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Discours de la Religion des anciens Romains, de la castramentation & discipline militaire d'iceux. Des bains & Antiques exercitations Grecques & Romaines. Guillaume Du Choul.

Roman Religion and Military Discipline

Discours de la Religion des anciens Romains, de la castramentation & discipline militaire d'iceux. Des bains & Antiques exercitations Grecques...

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

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Romanæ historiæ compendium …. Giulio Pomponio Leto.

Romanæ historiæ compendium ….

[Paris]: Jean Dupré, [7 May 1501]. 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 as their "pontifex... Read More

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Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor drawings in the style of Pompeiian frescoes. Pompeii.

Exquisite Images of Pompeian Frescoes

Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor drawings in the style of Pompeiian frescoes.

[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

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Miscellanies …. Jonathan Swift.

From the Library of Edward Gibbon: a Set of Swift

Miscellanies ….

London: Printed for Charles Bathurst …, 1751. Second 1751 edition. From the Library of Edward Gibbon: a Set of Swift. Although lacking the 13th volume, with the notable title of TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, it has been thus since at least 1936, when it was catalogued... Read More

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[Opera] Cornelius Tacitus exacta cura recognitus et emendatus: copiosus index rerum, locorum, et personarum, de quibus in his libris agitur; vario lectio, in calce operis impressa. Publius Cornelius Tacitus.

A Fine Aldine Tacitus

[Opera] Cornelius Tacitus exacta cura recognitus et emendatus: copiosus index rerum, locorum, et personarum, de quibus in his libris agitur;...

[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

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Valerii Maximi Moralium Exemplorum Libri novem, summa diligentia castigati, ac fidelissimis eruditissimorum virorum Oliuerii. s. Arziganensis, Iodociq[ue] Badij Ascensii commentariis enarrati, quibus addita sunt quattuor & viginti exempla, nuper Aldi Manutii industria inuenta, eiusdem Ascensii commentariis exornata. Cum duplici indice, altero quidem capitum, altero vero eorum qu toto opere notatu digna visa sunt. Insunt prterea Theophili viri eruditissimi perutiles lucubrationes, qu tibi non mediocri erunt (si huius auctoris virtutes optime nosce volueris) adiumento. Valerius Maximus.

Valerii Maximi Moralium Exemplorum Libri novem, summa diligentia castigati, ac fidelissimis eruditissimorum virorum Oliuerii. s. Arziganensis, Iodociq[ue] Badij Ascensii commentariis...

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

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