![Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta. [Novum Testamentum ex bibliotheca regia]. Robert BIBLE. Estienne](/pictures/medium/4030.jpg?v=1611008658)
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1549.
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18th c. red morocco, spine and boards ruled in gold, inner boards also red morocco (reliure double) tooled in gold, title in Greek tooled on gold on the spines, paste-paper endpapers. Text ruled in red. Fine copies, minor wear to bindings. Provenance: Malezieu -possibly the Greek scholar Nicolas de Malezieu...
Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ typographi. Impensis Richardi Green bibliopolæ Cantab. 1694.
Price: $2,500.00
Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments; there is an attractive red morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the spine. Aside from light wear and bumping to the corners, the binding is very well preserved. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition...
![ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια....](/pictures/medium/3392.jpg?v=1611007971)
Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524.
Price: $24,500.00
Two octavo volumes bound in 19th c. blue calf, gilt. With the Aldine anchor and dolphin device (A6) on the title page and the verso of the final leaf in each volume. Fine copies. A few marginal wormholes.This edition reprints Aldus’ letter to Girolamo Aleandro from the first Aldine edition.
![Title in Greek and Latin:] Pindar: Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Callimachus: Hymni; Dionysius...](/pictures/medium/4113.jpg?v=1611008770)
Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani, January, 1513.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff vellum, possibly a deftly executed early 19th c. remboîtage. Attractive spine labels, gilt. Aldine device on title. A very fine copy, the text crisp and bright, with two bifolia uncut, and a few minor faults: title and second leaf lightly soiled and with small repairs...
![ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...](/pictures/medium/1672.jpg?v=1611007505)
Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.
Price: $3,500.00
This copy is bound in full 19th-century red morocco, the boards gold-ruled with large, central compartments. The spine is a bit faded and the joints and extremities are worn but the binding is otherwise nicely preserved. The contents are in very good condition with occasional light dampstaining and occasional mild...
![ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...](/pictures/medium/2231.jpg?v=1611007519)
Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.
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FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION. Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind and with a small arabesque at the center of each board and fleurs-de-lis at the angles of the central compartments. There is wear to the boards and minor restoration to the upper hinge, as well as a small leather...
![ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...](/pictures/medium/2373.jpg?v=1611007525)
Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.
Price: $14,000.00
Bound in contemporary German tanned calfskin over beveled wooden boards, signed “I.M.” and dated “1577, with brass catch-plates (lacking clasps) and corner guards. The binding is elaborately tooled in compartments with numerous fine and unusual tools. The outermost compartment has two rows of interlocking sheaves of wheat. The double central...
![Title in Greek and Latin] Θεοκριτου Εἰδυλλια, τουτεστι μικρα...](/pictures/medium/4237.jpg?v=1615997818)
Florence: Benedetto Giunta, 1540.
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First two works (Theocritus’ poems and the Scholia) printed in Greek throughout. Third work (Theocritus’s poems, translated) in Latin throughout. Each book with printer’s woodcut devices on title and final printed leaf. In the first volume, two of the shape poems, the “Axe” and “Wings” are set within woodcut frames...
![Title in Greek and Latin:] Ταδε ἐνεστι ἐν τῃδε τῃ βιβλῳ....](/pictures/medium/4238.jpg?v=1616022843)
Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495 i.e., 1496.
Price: $38,000.00
A fine, large, unwashed copy with broad margins. Provenance: William Beckford (Catalogue (1883) 2530) and Prime Minister Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929). Bound in early nineteenth-century green morocco, spine and boards tooled in gold. Adorned with eight intricate woodcut headpieces (2 by the Poliphilo Master), with twenty-nine...
Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Central, wreath-like cartouches, also gilt, are stamped at the centers of both boards. The text is in very good condition, with good margins. There is, however, a bit of worming affecting the text in the first...
Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine, tall copy in contemporary blind-ruled vellum, edges of the text block sprinkled red and blue. The text is in very nice condition, lightly toned, with minor blemishes (A FEW small ink stains, sm. burn hole in margin of one leaf, ss2 small rust spot, g3-5 v. light dampstain...
London: Charles Harper, 1676.
Price: $9,500.00
Illustrated with the famous engraved title page showing Archidamos, Perikles and the author with vignette views of Sparta, Athens and a small map of Greece; and five engraved maps and views by Thomas Cecill entitled: "The Mappe of Ancient Greece", "Plataea", "Sphoicteria", "Antient Sicele According to the Description of Philip...
