Search Results: Authors starting with T from Liber Antiquus

London: By Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598. Hardcover. Fine. [Bound with, as issued:] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of The Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. The second edition. London: [By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598 Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶ Z⁴(1st leaf blank save sig. mark); [6], 12, 227, [3] p. (last 3 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁶ A-S⁶ T⁴ V⁶(las leaf blank). FIRST EDITION of the "Annales". SECOND EDITION of the "Histories". The "Histories" and "Agricola" were translated by Richard Greenwey. The translations of the "Annales" and "Germania" are the work of Sir Henry Savile (first ed. 1591). Bound in contemporary English calf (scuffed, moderate wear; skillfully rebacked, original spine elements preserved), boards ruled in gold and blind, gilt ornaments at the corners, large, ornate gilt arabesque at the center of each board. Text is excellent… Read More

Cambridge: ex officina Iohannis Legat, 1598. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary vellum, a bit rumpled, lightly soiled, text block loose at front. A very fine, crisp copy. Smudge on leaf C1, ink spot on leaf G2; small, faint dampstain to upper margin in gatherings E and F. Variable light damp-stain to lower, outer corner starting in gathering L, a bit darker in a few gatherings (L, O, Q); a few natural marginal paper flaws (not affecting text.). An important Elizabethan translation, Richard Bernard's 1598 "Terence in English" at last made these Roman comedies available to Latin-less English readers and performers. It has been argued that certain phrasings from Bernard's English Terence are found in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet (see The New Shakespere Society's Transactions 1875-6, volume 4, p. 198 et seq.). Although numerous Latin editions of… Read More

Strasbourg: [Matthias Hupfuff], 1508. NINTH? EDITION (1st ed. 1497). Hardcover. Fine. Printer information from Schmidt (see references.) A very good copy in modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled, a few contemporary corrections to page numbering, tiny chip to blank corner of title, occ. light marginal staining. With a woodcut title illustration (repeated on the final leaf) showing a doctor treating his bed-ridden patient. An early and (like all early editions) very rare edition of this popular medical book describing plant-based remedies for a host of illnesses, first printed in 1497 by Albert Kunne at Memmingen under the title "Büchlin der Artzney". The book began to be printed with the title "Margarita medicinae" beginning in 1500. As in the "Hortus sanitatis", the chapters are arranged alphabetically based on the Latin drug names. A valuable index at the end gives one-line descriptions of the ailments treated in each chapter, keyed to the leaf number on which they are to be found, adding greatly… Read More