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1588réf. 43973Paris: Michel Sonnius 1588. Early edition. Hardcover. f to vg. 12mo 7 x 4 3/4". 8 528 32 leaves. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Publisher's title vignette. Decorative headpieces and initials. Originally published in 1575 this first French language edition of the works of Philo a first-century Alexandrian philosopher known for his mostly allegorical interpretations of the Torah known in the Hellenic world as the Pentateuch. His works also include histories and comments on philosophy. Many of the titles by which texts and text groups are known as modern conventions and not inventions of Philo. This book contains no less than 24 titles including the following: - De la Création du Monde On The Creation of the World - Allégories des Saintes Lois Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws - Du Plantement On Planting - De la Vie de Moïse On the Life of Moses - De la Charité et de l'Amour de son Prochain On Charity and Love for Others - De l'État et Devoir du Juge On a Judge's Duty - De l'Érection et Création du Prince The creation and elevation of the Prince - De la Force et Grandeur de Courage On the Power and Grandeur of Courage - Les Dix Commandements The Ten Commandments - Des Lois Particulières On the Specific Laws - De la Circoncision On Circumcision - De la Monarchie On Monarchy - Quels doiuent estre les loyers & honneurs des Sacrificateurs Rents & Honors of Priests - Des animaux qui sont propres aux Sacroifices: & quelles sont les elpeces des Sacrifices Elements of Animal Sacrifices - De ceux qui offrent les hosties au Sacrifice Hosts of Sacrifices - Qu'il ne faut point receuoir au temple le loyer & gain de la paillarde Rent and Profit of the Merchants - Que tout homme de bien est libre Every Good Man is Free - De la vie contemplariue ou des vertus des personnes deuotes Contemplative Life and Virtues - De la Noblesse On Nobility - Des loyers & peines Rents and Penalties - Des maledictions Curses - Que le monde n'est perissable That the World isnot Perishable - Contre Flaccus: ou de la prouidence Against Flaccus: or the Providence - Des vertus & ambassade fait à Caius Virtues & Embassy to Caius Binding age-toned. Book block separating from binding but still holding. Fore-edge of front free endpaper and fly leaf creased and torn. Clear and sporadic water-staining along upper margin of pages throughout. Text in old French. Binding in overall fair to good interior in good to very good condition. Michel Sonnius hardcover
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1987réf. DADAX0198261713OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1987-11-05. hardcover. New. 9.38x1.36x11.63. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
1633réf. AQ26478Londini i.e. Leiden: Apud B. and A. Elzevir for Richardum Whittakerum 1633. 8 459pp 13. First four words of title transliterated from the Greek. Printed in double columns. Eighteenth-century gilt-tooled brick-red morocco. Lightly rubbed and marked. Early manuscript quotation in the original greek from Ephrem the Syrian to FFEP; in what appears to be the same hand as the ownership inscriptions 'Rob: Hawkesworth / His Book / 1709' to verso of title page and head of p.1. Preliminaries a little dampstained at head. Later armorial bookplate to FEP of the Gaddesden library with pencilled shelf marks to front blank fly-leaf. A Greek Testament printed at least in part at the Elzevir press for London bookseller Richard Whittaker fl.1618-49 with the device of the former on the title page. The text is near identical to the Elzevir's own second edition of the Greek New Testament printed the same year apart from as noted by Darlow and Moule 'four passages in three of which it adopts readings found in H. Stephanus' edition of 1576'. Richard Whittaker had previously printed an edition in 1622 with a different text though the same supplementary material appears here. The house of Elzevir reissued some copies under their own imprint in 1641. ESTC S90878 Darlow and Moule 4680 STC 2798.5. 8vo. Apud [B. and A. Elzevir for] Richardum Whittakerum unknown
1612réf. 110349Johan Vignon. Geneva. 1612. Johan Vignon. Geneva. 1612. First edition thus. 12mo. 11 x 8cm and 4cm thick. Three volumes bound in one title pages present. Bound in full brown morocco gilt probably mid 19th century with gilt decorations and marbled endpapers. all page edges gilt. Pagination: 159 410 plus 12 index and notes 248. Later hand-written list of contents and ownership name to blank endpapers contemporary ink marginalia and initials to title pages and blanks some fire damage to outer margins of pages 397-410 of volume II with some text affected. Last page of volume III missing otherwise an interesting collection in an attractive binding. Johan Vignon was a 17th-century printer and publisher based in Geneva. He was known for publishing a variety of books including scholarly works and classical texts often for other printers and with collaborations with figures like Jean Crespin. unknown
1880réf. 1010Y24London: Chatto and Windus 1880. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 11.5" by 9". Thomas Rowlandson. A richly illustrated two-volume study of English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson with a charming signed letter from the author. With a beautifully written signed letter by the author dated May 7th 1880. The letter expresses his gratitude to the recipient for expressing interest in the work and the subject of Rowlandson. First edition. Complete in two quarto volumes. In the publisher's quarter morocco binding with cloth boards and decorative gilt to the spines.A comprehensive exploration of the works of Thomas Rowlandson a distinguished artist and caricaturist of the Georgian era noted for his political and social satire. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte. With a tinted frontispiece to Vol I title page vignettes to both volumes as well as a plethora of in-text illustrations throughout showcasing Rowland's distinctive work. Compiled by art collector author and journalist Joseph Grego who specialised as a writer and collector in the works of James Gillray Rowlandson George Morland Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank. In the publisher's quarter morocco binding with cloth boards and decorative gilt to the spines. Externally very smart with moderate rubbing to the extremities and marks to the boards. Bookplate of Sir Reginald W. Proctor Beauchamp. Bart. to the front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional light spots most concentrated to the first and last few pages. Very Good Chatto and Windus hardcover
1880réf. 961P55London: Chatto and Windus 1880. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 11.5" by 9". Thomas Rowlandson. The first edition of this illustrated study on the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson inscribed by the author. The first edition.Inscribed by the author to the verso of the front endpaper of Volume I "To the Honb.le Michael Sandys with the kindest regards of Joseph Grego.Complete in two volumes.This volume presents a study on the life and work of eminent caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson.Rowlandson's caricatures have become synonymous with the Georgian era his satirical pieces portraying the political and social life of the day producing caricatures of those in power and high society such as the members of the Royal Family as well as Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon.Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece and vignette title page Volume II with an engraved title page alongside many in-text engravings throughout both volumes showcasing the distinctive work of Rowlandson. Collated complete.By Joseph Grego.Presented to Michael Edwin Marcus Sandys 5th Baron Sandys. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally generally smart with light rubbing to the bards and spines. Minor bumping to the extremities. Light marks to the boards. Cloth to the rear joints is a little cockled. Discolouration to the extremities of the boards. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Fly-title of Volume I is working loose. Very Good Chatto and Windus hardcover
réf. a77688NY 1910 . Almuth C. Vaniver Attorney for the Defendant. The Amended Answer to the Amended Complaint. Small folio 180 leaves carbon on rectos 332 exhibits in English or in Greek hardcover. A notorious episode in Omaha's history. A Greek immigrant was accused of rape for having sex with the young American woman who was teaching him English. As he was being arrested he pulled out a concealed gun and shot and killed the Irish arresting officer. This occured during a strike in a packing house in South Omaha where a number of Greek immigrants were empoyed as strike breakers inflaming tensions between the Irish and Greek communities. A riot ultimately ensued resulting in the destruction of the Greek community in Omaha.The Greek minister to the U.S. became involved an article on the affair was printed in Atlantis and a lawsuit was commenced protesting that the article was libelous against the Greeks. Owner stamp and a few signatures on front free blank. Good plus very little wear. . hardcover
1763réf. 10588E Typographeo Clarendoniano. Sumptibus Academiae. Oxonii. 1763. FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION. 4to in 2's. 12.2 x 9.7 inches. Half title Title page 415pp. One of 500 copies printed using the fine Baskerville Greek type. A clean and crisp copy in a very good contemporary leather binding of full diced dark brown calf boards with floral gilt roll borders. Professionally re-spined at a later date with a matching coloured Morocco spine ruled decorated and lettered in gilt. Board edges ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges marbled. A small patch of rubbing to the front free endpaper and some rubbing and bumping to the edges but overall a very good copy of this beautifully printed book in an attractive 18th century binding. E Typographeo Clarendoniano. Sumptibus Academiae. Oxonii. 1763 hardcover
1813réf. 26542Paris: Imprimerie De Jules Didot Aine 1813-1824. From the first edition of this monumental work on classical art. An original aquatint printed in terracotta-red and black over a white background. This plate XL of volume II is one of the finest plates of the collection. It represents two juxtaposed black-glazed vases a terracotta-figured warrior is seen on the left vase while a terracotta-figured griffon in an ornate border is seen on the vase to the right. The plate is numbered and each vase is captioned. Printed on a folio captioned sheet measuring 22.5" x 16.5" the two vases are each over 9" tall. Now presented in cream mounting boards 26" x 22" glazed behind clear mylar. A fine and beautifully preserved plate in excellent condition. ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE PLATES OF THE COLLECTION this plates features two full views of vases providing a sense of depth and grace far deeper then the typically flat images associated with this famous work. This plate is from the original edition of LaBorde's COLLECTION DES VASES GRECS DE MR. LE COMTE DE LAMBERG. The Count of Lamberg Ambassador to the King of Naples assembled a remarkable collection of approximately 500 vases which included a number given to him by the Queen of Naples. Laborde mindful of faults in the illustrations of the famous Hamilton catalogues was intent on producing an even finer book and rendering the objects with 'extreme fidelity'. Brunet said of the production "the precious pieces in this collection are shown here with remarkable precision." Quérard noted "this work deserves particular attention for its fine execution. It was attempted as much as possible to present facsimiles so to speak of the vases with all the colours and figures that can be seen on these precious pieces. Imprimerie De Jules Didot Aine hardcover
1944réf. 98904Athens Greece: Deputy Ministry of Press and Information December 5 1944. 1944. Very good. - Folio a 12-3/4 inch high by 9-1/2 inch wide broadside printed on newsprint. A two-line banner title centered at the top is followed by two columns of text with the contents justified left below centered headings. The publication info and the date are printed above the second column. The broadside is toned and folded both vertically and horizontally with minor pinprick holes. Very good. The text is in Greek and our translations may be subject to some corrections. During the late hours of December 4 1944 and the early hours of December 5 Lieut.-General Scobie GOC British Forces in Greece proclaimed martial law in Athens and in Piraeus the port of Athens following violence on December 3rd and the declaration of a general strike. The broadside publishes Winston Churchill's statement supporting his General. "The Prime Minister wishes to make known that the announcement of the 1st December by General Scobie to the Greek people stressing the need for unity and expressing our full support for the current Greek Government was made with the knowledge and full approval of the Government of her Majesty." Following this is a statement concerning order: ".General Scobie has taken all recommended measures to fully reestablish order. .English troops guard Public Facilities and simultaneously the reclamation of Police Departments has begun. The Greek people should be certain that order will be completely enforced." There is a statement that "In yesterday's first court day of the Special Collaborators' Court the S.S. associate and member of the 'BUND' the infamous Giannopoulos was sentenced to death." The BUND organization and its leader Aginor Giannopoulos trained a battalion of Greek volunteers who fought in SS and Brandenburgers units. According to the broadside 200 members of ELAS in the suburb of Nea Ionia were disarmed as were 1200 near Psychiko. There is a brief report on the events leading up to martial law: "In the march on the day before yesterday organized by the Communist Party protesters threw a grenade and shot at the house of the Prime Minister George Papandreou on Kifisias street. The leader of the protesters officer of ELAS and known communist Architect Provellegios was arrested." Finally there is a statement on food shortages. ".due to the three-day labor strike the steamboats full of food meant to be distributed to the Greek People anchored in Piraeus harbor remains unloaded." RARE. Athens, Greece: Deputy Ministry of Press and Information, December 5, 1944. unknown
1823réf. 100020AG1823. Germany 1823. Stunning original extra-large 19th century Pencil Drawing on coloured paper. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with drawing: 61.5 cm x 76 cm. Size of the actual drawing: c. 45 cm x 57 cm. Excellent condition. Signed by C. Schaafhausen d. 18. December 1823. Framed in a wonderful Biedermeier style. unknown
1653réf. 097655Londini: Excudebat Rogerus Daniel 1653. First printing in England of the Septuagint with the rare second part Greek type title in red and black and with large engraved printer's device bound with In Sacra Biblia Græca ex versione LXX. interpretum scholia; simul et interpretum cæterorum lectiones variantes Greek type title with woodcut printer's device lacking final blank Roger Daniel. Collation 81279186pp 1pp lectori. probably lacking last blank. Book measures 7 x 4 3/4 inches. Bound in full leather. At some time the binding has been rebacked retining the period boards raised bands leather title label. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally new endpapers. Pages in very good clean condition throughout. A very nice copy in an attractive solid binding. Full Leather. Very Good Plus. Small 8vo. Excudebat Rogerus Daniel hardcover
1653réf. 097655Londini: Excudebat Rogerus Daniel 1653. First printing in England of the Septuagint with the rare second part Greek type title in red and black and with large engraved printer's device bound with In Sacra Biblia Græca ex versione LXX. interpretum scholia; simul et interpretum cæterorum lectiones variantes Greek type title with woodcut printer's device lacking final blank Roger Daniel. Collation 81279186pp 1pp lectori. probably lacking last blank. Book measures 7 x 4 3/4 inches. Bound in full leather. At some time the binding has been rebacked retining the period boards raised bands leather title label. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally new endpapers. Pages in very good clean condition throughout. A very nice copy in an attractive solid binding. Full Leather. Very Good Plus. Small 8vo. Excudebat Rogerus Daniel Hardcover
1798réf. 191868London: Printed for T. Cadell Junior and W. Davies 1798. The official publication of a scholarly pastiche First illustrated edition and the first authorized public one. These fictitious letters describing Athens during the Peloponnesian War were the work of a circle of Cambridge dons and students including the Bluestocking Catherine Talbot 1721-1770 who is named in the author key to this edition. Athenian Letters names more than one prominent female letter-writer from antiquity real and fictive. The work's instigators Philip Yorke second Earl of Hardwicke 1720-90 and his brother Charles 1722-70 are pictured in the frontispieces. The first edition of 1741 consisted of 12 copies followed by 100 in 1781 and a pirated edition. 2 vols quarto 274 x 212 mm pp. lxii 2 436; xv 1 466. Portrait frontispieces to each volume 12 engraved plates of busts folding map. Contemporary tree calf flat spines divided by gilt rolls blue and green labels central gilt tools to compartments green edges. Contemporary booklabels of Fasque the Gladstone family home. Head caps a little worn and split spines rubbed a few patches of stripping corners worn minimal foxing. A very good set. ESTC T84382. unknown
1624réf. 378211Lugduni Batavorum i.e. Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana 1624. First Elzevir edition. xii 863 1 pp. Title page printed in red and black. Second part with half-title and separate register pagination continuous. 12mo. 19th-century straight-grained red morocco gilt rules to boards gilt-lettered spine with raised bands and gilt ornaments gilt tooling to outer and inner board edges marbled endpapers. Rubbing to joints which are starting but secure spine slightly darkened with chipping to its head. Moderate toning to text clean tear across leaf Kk3 mended with minor loss to a line of text. First Elzevir edition. xii 863 1 pp. Title page printed in red and black. Second part with half-title and separate register pagination continuous. 12mo. "The first of the Elzevir editions printed at the press established at Leyden by Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevir and celebrated for their fine type paper and convenient size" Darlow & Moule. The text is based on the 1565 version edited by Beza. Six more editions appeared from the Elzevir press the last in 1678. There are three known states of the first edition: one with a red and black title page and a listed publication city of Lugduni i.e. Lyon one with a plain title page and a listed publication city of Lugduni Batavorum i.e. Leiden and one with a red and black title page with a listed publication city of Lugduni Batavorum. Willems does not identify the third state but notes that the copies with red and black title pages were intended for distribution in Catholic countries. USTC 1547980; Darlow & Moule 4669 state C; STCN 378027026; Willems 225 ref. Provenance: William Gott trimmed armorial bookplate; Douglas Maxwell Moffat bookplate; General Theological Seminary bookplates Ex Officina Elzeviriana unknown
2015réf. 114118Fresco Books. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . 2015. 1934491489 . Fresco Books hardcover
1898réf. 91338Boston MA: Little Brown & Co. . As New. Five 5 Volume Set. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer--; T-Plutar . 1898. Little, Brown & Co. hardcover
1993réf. 38837Vorres Museum of Contemporary Greek Art;. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE - Text in English French and German. 45 works catalogued; many color illustrations. Among the artists represented: C. Caras; Z. Skiadaressi; A. Droungas; and others. -- with a bonus offer--; T-Vorre; Ex-Library . 1993. Vorres Museum of Contemporary Greek Art; paperback
1584réf. 665155Ex officina Christophori Plantini / Christopher Plantin 1584. Leather Binding. Near Fine. A near fine copy austerely but attractively bound in full 19th-century dark aubergine morocco spine with raised bands and gilt titling inner dentelles tooled win gilt with a repeating floral scroll all edges gilt covers bordered in blind minor wear corners show some wear; an old inscription on the New Testament title page has been removed with slight loss and paper restoration; some minor occasional marginal stains. An attractive intact copy of this 16th-century Plantin polyglot Bible. N.T. first in volume. O.T. starts at back of volume Title page of Greek N.T. reads:'Novum Testamentum Græcum cum Vulgata interpretatione Latina Græci contextus lineis inserta: quæ quidem interpretatio cùm à Græcarum dictionum proprietate discedit sensum videlicet magis quàm verba exprimens in margine libri est collocata: atque alia Ben. Ariæ Montani Hispalensis operâ è verbo reddita ac diuerso characterum genere distincta in eius est substituta locum. Accesserunt & huic editioni libri Græcè scripti quos Ecclesia Orthodoxa Hebræorum Canonum secuta inter Apocryphos recenset; cum interlineari interpretatione Latina ex Bibliis Complutensibus deprompta.' The Greek N.T. Novum testamentum graecum cum vulgata interpretatione Latina Graeci contextus lineis inserta is at the beginning of the vol. with the Hebrew O.T. at the end with the Greek Apocrypha 128 p. between. Each Testament has its own title page and the mention of the Apocrypha on both suggests that it was intended to form an appendix to either of the Testaments if they were issued separately Reprinted from the 1569-72 Antwerp Polyglot. PROVENANCE: With the ownership inscription of auhtor Archibald Douglas Fox on verso of front endpaper: 'Archibald Douglas Fox 1901 / belonged to my father and grandfather.'. Ex officina Christophori Plantini / Christopher Plantin unknown
1566réf. D14106Geneva: Henricus Stephanus 1566. Hardcover. Very Good. Early-19th century red morocco boards and spine ruled in gilt gilt-stamped lettering in second spine compartment 5 raised bands; 4to 257x158m; pp. 4 539 33 index with woodcut printer's device on title-page. Spine and edges of boards somewhat darkened; binding a bit scuffed. Text block is lovely. Provenance: Arthur Machen acquired at the Anderson Auction Company December 1903. Estienne's important edition of the Greek Anthology which provided a far superior text than its predecessors. For this edition Henri devised a system of diacritical marks peculiar to himself notae sibi peculiares to denote various classes of proper nouns and also employs in the margins the symbol of the hand with pointing finger to call attention to gnomic expressions in the text Schreiber. Adams A-1187; Schreiber 159. Henricus Stephanus hardcover
1886réf. 008070London: Chatto and Windus 1886. First Edition. Full Morocco. Custom cloth clamshell box. Fine. Extra-illustrated large paper and a special Bayntun full brown crushed morocco onlay binding featuring a centerpiece of the Palace of Westminster. No. 85 of 111 large paper editions. With a gorgeous Bayntun onlay binding featuring a centerpiece of the Palace of Westminster the current Parliament building. 4to. 26 by 21 cm. xxvii 1 403 1 pp. Including folding frontis nine of the additional plates are hand-colored four of which are choice Gillray prints. Many of the plates are double paged and a few are folding. Regarding the binding all edges gilt. Gilt ruled borders on boards -- six evenly spaced lines with jutting squared corners suggestive of a fortification design. These within a simple outer ruled border close to the edge. Five raised bands with compartments decorated with ruled rectangles and corner dots. Turn-ins with corner abstracted floral decoration. Attractive armorial bookplate of Colonel Sir Harold Mitchell 1900-1983 businessman and politician who was at one point vice chairman of the Conservative Party under Churchill. He was created a baronet in 1945. The title became extinct with his death. Clamshell box has stains especially heavy on one of the sides and one spine edge is worn through with its cloth entirely lifted and rolling away with frayed threads apparent and the underlying card exposed. Still this box retains structural integrity and has clearly helped preserve the pristine quality of the book's extradordinary binding. Photo File. Chatto and Windus unknown
1665réf. AQ28955Cantabrigiae i.e. Cambridge: Excusum Per Joannem Field Typographum Academicum 1665. 2 19 1; 755 1; 516pp. Lower corner of K6 torn away with some loss. Darlow & Moule 4701. ESTC R236848. Wing B2719. Bound uniformly with: BIBLE N.T. Greek. Greek title. Cambridge. John Field 1665. 12mo. 2 419pp 1. Small thumbnail sized piece torn away from margin of A4 with a little loss. ESTC R25629. And: PSALTER - Church of Scotland. The psalms of david in meeter. Newly translated and diligently compared with the originall Text.Allowed by the Authority of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland and appointed to be sun in Congregations and Families. Edinburgh. Printed by Evan Tyler 1650. First edition. 18mo. 72pp. ESTC R235432. Three volumes bound uniformly with the first mentioned bound in two volumes and the second and third mentioned bound together in the third volume in contemporary blind-decorated sombre black panelled morocco with central flower device to each spine compartment. Marbled endpapers. A little rubbed some small chips to spines at head and foot some occasional shaving of pagination. With the later ownership inscriptions of several members of a Scottish Mylne family and those of W.W. Greg dated 1925 in the first volume. A choice copy of the third English edition of the Greek Septuagint printed by John Field at Cambridge bound uniformly - in handsome seventeenth-century sombre bindings - with Field's companion New Testament in Greek a reprint of the Thomas Buck edition Cambridge 1632 and the 1650 first edition of the Scottish Metrical Psalter. The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England was published by Roger Daniel 1653 with the second appearing in Walton's Polyglot edition of 1657. This edition published by John Field Printer to Cambridge University is also the first to contain the praefatio paraenetica of J. Pearson. Issued in two slight variant forms with differing Greek titles this is the issue without the Apocrypha. The presence of the Scottish Psalter printed by Evan Tyler of Edinburgh at the end of the final of these three volumes combined with the later Scottish provenance makes this cataloguer wonder if these volumes were used - and perhaps even bound - in Scotland. Provenance: Sir Walter Wilson Greg 1875-1959 Shakespearean scholar and bibliographer best known for his A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. . Third English edition. 12mo. Excusum Per Joannem Field, Typographum Academicum unknown
1642réf. 371830Paris: Ek basilikēs typographias Imprimerie Royale 1642. Engraved title by by Claude Mellan engraved head and tail pieces and initials. 2 453 3 pp. Extra-illustrated with a later English printed "Abbreviations and Connexions" leaf inserted after the title. Folio 15-1/2 x 10-5/8 inches. Late eighteenth or early nineteenth century red morocco gilt marbled endpapers gilt edges. Neatly rebacked. Cloth slipcase and chemise. Engraved title by by Claude Mellan engraved head and tail pieces and initials. 2 453 3 pp. Extra-illustrated with a later English printed "Abbreviations and Connexions" leaf inserted after the title. Folio 15-1/2 x 10-5/8 inches. Known as the Mazarin edition "since it appeared under the auspices of the great Cardinal" D&M it is the first edition of the Greek New Testament from the Imprimerie Royale founded just two years prior. Inserted before the engraved title page is a partly-printed certificate of the Collegium Mazarinaeum awarding this volume as a prize in Rhetoric to Philippus Matthaeus Guillot dated MDCC in manuscript i.e. 1700 and signed by the college's master P.-J. Le Chapelier Pierre-Jean le Chapelier de Mauron abbé de Ste Marie de Boquen in Brittany with the trace of a seal below. The College Mazarin or College des Quatre-Nations was established by bequest of Cardinal Mazarin 1602-1661 and opened its doors to students in 1688. Darlow & Moule 4687. Provenance: Philippus Matthaeus Guillot certificate his signature at foot of title engraving; Montagu Barton armorial bookplate; John Horatio Nelson gift inscription dated 1841; General Theological Seminary bookplate perforated stamp Ek basilikēs typographias [Imprimerie Royale] unknown
1569réf. 378213Lutetia i.e. Paris: Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii 1569. Only edition by Robert Estienne II. xxxii 494 2; 342 42 pp. With terminal blanks. Title page of second volume "Hai tou hagiou Paulou epistolai" dated 1569. Woodcut Estienne devices to both titles. 1 vols. 16mo. 19th-century full straight-grained blue morocco tooled gilt frames to boards gilt title fillets and ornaments to spine gilt tooling to outer and inner board edges marbled endpapers gilt edges. Preliminaries ruled in red ink. Joints a bit rubbed spine ends and corners lightly bumped. Moderate toning a few partial cracks to text block all leaves secure. A handsome copy. Provenance: Cecil Dunn-Gardner pencil note to front endleaf; General Theological Seminary bookplates blindstamps inkstamp to verso of title. Only edition by Robert Estienne II. xxxii 494 2; 342 42 pp. With terminal blanks. Title page of second volume "Hai tou hagiou Paulou epistolai" dated 1569. Woodcut Estienne devices to both titles. 1 vols. 16mo. Printed by the son of the great Reformation printer Robert Estienne Stephanus and brother of Henri Estienne II the text primarily follows the first Estienne edition of 1546 substituting readings from the editions of 1549 or 1550 in five places. "The book closely resembles in size and type the O mirificam editions of 1546 and 1549 copies of which had become difficult to procure. The body of the type has been slightly reduced" from that of the original Royal Greek types by Claude Garamond Darlow & Moule. USTC 140582; Darlow & Moule 4633; Renouard 171 1; Schreiber 239; Adams B1671 Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii unknown
