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De bellis civilibus Romanorum cum libro per quam eleganti qui Illyrius,
by Appianus Alexandrinus; Pietro Candido Decembrio; Lucio Paolo Rosello.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1526
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$5,500.00
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Venice: Bernardinus de Vitalibus, 1526. Very Good. Octavo (161 x 115 mm); 372 leaves. Title within elegant woodcut vine scroll border with figures. Sixteenth-century Italian brown leather over pasteboard, panel binding tooled in blind on both boards and on spine with rules and a small X-shaped tool used in repeating pattern to form the shape of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ilios.
by Schliemann, Henry.
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- Used - Fine
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- First American edition
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- 1881
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$350.00
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First American edition. Fine. 26 cm; xvi, 800 pages frontispiece, folding map, 6 folding plans and elevations, 16 leaves of plates, and numerous illustrations in text. Alternate binding in half morocco over marbled boards, marbled edges. Never read, perhaps never opened.
With a preface, appendices, and notes by Professor Rudolf… Read more about this item Item Price
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[In Greek]: Anakreontos Teiou Mele. Anacreontis Teii Odaria
by Anacreon; Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi, ed.
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 1785
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$2,000.00
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Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio [i.e., Giambattista Bodoni], 1785. Very Good+. Quarto (32 cm); [4]. xciv, 100, [2] pages. Engraved title vignette, engraved vignette of the arms of Don José Nicolás de Azara (by Domenico Cagnoni). Text in Latin and Greek. Printed in capitals on blue paper. In contemporary dark green-brown speckled calfskin, ruled in gilt and… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,000.00
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[Asinus aureus.] Apuleius cum commento Beroaldi & figuris noviter additis.
by Apuleius, Lucius; Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505).
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- Used - Very good with faults as described.
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- 1516
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$3,000.00
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Venice: [Giovanni Tacuino] Ioannis Taciuni de Tridino, 1516. Very good with faults as described.. Folio. [14 ], 168 leaves. 35 column-wide woodcut vignettes in text, numerous woodcut decorated letters. Signatures: a\8 b\6 A-EE\6. Title in gothic type; main text printed in large roman type, surrounded on three sides by commentary in smaller roman type;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Histoire de la céramique.
by Jacquemart, Albert.
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- Used - Good
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- First edition
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- 1873
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$150.00
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Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1873. First edition. Good. 28 cm; 750 pages and XII engraved plates. 200 woodcut figures in text. In green half crushed morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt; spine in six compartments, with gilt-stamped images of a vase. Original hand-painted wraps bound in. Abrasions to raised bands on spine. Corners and… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Mit Rahineh 1955.
by Anthes, Rudolph.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1959
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$30.00
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Philadelphia: University Museum, Univ of Pennsylvania, 1959. Very Good. 29 cm; v, 93 pages, 45 plates, map in pocket. Original printed wraps, a bit discolored.
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T. Livii Patavini historiae Romanae principis Decades tres cum dimidia,
by Livy.
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- Used
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- 1552
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- Reference: Adams L-1338; French Books 77977; Brunet III 145 ("Edition belle et très correcte...").
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$500.00
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Paris: Oudin Petit, 1552. Reference: Adams L-1338; French Books 77977; Brunet III 145 ("Edition belle et très correcte...").. Folio (34 cm); [18], 388, 18 leaves only. Defective, lacks 188 leaves of commentary. Bound in later speckled calf, gilt stamped on upper board, gilt title. Edges gilt. Joints split but holding on both boards.… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
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Terence Illustrated:
by Richmond, Mary L.; S. Lane Faison, Jr.
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- Original edition
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- 1955
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$12.00
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Williamstown: Chapin Library, Williams College, 1955. Original edition. Good. 25 cm; 43,[1] pages, including illustrations (some in color). Title page in red and black, with color illustration. In deckle-edged printed wraps, a bit toned toward the edges, and not without a closed tear or two. Contents clean, but also slightly toned at edges. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Dante col sito et forma dell'Inferno.
by Dante Alighieri.
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- Used - Very Good
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- n.d. (likely between 1527 and 15
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$6,500.00
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n.p. [Toscolano-Maderno]: Paganino e Alessandro Paganini, n.d. (likely between 1527 and 1533). Very Good. Octavo (16 cm); [248] unnumbered leaves, signed a-z, A-H\8. Italic type. Printer's cypher on verso of final leaf, reading "P. Alex Pag. Benacenses F. Bena. V. V.," generally interpreted to mean "Paganino and Alexander Paganini of Lake Garda made this. Viva… Read more about this item Item Price
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A. Persii Satyrarum liber I.D. Iunii Iuvenalis Satyrarum lib. V. Sulpiciae Satyra I.
by Persius & Juvenal; Pierre Pithou, ed.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1585
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$750.00
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Paris: Mamert Pattison, at the press of Robert Estienne, 1585. Very Good. Octavo (17 cm); [10], 302, [10] pages. Estienne device on title page. Foliated woodcut initial and ornamental headpiece at beginning. In c17 polished calf, double-ruled in gilt on boards; five raised bands on spine, with gilt floral tools in the compartments. All… Read more about this item Item Price
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History of Ancient Pottery.
by Birch, Samuel.
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- Used - Good
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- First edition
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- 1858
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$200.00
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London: John Murray, 1858. First edition. Good. 2 volumes octavo (24 cm); xii, [2], 415; xii, [2], 437, [2] ads; color lithograph frontispieces, wood engraved figures on title pages, and frequently in text, and 10 lithograph plates (9 colored). In original gilt-stamped maroon cloth by Edmonds and Remnant, a bit mottled. Old cello-tape removal marks… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
Oeuvres de P. et Th. Corneille:
by Corneille, Pierre; and Thomas Corneille.
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Nouvelle ed.
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- [1857]
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$30.00
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Paris: Garnier Frères, [1857]. Nouvelle ed.. Acceptable. 28 cm; 527 pages and 12 engraved plates. Red morocco spine over red pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. Spine worn at joints and splitting slightly at crown. Cloth dusty and discolored in places. Text heavily foxed, but plates are not!
Better than Shakespeare, say the French.… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
TREASURES OF THE PHARAOHS: THE EARLY PERIOD, THE NEW KINGDOM THE LATE PERIOD.
by Yoyotte, Jean.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1968
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$18.00
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Geneva: Skira, 1968. Very Good. Hardcover lacking dust jacket. Large book, 13 by 10 inches, 257 pages, handsome tipped in color plates. Covers have only very slight wear, hinges tight, contents clean. Extra shipping charges will apply.
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La Teseide.
by Bandettini Landucci, Teresa.
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1805
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$1,800.00
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Parma: Luigi Mussi, 1805. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (31 cm); 2 volumes. [8], x, 272; 322 pages, and full-page engraved frontispiece of the author (after Angelica Kauffmann, mispelled "Kaufmnan"). Bound in publisher's pasteboard decorated in tortoise shell patterns ("carta tartarugata"), with printed paper labels on spines. Pages bright, fresh, and untrimmed. Binding somewhat abraded along joints, with… Read more about this item Item Price
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La prima [seconda] parte delle vite di Plutarco:
by Plutarch.
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- Used
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- 1529
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$2,100.00
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Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, 1529. Octavo (17 cm); 2 volumes: 528; 549 [1] leaves. Woodcut architectural title pages (volume II printed in red and black); woodcut printer's devices, and 44 woodcut vignettes. Later, possibly recent or recently restored vellum over boards in Spanish style, titled in manuscript on spines in Spanish, "Obras de Plutarco." … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Golden Ass. Translated by William Adlington, MDLXVI.
by Apuleius, Lucius.
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- Used - Very Good
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- #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.
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- 1904
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$250.00
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New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vases from the collection of Sir Henry Englefield, bart.
by Moses, Henry; Sir Henry Englefield; Raphael Sanzio.
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- Used
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- First edition
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- [1820]
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$350.00
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London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, [1820]. First edition. Octavo (27cm); 60, [4] pages, engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, and 39 engraved plates (plate #39 hand-colored) with tissue guards. Title and vignette with ornamental border. Plates dated 1819-20. Text in English and French. Followed by "Cartons done from the originals in His Majesty's collection," engraved… Read more about this item Item Price
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Satire e poesie minori di Vittorio Alfieri.
by Alfieri, Vittorio (1749-1803) ; Giosuè Carducci (1835-1904).
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- Used - Good
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- Collezione Diamante
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- 1858
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$75.00
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Florence: Barbèra, Bianchi e Comp, 1858. Collezione Diamante. Good. 48mo (112 mm), xvi, 537 pages; engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Bound in contemporary green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A few gilt letters are tarnished. Endleaves discolored. Intermittent light scattered foxing. Reference: Annali bibliografici, 40; Parenti, Rarità bibliografiche, I, 45,… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Cranial deformation in the reign of Akhnaton.
by Snorrason, Egill.
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- Used - Fine
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- 1946
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$75.00
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1946. Fine. Offprint from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine 20 (1946), pages 601-610, specially bound in decorated paper-covered (wooden?) boards with crushed morocco backstrip with author's name lettered in gilt on upper flap of the backstrip. Abstracted profile portrait of a man wearing Egyptian headgear on upper board.
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$75.00
A collection of antique vases, altars, paterae, tripods, candelabra, sarcophagi, &c. from various museums and collections.... With historical essays.
by Moses, Henry; Henry Hervey Baber.
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- Used - Good
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- [1814]
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$400.00
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London: H.G. Bohn, [1814]. Good. 23 cm; xi, 61, [1] pages, and 151 engraved plates (numbered 150), twelve of them hand colored. Eighteen additional engraved vignettes in text. Engraved title page. Bound in contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, with leather title label. Joints reinforced. Engraved title page somewhat foxed and toned. … Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00