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(PETRONIUS). DOUCET, Jérome. Louis-Édouard FOURNER, illustrator. ~ Pétrone (Introduction & fragments). Paris: [Lahure for] A. Ferroud, 1902.

First edition, dedicated to Jean Lorrain.  more...

One of 225 copies, this one number 116 on papier du Marais..  see full details

£200

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OVID. Manuel ORAZI, illustrator. ~ Lettres d’amoureuses. Les Héroïdes. Traduction de G. Miroux. Illustrations de Manuel Orazi, gravées sur bois par Perrichon. Paris: [’L’Épreuve’ for] R. Kieffer, [15 February], 1919.

First edition with the Orazi plates, this copy one of 20 on vélin Blanchet-Kléber with a suite on chine (of a total edition of 250).  more...

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£750

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(BODONI). ANACREON. [Giovanni Cristofano AMADUZZI, editor]. ~ [Title in Greek and Latin]. Anakreontos Teiou mele. Praefixo commentario qvo poëtae genvs traditur et bibliotheca Anacreonteia advmbratvr. Additis var. lect. Parma: Giambattista Bodoni, 1791.

‘The editions of 1785 and 1791 are printed in capital letters, and more elegant and exquisitely finished productions cannot be conceived.  more...

’ (Dibdin). ‘Bijou typographique’ (Renouard); ‘très jolie édition’ (Brunet). One of two editions of 1791, this one printed entirely in capitals..  see full details

£400

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GIBELIN, Jacques. ~ Receuil des passages extraits de différents auteurs avant Diocletian [vol II: après Diocletian]; qui traitent des magistratures et de l’administration des romains. Aix [en Provence], 1816.

A massive series of literary notes and extracts from printed editions of classical sources on the subject of Roman law and administration, divided into the periods before and after the emperor Diocletian, founder of the Tetrarchy.  more...

The notes have the character of being source material for an unpublished scholarly work on the subject of the office of Magistrate (chief priest, lawgiver, judge, and commander of the army) in ancient Rome. Compiled in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic experiment, Gibelin’s examination of Diocletian’s suspension of republicanism in favour of autocracy is surely significant.

The author, Jacques Gibelin (1744-1828), in whose hand the volumes are written, was librarian of the town of Aix and secretary of the town’s Société Académique. He was a prominent literary figure and had lived in Paris and England, and was responsible for introducing many English scientific ideas to a French audience; he had translated and published 14 volumes of the Abridgements of the Transactions of the British Royal Society and important Enlightenment treatises by Joseph Priestley and Richard Kirwan. He also published the French translation of Adam Ferguson’s History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic and oversaw the first publication of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which appeared, in Gibelin’s French translation (before the original English version) in 1791 as Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin écrits par lui-méme. The extracts in this manuscript are drawn from Herodian, Dion, Suetonius, Tacitus, Eutropius, Justinian, Plutarch, Apuleius, Orosius, Zosimus and modern commentators such as Isaac Casaubon. The compilation is made with a librarian’s thoroughness, with precise references given to the editions consulted (usually giving the editor, and the place and year of publication). Loosely inserted is a printed and manuscript slip, with Gibelin’s printed subscription, from the Aix Société Académique, requesting the presence of a member at a meeting on the 4th July 1827 at 6 o’clock..  see full details

£600

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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. ~ Ovid’s Art of Love, in three books. Together with his amours, and remedy of love. Translated into English verse, by several eminent hands. To which are added, The Court of Love, a tale from Chaucer. And the History of Love. Adorn’d with cutts. London: printed for J. Tonson; and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster Row, 1719.

A scarce early edition.  more...

Three editions had previously been published, the first in 1709, and this popular title went on to be republished numerous times during the eighteenth century. The translators are identified in the text as John Dryden, Nahum Tate and William Congreve. 'The history of love' is by Charles Hopkins and 'The court of love' is a metrical paraphrase by Arthur Maynwaring..  see full details

£400

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OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. ~ Metamorphoses [in Latin, edited with commentary by Thomas Farnaby.] ‘Amsterdam: Joannem Blaeu’ [but probably Paris,] 1668.

An attractive ‘faux Elzevir’ edition, with the notes by the English grammarian Thomas Farnaby (which first appeared in the London edition of 1637).  more...

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£200

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