Secundi Epistolae et Panegyricus by Pliny (C. Plinii Caecilii) - 1659

NY: Columbia University. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Slate Blue cloth, gilt, both bright.
Signed and inscribed ffep by the author "Miss Alice Morrow/From an admiring/friend/Mary Mills Patrick/New York City/October 12, 1929."
Erratum slip bound in p215. Tattered, unclipped (4.50) dj; 8vo; 339 pages; Signed by Author. bx133

From Various Museums and Collections. Engraved on 170 Plates.An influential compendium of the decorative motifs of the Greco-Roman world.With 151 engraved plates (numbered 1-150 with additional plate 115*), 18 additional engraved vignettes in the text, and engraved title page (slightly foxed as usual). Including 10 hand-coloured plates of vases, the Portland Vase and paterae in the British Museum, and 11 mezzotints of Roman tombs and sepulchral chambers.Henry Moses (1781-1870) was an English engraver who worked on Ancient Marbles in the British Museum (1812-1845), Select Greek and Roman Antiquities (1817), Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield (1819), as well as book illustrations to Faust (1821), Fridolin (1824), etc.First published in 1814 under the imprint of Richard and Arthur Taylor, Henry G. Bohn acquired the remainders from his father in 1831 and released them under his own name soon after.Rebound in brown cloth with new endpapers, a few signatures springing loose. One plate, No.… Read More

A new edition of Thomas Worlidge's etchings of antique gems reprinted from the original 18th century copperplatesComplete with engraved calligraphic title page and 108 fine etchingsThe gems were carved and engraved precious stones depicting figures from Greek and Roman myth, emperors, poets, philosophers, including Jesus Christ, Nero, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Sappho, Homer, Socrates, etc. The stones were from the collections of Duke of Marlborough, the Duchess of Portland, Lord Bessborough, Lord Montague, etc."The copperplates were formerly the property of the Grace Family but now belong to James Vallentin who publishes them for his Friends to whom they are respectfully presented."Sir James Vallentin (1814-1870) was a rectifier or distiller, Knight Sheriff of London and Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers. He is buried in the church of St Mary the Virgin, Walthamstow. Thomas Worlidge (1700–1766) was a portrait painter and etcher who painted portraits of George II and David Garrick. Like… Read More

Very good copy of engraver John Spilsbury's fine engravings of Roman cameosFrom the collections of the antiquarian Charles Francis Greville, politician Lord Algernon Percy, and art dealer Thomas Moore Slade.Complete with title page, list of prints, and 50 copperplate engravings with deep and crisp impressions.Published in parts from 1781 to 1784, and in collected form in 1785.Subjects include Roman and Greek myth, figures of Hercules, Bacchus, Cupid, Mercury, Ariadne, Chimera, Amazons, as well as historical figures such as Cleopatra, Scipio Africanus, Gaius Maecenas.John Spilsbury (1739-1795) was an English cartographer, engraver and publisher. He is also credited with the invention of the jigsaw puzzle when he created his first "dissected map" in 1766. Brown leather spine with four raised bands, gilt tooling and title, edges scuffed and bumped, marble-boards stained, interior foxed and spotted (as usual with this title).

1722 BEAUTIFUL Lucius Florus History of Rome LIVY Gruterus Duker Fine Binding
"Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle."
― Livy, The History of Rome
Florus was a Roman historian who lived during the 2nd-century AD. His history of Rome was collected by Livy, and mainly focuses on the foundation of Rome though the end of the B.C. era. The work is considered somewhat inaccurate, especially compared to Livy's much more popular and famous 'History of Rome'. This work lacks details of chronology and geography.
This 1722 of Florus's 'History'
is supplemented with commentary from German scholar Carl Andreas Duker.
Item number: #18567
Price: $599
FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus
L. Annaei Flori epitome rerum Romanarum. : Cum integris Salmasii, Freinshemii, Graevii, et selectis aliorum animadversionibus.
Lugduni Batavorum : apud Johannem vander Linden, juniorem, 1722.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o… Read More

NY: Columbia University. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Slate Blue cloth, gilt, both bright.
Signed and inscribed ffep by the author "Miss Alice Morrow/From an admiring/friend/Mary Mills Patrick/New York City/October 12, 1929."
Erratum slip bound in p215. Tattered, unclipped (4.50) dj; 8vo; 339 pages; Signed by Author. bx133

From Various Museums and Collections. Engraved on 170 Plates.An influential compendium of the decorative motifs of the Greco-Roman world.With 151 engraved plates (numbered 1-150 with additional plate 115*), 18 additional engraved vignettes in the text, and engraved title page (slightly foxed as usual). Including 10 hand-coloured plates of vases, the Portland Vase and paterae in the British Museum, and 11 mezzotints of Roman tombs and sepulchral chambers.Henry Moses (1781-1870) was an English engraver who worked on Ancient Marbles in the British Museum (1812-1845), Select Greek and Roman Antiquities (1817), Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield (1819), as well as book illustrations to Faust (1821), Fridolin (1824), etc.First published in 1814 under the imprint of Richard and Arthur Taylor, Henry G. Bohn acquired the remainders from his father in 1831 and released them under his own name soon after.Rebound in brown cloth with new endpapers, a few signatures springing loose. One plate, No.… Read More

A new edition of Thomas Worlidge's etchings of antique gems reprinted from the original 18th century copperplatesComplete with engraved calligraphic title page and 108 fine etchingsThe gems were carved and engraved precious stones depicting figures from Greek and Roman myth, emperors, poets, philosophers, including Jesus Christ, Nero, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Sappho, Homer, Socrates, etc. The stones were from the collections of Duke of Marlborough, the Duchess of Portland, Lord Bessborough, Lord Montague, etc."The copperplates were formerly the property of the Grace Family but now belong to James Vallentin who publishes them for his Friends to whom they are respectfully presented."Sir James Vallentin (1814-1870) was a rectifier or distiller, Knight Sheriff of London and Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers. He is buried in the church of St Mary the Virgin, Walthamstow. Thomas Worlidge (1700–1766) was a portrait painter and etcher who painted portraits of George II and David Garrick. Like… Read More

Very good copy of engraver John Spilsbury's fine engravings of Roman cameosFrom the collections of the antiquarian Charles Francis Greville, politician Lord Algernon Percy, and art dealer Thomas Moore Slade.Complete with title page, list of prints, and 50 copperplate engravings with deep and crisp impressions.Published in parts from 1781 to 1784, and in collected form in 1785.Subjects include Roman and Greek myth, figures of Hercules, Bacchus, Cupid, Mercury, Ariadne, Chimera, Amazons, as well as historical figures such as Cleopatra, Scipio Africanus, Gaius Maecenas.John Spilsbury (1739-1795) was an English cartographer, engraver and publisher. He is also credited with the invention of the jigsaw puzzle when he created his first "dissected map" in 1766. Brown leather spine with four raised bands, gilt tooling and title, edges scuffed and bumped, marble-boards stained, interior foxed and spotted (as usual with this title).

1722 BEAUTIFUL Lucius Florus History of Rome LIVY Gruterus Duker Fine Binding
"Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle."
― Livy, The History of Rome
Florus was a Roman historian who lived during the 2nd-century AD. His history of Rome was collected by Livy, and mainly focuses on the foundation of Rome though the end of the B.C. era. The work is considered somewhat inaccurate, especially compared to Livy's much more popular and famous 'History of Rome'. This work lacks details of chronology and geography.
This 1722 of Florus's 'History'
is supplemented with commentary from German scholar Carl Andreas Duker.
Item number: #18567
Price: $599
FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus
L. Annaei Flori epitome rerum Romanarum. : Cum integris Salmasii, Freinshemii, Graevii, et selectis aliorum animadversionibus.
Lugduni Batavorum : apud Johannem vander Linden, juniorem, 1722.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o… Read More