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

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910-1911. Read More about Romance of Imperial Rome; Romance Of Roman Villas; Romance of Italian Villas; Romance of the...

Oxford: D.A. Talboys: and 118, Flleet Street, 1840. Translated from the last edition. Read More about Roman Antiquities

[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 …

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

[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...