Classical & Byzantine Historians, Geographers & Specialist Authors from

Francofurti [Frankfurt]: apud hæredes Andreæ Wecheli, [and] Aureliæ Allobrogum [Geneva], 1583 and 1607. Two works bound as one, folio. Pausanias: pp. [xii], 1-377, cols. 378-507; p. 508, pp. [lxxxi]; [xii], 302, cols 303-352, [i]. Aristophanes: pp. [xxxvi], 916, [xxvii]. Text in Greek and Latin. One or two light spots and stains, with light waterstaining to the upper corner towards… Read more about this item

Lugdundi Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Danielem à Gaesbeeck [and] Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden] apud Jacobus Hackius, 1688 and 1684. 2 related works, uniformly bound, folio. pp. [xviii], 772, [xxiv], 27, [i]; [xvi], 497, [xxxv]. Text in Greek and Latin, titles printed in red and black, occasional trivial spotting. Contemporary calf with gilt spines, lettered direct, some wear to covers and headcaps,… Read more about this item

[Geneva] Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1564. Folio. pp. [xvi], 297, [iii], 216 [viii]. Greek text, with Latin translation following; title-page printed in red and black; foliated initials and ornamental headpieces; small wormtrack in the gutter, not affecting text, running approximately between pp. 219-265; light watertaining at intervals, mostly marginal. Late 17th century English panelled calf, rebacked, worn, corners somewhat rounded… Read more about this item

Genvae [Geneva]: sumptibus Samuelis Chouët, 1663. 4to. pp. [xvi], 779, [xxxiii] some browning and spotting due to paper quality, 18th century Italian vellum, title inked to spine; early 18th century inscription at foot of title-page, partially scratched through and illegible, referring to the book’s purchase in Rome. One of a number of 17th century editions edited by Pierre de… Read more about this item

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Janssonio Waesbergios,, 1683. 8vo. pp. [xiv], 450, [iv] errata. With additional engraved title, two folding maps and folding table of military formations. (Further stub facing p.129, but no indication that anything has been removed.) Parallel text in Greek and Latin edited by Nicolaas Blanckaert or Blankaart. Several engravings of military formations in the text of the… Read more about this item

Basileae [Basel] ex Officina Hervagiana,, 1557-1540. 2 works bound in one volume, folio. pp. [xx], 310, [ii], blank; [xxiv], 178, [iv], blank, with woodcut printer's device to verso of both final leaves. Greek text, numerous early marginal notes and alternative readings in the first work, occasional annotations in an early hand in the second. Near contemporary quarter pigskin over… Read more about this item

Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris], Typis Regiis., 1620.. Folio. pp. [xii], 843, [cxx], 282, [x]. Greek and Latin parallel text. Title printed in red and black, with engraved device. Marginal waterstaining and mould-damage to the lower fore-corners, affecting approximately the first and last 40 leaves. Late 18th century sprinkled calf, a little rubbed and worn to extremities, upper joint renewed. Old… Read more about this item

Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Sumptibus Wetstenii., 1746.. 2 vols. Folio. pp. [xxxviii], 731, [v]; [iv], 666, [cviii] (index). With half title, additional engraved title and portrait of Wesseling to volume one. Letterpress titles printed in red and black, with engraved vignettes. Text in Greek and Latin. Occasional minor spotting. Contemporary Dutch blind-stamped vellum, gilt, a couple of chips to head… Read more about this item

Excudebat Henricus Stephanus [...], 1566.. Folio. pp. [xxxii], 256, 12, [ii], [xxii]. With large printer’s device to title. Occasional very light marginal waterstaining, but generally clean and with good margins. Old calf backed marbled boards, somewhat rubbed and worn. Adams H403. Book

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Samuelem Luchtmans,, 1715. Folio. pp. [xx], 1000, [lvi]. With half title, additonal engraved title, letterpress title printed in red and black, and with one double-page engraved plate (facing p. 138). Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Occasional pencilled annotation in a 19th century hand. Contemporary prize vellum, arms of Leiden, somewat worn and rebackedin late… Read more about this item

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Johannem Arnoldum Langerak, 1729. 8vo. pp. [lxxx], 774, [lxiv]. Latin text, title-page printed in red and black; contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, gilt spine, upper joint cracked at head and foot but firm. Armorial bookplate of Samuel James, Baron Waring. Eutropius was a late fourth-century pagan historian, a contemporary of Julian the Apostate. His “Breviarum” is… Read more about this item

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Samuelem Luchtmans , 1744. 2 vols. in one, 8vo. pp. [xl], 748, [cxx]. Letterpress title-page printed in red & black; additional allegorical title-page engraved by Frans van Bleyswyk; contemporary sheep, gilt spine, rubbed and worn but sound. A soldier, senator and hsitorian, Velleius Paterculus covers Roman history from the earliest times to his own, c.… Read more about this item

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Samuelem Luchtmans,, 1734.. 8vo. pp. [xxxii], 763, [clxxxiv]. With additional engraved title, and with letterpress title printed in red and black; a little light browning, ink-stain to fore-edge. Contemporary vellum, a little rubbed. Ticket of a Lisbon bookseller on the pastedown. This is the first van Staveren edition; his revised edition was published almost forty… Read more about this item

Lutetiae [Paris], E Typographia Steph. Prevosteau [...], 1583-85. Two works bound in one volume: 12mo, pp. xxiv, 347, [i]. 12mo, pp. [ii], 11, [xi], 90. Old ink-burn D11-E9 in the first work (ie pp. 93-114), particularly noticeable E3-E6. Second work lacks two of the final leaves of text. (Text concludes with the errata on verso of H1; H2 and… Read more about this item

Londini [London]: Ex officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts., 1713. 12mo. pp. [x], 281, [li] + engraved frontispiece. Latin text, title printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, label renewed. Book

Biponti [Zweibrücken]: ex Typographia Societatis, 1784. 8vo. pp. [ii], xxvi, 423, [xlvii]. Contemporary half sheep, very slightly rubbed, floral ornaments in the compartments on the spine. Receipt from a Hamburg bookseller dated 1960 still loosely inserted. Book

Parisiis [Paris] apud Ioannem Camusat [...], 1636. 4to. pp. [xx], 488, [lvi], 444. Title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum, some wear to the lower of the yapp edges. Late 17th-century ownership inscription of G. Anslarius (Guilielmus or Willem Anslaer, 1633-1694, scholar and theologian, and son in law of the Leiden professor Johannes Cocceius). First of the two… Read more about this item

Parisiis [Paris], Ex Officina Antonii Dezallier [...], 1681. Folio. pp. [xxxii], xxxiv, 676, , [ii], 100, [xvi]. Slightly later blind-stamped sprinkled calf, rebacked. Ink library stamp of Repton School on title. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplates to front pastedown (L.A. Burd, schoolmaster, and another, motto ‘Avancez’). The first Valesius edition was editied by Henri de Valois and published in 1636.… Read more about this item