Classical Antiquity

  • [INCUNABLE] A specimen leaf from William Caxton’s Polychronicon, printed in 1482.

    # 45853

    [CAXTON, William, ca. 1422 - ca. 1491]; HIGDEN, Ranulf (ca. 1280-1364)

    [INCUNABLE] A specimen leaf from William Caxton’s Polychronicon, printed in 1482.

    Westminster : William Caxton, between 2 July and 8 October 1482. Single leaf from Liber Quintus, f. ccl, blackletter, 40 lines (recto) and 40 lines verso, 275 x 210 mm (leaf), paragraph and chapter marks rubricated in red; the text is in English; early marginalia in red and brown ink; and some light staining and …

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

    # 47457

    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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  • A catalogue of Greek vases in the collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

    # 46688

    CONNOR, Peter and JACKSON, Heather

    A catalogue of Greek vases in the collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2000. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, extensively illustrated.  A fine copy. The catalogue of the University of Melbourne’s superb collection of Greek vases is now published as a sumptuous, fully colour-illustrated, cloth-covered volume which will suit the needs of students, researchers and interested readers. This richly illustrated book is …

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

    # 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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  • A Sanskrit reader : text and vocabulary and notes. (Lanman's copy)

    # 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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  • Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text with a reliable date.

    # 44896

    EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)

    Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text with a reliable date.

    Japan : Nara period [764-770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese cypress), with original white gesso wash, small repair to upper tier, separate turned katsura wood finial (small edge chips to the rings), overall height 220 mm; the cavity of the pagoda containing the original printed dhāraṇī (55 x 360 mm) with …

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

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

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

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

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

    # 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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  • The complete works of Gaius Petronius (prospectus)

    # 37684

    LINDSAY, Jack; LINDSAY, Norman

    The complete works of Gaius Petronius (prospectus)

    Done into English by Jack Lindsay with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Comprising the Satyricon and Poems. London : Fanfrolico Press, [1927]. Quarto, 320 x 235 mm, folded sheet, two specimen illustrations by Norman Lindsay loosely inserted, edges a little creased, a very good copy. Arnold P8.

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  • The works of John Oldham, together with his remains.

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

    # 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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  • Oneiroi

    # 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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  • De claris legum interpretibus libri quatuor

    # 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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