Lot 4584
  • 4584

Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (39-65).

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Civilis belli libri X. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1528, ff. 156
Blondus, Flavius (1388-1463). De Roma triumphante libri decem. Paris: S. de Colines, January 1533 (1532), 2 volumes in one, ff. [12], 156; [10], 168, white woodcut initials on criblé grounds, small wormhole in upper margin of first few leaves, some light staining at beginning and end



Fenestella, Lucius (d. 1452). De magistratibus, sacerdotiisque romanorum libellus... Pomponii Læti itidem de magistratibus & sacerdotiis, & præterea de diversis legibus romanorum. Paris: S. de Colines, 1530, ff. 62, [2], illustration: title within white-on-black woodcut border on a criblé ground, one portrait at head of border rubbed



Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?-1536). De duplici copia verborum ac rerum... commentarii duo. Paris: S. de Colines, 1539, 391 [i.e. 387], [13]pp., early ownership inscriptions of Henri Gohier on final leaf, title-page cut down and mounted, initials and woodcut device crudely coloured



Martialis, Marcus Valerius (fl. 86-103). Epigrammaton libri XIIII. Summa diligentia castigati. Paris: S. de Colines, 1539, ff. 207



Valerius Maximus, Gaius (first century). Valerius Maximus. Addito indice perbrevi, ceu ad omneis historias asylotutissimo. Paris: S. de Colines, 1543, ff. 235, [9]



Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84?-54 BC). Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. His accesserunt Corn. Galli fragmenta. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphius, 1537, 342, [2]pp.



Marcellinus, Ammianus (fourth century). Rerum gestarum libri XVIII. Paris: R. Estienne, 17 May 1544, 513, [1]pp.



Dion Cassius (155-230), Nicæus. Dion Cassius... Aelius Spartianus. Iulius Capitolinus. Aelius Lampridius. Vulcatius Gallicanus. Paris: Robert Estienne, 13 June 1544, 346, [52]pp.



Trebellius Pollio (third century). Trebellius Pollio. Flavius Vopiscus. Johannis Baptistæ Egnatii Veneti in eosdem annotationes. Paris: Robert Estienne, 10 July 1544, 394, [14]pp.



Erasmus, Desiderius. Apophthegmatum opus cumprimis frugiferum vigilanter ab ipso recognitum authore. Paris: R. Estienne, 1547,  740, [44]pp.



Juvenalis, Decimus Junius (60-140). Iunii Iuvenalis, et Auli Persii Flacci satyrae. Paris: R. Estienne, 1549, 141, [1]pp.



Diogenes Laertius (fl. third century?). Diogenous Laertiou... De vitis, dogmatis & apophthegmatis eorum... Cum latina interpretatione. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1570, 2 volumes, 8, 494; 40, 432pp., Greek and Latin text, pencil markings in volume 2



Estienne, Henri, editor. Epistolia, dialogi breves, oratiunculae, poematia, ex variis utriusque linguæ scriptoribus. [Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1577, 2 parts in one volume, [4], 276, 120pp.



Dicæarchus, Messenius (fourth century BC). Geographica quædam, sive De vita graeciae. Eiusdem descriptio Græciæ, versibus iambicis, ad Theophrastum. Cum lat. interpretatione atque annot. Henr. Steph. [Geneva]: H. Estienne, 1589, editio princeps, [8], 128, [8], 120pp., issue with 9 lines and device on title-page



together 16 volumes, 8vo, illustration: woodcut printers' devices on almost all title-pages, white woodcut initials on criblé grounds in the Colines volumes, bindings: eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments non-uniformly, but all with the name of the printer added to the spines, occasional small wormholes in some volumes, light soiling or staining in a few volumes

Literature

Renouard, Colines, pp. 125, 154, 213, 307, 313 & 386; Gültlingen v 397; Renouard, Estienne, pp. 70, 75, 134, 145 & 153; Schreiber -, 75, 76, 93, -, 178, -, 219

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