NEPOS, Cornelius. 

De vita excellentium imperatorum.  Interpretatione et notis illustravit Nicolaus Courtin … in usum serenissimi...

Paris, Frères Barbou, 1726. 

An attractive later Delphin edition (first 1675) of Cornelius Nepos’s Lives.  The only surviving work by the first-century BC biographer Cornelius Nepos, the Vitae excellentium imperatorum once formed part of a broader De viris illustribus.  The Lives include Themistocles,...

£275

NEPOS, Cornelius; Andreas SCHOTT, editor.

Opera quae quidem extant … Nunc denuo doctorum hominum accessionibus locupletata.

Frankfurt, Claude de Marne & the heirs of Johann Aubry, [1608–] 1609.

First edition thus, edited by Andreas Schott (1552–1629), with his extensive commentary alongside that of previous editors including Denys Lambin, from the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun.

£850

NEWTON, Isaac.

Opuscula Mathematica, philosophica et philologica. Collegit partimque Latine vertit ac recensuit Joh. Castillioneus...

Lausanne and Geneva, Bousquet & soc., 1744.

First edition of Newton’s collected works, a major tool in the dissemination of Newton’s science and a major publication in the history of science.  The edition, edited and introduced by the Pisa alumnus Giovanni Salvemini da Castiglione, contains twenty-six works (which, while having appeared...

£3500

NICOLAUS of Damascus, and Niels KRAG (editor). 

Ex Nicolai Damasceni universali historia seu de moribus gentium...

[Geneva or Heidelberg,] Pierre de Saint-André, 1593. 

First edition of Krag’s translation of Nicolaus of Damascus’s observations on the customs of the peoples of the ancient world.  The observations on forty ancient peoples (among them the Iberians, Celts, Phrygians, Assyrians, and Ethiopians) are extracted from the Universal History...

£300

NIXON, Howard M. 

Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the twelfth to the twentieth Century … with an...

London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne Library, 1956. 

First edition, one of three hundred copies, of Howard Nixon’s richly illustrated catalogue of the bindings in the library of Albert Ehrman.

£875

[OFFICE OF THE DEAD.] 

Uffizio de’ morti, ad uso delle confraternite e congregazioni. 

Turin, Bernardino Barberis, 1805. 

An apparently unrecorded Turin-printed Office of the Dead, with striking woodcut memento mori ornaments, printed for the use of religious congregations and confraternities.  The Uffizio de’ morti, outlining the liturgy used in commemoration of the dead, is accompanied by a notice...

£225

ORIBASIUS. 

Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis … Ioannis Guinterij Andernaciis medici industria velut e profundissimis tenebris...

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates, bound with a richly annotated copy of Galen’s works in the translation by Thomas Linacre. 

£1750

OVIDIUS Naso, Publius.

Amatoria. Quorum indicem sequens continet pagella.

Lyons, Sebastian Gryphius, 1554.

Attractive annotated copy of a successful edition of the collection of Ovid’s poems on love, comprising Heroidum epistolae, Auli Sabini…epistolae III, Elegiarum libri III, de Remedio amoris libri III, ad Liviam de morte Drusi, de Nuce, de Medicamine faciei, Fragmenta, Carmen ad Pisonem,...

£1850

OVIDIUS Naso, Publius, and Pedro Sánchez de VIANA, translator and commentator. 

Las transformaciones. 

Valladolid, Diego Fernández de Córdoba, 1589.

First edition, a copy of notable provenance, of perhaps the most successful early Spanish translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by Pedro Sánchez de Viana (c. 1545–1619), a physician by training, published along with his substantial commentary. 

£6000