London: William Pickering, 1828. Diamond Classics. Printed in beautiful Greek diamond type by C. Corrall. Read More

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1808. Third American edition. Read More

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Hackius, et al, 1696. First collected edition. Giraldi, Giglio Gregorio (Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus) 1470-1552) was an Italian scholar and poet, born at Ferrara, "where he early distinguished himself by his talents and acquirements. he removed to Naples, here he lived on familiar terms with Jovianus Pontanus and... Read More