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

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...

[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...

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...

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

London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796. Fine copy of Thomson's translation of the Twelve Caesars. Read More about The Lives of the First Twelve Caesars, Translated from the Latin of C. Suetonius Tranquillus:...

[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...

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,...