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[Idyllia] [and other texts]
by Theocritus; Hesiod
Edition: First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocrit
Book condition: Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tool
Book Description
[Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1495. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idy...- Title: [Idyllia] [and other texts]
- Author: Theocritus; Hesiod
- Format/binding: Title in Greek and Roman, introduction by Aldus in Latin;, text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or stra
- Book condition: Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tool
- Quantity available: 1
- Edition: First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocrit
- Publisher: Aldus Manutius
- Place: [Venice
- Date published: 1495
[Indication of contents in Greek followed by Latin:] Haec insunt in hoc libro. Theocriti Eclogae triginta. Genus Theocriti & De inventione bucolicorum. Catonis Romani sententiae paraeneticae Distichi. Sententiae septem sapientum. De invidia. Theognidis megarensis siculi sententiae Elegiacae. Sententiae monostichi per capita ex variis poetis. Aurea carmina Pythagorae. Phocylidae Poema admonitorium. Carmina Sibyllae erythraeae De Christo Jesu domino n[ost]ro. Differentia vocis. Hesiodi Theogonia. Eiusdem Scutum Herculis. Eiusdem Georgicon libri duo.Venice, Aldus Manutius, February "1495" [=1496]. Folio. With 8 fine woodcut headpieces (2 by the famous Poliphilus master) plus 29 repeats, and 23 woodcut outline interlaced initials (3 series: 3-line, 5-line and 7-line) plus 16 repeats. Modern red morocco, gold- and blind-blocked.
THEOCRITUS, HESIOD, and others
- Bookseller: Asher Rare Books
[140] ll.Rare first issue of the first and only edition of a collection of Greek works, many of the individual works appearing here in their first editions: one of the first books produced by the famous printer-publisher Aldus Manutius, published less than a year after his first book. In fact Al...
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€39,500.00
SOLINUS DE MEMORALIBUS MUNDI.
SOLINUS, Caius Julius.:
- Published : 1498
- Bookseller: Roger Middleton
Venetiis, anno Domini. M. CCCC. LXXXXVIII. die. X. Marci. (1498).. INCUNABULA 1498. Ex library copy, 1 ink stamp only to title page, TEXT IN LATIN. 8vo, approximately 1195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5½ inches, 46 unnumbered leaves, 92 pages, signatures: a-e8, f6. Capital spaces with guide letters. Fol....
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£2,500.00
Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Types
McGovern, Melvin
- Published : 1966
- Edition : Limited to 300 copies, of which is one of 205 regular copies. Co
- Bookseller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966 Limited to 300 copies, of which is one of 205 regular copies. Copies of this book contained various numbers of original specimens, depending upon availability. This copy has two originals, dating from 1795 and 1815. Quarter white buckram over yellow paper bo...
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$3,750.00
Quarta pars huius operis sc[licet] quarti Sententia[rum] cum disputatis s[an]cti Bonaue[n]ture
BONAVENTURE, Saint
- Published : 1500
- Edition : First
- Bookseller: Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
1500 1ed Saint Bonaventure Medieval Peter Lombard Sentences Incunable Koberger
"To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?"
― Bonaventure
An exceedingly rare printing of Saint Bonaventure's commentary on Peter Lombard's ' Books of Sentences' . Lombard's ' Sentences' was ...
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$3,950.00
Fratris Baptistae Mantuani Carmelitae theologi ad clarissimum equitem dominum Lodouicum Gonzalem Hispanum diui Iacobi Galleci co[m]me[n]datarium dignissimum in Robertum Seuerinatem panaegyricum carmen.
MANTUANUS, Baptista
- Published : 6 August 1499
- Bookseller: Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
1499 INCUNABLE Italian Renaissance Mantuanus Poems Somnium Sanseverino RARE
Baptista Mantuanus was a Carmelite poet whose 15th-century works were influential during the Protestant Reformation. One of his most important poems was his collection of poems dedicated to Robert Sanseverino, an Ita...
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$3,950.00
LA EXPOSITIONE DEL PATER NOSTER, COMPOSTA PER FRATE GIROLAMO DA FERRARA.
SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.:
- Published : 1495
- Bookseller: Roger Middleton
(Florence, Bartolommeo de Libri), circa 1495.. INCUNABULA, circa 1495, ITALIAN TEXT, bound in eights, approximately 200 x 135 mm, 7¾ x 5¼ inches, 24 leaves without pagination, as issued (48 pages), a1-c8, 34 lines, the last 2 words are "senza spirito", then "Finis", capital spaces. Fo.a1: WOOD...
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De suorum temporum calamitatibus… Fratris Baptistae Mantuani Carmelitae theologi ad reuere[n]dissimu[m] in Christo patre[m] ac Dominum D. Oliuerium Carafam Sabinen[sem] Episcopu[m] & Cardinalem Neapolitanu[m] de suorum temporu[m] calamitatibus liber foeliciter incipit
MANTUANUS, Baptista
- Published : 10 Sept. 1499
- Bookseller: Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
1499 INCUNABLE Martin Luther Reformation Mantuanus Calamitatibus Heretics Heresy
Baptista Mantuanus was a Carmelite poet whose 15th-century works were influential during the Protestant Reformation. One of his most important poems was " De suorum temporum calamitatibus " – a work which was...
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$5,500.00
HAND RUBRICATED TEXT IN GOTHIC OAK BINDING BY ARTHUR GREEN: Theologia naturalis; sive, Liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura ejus in quantum homo: et de his que sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendum seipsum et Deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam Deo quam proximo.
De Sabunde, Raymundus (Raimundus Sabundus, Raymond of Sebonde or Ramon Sibiuda, Catalan scholar, c.1385-1436)
- Published : 1501
- Bookseller: Lyppard Books
Strasbourg: Argentinae: Ex officina Martini Flach junioris, 1501. Half leather. Fine. Folio, printed in Strassburg by Martin Flach, 7 February 1501; 161 unnumbered leaves. BINDING: new Gothic hand-sewn oak binding by Arthur Green of Malvern; tawed quarter leather over quarter-sawn oak boa...
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£4,350.00
COMPLETE HAND-RUBRICATED INCUNABULA IN ORIGINAL BLINDSTAMPED WOODEN BINDING: Dialogorum libri quattuor
Pope Gregory I
- Published : 1496
- Bookseller: Lyppard Books
Basel: Basel: Impressi ac diligentissime correcti per Michael Furter, 1496. Full leather. Very Good. Quarto, printed by Michael Furter, Basel, 1496, with dated closing colophon. COLLATION: 58 leaves complete; signatures a8, b-f8, h8, i6. TEXT: double column, 48 lines per page with abundant re...
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£4,750.00
Orationi, Militari. Raccolte Per M. Remigio Fiorentino, da Tutti gli Historici. Greci e Latini, Antichi e Moderni con gli Argomenti chi Dichiarono l'Occasioni per le Quali Elle Furono Fatte..
Nannini, Remigio [1521-1581]
- Published : 1557
- Edition : First Edition
- Bookseller: Minotavros Books
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1557. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Vellum. Title in gilt on green calf label on spine. [32] 740 p.p. Slightly bumped spine and edges. Some soiling to boards and extremities. Light foxing, some yellow staining to pages. Ex Libris Neathma...
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CA$8,750.00
DE CIVITATE DEI, THE CITY OF GOD. Commentaries by Thomas Waleys and Nicholas Trivet.
AUGUSTINE (Saint Aurelius, Bishop of Hippo).:
- Published : 1489
- Bookseller: Roger Middleton
Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, Klendas [sic] Martias [18 Feb.], 1489.. EX LIBRARY COPY FROM ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY, THEIR BOOK-PLATE TO FIRST PASTEDOWN, NO OTHER LIBRARY MARKS,1489. 4to in 8s, approximately 280 x 210 mm, 11 x 8 inches, 2 line printed title to first and last p...
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£6,900.00