First edition

Jean Jacques BARTHELEMY

Entretiens sur l'état de la musique grecque, vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle, avant l'ere ...

Chez les frères de Bure, à Amsterdam & Paris 1777, In 8 (13x20cm), 110pp., relié.

First Edition. Full marbled calf contemporary. spine smooth adorned with jewels in boxes. Part of title in red morocco. Good copy. Jean Jacques Barthelemy (1716-1795) was originally a church before being an archaeologist, writer and numismatist. Before publishing the famous Anacharsis trip, he [...]

280 €

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Comte de CHAMPAGNY

Les antonins

Ambroise Bray, Paris 1867, 14x23cm, 3 volumes brochés.

Second edition. A slight lack angular head of the first flat of the first volume, a small marginal tear on the front cover of the second flat, otherwise nice copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any [...]

100 €

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First edition

Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (dit) PLINE LE JEUNE

Panegyrique de Trajan

Chez Antoine de Sommaville, à Paris 1638, in-4 (16,5x22,5cm), (28) 359pp., relié.

First edition of this translation of Pintail Ménardière. a thumbnail title to the effigy of the emperor (repeated after the preface). Velin full time. Smooth back with respect to red feather dimmed. Seam. This panegyric, we announced the first page of text, was given by Pliny the second before [...]

500 €

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First edition

Henrico HOOGEVEEN

Doctrinae Particularum Linguae Graecae

Ex typographeo Dammeano, Leyde 1769, Un Vol. très fort in-4 (23x28cm), (66) 1338pp. (94), relié.

First Edition. Rare. Engraved title page with vignette of printer (a hive and bees). Beautiful well printed on fine laid paper edition. The copy was justified by the original signature of the author. The copy carries a front page above the half-title price, we find the same currency as the binder, [...]

900 €

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Petrus ELMSLEY & SOPHOCLE

Scholia antiqua in sophoclis Oedipum tyrannum

C. H. F. Hartmann, Lipsiae (Leipsig) 1826, in-8 (13x21cm), relié.

Noted third edition. Cardboard brown speckled time. Red part of title. Friction. Greek text and Latin notes. Study and work on Scoliae or philological comments Sophocles' play Oedipus the King. The scholia ancient texts have always been a valuable source of information, they were most often written [...]

100 €

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François Antoine POMEY & Andrew TOOKE

The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the gods, and most illustrious heroes, in a ...

Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington…, London 1787, In 12 (11x17,5cm), relié.

Certainly erroneous entry of 28th edition, the 1824 edition is itself rated 25th. Illustrated with 28 full-page plates in the style of the late eighteenth unsigned. The first edition and contained only the following seven figures. The first edition of this book seems to date from 1694 Full Calf [...]

450 €

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First edition

Gabriel PEIGNOT

Documens authentiques et détails curieux sur les dépenses de Louis XIV. - Recherches sur le luxe ...

J. Renouard & V. Lagier pour le premier volume, & V. Lagier pour le second, Paris & Dijon 1827-1837, 13,5x22cm, 2 volumes reliés en 1.

first editions, printed in 300 copies in the first book, eg 150 for the second. Bound in half burgundy sheepskin, smooth spine tooled past golden nets and cold past joints, flat cardboard burgundy, marbled edges, contemporary binding. Some spots. Rare meeting of these two texts related to the [...]

400 €

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Renatus Flavius Vegetius (dit) VEGECE

De re militari libri quatuor. Post omnes omnium editiones, ope veterum librorum correcti, a ...

Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1592, in-8 (12x17cm), [16], 320,

Second edition Plantinian with comments Steewech after that of 1585 A title vignette of the printer on both title pages. Beautiful estimated edition. Illustrated edition of 51 woodcuts in text and out (military machines, military maneuvers ...) and a folding plate representing the organization of a [...]

1 800 €

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