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FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.
[Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome historiae...
Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.
The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’ Roman history, containing the editio princeps of Ampelius’ history, in a handsome English Restoration binding with highly unusual edge decoration.
£650
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[LEXICON.] [ALENIUS, Arnoldus, i.e. Arnout van EYNDHOUTS.]
Lexicon Graecolatinum post omnes hactenus editiones maxima iam...
Venice, Alessandro Brucioli and brothers [i.e. Antonio and Francesco Brucioli], 1546.
First edition of the Lexicon edited by the Dutch humanist and poet Arnout van Eyndhouts, or Arnoud de Lens, known as Arnoldus Alenius. Alenius’s formation took place in Paris, then Ferrara and Bologna. His proficiency as a Greek scholar earned him the post of librarian to the Spanish ambassador...
£2000
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PLUTARCH.
Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua [edited by Daniel Wyttenbach].
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800; 1810; 1830.
Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch containing letters between him and the editor, Daniel Wyttenbach. Dr Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855) was appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford in 1812, and later became Dean of Christ Church in 1831. He had an active role at the University Press,...
£2500
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THEOCRITUS et al.
Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia. Eiusdem Epigrammata …
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.
An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne Greek bucolic poets (Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus) and the Estienne Greek Psalms in an Henri Estienne presentation binding.
£9000
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THEOCRITUS, BION, MOSCHUS, SIMMIAS of Rhodes.
Θεοκριτου … Ειδυλλια και Επιγραμματα. Μοσχου...
[Heidelberg], Commelin, 1596.
First edition of the Greek Idylls published by Commelin, and first edition of Joseph Justus Scaliger’s commentary and notes, complemented with Isaac Casaubon’s notes, a form of which had first appeared in Geneva in 1569.
£550
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[BURY, Charlotte, Lady.]
The Exclusives. In three Volumes ...
London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley ... 1830.
First edition of this celebrated society novel written after the enormous success of Marianne Spencer Stanhope’s Almack’s (1826), a roman à clef centred on the fashionable assembly rooms in St James’s.
£950
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[ALDERLEY EDGE.]
Alderley Edge and its Neighbourhood.
Macclesfield, J. Swinnerton, [1843].
First edition of this locally printed collection of legends, people, and sites of interest around Alderley Edge, Cheshire, with an inscription to the library of the (later Royal) Archaeological Institute from the Institute’s principal founder Albert Way.
£175
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BURNE-JONES, Edward.
The Little Holland House Album … with an Introduction & Notes by John Christian.
The Roxburghe Club, 2024
The Little Holland House Album was compiled by Edward Burne-Jones in about 1858-9 for Sophia, Mrs Dalrymple, the youngest of the seven celebrated Pattle sisters who played such an important role in mid-Victorian cultural life. Their centre was Little Holland House in Kensington where another of the...
£75
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[PINNOCK, William].
A catechism of the history of France, containing a clear outline of all the important changes which that country...
London, Printed by Bensley and Sons for Pinnock and Maunder, [c. 1819].
Second edition of this much-reprinted guide to French history for British youth from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the fall of Napoleon, one of Pinnock’s many catechisms on historical and scientific subjects.
£125
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[SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.] Ambrogio Caterino POLITI.
Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le profetie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Venice, Giolito, 1548.
First edition of a condemnation of Savonarola’s theology, doctrine and prophecies by the former Savonarola acolyte Politi (1484–1553), ‘one of the most fiery Catholic polemicists of his times’ (Bongi, trans.), who four years earlier had published a confutation of Luther’s theology.
£1500
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[ALMANACK.]
Les etrennes a la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.
Paris, Janet, [1804?].
A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush of love’, collecting amatory poems using the motif of the rose, here bound in red silk strikingly embroidered in silver and dated with the French Revolutionary year ‘An XII’ (1804).
£2500
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[STEREOGRAPH.]
James ELLIOTT, photographer.
‘The first Love Letter’ [and] ‘Difference of Opinion’. London, 1860s.
Three hand-tinted albumen prints in stereo format featuring elaborate historical costumes, depicting the early stages of courtship and a lovers’ tiff.
£175
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[STEREOGRAPH.]
‘Going Out’ [and] ‘Coming In’.
London, Gebhardt, Rottmann & Co., [late 1850s or 1860s].
An amusing pair of stereos depicting the ‘before’ and ‘after’ a gentleman’s night out.
£70
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PLINY the Younger.
Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt; omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa …
Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1751.
A handsome quarto Pliny from the Foulis press, published in the same year as the three-volume duodecimo.
£600
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PLAUTUS.
M. Plauti Comoediae XX. ex antiquis, recentioribusque exemplaribus, invicem collatis, diligentissime recognitae: quarum...
Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1523.
First Cratander edition. The comedies of Plautus were one of the major literary re-discoveries of the Renaissance. They enjoyed Europe-wide success and established themselves at the core of the literary canon, deeply influencing all successive theatre production, including much sixteenth-century...
£1250
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POSTEL, Guillaume, and Anthonius THYSIUS.
De Republica, seu magistratibus Atheniensium liber … Accessit Antonii Thysii IC. Discursus...
Leiden, Jean Maire, 1645.
An uncommon Leiden edition of Postel’s study of the Athenian magistracy, first published 1541 and revised and enlarged in 1551. Jean Ballesdens edited an edition for Maire in 1635; this 1645 edition added an essay on the same topic by the librarian and historian Anthony Thysius the Younger (1603–1665),...
£200
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THEOCRITUS et al.
Θεοκριτου, Μοσκου, Βιονις, Σιμμιου, τα ευρισκομενα. Theocriti, Moschi,...
[Heidelberg,] Commelin, 1604.
Second Heinsius edition of the works of Theocritus, paired as often with the poems of Moschus, Bion, and Simmias of Rhodes. It is ‘preferable’ to the first edition of 1603, which Heinsius tried to suppress, and is ‘in fact, a very excellent edition’, with ‘learned, sagacious, and ingenious’...
£850
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TERENCE.
P. Terentii Afri comoediae.
London, [Charles Whittingham], 1854.
First edition thus, edited by the new headmaster of Eton, Charles Old Goodford (1812–1884), and printed for presentation as a gift to leaving sixth-formers; the printed presentation leaf is here duly completed in manuscript, making it out to Francis William Garden-Campbell (1840–1895), who went on...
£150
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SENECA the Younger, and SENECA the Rhetorician.
L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera omnia; ex ult. I. Lipsii emendatio: et M. Annaei...
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, [1639–]1640.
[With:]
GRONOVIUS, Joannes Fredericus. Ad L. & M. Annaeos Senecas notae....First Elzevir edition of the moral works and letters of the philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca, and the surviving Suasoriae and Controversiae of his father, known as Seneca the Rhetorician, along with the Amsterdam reprint of the extensive scholia of Johann Friedrich...
£500
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TIBULLUS.
Albius Tibullus, eques Romanus; et in eum Jo. Antonii Vulpii philologi ac rhetoris in gymnasio Patavino novus commentarius...
Padua, Giuseppe Comino, 1749.
An important edition of Tibullus’ love poems, with the commentary of Giovanni Antonio Volpi, who had founded the Libreria Cominiana along with his brother and the engraver Giuseppe Comino in 1717. Volpi had published a well-received edition of the standard tripos of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius...
£250