Severus, Sulpicius: Opera Omnia. quae extant. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1656. 12mo. 332pp., [4]. Engraved title, decorated initials and ornaments. Title and verso of last leaf dusty, one small marginal tear to title. Contemporary (Welsh?) sprinkled calf, blind ruled with arabesque cornerpieces in blind, raised bands. Joints a bit cracked but firm, covers little rubbed. Ex-libris of William Lhwyd to flyleaf. 'Re-imprint line by line of the edition produced by the Elzevirs of Leiden in 1643', 'very nice' (Willems 1207). Willems 1207. Ref: 53176show full image..
Sigerist, Henry E.: A History of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955, 1961. 2 vols. First edition of second. 8vo. pp. [xxi], [1], 564; [xvi], 352, with illustrations, vol. 2 with illustrated frontispiece. Green cloth, boards of vol. 2 a bit sunned and spotted. Else very good copies. Second printing of vol. 1. Ref: 53426
Silius Italicus: (Lemaire, Nicolaus Eligius, ed.:) Punicorum libri septemdecim. Parisiis [Paris]: Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius Lemaire. 1823. 2 vols., 8vo., pp.xiii, [i], 688; viii, 678. Complete in 2 vols., text and apparatus in Latin. Occasional spots of foxing, very good. Contemporary half vellum, gilt spines with red title and volume labels, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Binding not quite identical to Propertius [54771] but very much in the same spirit. Spines slightly greyed, chips to label edges and a bit of loss to vol. I label, very good. Volumes in the "Bibliotheca Classica Latina sive Collectio Auctorum Classicorum Latinorum cum Notis et Indicibus". 'In directing our notice to the voluminous but judiciously selected compilation of Lemaire, we cannot forbear bestowing upon it a hearty tribute of eulogy.... We may safely pronounce it a performance in every respect creditable to both the spirit, learning, and perseverance of the individuals in immediate connexion with it, and also to the genius and reputation of the nation at large. The editions of the different Roman authors selected, are those of the most approved classical scholars in France, Germany, and Holland. The type is in the very best mould of the widely celebrated Didot Press' (North American Review, July 1834). The project was almost entirely finished at the time of that review, with just the Lucretius (published 1838) still to come. Ref: 54770show full image..
Singer, Charles & Sigerist, Henry E. (eds.): Essays on the History of Medicine presented to Karl Sudhoff on the occasion of his seventieth birthday November 26th 1923. Z?rich: Verlag Seldwyla, 1924. First edition. 8vo., pp. 418 + plates. Trivial ink stain to bottom margin at edge only of 4pp. and edges a little dust-marked, otherwise internally unblemished. Hardback: buff cloth, gilt-lettered to spine and upper board. Cloth covering spine detached in one piece but present (loosely inserted), split along gutter between title-page and Contents but binding holding well, corners and top edge a little bumped, cloth discoloured. No dust-jacket. Currently a useful reading copy; rare and eminently reparable. Bookplate of the Bibliotheca Cariana to front pastedown. "3d" in ink to top corner of ffep. Eighteen essays in English, German or Italian covering a range of medical topics from Antiquity to Modern Times. Ref: 53953
Solerius Cemeliensis, Anselmus, pseud. [Raynaud, Th?ophile]; (Frisius, Andreas Wilhelmus, ed.): Bosso, Girolamo: De pileo c?terisque capitis tegminibus tam sacris, qu?m profanis. Editio novissima aucta, emendata & figuris ?neis exornata; [bound with] De toga romana commentarivs, Accedit ex Philippo Rvbenio iconismus statuae togatae, et praeter indicem geminum, quem adjecimus, De modo gestandi togam ex Ferrario dissertatio. Amstelodami [Amseterdam]: sumptibus Andre? Frisii, 1671; 1671. 2 works bound as 1, often found together. 12mo., pp. [xii], 379, [xli] + 4 plates, including 3 folding; 84, [xii] + 1 folding plate. De Pileo with engraved title-page and second title-page with vignette (both part of first gathering), many engraved illustrations several of which occupy a full page, with final blank leaf. Very slightly toned but clean, short repaired tear to De Toga Romana's folding plate at gutter. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, edges sprinkled red. A few marks and smudges, corners very mildly rubbed, a very good copy indeed. Solerius' De Pileo is a curious work on hats and headgear, pseudonymously published by the French Jesuit theologian Th?ophile Raynaud (1583-1663). Amongst the numerous illustrations, the engraved title-page is signed by Romeyn de Hooghe; one folded plate is signed by Cornelis Galle. This 'new edition' of 1671 followed its original publication in Leiden in 1655. Here, it is found paired with the second edition of Girolamo Bosso's work on Roman secular and clerical togas, which made its first appearance in Pavia in 1614. Lipperheide 1650; Barbier III 700 & Lipperheide 220; Colas 399 Ref: 52285show full image..
Southern, Pat: Domitian. Tragic Tyrant. London: Routledge, 1997. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 164 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, light foxing and dust to top edge of boards and text block. Dust-jacket, light shelf wear. Still a very good copy. Ref: 53205
Speidel, Michael. P Riding For Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guard. Harvard University Press, 1994. First edition. 8vo., 223 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting only: very good. Ref: 54225
Spence, Joseph: Polymetis: or an Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Ancient Artists. Being an Attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley 1747. Folio, pp.xii, 361, [i] + portrait frontispiece + 41 plates (of which 2 double page and two double page and folding). Further engraved illustrations in the text. Toning transferred from the frontispiece image to the title-page, foxing and some blotchy toning, a few short closed tears to lower margins. Contemporary mottled brown calf, raised bands, spine lightly gilt, red morocco title label, edges sprinkled red. Both endcaps plus tail endband lost, upper joint cracked at each end but holding firm, corners frayed, repaired scrape to upper board, endpapers toned, rubbed but very good overall. To front pastedown, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, and small shelfmark label. First edition of Spence's (1699?1768) interesting book on the connections between ancient artists and poets. The "long gestated Polymetis was published as a lavishly illustrated folio in February 1747 and earned him at least ?1450 by subscription and sale of copyright. Conceived during Spence's first visit to Italy and with much of its material collected there, Polymetis was intended to show how the works of ancient artists and of Roman poets illustrate and explain one another. It was attacked in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laokoon (1766) and, though new editions appeared in 1755 and 1774, and abridged versions for the use of schools were current until the 1820s, it sank fairly quickly from serious notice. However, it proved an invaluable guide to mythological images for Keats." (ODNB). Polymetis is, in common with several of Spence's other works, written in dialogue form as he thought that the first person singular seemed arrogant. ESTC T133753 Ref: 55035show full image..
Statius, Publius Papinius: Sylvarum Libri V; Thebaidos Libri XII; Achilleidos Libri II. [Bound with:] Orthographia et flexus dictrionum Graecarum omnium apud Statius cum accentib. et generib. ex variis utriusque linguae authoribus. Parisiis [Paris]: apud Simonem Colin?um, 1530 8vo., ff. [ii], 263, [i]; [36]. Woodcut printer's device to title-page. Also contains the unpaginated "Orthographia et Flexus Dictionum Graecarum" at rear, with its own title and register. Title-page foxed with small abraded area (not affecting text), some sporadic light foxing but very good. Old semi-limp vellum, very plain, edges slightly overlapped. A couple of small stains, some smudgy marks, very good indeed. To front paste-down, engraved bookplate 'Biblioth?que de Mr Beaupr?, Conseiller ? la Cour de Nancy' of Jean-Nicolas Beaupr? (c.1792-1869), a magistrate and antiquary. To ffep, ownership inscription of Henry M. (Simmons?) in a fairly old hand. Very faintly to title page, ownership inscription with the first name Paulus dated 1649, surname sadly illegible. A reprint of the 1519 Aldine edition, together with the 'Orthographia', an etymological dictionary of the Greek words in Statius. The two were first printed together in 1502 (the first Aldine edition of Statius and the first edition of the 'Orthographia') but are otherwise not found together in any of the early editions. Described by Dibdin as 'an elegant and very accurate edition, worthy of the reputation of Colinseus'. BM STC French (1470-1600), 408; Adams, S1673; Schweiger II, pt.ii, 963; Dibdin II (4th edn.), 226. Ref: 54596
Strabo: (Veronese, Guarino; Tifernate, Gregorio, trans.:) [...] De Situ Orbis [?] De Situ Orbis Libri XVII. Editi quidem in eorum gratiam, qui geographi? studiosi sunt [?] Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Joannem Janssonium Juniorem, 1652. 2 vols., pp.[xii], 809, [i], 41, [I]; 670, [ii], [xxiv] + folding map. Additional engraved title-page to vol.I, title-page with small woodcut to each volume, woodcut initials and headpieces. Vol.II with intermittent light dampstaining. Contemporary vellum, later reddish-orange gilt labels to spines, fore-edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled blue. Both spines a bit marked near the head, vellum a little yellowed, vol.I label neatly repaired, very good. Early Latin translations (first printed in 1469) of Guarino, who translated the first ten books, and Trifernas, who translated the remainder, of Strabo, one of the authors least frequently printed in his own Greek during the Renaissance. Dibdin II, 432-3. Adams S 1905. Ref: 54187show full image..
