![Herodoti Halicarnassei historiae lib. IX, & de vita Homeri libellus …Ex Ctesia excerptae historiae. Icones quarundam memorabilium structurarum [bound after:] [Herodotou tou Halikarnasseos historia, e, Historion logoi 9, epigraphomenoi Mousai]](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/305099.jpg?v=1534807534)
Herodoti Halicarnassei historiae lib. IX, & de vita...
[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, 1566; 1570. First edition of the Estienne Herodotus, the... Read More
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![De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis historiarum libri quinque. Eiusdem libri sex--Illyricus, Celticus, Libycus, Syrius, Parthicus, & Mithridaticus [Translated from the Greek by P. Candidus]. Appianus.](/pictures/thumb/62361.jpg?v=1534804722)
Gryphius' Appianus, 1551
De ciuilibus Romanorum bellis historiarum libri quinque. Eiusdem libri sex--Illyricus, Celticus, Libycus, Syrius, Parthicus, & Mithridaticus [Translated from the Greek...
Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1551. First Gryphius edition. Gryphius' Appianus, 1551. Read More
Price: $600
Bell's New Pantheon; Or Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-Gods, Heroes, and Fabulous Personages of Antiquity: also, of the Images...
London: printed for J. Bell, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1790. First edition. Read More
Price: $550
Novum Testamentum Graecum.
London: William Pickering, 1828. Diamond Classics. Printed in beautiful Greek diamond type by C. Corrall. Read More
Price: $250
![Biblia Sacra. Vulgata Editione, translat. ex Hebrae Sanctis Pagnini; Romana ex Setuag. & Chaldaicae Paraphrasis Trans. Congesta Fratris Forunati Fanensis [Fortunato Scacchi] … Tribus distincta partibus. Latin Bible.](/pictures/thumb/301886.jpg?v=1544028561)
Biblia Sacra. Vulgata Editione, translat. ex Hebrae Sanctis Pagnini; Romana ex Setuag. & Chaldaicae Paraphrasis Trans. Congesta Fratris Forunati Fanensis...
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
Price: $2,250
Biblia Sacrosancta ad Hebraicam veritatem, & probatissimorum ac manuscriptorum exemplarium fidem diligenter recognita & restituta.
Basilaea [Basel]: Nicolaum Bryling [Nicolaus Brylinger], 1557. Brylinger published the only 16th century edition of Luther’s Bible in Switzerland, published one of the earliest Greek and Latin diglot Bibles, and published a series of 8vo editions of the Bible with diglot and Greek-only text which was popular with students. Darlow..... Read More
Price: $4,500
The First Plantin Latin Bible
Biblia, ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata ….
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
Price: $3,000
Testamenti Novi. Editio Vulgata.
Lugduni: Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphi, 1558. Published by Sebastian Gryphius, a German bookseller and printer who settled in Lyon in the 1520s. Described by Febvre and Martin as the "Prince of the Lyon book trade" in the 1540s, he supported local humanist culture and used the italic type developed by... Read More
Price: $2,500
![Psalterium [with] Commune sanctorum. Psalms Bible.](/pictures/thumb/254000.jpg?v=1534806265)
An Incunable of the Utmost Rarity
Psalterium [with] Commune sanctorum.
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
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Vetus Testamentum juxta Septuaginta Interpretes Tomus I [of 4]. Continens Octateuchum … Summa cura edidit Joanness Ernetus Grabe.
Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1707. The first eight books only of the famous edition of the Septuagint, here in the same type as the folio version, but issued in octavo format “to prevent the book from being piratically printed in Germany.” (Darlow & Moule). The volume contains the first eight..... Read More
Price: $250
![[Biblia sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti, iuxta vulgatam editionem maiori quam antehac unquam doctorum studio, ad veritatem Hebraicam et probatissimorum exemplarium fidem emendata]. Vulgate Bible.](/pictures/thumb/310455.jpg?v=1534808387)
[Biblia sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti, iuxta vulgatam editionem maiori quam antehac unquam doctorum studio, ad veritatem Hebraicam et probatissimorum...
[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
Price: $1,750
Ibarra bible
Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis.
Madrid: Joaquín de Ibarra, 1767. Ibarra bible. Read More
Price: $750
![Heroidum Epistol. Amorum libri III. De arte amande libri III. De remedia armoria libri II. [Ed. A Navigerius]. Binding, Ovid.](/pictures/thumb/61653.jpg?v=1534804709)
Heroidum Epistol. Amorum libri III. De arte amande libri III. De remedia armoria libri II. [Ed. A Navigerius].
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
Price: $1,500
Tully's Offices in Three Books. Translated in English by Sir R[oger] L'Estrange.
London: Printed for D. Browne, R. Knaplock, B. Tooke, G. Strahan, J. Tonson, S. Ballard, W. Mears and F. Clay, 1720. Sixth edition, revised and carefully corrected“De Officiis”. Read More
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![Les Amours des Dieux Payens [L'Arétin d'Augustin Carrache]. … Tome Premier [Second]. Curiosa.](/pictures/thumb/37632.jpg?v=1534804296)
Erotic Acrobatics of Gods and Mortals
Les Amours des Dieux Payens [L'Arétin d'Augustin Carrache]. … Tome Premier [Second].
A Lampsaque [Paris]: chez tous les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1802. Erotic Acrobatics of Gods and Mortals. The engravings show the erotic play of Graeco-Roman deities and mythological figures, such as Mars and Venus, Jupiter and Juno, satyrs and nymphs, as well as of mortals such as Antony and Cleopatra, Messalina..... Read More
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Dies Ir [AND] Stabat Mater.
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
Price: $200
Epicteti Enchiridium cu Cebetis Thebani tabula accedunt Demophili Similitudines & Democratis Philosophi Aurea Sententiae Graece & Latine.
Amsterdam: Apud J. Wetstenium, 1750. Read More
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![Paraphrases Des. Erasmi Roterodami in epistolas Pauli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas … [bound with] … ad Ephesios, Philippenses, & Colossenses, & in duas ad Thessalonicenses… [bound with] ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, & ad Philemonem unam …. Desiderius Erasmus.](/pictures/thumb/253908.jpg?v=1534806260)
Paraphrases Des. Erasmi Roterodami in epistolas Pauli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas … [bound with] … ad Ephesios, Philippenses, &...
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
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Fabulae, cum commentariis Selectis Albini Scholiastae Veteris, notisque Integris Isaaci Nicolai Neveleti et Casparis Barthii. Quibus Animadversiones suas adjecit Henricus...
Amsterdam: Apud Martinum Schagen, 1731. First Dutch edition of the Cannegieter edition. A noted edition of the fables of this Latin writer. Some 42 fables are generally attributed to him. Read More
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Plato Crito Jowett.
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
Price: $150
Classic Myth and Legend.
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, nd [ca. 1910]. First edition. Read More
Price: $75
Madame de Genlis Teaches Mythology -- with Colored Plates
Arabesques mythologiques, ou Les attributs de toutes les divinités de la fable ... Ouvrage fait pour servir à l'éducation de...
Paris: Charles Barrois, 1810. First edition. Madame de Genlis Teaches Mythology -- with Colored Plates. A remarkable, ingenious, and beautiful book by the famous pedagogue Genlis, who created these beautiful drawings herself as a means of instructing the young in mythology. Each plate represents the attributes of a deity with... Read More
Price: $900
The Grecian History, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great.
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1808. Third American edition. Read More
Price: $150
He palaia diatheke kata tous Hebdomekonta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum. Juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum.
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
Price: $950