History, Law & Philosophy / Classical Antiquity

BRUNI (ARETINO), Leonardo and Lodovico PETRONI (translator). Libro de la guerra de Ghotti ... in lingua Latine [e] fatto volgare da Lodovico Petroni Cavaliere Senese nuovamente stampato.
(Colophon: Venice, Nicolo d'Aristotele detto Zoppino de Ferrara), 1528. 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut title border and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Slightly later limp vellum. 87, [1 blank] ll. Full description

BURMAN the Elder, Pieter. Oratio funebris in obitum viri clarissimi Joannis Georgii Graevii, Magnae Brittanniae Regis historici, politices, historiarum & eloquentiae professoris ordinarii. Dicta XI. Kal. Martias MDCCIII.
Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1703. Woodcut coat-of-arms of Utrecht on title-page.
(2) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro pigritia, publice habita. Ad diem XX Febr. M.DCCII.
[No place], 1702. Woodcut title-vignette.
(3) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Somnium, sive iter in arcadiam novam, publice narratum in majori Academiae Ultrajectinae Acroaterio. Ad diem IX. Septembris MDCCX.
[No place], [1710].
(4) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro comoedia, publice in auspiciis Academicarum recitationum, quibus Terentii fabulae explicantur, habita, a.d. XIV Septembris MDCCXI.
Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1711. Woodcut publisher's device.
(5) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio in humanitatis studia. Habita a.d. VIII. Februarii MDCCXX. Cum magistratu Academico abiret.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1720. Woodcut publisher's device.
(6) BURMAN the elder, Pieter.. Pro literatoribus et grammaticis oratio, habita a.d. VIII Februarii MDCXXXII. Cum magistratu academico abiret.
Leiden, Conrad Wishoff & Daniel Goedval, [1732]. Woodcut title-vignette, headpiece and tailpiece.
(7) RÜCKER, Joannes Conradus. Oratio de honoribus academicis, magno doctrinae praemio. Habita cum virum eruditissimum Danielem ... van Alphen, Lugduno Batavum, juris utriusque doctorem, more majorum renuntiaret. A.d. XIII. Dec. MDCCXXXV.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1735. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece.
(8) VITRIARIUS, Johannes Jacobus. Oratio funebris, in obitum eruditissimi ac celeberrimi viri, Antonii Schultingii, Joh. fil. ... Dicta Publice a.d. XII. April A. MDCCXXXIV.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, [1734]. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece.
8 works in 1 volume. 4to. Slightly later half calf (ca. 1765), gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, marbled sides with central gold vignette of the "Society of Writers to the Signet" on both boards. 57, [26]; 23; [39]; [4], 36; 61; [2], 75, [1]; 28, 37, [3] pp. Full description

CAESARIUS, Johannes. Dialectica ... nunc recens Hermani Raiani Welsdalii fructuosis scholiis illustrata, & in multis locis emendata. Accessit huic Ioanni Murmelii Isagoge in decem Aristotelis Praedicamentas.
Venice, Giovanni Maria Leni, 1579. 8vo. With Lenis woodcut device on the title-page (a figure holding a set square up to the sun, in a scrollwork cartouche with motto, "In eo qui fecit me omnia possum") which has the letterpress title "Dialectica" in a woodcut factotum with scrollwork and putti at the head, and woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic type with occasional Greek. Contemporary vellum. "189" [= 179], [1 blank] ll. Full description

CAILLIAUD, Frédéric and Bernardino DROVETTI. Voyage a l'Oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situés a l'orient et a l'occident de la Thébaïde, fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818.
Paris, Royal press, 1821.
With: (2) CAILLIAUD, Frédéric and Bernardino DROVETTI. Voyage a l'Oasis de Syouah ... pendant leurs voyages dans cette oasis, en 1819 et en 1820.
Paris, Rignoux, 1823. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. Ad 1: with 24 numbered engraved plates, including 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 1 plate coloured by hand and 1 double-page. Ad 2: with 20 numbered plates (1 engraved map and 19 lithographed plates). Contemporary green goatskin morocco, richly gold-tooled spine, chemical-marbled sides, marbled edges. [2 blank], XVII, [1], 120; [12], 28 pp. Full description

CARTARI, Vincenzo [& Antoine du VERDIER]. Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur.
Lyons, Etienne Michel (colophon: printed by Guichard Julliéron), 1581 (colophon: August). 4to. With Michel's woodcut publishers device on the title-page (an Ottoman man and a fruit tree with motto "virtutes sibi invicem adhaerent"), a full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier, a small woodcut illustration and 89 beautiful large woodcuts (13 x 9.5 cm) of classical mythological gods and heroes in the text. Modern sheepskin parchmen. [8], 359, [57] pp. Full description

[CASSAS, Louis Francois]. [View of the Taormina theatre ruins (Sicily) with Mount Etna in the distance].
[Sicily or Paris], [ca. 1781 or somewhat later?]. 46 x 81 cm (frame 85 x 128 cm). Watercolour with pencil outlines and highlighted with white, laid in on paper pasted on wood.With a later blue and gold passe-partout in a contemporary gilt frame. Full description

CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius and Marc-Antoine MURET. [Carmina]. Catullus, et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti.
Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1554. 8vo. With Aldus's woodcut device on the title-page, repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf, and spaces with guide letters left for 2 5-line and about 60 3-line manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in an Aldine italic (with upright capitals) with occasional words (mostly names) in roman and frequent passages in Greek. Gold-tooled mottled calf (ca. 1700). [4], "134" [= 136], [2] ll. Full description

CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius; Albius TIBULLUS; Sextus PROPERTIUS (Hieronymus AVANTIUS, ed.). [Opera]. Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius.
[colophon:] Venice, Aldo I Manuzio, January 1502. 8vo. With more than 100 spaces (2 8-line, 6 6-line and the rest 2-line) with guide letters left for manuscript initials, none filled in. Set in Alduss italic type (with upright capitals) throughout, the first italic printing type, first used in 1501, with titles, headings, running heads, etc. set in the capitals of the same type, with an occasional word of Greek in the text. Gold-tooled, green long-grained sheepskin (vertical grain) (ca. 1800). [152] ll. Full description

CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius; Albius TIBULLUS; Sextus PROPERTIUS (Hieronymus AVANTIUS, ed.). [Opera]. Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius.
[colophon:] Venice, the heirs of Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea I Torresano, March 1515. 8vo. With Aldos woodcut anker and dolphin device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, each flanked by "AL ... DVS" in letterpress capitals. Set in Aldos italic type (with upright capitals), the first italic printing type. Blind-tooled brown goatskin morocco (early 20th-century) by the Paris bookbinder G. Vignal (active ca. 1890-ca. 1930), signed with a blind stamp in the foot of the front turn-in ("G. VIGNAL REL. DOR.". 148, [2] ll. Full description

CATULLUS, TIBULLUS & PROPERTIUS. Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, pristino nitori restituti, & ad optima exemplaria emendati, cum fragmentis C. Gallo inscriptis.
Paris, J. Barbou, 1754. 3 parts. 12mo. Each part with its own title-page and engraved frontispiece. 19th-century brown morocco, double fillets in gold on the board edges, richly gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges. XVI, 96, [2], 97-168, [2], 169-344 pp. Full description