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a la Haye: Jean van Duren, 1741. Second edition. First published Paris (Didot) 1740. Read More Item Details for Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement Add to Wish List

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Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1644. Read More Item Details for [Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri Add to Wish List

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London: T. Cadell; C. and J. Rivington, et al, 1838. New edition. Read More Item Details for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire…New Edition. In Eight Volumes Add to Wish List

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[Paris]: Jean Dupré, [7 May 1501]. First Paris edition. Giulio Pomponio Leto, also known as Julius Pompoinius Laetus, was an Italian Renaissance humanist whose original Italian name has been lost. He studied under Lorenzo Valla and founded the Accademia Romana, whose members adopted Greek and Latin names and treated Pomponio.....  Read More Item Details for Romanæ historiæ compendium … Add to Wish List

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London: Adam Islip, 1600. First edition in English of Livy's Roman History and Philemon Holland's first published translation. “[Translator Philemon] Holland's first book, the first complete rendering of Livy into English, was published in 1600 when he was nearly fifty. It was a work of great importance, presented in a......  Read More Item Details for The Romane Historie Written by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the Whole Historie; and the Topographie of Rome in Old Time. Translated out of Latine Into English by Philemon Holland Add to Wish List

Item #345388

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[Italian?]: ca. 1850. A superb collection of lovely lithographed images which, in many instances are so delicately and minutely colored as to be indistinguishable from watercolor drawings — and indeed, several of them we believe to be entirely original drawings — each in the style of the ancient art of.....  Read More Item Details for Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor drawings in the style of Pompeiian frescoes Add to Wish List

Item #56925

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London: Printed for Abel Roper, 1723. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Consorts to the first Twelve Csars of Rome. Containing All the Passages of Chief Note in Roman History: and Particular Characters and Descriptions of the most Celebrated Favourites, Poets, Courtiers, Orators, &c. in those Reigns. Taken from the Ancient Greek and Latin Authors. With Historical and Explanatory Notes, By Monsieur De Serviez. Translated by Add to Wish List

Item #214670

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Venice: Paulus Mauntius, 1556. Commentary on the history of Rome, with a chronology of Kings and consuls from Romulus to the early emperors. The book on Roman names is at ff. 151-169, and conatins two woodcuts of Roman coins. Read More Item Details for Caroli Sigonii fasti consulares, ac triumphi acti à Romulo rege usque ad Ti. Caesarem. Eiusdem In fastos, et triumphos, idest in universam Romanam historiam commentarius. Eiusdem De nominibus Romanorum liber Add to Wish List

Item #373862

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[Colophon:] Venetiis: in Aedibus Haeredum Aldi Manutii Romani, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, 1534. First Aldine edition. A lovely copy of the sole Aldine edition of the works of Tacitus. With its revisions and corrections, this edition marks a substantial improvement on preceding editions such as Froben's 1533 edition, which was.....  Read More Item Details for [Opera] Cornelius Tacitus exacta cura recognitus et emendatus: copiosus index rerum, locorum, et personarum, de quibus in his libris agitur; vario lectio, in calce operis impressa Add to Wish List

Item #211425

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Venetiis: apud Venturinum Ruffinellum, 1547 [colophon is 1546]. Magnificent copy of this fine Venetian edition of the early Imperial historian Valerius Maximus , who flourished in the reign of Tiberius (and to whom he dedicates his book). The work itself is a curiously arranged compilation of historical anecdotes taken from.....  Read More Item Details for Valerii Maximi Moralium Exemplorum Libri novem, summa diligentia castigati, ac fidelissimis eruditissimorum virorum Oliuerii. s. Arziganensis, Iodociq[ue] Badij Ascensii commentariis enarrati, quibus addita sunt quattuor & viginti exempla, nuper Aldi Manutii industria inuenta, eiusdem Ascensii commentariis exornata. Cum duplici indice, altero quidem capitum, altero vero eorum qu toto opere notatu digna visa sunt. Insunt prterea Theophili viri eruditissimi perutiles lucubrationes, qu tibi non mediocri erunt (si huius auctoris virtutes optime nosce volueris) adiumento Add to Wish List

Item #211700

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Los Angeles: Printed for Dawson's Book Shop at The Plantin Press, c. 1956. First edition. One of 290 copies for sale, elegantly printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Accompanied by an original leaf (in this case from the Psalms) from the 1611 Bible. Read More Item Details for The Making Of The King James Bible A Monograph, With Comparisons From The Bishops Bible And The Manuscript Assotations Of 1602, With An Original Leaf From The Great "She" Bible Of 1611 Add to Wish List

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