Literature & Linguistics / Greek & Roman Classics

HOMER [and Henri ESTIENNE (editor)]. Opera omnia, cum interpretat[ione]. lat[ina]. ad. verbum ... et breves notae marginales. Editio novissima.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1650. Small 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title (within collation) and a few woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, red painted edges. [16], 895, [1 blank], [14] pp. Full description

HOMER. Iliade di Omero. Traduzione del Cav. Vincenzo Monti.
Milano, Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1812. 2 vols. Large 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm). Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled green calf (or sheepskin), with a light brown title-label on the spine lettered in gold. All boards show the large gold-tooled crowned coat of arms (of the French Barons Pavée de Vendeuvre - see to Rietstap 5, Pl. XXIII) within a gold-tooled frame, brown marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], 366; 386 pp. Full description

HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528.
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(2) IDEM. Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked. 183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll. Full description

HULTHEM, Charles van (A. VOISIN, cataloguer). Bibliotheca Hulthemiana ou Catalogue méthodique de la riche et précieuse collection de livres et des manuscrits.
Ghent, J. Poelman, 1836-1837. 6 volumes. 8vo. With lithographed portrait of Charles van Hulthem as frontispiece. Contemporary half goatskin. Full description

JUSTINIANUS I, Emperor and Jean CHAPPUIS (editor). Codex. Codicis d[omi]ni Justiani sacratissimi principis libri novem...
Paris, Yolande Bonhomme for Jean Petit, 1538. 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Thielman Kerver on the title-page, one full-page woodcut illustration, a near full-page woodcut illustration of emperor Justinian I, and numerous woodcut initials throughout. The title-page and text are printed in red and black. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, with the manuscript title on the spine and the front board. [40], CCCCCCCIIII, ll. Full description

JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius. Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine, brevis commentarii vice adiectis.
Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1540. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title border, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, with a central panel on both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border and a blank border, brown sprinkled edges. 64 ll. Full description

LIVIUS, Titus. Titi Livii deß aller redtsprechsten unnd hochberümptsten geschicht schreibers: Römische Historien ...
Mainz, Ivo Schöffer, 1533. 5 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 4 elaborate woodcut borders, 279 woodcut illustrations, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device on the final leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over boards, with remnants of brass fittings. [14], CCCCCXLV, [1] ll. Full description

MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius. In somnium scipionis, lib. II. Saturnaliorum, lib. VII.
Lyon, Sebastien Gryphe, 1542. Large 8vo. With a woodcut printers device on the title page, woodcut initials, 6 small woodcut figures, and the well-known half-page woodcut world map in a circle with the winds blowing in the corners (79 x 80 mm). Contemporary vellum. 567, [73] pp. Full description

NEAPOLIS, Carolus. Anaptyxis ad fastos P. Ovidii Nasonis.
Antwerp, Balthasar I Moretus, 1639. Folio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). With the title page engraved by Jacob Neeffs after a design by Erasmus Quellinus II, Plantin's large woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, several woodcuts in the text, several woodcut ornamental tailpieces, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled reddish-brown leather, sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a brown leather title label on the spine lettered in gold, the Jesuit monogram "IHS" central in the large lozenge-shaped centrepiece on both boards, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [1], [1 blank], [30], 304, [30], [2 blank] pp. Full description

NEPOS, Cornelius. Vitae excellentium imperatorum, observationibus ac notis commentatorum ... illustratae. Accesserunt huic edition praecipuorumn Graeci Imperatorum icons ... ut & Index rerum & verborum praecidenti multo auctior & emendatior.
Amsterdam, Pieter and Joan Blaeu, prostant apud Abr. Wolfgang, Gillis & Joh. II Janssonio-Waesbergios, Widow Dirk & Henrik Boom, Widow Joh. à Someren, & Rembertus Goethals, 1687. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Visscher (Hollstein Dutch, 175-1(4)), 14 small engravings (mainly used as tailpieces), 11 depicting Greek and Carthaginian commanders in a medallion. Contemporary vellum, author's name written on the spine. [32], 439, [40] pp. Full description