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,...

Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, Sumptibus Academiae, 1763. Oner of 500 done in 4to, with half-title. Printed in the only typeface Baskerville designed apart from his Roman type, and cut entirely by him over a period of two years. Commissioned by Oxford University Press, which accepted Baskerville’s proposal for casting a...... Read More about He Kaine Diatheke. [In Greek] Novum Testamentum, juxta exemplar Millianum. Typis Joannis...

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 about Biblia Sacrosancta ad Hebraicam veritatem, & probatissimorum ac manuscriptorum exemplarium...

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

Coloniae: Petrus Quentel excudebat, 1527. First Protestant Bible printed in Latin. Cologne, 1527 : Quentel’s Protestant Bible in Latin. The first Protestant Bible in Latin, edited by Johan Rüdel (Rudelius), printed in Cologne by Peter Quentel (or Quentell), and notable for the wood engraved illustrations by Anton Woensam (Anton von..... Read More about Biblia Sacra utriusque Testamenti, iuxta Hebraicam et Graecam ueritatem, uetustissimorumq[ue] ac...

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: Bell & Dalady & York Street, 1866. Read More about The Orations of Demosthenes on the Crown, and on the Embassy

London: John Murray, 1861. First edition. The most celebrated work by Paul Du Chaillu (1835-1903), the explorer whose travels in Central Africa documented the existence of the "Monstrous and ferocious ape, the gorilla." This first expedition into Central Africa, supported by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, commenced in 1856..... Read More about Exploration and Adventures in Equatorial Africa. With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the...

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 …...

Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1646. Anti-Catholicism in Scotland in the Early Modern Period. The Latin version of Patrick Forbes's (1564-1635) major work, An Exquisite Commentarie upon the Revelation of Saint John, translated by his son John Forbes of Corse (1593-1648). The work is deeply anti-Catholic and Puritan, insisting that the ritual in..... Read More about Commentarius in Apocalypsin, cum appendice, in qua sunt, Tractatus apologeticus, de legitima...

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1808. Third American edition. Read More about The Grecian History, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great