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Cicero, Opera. Basel, Herwagen, 1534

Cicero Marcus Tullius., Opera quae aedita sunt hactenus omnia, in tomos distincta quatuor, ad diversorum & vetustissimorum codicum collationem ingeni cura recognita quorum Tomus Primus Rhetorica, Oratoria et Forensia (- Secundus Tomus Orationes - Tertius Tomus Opera Epistolica - Quartus Tomus Opera Philosophica) continet. Ad haec, Rerum & verborum Index omnium locuplentissimus & castigatissimus, cum Annotationibus variarum lectionum.

Basel, Herwagen, 1534. Folio (37 x 25 cm) Four parts in two volumes. 4p, 318pp, 1p; 4p, 595pp; 6p, 418pp, 1p; 10p, 402pp, 60p. With numerous woodcut initials and 8 printer's marks. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin , original clasps over wooden boards. A few wormholes in the first part of the first vol. and the last part of the second vol.

Item number: 21483

Price: €9500 ($12160 / £7980)

Homer - Homerus. Les dix premiers livres de l'Illiade d'Homere ... Paris, 1545.

***   One of the most beautiful books of the French Renaissance  ***

 

HOMER - HOMERUS.  Les dix premiers livres de l'Illiade d'Homere, prince des poètes : traduit en vers françois par M. Hugues Salel. Paris: J. Loys for V. Sertenas, 1545. Folio (280 x 180 mm). Eighteenth century calf binding, gilt three-line borders, spine richly gilt with seven raised bands.

Title page restored: upper part (3 cm) with first line of title reinstated.

Item number: 21626

Mela Pomponius, De Orbis Situs libri tres, ... Paris, 1540. [Bound with:] Cicecro, M. T. Tuscularum quaestiones libri quique. Paris, 1533

With the double cordiform woodcut world map by Oronce Finé


MELA POMPONIUS  (1st cent. A.D.) , De Orbis Situs libri tres, accuratissime emendati, una cum commentariis Joachimi Vadiani Helvetii Castigatioribus . . . Edited by Joachim von Watt, woodcut device on title, with the woodcut world map by Oronce Finé dated 1540 (Shirley 66, state 4) in a fine impression. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1540.

 

Bound with: CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Tuscularum quaestiones libri quique. With commentaries by P. Beroaldus and G. Vala, woodcut initials. Paris, apud Michaelem Vascosanum, 1533.

Item number: 21423

Strabo, Rerum Geographicum Libri Septemdecim. Basel, 1571.

Nice copy of Strabo's Geographica, an encyclopedia of the geographical knowledge of Strabo's time.

STRABO (63 BC - c. AD 24) Rerum Geographicum Libri Septemdecim. Basel: Ex officina Henricpetrina, 1571. Folio, contemporary brown sheep, rubbed. With 27 double-page woodcut maps by S. Münster, including 3 repeats and 7 smaller woodcut maps in the text. Nice copy.

Item number: 21593

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