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The Pagan Mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome, versified, accompanied with Philosophical Elucidations of the Probable latent meaning of some of the Fables of the Ancients.

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London: Printed for the Author, 1809:

Seller ID: 965

Octavo. viii, vi-148pp. In a modern library cloth binding, not very attractive. Illustrated with impresssions from engravings on wood by J. Berryman. Only one copy recorded in the NUC - New York Publi c Library. An unusual work.
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Andronici Rhodii Ethicorum Nichomacheorum paraphrasis. Cum interpretatione Danielis Heinsii, ...

By: Andronicus Rhodius.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes for John Creed, 1679.:

Seller ID: 1600

Octavo. [xvi], 530, [xxviii] pages. Greek and Roman types, with text in two columns. Title-page in black and red. Nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards. ESTC R13794; Riley 256; Wing A3688.
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Cupid And Psyche: A Mythological Tale, From The Golden Ass Of Apuleius.

By: Apuleius, Lucius.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London; printed for J. Wright by W. Bulmer, 1801.:

Seller ID: 803

Octavo. 59 pages. Half-title present. Large-paper copy. Third edition. Untrimmed in original blue paper-covered boards, spine repaired. Illustrated with two stipple-engraved plates. Translated by Hudson Gurney.
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L. Apvlei Madavrensis Opera omnia qvae exstant. E quibus, post vltimam P. Colvii editionem, philosophici libri ope vetustiss. cod. ms. innumeris mendis expurgatis quamplurimis locis aucti, per Bon. Vvlcanivm Brvgensem.

By: Apuleius, Lucius.

Price: $2,900.00

Publisher: Lvgdvni Batavorvm: Ex Officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1588.:

Seller ID: 2314

Octavo. Two parts in one volume. I: [xxiv], 431, [i]pp.; II: 298 [i.e. 296], [xl]pp. I: *8, **4, A8-Z8, a8-d8; II: AA8-SS8, TT4, a8-b8, c4. Last page blank. Printer's device on both title-pages. Italic letter, some Greek and Roman. Floriated woodcut initials, Contemporary stiff vellum.
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Aristotle. An excerpt from the General Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum.

By: Aristotle.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1933.:

Seller ID: 1038

Folio. [i]ff., 170 columns. In the publisher's stiff paper wrappers.
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Bell's New Pantheon, or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-Gods, Heroes and Fabulous Personages of Antiquity: also, of the Images and Idols adored by the Pagan World; Together with their Priests, Altars, Oracles, Fasts, Festivals, Games, &c.

By: Bell, John.

Price: $525.00

Publisher: London: Printed by and for John Bell, Bookseller to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales at the British Library, Strand, 1790.:

Seller ID: 1931

Quarto. Two volumes in one. I: iv, 407pp.; II: [ii], 399, [iii]pp. I: []2, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, 3A4-3F4; II: []1, A4-Z4, Aa4-Tt4. Contemporary half brown calf, rebacked. With 37 plates with 98 images, engraved by Conde, Grignion, etc. Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 52; ESTC T99549.
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Camera ed inscrizioni sepulcrali de' liberti, servi, ed ufficiali della casa di Augusto scoperte nella via Appia, ed illustrate con le annotazioni di monsignor Francesco Bianchini veronese l'anno 1726.

By: Bianchini, Francesco.

Price: $800.00

Publisher: In Roma: appresso Giovanni Maria Salvioni, nell'archiginnasio della Sapienza, 1727.:

Seller ID: 1933

Folio. VII, 87pp. a6, A4-K4, L2. First edition. Engraved title in black-and-red. Contemporary vellum. With an engraved title, engraved vignettes, and 7 engraved plates (5 of them double-page). The engravings show cross sections, elevations, architectural details and inscriptions. The plates were drawn by Girolamo Rossi and engraved by Antonio Buonamici. Cicognara 3617; Brunet I, 847; Graesse 361; Olschki 16462. From the Cholmondeley Library, with its bookplate.
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Signorum Veterum Icones.

By: Bisschop, Jan de.

Price: $5,000.00

Publisher: n.p. [Amsterdam]: [Hendrik de Leth], n.d. [1670(?)].:

Seller ID: 2222

Quarto. Has illustrated etched half-title: Signorvm vetervm icones. Some copies of this book have a few pages of introductory text in Latin and Dutch, but these leaves were not issued with all copies. Modern red goatskin. Fillet borders. With 100 engraved plates. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 117; Bibliothèque Nationale 150, 337; Thieme-Becker 22, 235; Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700.6; Le Blanc, Charles, Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes 1550-1820.5.
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Recueil d'Antiquites égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines.

By: Caylus, Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, Comte de.

Price: $5,500.00

Publisher: A Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant (I-III) & Chez Tilliard (IV-VII), 1752-1757.:

Seller ID: 1945

Quarto. Seven volumes. I: [viii], xxv, 348pp,; II: viii, 430, [ii]pp.; III: xxxiv, 448pp.; IV: xx, 418, [i]pp.; V: xxxvi, [ii], 348pp.; VI: xx, 414, [i]pp.; VII: [iv], xxviii, 336pp. I: []4, a4-c4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Xx4, Yy42; II: []1, a4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Hhh4; III: a4-d4, e2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Kkk4; IV: a4-b4, c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4, Ggg2; V: a4-c4, d2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Vv4, Xx2; VI: a4-b4, c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4 (Fff4 blank); VII: [ ] 2, a4-c4, d2, A4-Tt4. Contemporry mottled calf, repaired. Illustrated. I: frontispiece & 107 plates; II: frontispiece & 128 plates (126 in the co...
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De Officiis Libri III.

By: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Price: $2,200.00

Publisher: Antwerp: Ex Officina C. Plantini, 1579.:

Seller ID: 549

Octavo. 239 pages. With Plantin's device on the title-page. Historiated woodcut initials. In a vellum binding. GRAESSE II, 176.
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M. Tul. Ciceronis Familiarum Epistolarum Libri XVI.

By: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Price: $1,100.00

Publisher: Paris: Apud Audoenum Parvus, sub signo Lilii Aurei.. 1549.:

Seller ID: 550

Folio. [iv] leaves, 308 leaves. With the printer's device on the title-page. Historiated woodcut initials. In a modern dark brown half goatskin binding with marbled boards.
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M. Tvllii Ciceronis Opera Omnia.

By: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Price: $1,300.00

Publisher: Geneva: Apud Eustache Vignon, 1596.:

Seller ID: 916

Thick quarto. Four volumes bound in one. With no separate title-pages to volumes II-IV. I: [iv]ff., 436cols.; II: 958cols.; III: 636cols.; IV: 714cols.; Index and Privilege - 40ff. I: 4, A4-O4, P2; II : aa8-zz8, Aa8-Gg8; III: a8-v8; IV: Aa8-Yy8, Zz4 ; Index & Privilege: A8-E8. Last leaf, E8, is blank and lacking. Engraved title-page. In a contemporary vellum binding.
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Alterum Epistolarum volumen. Ad T. Atticum, Ad M. Brutum, Ad Quintum Fratrem.

By: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Price: $1,100.00

Publisher: [Strassburg]: [Rihelius], 1582.:

Seller ID: 1372

Octavo. [18], 335, [56] leaves. Title-page extended. Staining throughout, gets heavier towards the end. In a contemporary blindstamped calf binding. Remains of clasps. Adams C1923 (c. 1560). "CICERONIS STURM" stamped above an oval with a design of a king (David ?) kneeling in front of a tree with an inscription circumscribing the oval (somewhat faint) on the upper cover; the lower cover with floral wreaths intersperswed with small ovals depicting the heads of famous men.
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Opera. Ex Petri Victorii Codicibus maxima ex parte descripta Rhetorica; ...Epistolae ... Orationes ... Philosophica ... Petri Victorii Explicationes suarum in Ciceronem Castigationum.

By: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Price: $6,000.00

Publisher: Parisiis: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, 1538-1539.:

Seller ID: 1422

Folio. 5 volumes in 3. I: 288 pages; II: 416 pages; III: 639 pages; IV: 158 pages; V: 450 pages. General title-page and separate title-pages to sections. General title-page dated 1539, Rhetorica dated 1538, Orationes dated 1539, Epistolae dated 1538, Philosophica dated 1538, and Explicationes dated 1538. Eigtheenth-century red morocco, rebacked. Adams C1640; Renouard, p. 436; Schweiger I, 103; Not in Schreiber; Renouard, p. 48, 1539.8; Ebert 4255.
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Diogenis Laertii Clarissimi Historici de Vita, & Moribus Philosophorum Libri Decem, De vita, & moribus philosophorum libri decem, nuper ad vetusti Graeci codicis fiaccuratissime castigati, ...

By: Diogenes Laertius.

Price: $1,700.00

Publisher: Basilae: In Aedibus Valentini Cvrionis, September 1524.:

Seller ID: 1425

Large octavo. [x]ff., 391 pages. With the printer's device on the verso of the final leaf. Small decorative devices on title, historiated woodcut initials. a4, b4-g4, a4-z4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Cc4. Contemporary paneled calf, worn and rubbed. Upper cover loose. Ties present. Acorns on both covers. Adams D486; Hoffmann II, 76; Graesse II, 397; BM Short Title Catalogue of German Books 244; VD 16, D 1837; Schweiger I, 97. Beginning with Thales of Miletus, there are over eighty biographies of Greek philosophers, ending with Epicurus.
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Image for Monumentum, sive columbarium libertorum et servorum Liviae Augustae et Caesarum, Romae detectum in Via Appia, anno 1726. Ab Antonio Francisco Gorio ... Descriptum & XX. aere incisis tabulis illustratum; adjectis notis ... Antonii Mariae Salvinii.

Monumentum, sive columbarium libertorum et servorum Liviae Augustae et Caesarum, Romae detectum in Via Appia, anno 1726. Ab Antonio Francisco Gorio ... Descriptum & XX. aere incisis tabulis illustratum; adjectis notis ... Antonii Mariae Salvinii.

By: Gorio, Antonio Francesco.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Florentiae: typis Regiae Celsitudinis, apud Tartinium & Franchium, 1727.:

Seller ID: 1975

Folio in fours. xxxvi, 254, [2]pp. *4-***4, ****6. A4-Z4, AA4-II4. Title-page in red-and-black. With the half-title present. Engraved title vignette. Eighteenth-century paper boards, repaired. With 21 plates, 13 double-page. Some are plans. First plate after p. 25; the others gathered at the end. Textual illustrations throughout. Cicognara, 3750; Brunet II, 1670; Olschki, Choix 17047; Kissner, 180.
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In Hoc Volumine Continentur: Herodiani Historiæ Libri VIII. Et aliorum Historiæ. Sexsti Aurelij Victoris a. D. Caesare Augusto usq[ue] ad Theodosium excerpta. Europij historiae libri X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII ad Eutropij historiam additi.

By: Herodianus.

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: Florence: Impressum Florentiæ, Opera & Sumptu Philippi Juntæ, 1517.:

Seller ID: 1440

Octavo. 90, 127ff. With the printer's device on the colophon. +4, AA8-KK8, LL10, A8-Q8. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards. Bandini II, pp. 116-117; Adams H376; Decia 98; Renouard xli, 93.
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Image for The Works of Homer, the Celebrated Grecian Poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; ... the whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth.

The Works of Homer, the Celebrated Grecian Poet: including new and complete editions of the Iliad, and the Odyssey; ... the whole revised, corrected, and improved by William Henry Melmoth.

By: Homer.

Price: $1,100.00

Publisher: London: Printed for Alex. Hogg, n.d. [c. 1780].:

Seller ID: 1444

Quarto. [vi], [7]-659, [v] pages. Last five pages include the advertisements and the subscriber's list. First Melmoth edition. A2-Z2, AA2-ZZ2, AAA2-ZZZ2, AAAA2-ZZZZ2, AAAAA2-ZZZZZ2, AAAAAA2-ZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAA2-ZZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAAA2-BBBBBBBB2. Contemporary half calf, repaired. Illustrated with 41 plates, 40 of which are by Fourdrinier, including the frontispiece portrait of Homer, 39 copperplates and one map.
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Orationes tres, cum Interpretatione Latina, nunc primum ad verbum facta, ad discentium utilitatem. Ad Demonicum, de moribus adolescentium. Ad Nicoclem Cypri regem, de principuem institutione. Nicocles, de principum & subditorum officio.

By: Isocrates.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Venice: Apud I. Variscum et Soceri, 1567.:

Seller ID: 1447

Octavo. 52ff. With the printer's device on the title-page and verso of final leaf. Text in Greek and Latin on facing pages. a4-n4. Boards.
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Iamblichus de Mysteriis Aegyptiorum Chaldæorum, Assyriorum Proclus ... De Anima ... Item de Sacrificio et Magia. Porphyrius De Divinis ... Psellus De Demonibus ... Trismegisti Pimander.

By: Jamblichus.

Price: $1,400.00

Publisher: Lugduni: Apud Ioan. Tornæsium, 1552.:

Seller ID: 1448

Sextodecimo. 543 pages, [i]ff. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards. Cartier 220; Graesse III, 447.
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