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DIONIS NICAEI RERUM ROMANARUM A POMPEIO MAGNO AD ALEXANDRUM MAMAEAE EPITOME Authore Ioanne Xiphilino. [and same in Greek above this Latin title]. EX BIBLIOTHECA REGIA.
by Cassius Dio (in the Epitome of Joannes Xiphilinus the Younger)
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The Description Of Greece, By Pausanias, Translated From The Greek, With Notes, In Which Much Of The Mythology Of The Greeks Is Unfolded From A Theory Which Has Been For Many Ages Unknown. Illustrated With Maps And Viewsd. A New Edition With Considerable Augmentation. In Three Volumes [Complete, In Original Boards)]
by Pausanias [translated by Thomas Taylor]
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T. Livii Patavini historici clarissimi, quae manifesto extant, librorum decades, cum nuper in Germania inventis quibusdam fragmentis, rursus diligenter repositae. Cum indice non ad fastidium usque longo. Cum epitome L. Flori in omnes etiam non extantes libros. Cum M. Antonii Sabellici ad Livianae historiae variorum lectionem adnotatis. Cumque Iodoci Badii Ascensii de historico decoro regulis, & vocabulorum non omnibus notorum interpretatione, & in primam praefationem facili expositione.
by LIVIUS, Titus Patavinus (Livy)
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Stephanou Byzantiou Ethnika kat epitomēn = Stephani Byzantini Gentilia per epitomen, antehac Peri poleōu De urbibus
by Stephanos, ho Byzantios, 6th cent
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[Tetrabiblos]. Hoc in libro nunquam ante typis aeneis in lucem edita haec insunt. [Greek:] KLAUDIOU ptolemaiou plousieos tetrabiblos sotaxis, pros Syron adelfos. TOU AUTOU karpos, pros ton auton Syros. [Latin:] Claudii Ptolemaei Pelusiensis libri quat... - [EDITIO PRINCEPS OF "THE BIBLE OF ASTROLOGY"]
by PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS - PTOLEMY.
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Evclide Megarense Philosopho: solo introdvtttore delle Scientie Mathematice; diligentemente Reassettato, et alla integrita ridotto per il degno Professore di tal Scientie Nicolo Tartalea, Brisciano, Secondo le due Tradottioni: e per commune commodo & ... - [FIRST "EUCLID" IN THE VERNACULAR BY TARTAGLIA.]
by EUCLID OF ALEXANDRIA.
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Pappi Alexandrini Mathematicae Collectione. A Federico Commandino Urbinatae In Latinum Conversae, & Commentarijs Illustratae. - [THE CULMINATION OF GREEK MATHEMATICS]
by PAPPUS (PAPPOS) of ALEXANDRIA.
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De Amatoriis Affectionibus Liber. Iano Cornario Zuiccauiensi interprete. [Peri Erotikon Pathematon]. - [EDITIO PRINCEPS OF PARTHENIUS' ONLY SURVIVING WORK]
by PARTHENIUS NICAENSIS.
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Syphilis, sive morbus gallicus. - [THE RAREST AND MOST IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE SYPHILIS-POEM]
by FRACASTORIUS, HIERONYMUS [GIROLAMO FRACASTORO OF VERONA].
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Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum Cum Integris Notis Jani Gebhardi, Henr. Ernstii, & Jo. Andreae Bosii...Curante Augustino Van Staveren
by Nepos, Cornelius
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A Voyage of Discovery Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay and Inquiring Into the Plausibility of a North-West Passage
by Ross, John
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Two Early Sixteenth Century Editions of Classical Histories, One Edited by Erasmus
by Attractive Editions of Quintus Curtius and Orosius
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The Works of Cornelius Tacitus. a New Edition, with the Author's Last Corrections. In Eight Volumes
by Cornelius Tacitus; with an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements, &c. by Arthur Murphy , Esq.
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Poetarum Omnium. Ilias & Odyssea. 2 vols. I. Ilias, Andrea Divo justinopolitano interprete, ad verbum translata. Herodoti Halicarnassei libellus, Homeri vitam fidelissime continens, Conrado Heresbachio interprete. cum Indice copiosissimo. Cum Gratia... - [THE EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL "VERSIO LATINA"]
by HOMER. - DIVUS transl. & ALDUS MANUTIUS & GEORGIUS DARTONA.
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Opera omnia nunc primum cum codd. Vaticanis collata praefatione, variantibus lectionibus, notis rerum verborumque indice locupletissimo aucta et illustrata.: 2 parts bound in two volumes
by Prudentius, Aurelius
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