedicata. Prognosticon Antonii Torquati ... ab anno M.CCCC.LXXX usque ad annum M.D. XXXVIII Matthiae Ungariae regi dicatum. De fide et moribus Aethiopum, libellus Christianis lectu planè dignus.
Antwerp, (Colophon: Joannes Grapheus) for Joannes Steelsius, Aug. 1535. Small 8vo (ca. 9.1 x 14.1 cm). With 3 woodcut decorated initials, and Steelsius printer's device on the verso of the last flyleaf. Modern gold-tooled vellum, sewn on three supports laced through the joints, with a single fillet border on both boards. [24] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Astrology & Occult Central Europe East Africa Eastern Europe Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia
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