BUDÉ, Guillaume.

G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib....

[Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.

The first Badius combined edition of the...

£5500

CHEKE, John, Sir, and Stephen [GARDINER], Bishop of Winchester.

De pronuntiatione graecae potissimum linguae...

Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius the younger, 1555.

First edition of this collection of letters...

£950

DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Περι βιων, δογματων και...

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

First Estienne edition of The Lives...

£850

EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

[(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius...

Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

£5500

LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.

Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.

The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...

£375

[ORPHIC POEMS.] ESCHENBACH, Andreas Christian, editor.

Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι...

Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1689.

First Eschenbach edition, presenting the...

£325

PLATO; Jean DE SERRES, translator and commentator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Απαντα τα σωζομενα …...

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1578.

A magnificent large-paper copy of the first...

£18000

POLLUX, Julius.

Ονομαστικον … Vocabularium.

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus, April 1502.]

Editio princeps of the oldest encyclopaedia...

£8500

[‘ROBERTI, Antonius’, pseud.]; George PERKINS, editor.

Clavis Homerica, reserans significationes,...

London, E. Griffin for Godfrey Emerson, 1638.

First London edition, ‘with the Catholic...

£600

[SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]

Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc...

Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire], 1607.

Second edition of a comprehensive scholarly...

£975

STEPHANUS of Byzantium; HANNO; Abraham Van BERKEL, editor and translator.

Genuina Stephani Byzantini de urbibus et...

Leiden, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, 1674.

First edition thus, a volume of short and...

£450

THEODORET.

Διαλογοι τρεις κατα τινων...

Leipzig, [(colophon:) Ernst Vögelin], 1568.

First edition of Strigel’s Latin translation...

£1350

THUCYDIDES; Lorenzo VALLA, translator; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Περι του Πελοποννησιακου...

[Geneva, Henri II Estienne for] Frankfurt,...

A richly annotated and extra-illustrated...

£2250

BATTEN, Henry, and Henry VINER, composers and arrangers.

Responses, Suffrages, Tersanctus, and Chants,...

Penzance, Viner’s Musical Repository, 1844.

Exceedingly rare first and only edition...

£300

CIGAULD, Vincent.

Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...

(Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...

Extremely rare first edition of this legal...

£2500

ERASMUS, Desiderius.

Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

£125

FOURCROY DE GUILLERVILLE, Jean-Louis de.

Les Enfans élevés dans l’ordre de la...

Paris, brothers Estienne, and Lausanne,...

Second edition of Fourcroy de Guillerville’s...

£250

GALUPPI, Baldassare.

Daniel in lacu leonum modi sacri recinendi...

Venice, s.n., 1773.

First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

£650

MUSESTI, Piero; Giovammaria FEBRARI, translator.

Gesta di Napoleone I. imperator de’...

Brescia, Tipografia dipartimentale, 1805.

Uncommon first and only edition of this...

£550

[REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

Le Cousin l’Abbé.

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1884.

First editions of two rare works by the...

£450