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Rare original edition of this work, not listed by Renouard.
Disbound copy, internally well preserved.
New edition. Printer's device on title page. Colophon: Excudebat Robertus STephanus Parisiis, Ann. M. D. XXXIII. octavo cal. sept.
Full brown marbled sheep binding ca 1920, pastiche of a Renaissance binding, signed L. P. Thébaut. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 small fleurons. Central roundel on covers, and thick gilt frame. Tear with loss at foot. Black stain at head and foot. Corners rubbed. Some foxing. Joints slightly cracked. Good copy.
Collection of three texts by Roman writers: The illustrated lives by Pliny the Younger, which are short biographies of famous men (Pompey, Hannibal, Scipio...); Suetonius's book on grammarians and rhetoricians is the last part of...
New edition for Polydore Vergil's book of inventions and first edition for Cicero's sentences. Fine italic impressions. Printer's devices on the title page. The Cicero edition is absent from English catalogues.
De rerum inventoribus was placed on the Index and republished in 1575 in an expurgated form, and the edition we present is therefore not expurgated. The first French translation appears to have been published in 1527 according to a copy at the University of Glasgow, although contradictory information gives 1528 as the date of the first French edition in Latin by Robert Estienne. Brunet gives 1499 for the date of the first edition.
Half...
Sammelband of 7 works printed in Paris by the celebrated Robert Estienne, a central figure in Parisian printing of the sixteenth century.
One of them, Seminarium et plantarium fructiferarum, is the rare second edition of a work by the printer's younger brother, Charles Estienne. Also included is the Pædologia Petri Mosellani Protegensis, which brings together, according to René de Maulde La Clavière, the two most important Latin dialogues for children at the time.
Later binding in full brown sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt false compartments enclosing urns, red morocco lettering-piece, blind-ruled border to boards, gilt roulette to...
(A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne)“This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the Hebrew language.”
