Classical Antiquity

# 50465

MELA, Pomponius (c.15 - 45 CE)

De Situ Orbis Libri III.

Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonii Pintiani, Petri Ciacconii, Andreae Schotti, Isaaci Vossii, et Jacobi Gronovii. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : apud Samuelem et Johannem Luchtmans, Academiae Typographos, 1782. Third edition. Three parts in one volume, thick octavo (215 x 140 x 80 mm), in a contemporary academic prize binding of full vellum, …

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# 49243

MARSHALL, Sir John, editor

Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization

Being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927. London : Arthur Probsthain, 1931. Three volumes, quarto, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth with gilt designs to upper boards, in the rare original printed dustjackets (edges chipped and worn, a long tear with detached section …

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# 44918

SMITH, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

London : Taylor and Walton, 1842. Two volumes, octavo, half calf over pebbled cloth (corners scuffed), labels to spines (one perished), pp. xii; 648; 649 – 1121, bookplates to pastedowns, preliminaries foxed, but a good set.

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# 22302

Raymond of Sabunde (c.1385-1436)

Theologia naturalis sive Liber creatura[rum] specialiter de homine [et] de natura eius in qua[n]tum homo.

:[et] de his qu[a] sunt ei necessaria ad cognoscendu[m] seip[su]m [et] Deu[m] [et] om[n]e debitu[m] ad q[uo]d ho[mo] tenet[ur] et obligatur tam Deo q[uam] p[ro]ximo. Impressus Nurembergae : Per Anthoniu[m] koberger [sic] inibi co[n]cluem, 1502. Folio (290 x 210 mm), contemporary sheep over wooden boards (lacking clasps), elaborate blind-tooling to both boards, upper board including …

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# 38592

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, Saint

[CAMBRIDGE BINDING]. Liber epistolarum beati Augustini episcopi Hipponensis ecclesiae

Paris : Badius Ascensius, 1515 (colophon). Folio, ff. [viii], CCLXII, [31] (lacking last blank); title-page within a large historiated woodcut border enclosing the printer’s device, many criblé initials throughout; a few minute pinhead wormholes scattered through the second part, a slightly larger one in quire f (not impairing legibility); in a contemporary Cambridge binding by …

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# 40102

CICERO, M. Tullius (106-43 BCE)

[BINDING] M. Tullii Ciceronis Familiarum Epistolarum Libri XVI.

Cum Hubertini Crescentinatis, Martini Philetici, Iod. Badii Ascensii, Ioan. Baptistae Egnatii, & Pauli Manutii ab ipso proxime recognitis, emendatis, atq; auctis comentariis, & aliorum doctissimorum virorum, quorum nomina subscripsimus, annotationibus sparsim appositis, quibus difficillima quaeque Ciceronis loca explicantur, & mendosa corriguntur … Adiectis praeterea argumentis, & lemmatibus Giberti Longolii … … Venetiis : apud Johannem Mariam Bonellum, …

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# 49313

SALTER, Sally

A catalogue of Cypriot antiquities at the University of Melbourne and in the Ian Potter Museum of Art

Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2008. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 271, extensively illustrated. A fine copy, near-new. The University of Melbourne’s collection of Cypriot antiquities was established and developed between the 1930s and 1960s. Largely ceramic, and extending from the Bronze Age to the Roman, Sally Salter’s comprehensive research into the collection – many …

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# 45859

BLACKIE, John Stuart (1809-1895)

John Stuart Blackie, classical scholar : autograph envelope with inscription in New Testament Greek. Edinburgh, June 1882.

Mailing envelope, 95 x 120 mm, front addressed in ink in the hand of John Stuart Blackie to ‘J. Christie Esq., 14 Florence Place, Stanley Street, Glasgow’, with accompanying inscription in Greek at lower left ἀληθεύω εν ἀγάπη (=”I speak the truth in love”) – an allusion to Ephesians 4:15 – and endorsed twice in pencil in …

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# 44770

LANMAN, Charles Rockwell (1850-1941)

A Sanskrit reader : text and vocabulary and notes. (Lanman’s copy)

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1920. Seventh issue. Large octavo (260 x 180 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards; front free-endpaper with the dated ownership wet stamp of ‘Charles R. Lanman, 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts OCT 3 1921’ and fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘C. R. Lanman’s copy / for use in …

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# 44344

GELLIUS, Aulus [GRONOVIUS, Jacob, editor]

Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae ex editione Jacobi Gronovii. Cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus notis variorum recent edition et modicum.

London : A. J. Valpy, 1824. Four volumes in three, octavo (215 x 140 mm), in a handsome contemporary University of Glasgow prize binding by Carrs – the most prestigious Glasgow bookbinder of the period – of full vellum with gilt ornament and arms; the set was awarded as a First Class prize in Latin …

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# 38942

LONEY, Alan

Soma : guarding the body poems from the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers with typographic images (Alan Loney’s copy)

Melbourne : Electio Editions, 2008. Octavo, publisher’s brown papered boards in burnt orange cloth-covered slipcase (slight wear to corner), 48 pp., with numerous illustrations; internally pristine, a fine copy. Signed and numbered by the poet. Limited to 30 copies, of which 26 (lettered A – Z) are for sale, this is one of four numbered copies, number …

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# 37254

OLDHAM, John (1653-1683)

The works of John Oldham, together with his remains.

London : printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, bookseller to his Royal Highness, at the Black Bull in Cornhil, 1684 [and 1685]. First collected edition. Four parts in one volume, octavo (190 mm), contemporary full calf (boards scuffed), spine with raised bands, gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; pp. [8], 148 (Satyrs upon …

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# 37109

SAURIN, Jacques (1677-1730)

Discours historiques, critiques, théologiques et moraux sur les evenemens les plus mémorables du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament.

Amsterdam : Sauzet ; La Haye : Pierre de Hondt, 1720-1739. Ten volumes (complete), octavo (200 x 130 mm), uniform contemporary bindings of vellum over boards, spines with titles and volume numbers in early manuscript; VI-[1]-LXX-592 pp., 4 pl. + [5]-554-[86] pp., 15 pl. + [12]-XIV-[6]-494 pp., 1 pl. + [4]-563 pp., 5 pl. + …

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# 37134

HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

Oneiroi

Melbourne : Scanlan Theodore, 2016. Quarto, lettered cloth, pp. 32, foreword by John Tatoulis, essay by Peter Craven, photographic plates by Bill Henson. Printed in a limited edition of 300 copies. ‘ONEIROI sets out to inspire discussion about what it means to be custodians of an ancient past and captures the way in which our …

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# 19466

PANZIROLI, Guidi (1523 - 1599)

De claris legum interpretibus libri quatuor

Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1721. Quarto, full calf (rubbed), spine with raised bands, gilt-lettered contrasting title label, previous owner’s bookplate and inscriptions to endpapers, edges stained red, portrait frontispiece, pp. [xxxii]; 660; (20); ornamental headpiece, tailpiece and initials, top of leaves a2 and a3 remargined, overall very good. Panciroli’s guide to legal practice based on biographical …

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# 34636

LETI Bruno (1941 - ); PESSOA, Fernando (1888 - 1935)

Dream walls

Melbourne : the artist, 2018. Octavo, printed gatefold wrappers, pp. 114, photographs and images by Bruno Leti. Printed in a small run of unnumbered copies. Signed by the artist. Images of Roman walls at Herculaneum and Pompeii taken by the artist with his painted responses.

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