Search Results: Titles starting with H from Liber Antiquus

Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524. THIRD ALDINE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A married set, bound in matching leather bindings (late 18th- early 19th c.), boards ruled in gold, spines tooled with attractive floral ornaments, red labels with "Homerus" tooled in Roman, and green labels with the Greek titles ("ΙΛΙΑΣ ", "ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ"). The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is tooled on the boards of both volumes. This is a married set, the first volume slightly taller than the second; the second. The edges of the text blocks are stained an even red (Vol. I) and blue (Vol. II). Nice copies of both volumes. Very light damp-staining in both volumes. Both title pages lightly stained. Outer margin of leaves q7-8 with tideline. Aldine anchor and dolphin device on the title pages and the versos of the final leaf in each volume.

Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524. THIRD ALDINE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Two octavo volumes bound in 19th c. blue calf, gilt. With the Aldine anchor and dolphin device (A6) on the title page and the verso of the final leaf in each volume. Fine copies. A few marginal wormholes. This edition reprints Aldus' letter to Girolamo Aleandro from the first Aldine edition.

London: Printed by Richard Oulton for Charles Greene, 1637. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. calf, with the gilt arms of Frederick Perkins on the boards, edges of boards gilt (binding rebacked preserving spine with some chipping, discoloration at the board edges.) The text is in fine condition, with just a mended tear to leaf H3 without loss and another small tear mended in the blank margin of the title; title a little dusty, verso of final leaf lightly soiled. Woodcut printer's device on title page; attractive woodcut ornament at head of text on B1. First edition of Nabbes' historical drama examining hubris and virtue against the backdrop of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. Contemporary productions of this play likely utilized perspective scenery. This edition is important for the inclusion of a printed cast list, making it one of the few plays in English Renaissance drama for which cast information exists. The Roman general Scipio Africanus (236/235-c. 183 BC)… Read More

London: Printed for M.D. and are to be sold by Nathaniel Webb, at the Royal Oak, in St. Pauls Church-yard, neer the little north-door of St. Pauls Church, 1664. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy (a few sall rust marks, final leaf dusty, verso of last text leaf lightly foxed.) The first leaf is a full-page woodcut of the royal arms. The final leaf (bound at the beginning in this copy) bears the woodcut printer's device ("Royall Oake") and type ornaments. Rare: North American copies: Harvard (4 copies), Huntington, Indiana, Newberry, Illinois. A royal pronouncement by King Charles II appointing members to serve on a commission, first established by Queen Elizabeth in 1586, "for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners", that is, those debtors who "were truly and indeed poor, distressed and miserable, and wanted means to satisfie their creditors" as opposed to those "obstinate and wilful debtors" who had the means but not the will to pay their… Read More

Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A very fine, broad-margined copy, bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, some stains, corners bumped). The contents are in excellent condition, the text bright, the plates in rich impressions. Insignificant defects as follows: small crease to upper corner of t.p, p. 263-272, 304-312 with small stain at head, very slim worm-trail in blank margin of a handful of gatherings, Q4 with small rust spot, creasing to lower margin and in gutter to closing three gatherings, last gathering separating in gutter revealing sliver of manuscript binder's waste. A splendidly illustrated record of the triumphal entries of the newlyweds Albrecht VII, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Brabant (1559-1621), and Sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands; and his bride Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain (1566-1633) into Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Valenciennes in 1599. Profusely illustrated. With an elaborately engraved… Read More

London: Impensis G. Bishop, 1601. FIRST EDITION, second issue with cancel title page. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered in morocco. An excellent, crisp, bright copy with very minor faults: repaired clean tear with no loss, leaf P4. A few signatures with very light marginal dampstains. Occasional rust spots, marginal tears, or marginal natural paper flaws, no loss whatsoever. Title pages to both volumes. The first with an elaborate architectural border with Solomonic columns. The second with a large woodcut device. An impressive book. "The 'Natural History' of Pliny the Elder is more than a natural history: it is an encyclopaedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world... It comprises 37 books with mathematics and physics, geography and astronomy, medicine and zoology, anthropology and physiology, philosophy and history, agriculture and mineralogy, the arts and letters... The 'Historia' soon became a standard book of reference;… Read More