Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1551. First Gryphius edition. Gryphius' Appianus, 1551. Read More about De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis historiarum libri quinque. Eiusdem libri sex--Illyricus, Celticus,...

London: printed for J. Bell, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1790. First edition. Read More about Bell's New Pantheon; Or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-Gods, Heroes, and Fabulous...

Venezia: Antonio Pinelli, 1609. A gathering of Latin translations: The Vulgate printed after an edition printed in Antwerp in 1605; the translation from the Hebrew by St. Pagnini after the Lyon edition of 1528; and the Septuagint after the edition of Rome, 1508.Scarce in institutions: OCLC locates 3 copies in... Read More about Biblia Sacra. Vulgata Editione, translat. ex Hebrae Sanctis Pagnini; Romana ex Setuag. &...

Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1559. First Plantin edition of the Latin Bible. The First Plantin Latin Bible. A new edition of the Louvain edition (originally published 1547) of the Vulgate Latin Bible (see Darlow & Moule, note at no. 6141), printed by Plantin. Another issue of this edition (from... Read More about Biblia, ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata …

Ulm: Johann Zainer, [c. 1480]. An Incunable of the Utmost Rarity. Johann Zainer the Elder (fl. 1472-93) established the first printing press at Ulm, where his first book is dated 1473. This pocket psalter by Zainer is undated; the colophon gives only the printer’s name and the city in which... Read More about Psalterium [with] Commune sanctorum

[Geneva: Pierre de Saint-André, 1574]. The general title in this copy is supplied from another edition entirely, the octavo Biblia Sacra published in Lyon by Jean de Tournes in 1554. The New Testament title bears the imprint Francis Estienne, 1567, as found in copies of the Biblia Sacra published in... Read More about [Biblia sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti, iuxta vulgatam editionem maiori quam antehac unquam...

Lugduni [i.e., Lyon]: Antonius Gryphius, 1588. This early edition of Ovid's Heroides is bound with several other Ovidian texts, including the "Amorum libri III," the "de arte amande libri III," and the "de remedia armoria libri II"The Heroides, Ovid's poems in the form of imagined letters by the women of..... Read More about Heroidum Epistol. Amorum libri III. De arte amande libri III. De remedia armoria libri II. [Ed. A...

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. Read More about De Officiis

Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1875; 1868. Revised edition; first edition. With presentation ALS from Dix to Dexter A. Hawkins bound in.General John Adams Dix (1798-1879) entered the U.S. infantry in 1812, and served various military and political posts through the years leading up to the Civil War, including postmaster of New... Read More about Dies Ir [AND] Stabat Mater

Basel: Johann Froben, January; March; and March, 1520. First collected editions. First collected editions of these “Paraphrases” of the letters of Paul, which were undertaken shortly after Erasmus’s revolutionary edition of the Greek New Testament of 1516. As part of that monumental reconstruction of the New Testament, Erasmus’ intention was..... Read More about Paraphrases Des. Erasmi Roterodami in epistolas Pauli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas …...

New York: Fieldston School Press, [June] 1940. No. 39 of 200 copies printed June 1940 on a Colt’s Armory press by Robert Nathan Ascher and Robert Solon Rodwin, signed on the colophon. With preface by Benjamin Jowett, and the text of the Dialogue. Title page printed in red and black... Read More about Plato Crito Jowett

Cambridge: John Field, 1665. Second edition of the Septuagint printed in England; variant B, with misprint in Greek title and sun and cup transposed in motto on title. A handsome copy of the second edition of the Septuagint printed in England (following the first of 1653), and the first edition... Read More about He palaia diatheke kata tous Hebdomekonta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta...