Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1551. First Gryphius edition. Gryphius' Appianus, 1551. Read More

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

Londini [London]: Henricus Midletonus [Henry Middleton] impensis J.H, 1585. Henry Middleton’s third edition of Tremellius and Junius’ version of the Bible. Read More

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

Lugduni: Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphi, 1558. A famous illustrated New Testament, important “chiefly because of its influence on Bernard Salomon's New Testament cuts”. Read More

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

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

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Dulac, Edmund. No. 1211 of 1500 copies, signed by Edmund Dulac. SIGNED. 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

Cambridge, MA: John Bartlett, 1849. First Edition. Van Winkle notes (and illustrates) six variant bindings of the First Edition and states "It is impossible to assign priority to any of them, all being apparently contemporary...it is unlikely that more than 100 were bound at one time." Read More

[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, 1566; 1570. First edition of the Estienne Herodotus, the Greek text and the Latin translation by Valla. The four plates (here printed on three leaves), represent the Tower of Babel; a plan of the city of Babylon; the Bridge of Babylon... Read More