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Original edition of the best Martialis text of the seventeenth century

MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). [Epigrammata]. Nova editio.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With the woodcut printer's device of Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii on the title pages of ad 1 and 2, and the woodcut device of Maire on the title page of ad 3. With: (2) Petrus SCRIVERIUS. Animadversiones in Martialem. Opus invenile, & nunc primum ex intervallo quindecim annorum repetitum.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1618.
(3) Justus LIPSIUS, Janus RUTGERSIUS, Johannes Isacus PONTANUS (Janus GRUTERUS, Josephus Justus SCALIGER, and others). Notae in Martialem. Ad Petrum Scriverium.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1619. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [8], 16, 312; 283, [1 blank]; 24, 280 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics School & Textbooks
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Satire disguising the French elite as Arabs

MELON, Jean-François. Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes.
Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine, boards, board edges and turn-ins, both boards with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Louis Marie Alexandre, Duc d'Aumont, gilt edges. [2], VI, 162, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Bindings Caricature & Satire French Literature Islamic Art, Culture & Science Law & Politics Literature
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Issued in 25 copies only

MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST, Simon Pierre. Fables et contes.
Parma, Bodoni, 1792. 2 volumes. 12mo. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf by Loutrel, with a pink morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, a blind-tooled single fillet border on both boards, fleurons on the spine, head edge gilt, marbled endpapers. 44, 25 (bis.) - 44 (bis.), 45-144; [8], 168 pp. Full description
€ 5,850
Book History, Printing & Typography Fable Books
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Instructions for Carsten Niebuhr's expedition to Arabia

MICHAELIS, Johann David. Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie.
Amsterdam, S.J. Baalde; Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven & comp., 1774. 4to. Set in roman type with incidental Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac and 1 word in Coptic. Near-contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [4], XLIV, 256, [16], 38, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Egypt Literature North Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East
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First edition of a play recounting the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese

MIMOSO, João Sardina. Relacion de la real tragicomedia ...
Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez, 1620. 4to. With the elaborate woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, the Duke of Braganza, on the title-page, and the woodcut coat of arms of Portugal and/or King Philip II of Portugal at the head of his dedication on leaf [6]r, all text is set within a double fillet frame, and with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary parchment binding with manuscript title on spine. [10], 163, [1] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
Brazil Latin America Literature South America
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