CLASSICS from THE FAMILY ALBUM

Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessa, Venetiis (Venice): ., 1589 213 p. 16mo in 8°. 160 mm. Last leaf with a paper fault and the loss of a blank portion (2" x 2.5"). Latin italic. Early stiff paper wrapper. Spine title hand lettered. Date 1763 in manuscript on title page. Woodcut rococo Sessa family printer's device of a cat with mouse on… Read more about this item

Printed Adam Islip, London: ., 1634 Two Volumes. 614 + (42); 632 + (86) pp. Large printer's device on the title pages. First title page age stained and chipped at fore edge and detached. Large 4to sewn in sixes. 330 x 220 mm. Disbound. Pliny the Elder was born 23 CE, at Novum Comum, Transpadane Gaul [now in Italy]. He… Read more about this item

[Firenze: Heredi di Philippo Giunta], Adi XIIII del mese daprile]. Actually: Pasinello, Venice: 1729., 1527 pp. [14], 284. Printer's devices (fleur de lis) on title and at the colophon. Handsomely printed in Italian Italic type throughout. A fine facsimile of the very rare 1527 original edition. This differs only in correcting a few page numbers. 4to. Original plain full vellum… Read more about this item

(Pietro Ravini Erban), Venice: 1549, 1549 pp. [10], 340. Text framed with extensive glosses, that sometimes include Greek text. Printer's mark on title page of a mermaid with her tail spread, and at the colophon. Woodcut illustrations and historiated initials at chapter heads. Some brief manuscript notes and ownerships. The ownerships include: Capitanii Adriani, Trigerii Mediolanensis (Zurich?). Some damp and… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: ., 1928 pp. XII-143 + Six plates & various text figures + 10p. Mimeographed Circular letter promoting the book and its project (in 1937) bound in at the front. There are also minor manuscript corrections in the printed QDtext, probably by Flagg. This example was owned by Reinhardt Dempwolf (1861-1945), a prominent German born architect… Read more about this item

Published by the Principals of Baltimore College (Edward Mitchett, Printer) Baltimore: ., 1810 pp. xix, (5), 103 [all in a fin small Greek typeface], 159. May lack a leaf of Preface, but this may be common to all examples of this version. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full leather binding. Spine mostly gone; and front board detached. The Very Revd. Dr… Read more about this item

Quae venalia repperies Johanem Petit In vico diui Iacobi sub Leone Argenteo, [Paris]: or 1508., 1507 Apparently lacks the general title page with Jean Petit's device, and probably the following 17 preliminary leaves. ff. CXL [i.e. 141] leaves. Woodcut initials. Some repeats in foliation. Small 4to. 190 mm. Latin text. Some old marginal dampstain. A few marginal manuscript notes. Attractive… Read more about this item

Printed by Fry and Kammerer for B.B. Hopkins and Co., Philadelphia: ., 1811 pp. xii, (1)-180. Text very browned, but legible. 12mo. 175 mm. Original full leather binding, worn and scuffed. Hardbound. Good. James Ross was Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages in Philadelphia. S&S/AI 23832. Fourth edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PALIB 4. Hardcover. Good.

Carey & Lea, Philadelphia: ., 1830 pp. (3), (1)-273. Foxed. Text in English and French. All edges decorated in yellow. Early manuscript pencil inscription 'Formerly owned by Sam Parker, M.D'. 12mo. 180 mm. Original leather spine over marbled covered boards, worn. Spine worn. Front board detached. Hardbound. Good. French born Antoine Jean Claude Brunin de Bolmar (1797-1861) settled in Philadelphia… Read more about this item

Typis Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfr, Patavii (Padua, Italy): ., 1757 Part two of three parts. pp. (5), 484. Engraved title vignette; initials; head- and tail-pieces. 4to. 240 mm. Tp. with old foxing and soiling, but still attractive. Early stiff paper boards binding, without spine covering. A famous and important history of the University of Padua which was founded in 1222… Read more about this item

Firmin Didot, Paris: ., 1806 ff. (6) [May lack a half-title], 263. 12 mo. 180 mm. Signatures irregularly signed, but pagination is apparently complete. Simple leather backed boards binding. Hardbound. Very Good. Firmin Didot (1764-1836) was a French printer, engraver, type founder, and scholar. Born in Paris into a family of printers and paper makers founded by Franois Didot. Firmin… Read more about this item

Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, London: ., 1744 pp. [4], 342. 12mo. 170 mm. Age stain on title. Nineteenth century full leather binding. No endpapers. A very interesting collection of English translations of Demosthenes Demosthenes (384322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of… Read more about this item

Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the Press of A. Colish, New York: ., 1960 pp. xxvii, 96, (1). Thin folio. 320 mm. Gold toned Shiki silk boards binding, silk screened with a Vertes drawing in green. Gold stamped linen spine, nicely toned. Original glassine wraps. Slipcase is soiled, but tight. Number 769 of an edition… Read more about this item

Printed by Joshua Cushing, Boston, for Cushing & Appleton, Salem: ., 1809 237 p. Light damp stain. 12mo. 175 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Front board fragile. Title continues: "To which is subjoined, The Second Part of Lyne's Latin Primer.Adapted Also to the Syntax of Smith's New Hampshire Latin Grammar." Second edition. AI 17032. Hardbound. PA 64 0.0. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

Amsterdamo: [But actually printed by Antonio Locatelli, Venezia (Venice): 1761]., 1761 Two Volumes. pp. Frontis, Engraved Title, XVI (lacks 2 leaves in this section - apparently blanks), 611, [1]; Engraved Title, 493, [3] + Engraved frontis portrait of Boccaccio. Both title pages are fully engraved, each with a vignette showing Cupid sharing tales with Boccaccio as women wait on the… Read more about this item

In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, Venetiis [Heirs of Aldo Manuzio; Andreas Torresanus, Venice]: ., 1521 ff. [60], 320 numbered leaves. Woodcut Aldine anchor and dolphin printer's device on the title page and last leaf. Latin Italic type. Some age stain, especially on first and last leaves. In several places the name of Erasmus is obliterated in ink by a… Read more about this item

(de l'Impimerie de Le Breton, Premier Imprimeur ordinaire du Roi) Chez Merlin, A Paris, ., 1766 Two volumes. I. [1], LXXIX, 304. II. [1], 415, [1](Errata), [4](Approbation) + Eleven (11) engraved plates. French text. 8vo. 200 mm. Edges decorated red. Some age stain and foxing. Original decoratively mottled full leather bindings. Spines worn, but some gilt remains. Marcus Annaeus Lucanus… Read more about this item

(Job printed slug of Taylor, Hoyt & Cook printed for) Calvin Blanchard, New York: ., 1855 pp. 2 [Publisher's catalogue], (2) [Title and copyright pages], 500 + 18 full page steel engravings. printed on yellow paper. Text foxed. Early autograph ownership of William Hay. 12mo. 175 mm. Original red embossed patterned cloth binding. Spine lettered in gold gilt. Hardbound. Very… Read more about this item

Printed by Sewell Phelps for Charles Ewer, Boston: ., 1821 180 p. Browned but not brittle. pp. 133 and 134 torn without loss. Early manuscript ownerships of Emily H. Rodgers, Nov. 20, 1822 and Robert S. Morison from his mother's library 1899. 12mo. 165 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Original leather spine label. Front board fragile. Third edition. S&S/AI… Read more about this item

Lee and Shepard, Boston; Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, New York: 1873., 1873 Four Volumes. Text in English and Greek. All edges marbled. 225mm. Original full leather bindings rubbed and worn. Original morocco spine labels. Sixth edition. Hardbound. Very good. Henry Alford (1810-1871) was an English churchman (Dean of Canterbury), theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer. "His chief fame… Read more about this item