Birminghamiae: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First Baskerville edition; 4to, pp. [2], 364; contemporary full straight-grain green morocco, elaborate gilt borders on covers, smooth gilt-decorated spine with architectural motif laid out in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, a.e.g.; lightly rubbed but near fine. Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Mordaunt, Bart...... More
Birminghamiae: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. 12mo, pp. [2], 307, [1]; contemporary full calf, double gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1, board edges gilt; upper joint a little rough, else very good and sound. Gaskell 47. More
n.p., n.d. [Britain: ca. 1800.]. Small 4to, pp. [114]; in a neat cursive hand throughout; very good in contemporary unadorned vellum; paper with a Brittannia watermark (likely Churchill 233) tentatively dated 1792. The Self-Tormentor (Heauton Timorumenos) is a play written in Greek by Menander, and later imitated by Terence. Likely..... More
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906. Edition limited to 330 copies (this, no. 13) printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge; 8vo, pp. [6], 172, [2]; decorative wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by M. Lamont Brown, some after drawings by Bruce Rogers and some after antique gems and seals; designed..... More
London: Medici Society, 1922. Edition limited to 512 copies, this #389/500 on hand-made Riccardi paper, 2 volumes, 4to, 20 mounted color plates after semi-erotic drawings by W. Russell Flint; fine set in original holland-backed boards, paper labels on upper covers and spines; this set retaining its original printed dust jackets..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. Edition ltd. to 750 copies, small 4to, pp. xv, [1], 105; title within decorative rule; orig. linen-backed marble-grained paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, spine and label darkened, light wear to extremities, a few untrimmed fore-edges browning and curling, else very good..... More
Glasguae: In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1751. 12mo, pp. 282, xxiv, 282, [6]; contemporary full vellum, manuscript titling on spine; vellum a bit soiled, else very good. The final 3 leaves consist of advertisements for Foulis books and proposals for an edition of Plato. Gaskell 218. More
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [6], 175; engraved half-title bound as a frontispiece, errata slip tipped in at p. 1; neat and minor repair at hear and tail of spine, else very good in original green coarse diaper cloth, triple gilt borders on covers, gilt..... More
[Oxford]: Ek Pheatrou en Oxonia, 1746. First edition edited by Edward Bentham of Thucydides' De bello peloponnesiaco in ancient Greek; 8vo, [4], 163, [1], [14] index, 48 (Latin translation and index); engraved vignette on title, engraved headpiece; bound with: M. T. Ciceronis sententeæ duæ de iis honore augendis, qui periculum..... More
Venetia: Zacharia Conzatti, 1667. 2 parts in one, 12mo, pp. [8], 254, [1], 360; woodcut printer's device, head- and tail-pieces, and initials; full contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, all edges speckled red; about fine. Italian translation of Elucidarius carminum et historiarum. Torrentinus, the Dutch humanist and professor of rheroric, has..... More
Paris: chez GoguÈ, 1780. First edition, 12mo, pp. xx, 330, [4]; slightly later quarter brown calf over marbled boards; extremities rubbed and a little worn, but sound. With an early ownership inscription of "James Paterson, anno domini 17" [??] (date trimmed by binder). The most famous work published by this..... More
Venetia: appresso Francesco Barlietto, 1604. Small 12mo (5 1/8"), pp. 436; woodcut initials; engraved vignette title page showing a map of the eastern hemisphere, including the North Pole, Europe, Africa and Asia; 18th century pastepaper boards, manuscript label on spine, mottled edges; dampstain in lower corner of title-p., extending through..... More
Amstelaedami: apud P. N. Van Kampen, 1841. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 98; original terracotta printed wrappers; some toning of the text, else near fine. A historical-literary specimen of the merits of M. Vipsanius Agrippa in the Roman republic, which ... for the degree of doctorate and the highest honors in..... More
New York: The Johnsonians; Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. Edition limited to 750 copies, 4to, pp. vi, 40 (1 mss. facsimile and printed transcription to a page), [2]; a fine copy in original stiff gray wrappers printed in black on front wrapper. A mss. fragment purchased..... More
Bruxellis: J.L. De Boubers, n.d., [1800]. First Justice edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary full straight-grain morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; engraved throughout, and printed on rectos only, with title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, and historiated initials by G.M. Pitteri after Fidance and C.F. de La Traverse; folding map in..... More
Edinburgh: apud G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1755. 8vo, 2 volumes; pp. [4], 209, [3]; [5], 212-447, [3]; contemporary speckled calf with gilt borders and spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1, marbled edges and endpapers; joints just starting, armorial bookplate of Hugh Rose Young of Kilravock. A...... More
Edinburgh: apud G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1743. 12mo, pp. 7, [1], 335, [1], 19, [1]; contemporary full crimson straight-grain morocco, double gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins; lightly rubbed, but near fine. Engraved armorial bookplate of "Kinnaird." More
Birmingham: Johannis Baskerville, 1766. 8vo, pp. [2], 388; engraved frontispiece; contemporary red straight-grain paneled morocco, gilt-lettered direct on smooth gilt-decorated spine, interlocking gilt border on covers, a.e.g.; pages foxed, a little wear at the extremities, but in all a nice copy with a painting on the fore-edge of a country..... More
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757 [i.e. 1771?]. Second edition of Baskerville's first ("perhaps finest") book; 4to, pp. [10], 432; contemporary full mottled calf neatly rebacked, preserving the old red morocco label on spine; a bit of spotting to the prelims, but a very good copy nonetheless. This second edition, virtually identical..... More
Londini: impensis Gul. Pickering, 1821. First Pickering edition, issued in his Diamond Classics series and printed in Diamond type by C. Correll; 48mo (8 cm.), pp. 283, [1]; generally fine in contemporary and probably original pebble-grain green morocco gilt, a.e.g., ribbon bookmark. One of the rarest of Pickering's Diamond Classics;..... More
New York: E. Duyckinck, T. & J. Swords [et al.], 1803. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lvi, 353; [2], 470, [10]; contemporary full sheep, black morocco labels and red morocco numbering pieces on spine; the text is tones, both bindings rubbed and worn, but sound. In fact, not the first American..... More
Londini: typis excudit J.F. Dove, veneunt apud Ricardum Priestley, 1821. 4 volumes, royal 8vo (identified by Lowndes as the Large Paper issue), contemporary full tree calf, covers with ornate gilt borders, smooth spines in 6 compartments, red morocco labels in two, a.e.g.; joints starting, minor wear at the spine ends;..... More
Grave: Drukkerij Verhaak, 1954. 8vo, pp. 150, [2]; text in Dutch with summary in German, original gray printed paper wrappers; bifoliate"Stellingen" laid in; edges lightly toned, text clean and sound, bookplate of Dutch journalist and essayist Anton van Duinkerken on inner wrapper; very good. Velleius Paterculus (19 BC-31 AD) was..... More
[Geneva]: Apud Petrum Santandreanum, 1575. 3 parts in one volume, small 8vo; *4 *8 a-x8 2a-2m8 2n4 2o8 2p4 [A]-D8 E6; printer's device, initials, head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary limp vellum (darkened), yapp edges, manuscript spine title; small loss to spine leather; 18th-century ownership signature "Mathon" and late 19th-century rubber..... More
[Rome]: Edizioni Dell'ateneo, 1984. Square 8vo, pp. [3], 54-75, [1]; printed paper wrappers; the paper is creased in spots due to poor production but with text remaining legible, touch of soiling to covers, very good. Epitome #12. More
