Typographia Societatis

Rare first edition, illustrated with a folding map bound at the end of the volume (cf. Backer & Sommervogel VIII, 827).

Only one copy recorded in the CCF (BnF).

Contemporary full black shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands adorned with blind-ruled fillets, minor rubbing to spine, covers framed with double and single blind fillets with corner volutes, some rubbing to covers, bumped corners, sprinkled edges.

Father Benito Viñes [Poboleda (Tarragona) 1837 – Havana 1893] arrived in Havana in 1870, where he was appointed director of the magnetic and meteorological observatory, a position he held until his death. His studies on Caribbean hurricanes remain authoritative works in the field.

New Deux-Ponts edition of the works of Statius.
Bound in slightly later Bradel-style boards, navy blue. Smooth spine with fillets. Red morocco title label. Rubbing to head and tail, edges and corners. Cut to foot of p. 25. Handsome copy.
Life of Statius by Giraldi. Index by Fabricius Ernestinus. Publius Papinius Statius was a Latin poet born in Naples in the 1st century AD; the 3 works that remain to us are the Silvae, the Thebaid and the Achilleid, which are 2 epic poems. His popularity led to his appearance in Dante's Divine Comedy.