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MARKHAM, Sheila.
A third Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade, with an Introduction by Richard Ovenden.
London, 2025.
PRE-ORDER for delivery in December 2025.
£35
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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus, et alii.
Opera perquam accurate castigata: Graeco integro adiuncto: quod in aliis...
[(Colophons:) Venice, Giovanni Tacuino da Tridino, 3 January; 9 January 1502.]
A closely read copy of Lactantius’s encyclopaedia of Christian apologetics, defending and explaining the Christian faith.
£2750
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LIVY.
Libri omnes, quotquot ad nostrum aetatem pervenerunt: una cum doctissimorum virorum in eos lucubrationibus, post omnes aliorum...
Frankfurt, [Georg Rab for] Johann and Sigismund Feyerabendt, 1578.
An elegantly illustrated and scholarly edition of Livy, with extensive annotations. The text of Livy is supplemented with the epitome of Florus, located at the start of each relevant book and in the gaps left by the missing books, and a comprehensive index of events at the end, which has been...
£1750
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LUCAN.
Pharsalia cum annotationibus in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint.
Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1528.
An uncommon edition of Lucan’s poem on the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey, with extensive Breton provenance and contemporary annotations, in a contemporary binding.
£2500
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LUIGINI, Francesco.
In librum Q. Horatii Flacci de arte poetica commentarius.
Venice, [(colophon:) sons of] Aldus, 1554.
First and only edition of Luigini’s commentary on Horace’s Art of Poetry, with a preface praising Paolo Manuzio.
£850
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MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De republica excerptum; Macrobii … primi diei Saturnaliorum...
Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.
Sixth and last incunable edition of Macrobius, illustrated with a world map, with extensive early annotations.
£9500
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OVID.
Quae hoc volumine continentur … Metamorphoseωn libri quindecim.
[(Colophon:) Venice], Aldus [Manutius], [October 1502].
A systematically annotated copy of the Metamorphoses volume of the first Aldine edition of Ovid’s works. This copy has the redundant line ‘Lib. I’ at the beginning of the text, a distinctive mark of the first printing. Aldus published two further volumes of the Opera in December...
£2750
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[PARACELSUS.
Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi eremitae philosophi summi operum latine redditorum tomus II … Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]
[Basel, Pietro Perna, 1575.]
The second half of a two-volume edition of the Latin works of Paracelsus (1493–1541), the great Swiss physician and alchemist, with profuse annotations by a number of early English readers.
£1750
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PETRONIUS.
Satyricon, eiusdemque fragmenta, illustrata hac nova editione I. Bourdelotii notis criticis, et glossario petroniano...
Leiden, Justus Livius, 1645.
Third edition of the Satyricon as edited by the French scholar Jean Bourdelot (first published in 1618), accompanied by a glossary, an editorial preface and an extract of Justus Lipsius’ Epistolicis Quaestionibus (lib. III, epist. 2) with an appraisal of the literary value of the Satyricon....
£950
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PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].
Platonis opera.
[(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22 April 1517.]
Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important and influential Latin translations of and commentaries on Plato’s works, with numerous early annotations.
£5000
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RABANUS MAURUS et al.
Rabanus de sacramento Eucharistiae. Opus nunc primum recens editum, ex bibliotheca Cuthberti Tunstalli...
Cologne, Johann Quentel, 1551.
First edition of a work on the sacrament of the Eucharist by Rabanus Maurus, thoroughly annotated by a contemporary reader, followed by other works on the same subject and on the Trinity.
£950
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SABELLICO, Marco Antonio (or Marcantonio) Coccio; Petrus PONTANUS (or Du Pont, De Brugge).
Sanctissime elegie de...
Paris, Jean de Gourmont, [c. 1513].
One of only two recorded editions, both very rare, of this set of elegies addressed to the Virgin Mary, followed by verses ‘on St Peter’s sinking boat’, the former extensively annotated by a contemporary French student.
£1400
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SALLUST.
C. Crispi Sallustii opera omnia quae exstant, ex recognitione Iani Gruteri. Accedunt castigg. annotat. notae, ac scholia...
Frankfurt, Zacharias Palthenius for Jonas Rosa, 1607.
The works of Sallust edited by the philologist and librarian Jan Gruter (1560–1627), with profuse annotations at the beginning attributed to the Dutch professor Willem Coetier (1647–1723) of Franeker.
£1500
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STOEFFLER, Johannes.
Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii …
Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii … Oppenheim, Jacob Köbel, 1513 [(colophon:) 1512].
A much-annotated copy, complete with the fold-out extensions to the woodcut illustrations, of the first edition of the first German book on astrolabes, a fundamental step forward in astronomy, navigation, and timekeeping.
£12000
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TERENCE.
P. Terentii comoediae sex elegantissimae, cum Donati commentariis, ex optimorum praesertim veterum exemplariorum collatione...
Basel, the heirs of Nicolaus Brylinger, 1567.
A thoroughly annotated student edition of the plays of Terence, issued by the heirs of the Basel printer Nicolaus Brylinger (1515–1565), with introductory matter by Erasmus and commentary by Donatus and others.
£1750
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THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.
Περι του Πελοποννησιακου πολεμου...
[Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt, heirs of Andreas Wechel, Claude Marne, and Jean Aubry, 1594.
A richly annotated and extra-illustrated copy of Thucydides, edited and printed by perhaps the greatest Greek scholar of the sixteenth century; a bilingual edition with multilingual annotations, providing evidence of the keen interest in Thucydides demonstrated by German Protestant humanist scholars.
£2250
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.
Valerii Maximi dictorum, & factorum memorabilium libri novem.
[(Colophon:) Sélestat, Lazarus Schürer, December 1520.]
Very rare edition of Valerius Maximus printed at Sélestat in eastern France, profusely annotated in a sixteenth-century German hand.
£2250
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VORAGINE, Jacobus de.
Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore & de sanctis per totum annum] …
[(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for Lazarus de Suardis, 12 September 1497; – 31 August 1497.]
An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s sermons, one of the most popular medieval sermon collections, composed in the late thirteenth century. Jacobus de Voragine (Jacopo da Varazze) was a Dominican preacher from Genoa who produced several model books of sermons, providing variations to be...
£3250