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
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 very good, handsome set. 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
Coloniae Agrippinae: apud Ioannem Kinchium, 1647-42. Folio, engraved title page, pp. [24], 535, [1], [16] index; bound with, as issued: Aeneidos libri sex priores, [same imprint, 1642], pp. [4], 743, [1], [23] index; bound with, as issued: Aeneidos libri sex posteriores, [same imprint, 1642], pp. [12], 782, [110] indexes; texts... 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: Johannis Baskerville, 1766. 8vo, pp. [2], 388; cancels as in Gaskell; engraved frontispiece; recent half brown calf over marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; the whole lightly foxed else generally fine throughout. Gaskell 34. 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
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1766. Only edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 16, [3]-536; contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco-backed marbled boards, smooth gilt-paneled spine laid out in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; edges worn, corners showing, but in all a very good, sound copy. Gaskell 32. 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
[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
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1952. Edition limited to 1500 copies made for members of the LEC by Giovanni Mardersteig, 20 wood engraved illustrations by Bruno Bramanti, 4to, xv-[xvi] & 154-[157]pp., fine copy in original green cloth-backed paper-covered boards, publisher's box. Signed by Mardersteig and Bramanti. Quarto-Millenary 229; LEC Bibliography 229. More
Urbini: typis Ven. Capellae Sanctissimi Sacramenti, per Antonium Fantauzzi, 1727. First edition, 4to, pp. 60; engraved vignette title page printed in red and black, engraved head- and tailpiece and 9-line historiated initial, 4 engravings in the text; full contemporary parchment; 2 old library rubberstamps on title page, and another on... More
Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1893. Dritte Auflage, besorgt von Max Lehnerdt, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 591; viii, 543; contemporary three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-tooled spines in 5 compartments, all edges marbled, decorative endpapers; edges and corners quite scuffed, spines faded, Vol. I spine cocked;... More
Francofurti ad Moenum: Ludovici Broenneri, 1833. First edition, large 8vo, pp. lxxx, 1419, [3]; text in double column; later full brown morocco, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine, marbled edges; extremities rubbed and worn; good and sound. Latin poetry from the works of Lucretius, Catullus, Virgilius, Horatius, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovidius... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1969]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 234; original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; jacet spine faded, minor edge wear, else about fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to Gwin Kolb; author ALS to Kolb laid in: "Here, at last, is The Formal... More
Chicago: 1937. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp, iv, 39; original linen-backed rust paper-covered boards, gilt; linen a bit soiled, else very good. Inscribed by the author, "Arno B. Luckhardt. Scripsit eius nomen et suum auctor. Payson Sibley Wild Non. Apr. MCMXXXVII" on the front free endpaper, Mr. Luckhardt's... More
Boston & Cambridge: James Munroe, 1856. 12mo, x & 108pp., text in Greek and roman character throughout, very good copy in orig. brown cloth. Woolsey was president of Yale. More
Glasgow: printed and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1750. 8vo, pp. 238, [2]; contemporary tan sheep, double gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine 6 compartments, black morocco label in 1, red speckled edges; spine toned, armorial bookplate of Charles of Yorke, very good and sound. Gaskell 175. More
Glasguae: excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis academiae typographi, 1756. 8vo, pp. [2], 98; uncut; original blue paper-covered boards; boards rubbed and toned, spine perished, large chip to upper free endpaper, likely an excised ownership signature; a good, sound copy. Gaskell 328. More
