Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement.
a la Haye: Jean van Duren, 1741. Second edition. First published Paris (Didot) 1740. Read More about Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement
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a la Haye: Jean van Duren, 1741. Second edition. First published Paris (Didot) 1740. Read More about Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement
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New York: G.P.Putnam, 1896. With the siganature of Hamilton Twombly, Jr. Madison, N.J. on the front free-endpaper. Read More about Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System
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Venice: Aldus, 1519. Second Aldine edition. Commentaries of Caesar's campaigns in Africa, Spain, and France, reprinted from the 1513 Aldus edition, including the prefaces written by Aldus and the architect Giovanni Giocondo, as well as the same woodcuts (cf. Renouard, p. 88). The volume is an excellent example of the..... Read More about Hoc Volumine Continentur Haec. Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri 8. De bello civili...
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Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1644. With Maps and Superb Woodcuts. Read More about Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri
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Lyon: Guillaume Rouill, 1567. First combined edition (first published separately 1556 and 1555, respectively), and first quarto edition. Roman Religion and Military Discipline. Du Choul's classic works on Roman religion and Roman military practices, featuring the beautiful woodcuts attributed to Pierre Eskric, were intended to be published together, but in..... Read More about Discours de la Religion des anciens Romains, de la castramentation & discipline militaire...
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Oxford: D.A. Talboys: and 118, Flleet Street, 1840. Translated from the last edition. Read More about Roman Antiquities
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[Paris]: Jean Dupré, [7 May 1501]. First Paris edition. Giulio Pomponio Leto, also known as Julius Pompoinius Laetus, was an Italian Renaissance humanist whose original Italian name has been lost. He studied under Lorenzo Valla and founded the Accademia Romana, whose members adopted Greek and Latin names and treated Pomponio..... Read More about Romanæ historiæ compendium …
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Antwerp: Plantin/Moretus, 1596; 1595. First Plantin edition. Attractive copy of the first Plantin edition of Lipsius, finely illustrated, printed by Plantin/Moretus. Read More about De Militia Romana Libri Quinque, Commentarius ad Polybium. E parte primâ Historiacae Facis...
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Ludg Batavorum: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1634. Might this be the infamous Richard Lyddel who was tried in 1730 for criminal conversation with Catherine, Baroness Abergavenny? Read More about Historiarum Libri ex recensione Heinsiana [translation by Daniel Heinsius
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London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1950]. First Edition. Read More about The Cosmati. The Roman Marble Workers of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries
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London: A. Rivington & J. Marshall, et al, 1791. Read More about De Vitis Excellentium Imperatorum. Interpretatione & Notis illustravit Nicolaus Courtin …
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[Italian?]: ca. 1850. Exquisite Images of Pompeian Frescoes. A superb collection of lovely lithographed images which, in many instances are so delicately and minutely colored as to be indistinguishable from watercolor drawings — and indeed, several of them we believe to be entirely original drawings — each in the style..... Read More about Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor drawings in the style of Pompeiian...
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London: George Bell, 1850. First edition. Read More about Illustrations of the Remains of Roman Art, in Cirencester, the Site of Antient Corinium
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Leyden: apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff, 1734. First combined edition. Collects two works by the prolific Dutch scholar and Roman historian, Pieter Burmann. The first deals with a Roman tax called the "vectigal", which was applied to revenue "derived from public land, mines, salt-works. etc., and in general to rents..... Read More about Petri Burmanni Vectigalia Populi Romani, et Zeus Kataibates sive Jupiter Fulgerator, in...
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London: Printed for Abel Roper, 1723. First edition. Read More about The Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Consorts to the first Twelve Csars of Rome. Containing All...
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(Rome): La Liberia dello Stato, Anno XI E.F. First Edition. An important history of the Roman Catacombs. Read More about Le Catacombe Romane. Opera Postuma
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London: For Robert Barker and Heirs of John Bill, 1633. Second edition. This second edition incorporates the material from the 1629 edition and extends it to the creation of the Roman Empire. "In 1683 Samuel Pepys praised Ryves's Historia navalis in fulsome terms, 'there being not anything I know of..... Read More about Historia Navalis Antiqua, Libris Quator
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[Leiden] Lugd. Batavorum: 1629. Read More about Respublica Romana. Honori urbis aeternae P. Scriverius restituit
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London: [By Arnold Hatfield for Iohn Norton, 1604]. First combined edition of translations by Richard Grenewey and Sir Henry Savile (third edition of both books). Read More about The Annales …The Description of Germanie [with] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba … The...
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[Colophon:] Venetiis: in Aedibus Haeredum Aldi Manutii Romani, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, 1534. First Aldine edition. A Fine Aldine Tacitus. A lovely copy of the sole Aldine edition of the works of Tacitus. With its revisions and corrections, this edition marks a substantial improvement on preceding editions such as Froben's..... Read More about Opera] Cornelius Tacitus exacta cura recognitus et emendatus: copiosus index rerum, locorum, et...
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[Colophon:] Venetiis: in Aedibus Haeredum Aldi Manutii Romani, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, 1534. First Aldine edition. The Rare Aldine Tacitus. The sole Aldine edition of the works of Tacitus. With its revisions and corrections, this edition marks a substantial improvement on preceding editions such as Froben's 1533 edition, which was..... Read More about Opera] Cornelius Tacitus exacta cura recognitus et emendatus: copiosus index rerum, locorum, et...
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Venetiis: apud Venturinum Ruffinellum, 1547 [colophon is 1546]. Magnificent copy of this fine Venetian edition of the early Imperial historian Valerius Maximus , who flourished in the reign of Tiberius (and to whom he dedicates his book). The work itself is a curiously arranged compilation of historical anecdotes taken from..... Read More about Valerii Maximi Moralium Exemplorum Libri novem, summa diligentia castigati, ac fidelissimis...
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London: printed for W. Taylor [and others], 1723-1722. First edition. A country house library copy: Lord Western bought Felix Hall inabout 1790. Western in the early nineteenth century made additions there in classical style, to create a modern mansion. Read More about The Present State of Russia … [vol. I:] Being an account of the Government of that Country,...
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