Asher Rare Books

Racine's famous play, for the first time in Portuguese

RACINE, Jean and Antonio José de Lima LEITÃO (translator). Iphigénia tragédia de João Racine. Traduzida em verso portuguez, e offerecida como uma prova da mais sincera gratidão.
Rio de Janeiro, Impressão règia, 1816. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary blue-grey wrappers. [8], 53, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Brazil French Literature Greek & Roman Classics Literature Music, Theatre & Dance Portugal

Rare Dutch 1655 edition of the Clavis Homerica

[ROBERTI, Anthonius]. Clavis Homerica, sive lexicon vocabulorum omnium, quae in Iliade Homeri, nec non potissimâ Odyssae parte continentur. Accedit brievis appendix de dialectis. Opus prima in Anglia concinnatum, deinde auctum & saepius editum; nunc tandem summon studio correctius recusum.
Rotterdam, Arnold Leers, 1655. 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with the woodcut printer's device of Arnold Leers and woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum. [4], 470, [88] pp. Full description

€ 300

Greek & Roman Classics VOC

Newly edited works on rhetoric, in Aire-sur-la-Lys prize binding

RUTILIUS LUPUS, Publius and 15 others (François PITHOU, ed.). [Antiqui rhetores Latini.] ... Omnia ex codd. manusc. emendatiora vel auctiora.
Paris, Adrien Périer (ex officina Plantiniana), 1599. Large 4to. Set in roman types with incidental italic, Greek and Hebrew. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with 18th-century restorations, with the arms of Aire-sur-la-Lys (an eagle) flanked by "S.P.Q. ... Arien[sis]". Rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. [4], 382, [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Bindings Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics School & Textbooks

Fake poem by Sappho, well produced by Bodoni

SAPPHO [=Vincenzo Maria IMPERIALE]. La Faoniade. Inni ed odi di Saffo tradotti dal testo Greco in metro Italiano da S.I.P.A.
Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1801. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. [2], VIII, 79, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Book History, Printing & Typography Greek & Roman Classics Italy

Seneca's complete works, edited by Erasmus

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus and Desiderus ERASMUS (editor). Lucubrationes omnes, additis etiam nonnullis, Erasmi Roterodami cura ... repurgatae
Basel, Johann Froben, July-August 1515. Folio. With the title set in a splendid woodcut frame by Urs Graf, including Froben's small woodcut device, woodcut decorations in the fore-edge and gutter margins of the table of contents (verso of the title page), and another elaborate woodcut frame on the first page of the dedication. Further with some woodcut initials, and Froben's large woodcut device below the colophon on the last page. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass and leather clasps along the fore edge, professionally re-backed, with later blank pastedowns. [1 blank], 643, [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Erasmus Greek & Roman Classics Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism

The collected works of father and son Seneca in a compact Plantin school edition

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus the Younger & Lucius Annaeus SENECA the Elder. Quae extant opera.
Leiden, ex officina Plantiniana, Franciscus II Raphelengius, 1609. 12mo. With the woodcut printer's device of the Officina Plantiniana on the title page. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 980, [4 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Classical Antiquity Education & Pedagogy Greek & Roman Classics Plantin Press

Humanist edition of Seneca’s tragedies

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus and Desiderius ERASMUS and others (editors). Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae... explanatae diligentissime tribus Commentariis...
Paris, Jodocus Badius, 5 December 1514. Folio. With a woodcut border and printers device on the title page, printed in red and black, along with numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, both boards show a gold-tooled armorial centre piece (incorporating the arms of the city of Nevers or the arms of the Conflans family from the Champagne region, Rietstap I, plate CXVIII) within a gold-tooled floral frame, blind-tooled board edges, marbled edges. [6], CCLXVII, [1] ll. Full description

€ 3,750

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Greek & Roman Classics Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)

Richly gold-tooled French morocco in the style of "Le Gascon": includes Elichman's Greek, Latin and Arabic Tabula Cebetis and Aurea carmina Pythagoræ

SIMPLICIUS of Cilicia. Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti, ex libris veteribus emendatus. Cum versione Hieronymi Wolfii, et Cl. Salmasii animadversionibus, et notis quibus Philosophia Stoica passim explicatur & illustratur.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1640. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With three title-pages. Set in roman, Greek and Arabic types. Contemporary French pointillé binding in the style of "Le Gascon", richly gold-tooled in concentric panels on both covers, and in the six compartments of the spine, the second with the title. [20], 332, [12]; [1], [1 blank], 329, [23]; [34], 88, 15 pp. Full description

€ 9,750

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Bindings Classical Antiquity Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics History / 17th Century Literature Philosophy & Humanism

Rarest issue of Cambridge Universitys 1665 Greek and Latin edition of Sophocless seven tragedies,
published by the Officina Hackiana in Leiden

SOPHOCLES. Tragoediae VII. Una cum omnibus graecis scholiis ad calcem adnexis. Editio postrema.
Cambridge, John Field (a false imprint); Leiden, [Pieter, Cornelis and Jacob] Hackius, 1672.
With: (2) SOPHOCLES. [In Greek:] Scholia palaia tôn panu dokimôn, meta kai tres tôu trikliniôu eis Sophokleoûs hepta tragedias.
Cambridge, John Field, 1668 [reissued Leiden, Pieter, Cornelis and Jacob Hackius, 1672]. Set entirely in Greek, in 2 columns. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum [8], “545” [= 547], [5 blank]; [2], 236, [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 500

Greek & Roman Classics

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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