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
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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System.
New York: G.P.Putnam, 1896. With the siganature of Hamilton Twombly, Jr. Madison, N.J. on the front free-endpaper. Read More
Price: $150
![[Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri. Julius Caesar.](/pictures/thumb/62362.jpg?v=1438724575)
With Maps and Superb Woodcuts
[Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri.
Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1644. With Maps and Superb Woodcuts. Read More
Price: $750
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
Price: $1,500
Roman Antiquities.
Oxford: D.A. Talboys: and 118, Flleet Street, 1840. Translated from the last edition. Read More
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Romanæ historiæ compendium ….
[Paris]: Jean Dupré, [7 May 1501]. Roman history from the younger Gordian II to Justin III in the early 7th century, first published in 1499. Read More
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The History of Early Rome. Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt.
Verona: The Limited Editions Club, 1970. No. 321 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Read More
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Historiarum Libri ex recensione Heinsiana [translation by Daniel Heinsius].
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
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The Cosmati. The Roman Marble Workers of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1950]. First Edition. Read More
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Gli ornati delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle stanze dell'antica Pompei ncisi in rame.
in Napoli: dalla Stamperia Regale, 1796; and1808. Read More
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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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Illustrations of the Remains of Roman Art, in Cirencester, the Site of Antient Corinium.
London: George Bell, 1850. First edition. Read More
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Petri Burmanni Vectigalia Populi Romani, et Zeus Kataibates sive Jupiter Fulgerator, in Cyrrhestarum Nummis.
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
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The Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Consorts to the first Twelve Csars of Rome. Containing All the Passages of...
London: Printed for Abel Roper, 1723. First edition. Read More
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Le Catacombe Romane. Opera Postuma.
(Rome): La Liberia dello Stato, Anno XI E.F. First Edition. An important history of the Roman Catacombs. Read More
Price: $175
Historia Navalis Antiqua, Libris Quator.
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
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Respublica Romana. Honori urbis aeternae P. Scriverius restituit.
[Leiden] Lugd. Batavorum: 1629. Read More
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The Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Consorts to the first Twelve Caesars of Rome. Containing all the passages of...
London: printed for Abel Roper; and sold by S. Ballard at the Blue Ball in Little Britain, and T. Butler at the King’s Head in Fleet-Street, 1723. First edition in English. Read More
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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
Price: $4,000
![The Annales …The Description of Germanie [with] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba … The third edition. Publius Cornelius Tacitus.](/pictures/thumb/260437.jpg?v=1438725268)
The Annales …The Description of Germanie [with] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba … The third edition.
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
Price: $1,250
![[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.](/pictures/thumb/211425.jpg?v=1438724587)
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
Price: $9,000
![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.](/pictures/thumb/211700.jpg?v=1438724590)
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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![The Present State of Russia … [vol. I:] Being an account of the Government of that Country, both Civil and Ecclesiastical; of the Czar's Forces by Sea and Land, the Regulation of his Finances … Translated from the High-Dutch [vol. II:] … containing, 1. Laurence Lange’s Journey from Petersbourg to Peking in China. II. John Bernhard Muller’s Description of the Ostiacks, a nation in Siberia … VI. M. Le Brun’s Observations on his Journey through Russia to Persia. Friedrich Christian Weber.](/pictures/thumb/264342.jpg?v=1438725395)
The Present State of Russia … [vol. I:] Being an account of the Government of that Country, both Civil and...
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
Price: $1,250
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