Search Results: Authors starting with I from Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB

EDITIO PRINCEPS. 8vo, ff. [4], 53, [1]. Greek, Roman and Italic letter. Woodcut headpieces and floriated initials. Errata on recto of final leaf. Mild water staining at lower outer corner of few final leaves. Contemp. limp vellum. A crisp and clean copy.
First edition of Julian the Apostate's caustic satire on the Caesars. Greek text followed by Latin translation by Charles de Chantecler, who also edited the edition.
Graesse, III, 497; USTC 160289.

first edition of Julian the Apostate's caustic satire on the Caesars.

RENAISSANCE BLIND-STAMPED BINDING; COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED IN AN EARLY HAND
8vo, pp. 350 [50]. Italic letter, little Roman. Woodcut printer's device on t-p and final leaf, historiated initials. Early annotations and underlining throughout, especially up to Book XIX. Later ownership autograph on t-p. Blind-stamped ornamental panels on both covers, contemporary calf, spine rebacked and refurbished, endpapers renewed (but not modern), recent C18th-style morocco label with gilt lettering. Author's ms. name written on foot fore-edge. A very good copy.

Dedicatory letter by the editor, German jurist and humanist Johann Sichard, to Peter Reich von Reichenstein, clergyman in Basel. Justin flourished in the third century AD. A Roman historian, he was the author of this Epitome, an abridgement of the Historiae Philippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs (Philippic Histories) by Pompeius Trogus, whose work is lost. Most of the abridgement is not so much a summary as passages quoted from Trogus. Nothing is… Read More

RARE EDITION, THE SECOND IN VERNACULAR ITALIAN, IN IMITATION OF THE ALDINES

8vo, ff. [128], with 2 final blanks. Italic letter, sporadic Roman. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Register at colophon and imprint within double-fillet border at end. Very light water staining at upper corner of a few central gatherings. Attractive contemporary limp vellum. An excellent copy with original endpapers and remains of ties.
Rare second edition of Veronese humanist Giorgio Sommariva's translation of Juvenal's satires, which were first published in vernacular Italian in 1480 in Treviso. The text is sided by several printed maniculae. Early ms. title on foot fore-edge.
A. Nuovo, Alessandro Paganino (1509-1538), n. 82; EDIT16 CNCE 28202.