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

Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1644. With Maps and Superb Woodcuts. Read More about Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri

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...

New York: Fred DeFau & Company, [1906]. Read More about The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edited by J.B. Bury, M.A. With...

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...

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1950]. First Edition. Read More about The Cosmati. The Roman Marble Workers of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries

[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...

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...

(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

[Leiden] Lugd. Batavorum: 1629. Read More about Respublica Romana. Honori urbis aeternae P. Scriverius restituit

[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...

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...