AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. Ope MSS. codicum emendati ab Henrico Valesio, & auctioribus adnotationibus illustrati. Necnon excerpta vetera de Gestis Constantini & Regum Italiae. Editio Posterior, cui Hadrianus Valesius, F. Lindenbrogii in eundem Historicum ampliores observationes, et collectanea variarum lectionum adjecit, ... emendavit, notisque explicuit. Paris, ex officina Antonii Dezallier, 1681. Folio. 2 parts in 1: (XXXII),34,676,(1),(1 blank); 100,(1),(1 blank),(13 index),(3 blank) p. Mottled calf. 33 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,3: 'Der Text ist mittelst der Colbertin Cod. verbess. u. die Noten v. Lindenbrog. u. Henr. Valesius vermehrt'; Dibdin 1,256; Brunet 1,237; Moss 1,38/39: 'the most magnificent edition of Ammianus'; Fabricius/Ernesti 3,161; Ebert 528; Graesse 1,104; cf. Neue Pauly, Suppl. 2, p. 35) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red morocco letterpiece in ...

ALSTORPHIUS,J. Joannis Alstorphii J.U.D. Dissertatio philologica De lectis. Subjicitur ejusdem De lecticis veterum diatribe. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Joannem Wolters, 1704. 12mo. (XX),(4 blank),334,(2 blank),(22)(2 blank) p., 16 plates, most folding, 1 text engraving. Vellum. 14 cm (Ref: Brunet 6,29001; Welcome 2,37) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands, and a green morocco shield; 2 thongs laced through the joints; title in red & black; engraved printer's mark on the title, depicting a burning candle, the motto is 'aliis inserviendo cunsumor') (Condition: Waterstain in the margin of the first and last 2 leaves of the first gathering; 2 very small and hardly objectionable wormholes right on the front joint, not affecting any other part of the book. Small stamp of a coat of arms on verso of the title) (Note: The first large scale investigation on the subject of beds and litters of the Greeks and ...

AESOPUS. Fabulae Aesopi graece et latine, nunc denuo selectae: Eae item quas Avienus carmine expressit. Accedit Ranarum et Murium Pugna, Homero olim asscripta: cum elegantissimis in utroque libello figuris, & utriusque interpretatione, plurimis in locis emendata. Ex decreto DD. Hollandiae Ordinum, in usum Scholarum. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Jansonio-Waesbergios, 1726. 8vo. 134,(2) p. Vellum. 16.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 24265830X; Ebert 224; Moss 1,25; E.J. Kuiper, 'De Hollandse 'Schoolordre' van 1625', Groningen 1958, p. 129/30; Hoffmann, 1,70) (Details: 3 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark on the title. Each of the 42 fables of Aesop is preceded by a lovely woodcut showing a scene from that fable, and made by the Dutch artist Christoffel van Sichem II, drawn from often used and sometimes repaired woodblocks. The 'Batrachomyomachia' is illustrated with 6 woodcuts of warring frogs and mice) (Condition: ...

AESCHYLUS. AISCHULOU, PROMETHEUS DESMÔTÊS, HEPTA EPI THÊBAIS, PERSAI, AGAMEMNÔN, EUMENIDES, HIKETIDES. Paris (Parisiis), Ex officina Adriani Turnebi Typographi Regij, 1552. 12mo. (VIII),1-211,(1) p. 18th century calf 16.5 cm (Ref: Wartelle p. 2. Hoffmann I,32: 'Eine schöne und seltene Ausgabe'. Dibdin 1,237: 'beautifully printed'. Moss 1,7: 'a beautiful edition'. Brunet I, 77. Graesse 1,29. Ebert 180. Gruys p. 31/46; Mund-Dopchie p. 45/83) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands, the compartments with gilt floral motives. Red morocco shield in the second compartment. Triple fillet gilt borders on both boards. Gilt inside dentelles. Bookblock with gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's mark on the title) (Condition: Some wear to the extremes of the binding. Some foxing. Marginal repairs in 3 leaves) (Note: The Greek tragedian Aeschylus, 525/4-456 B.C., is the ...

ADAGIA. PAROIMIAI HELLÊNIKAI. Adagia, sive proverbia Graecorum ex Zenobio seu Zenodoto, Diogeniano & Suidae collectaneis. Partim edita nunc primum, partim latine reddita, scholiisque parallelis illustrata ab Andrea Schotto Antverpiano, Soc. Iesu presbytero. Antwerpen (Antverpiae), Ex officina Plantiniana, apud viduam & filios Ioannis Moreti. 1612. 4to. (XX),702,(1 printers' device),(1 blank) p. Vellum. 25 cm (Ref: stcv: 6633561; Brunet 1,45; Graesse 1,17: 'Édition excellente des anciens parémiographes, avec des notes très utiles'; Ebert 87; Smitskamp, 'The Scaliger Collection', 172) (Details: The vellum the binder used, was once a manuscript leaf with 10 lines black text in Latin from different Psalms, and with black quadratic musical notation on red staves of five lines, for the Gregorian chant. The leaf must have measured ca. 30x40 cm. The neums look rather cursive. The height of the ...

(MAAS,J.F.) Manuel militaire, ou cayers détachés sur toutes les différentes parties de l'art de la guerre. Cayer I. sur les convois. Copenhagen (Copenhague), Leiden (Leide), Chez Elie Luzac, 1761. 8vo. X,(II),11-114,(4) p., 2 folding engraved tables. Calf 20.5 cm (Ref: M. van Vliet 'Elie Luzac (1721-1796', Nijmegen 2005, p. 153-54 & 571)) (Details: Back gilt, and with 5 raised bands. Brown morocco shield in the second compartment. Edges of the boards gilt, edges of the book dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Title in red and black. 2 folding maps depicting an imaginary landscape, with (1, 47x24 cm) 'Plan de la marche d'un convoy' and (2, 35x24) 'Plan de l'attaque d'un convoy') (Condition: Boards somewhat scratched and stained. Wee wormhole at the bottom of the back. Both pastdownes detached. Red ink stain on the front flyleaf. Edges of the first table thumbed, it also suffers from 3 tears of 6 cm on the folds) ...