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RICHLY ILLUSTRATED PUBLISHER'S BINDING, SIGNED AND VERY WELL PRESERVEDFIRST EDITION. 8vo, [iv], 540 pp., with vignette on t-p and 21 engraved plates including frontispiece, 8 of which are coloured. Black cloth with cloth-backed spine and corners reinforced, gilt-stamped borders on covers with green, pink, yellow, red and white heightening. Bookbinder's signature to foot of spine "LENÈGRE REL." A.e.g.Famous account of a journey by journalist Charles de Saint-Julien (1802-1869), who travelled from Saint-Petersburg to the Caucasus via Finland, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. It follows a trip from Saint-Petersburg to Kamtchatka.Vicaire, Livres du XIXe siècle, VII, 24.

IMPORTANT C16TH PROVENANCE?
8vo, pp. [8], 223, [9]. Roman and Italic letters. Latin and Greek texts. Printer's device on t-p, woodcut head and tailpieces, decorated initials. Early annotations on t-p, apparently including the autograph of an important French collector of the 16th century at foot, as pointed out by a pencil note on the verso of the upper flyleaf (not identified though: "Chadric"?). Sporadic early ms. notes and underlining throughout. Occasional light water staining and binding extremities a little bit worn. A very good copy plus bound in limp contemporary vellum with remains of ties, original endpapers.
Second edition of the Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists with the addition of the author's "Legationes" taken from a codex found the library of Jesuit scholar André Schott of Antwerp. The editio princeps of the Greek text, with Latin translation by Hadrianus Junius of Hoorn, was printed by Plantin in 1564. The Greek historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in 347 CE, but went to… Read More

THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION8vo, pp. [8], 596 [i.e. 604], [2], lacking last blank. Roman letter, little Italic. Printer's device on t-p, woodcut initials, capital spaces with small guide letters, and few headpieces. Wide-margined copy in 18th-c. stiff vellum, green morocco label with gilt title to spine. Sporadic very light marginal foxing. Excellent copy.
Edited by Daniele Barbaro, the first edition was printed by the heirs of Aldus in 1542 without the consent of the author. It was reprinted 5 times by them in '43, '44, '46, '50 and '52. Giolito also issued it in 1558. According to Brunet, the present Meietti edition is the best and most complete. Speroni's "Dialogues" contain philosophical discussions on various humanist topics, which are expounded through the method of unplanned and unmoderated dialogical speech.
Brunet, V, p. 488; Edit16 CNCE 30949 (Var. A).

"DEUS SIVE NATURA"B.d.S. [Benedict de SPINOZA]. Opera Postuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur.[Amsterdam], 1677, [Jan Rieuwertsz].FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [40], 614, [32]; [2], 112, [8]. Without the engraved frontispiece portrait, found in only a very small number of copies and probably not originally issued with this edition. Woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Woodcut vignette on title, decorative woodcut tail-piece and initials. Negligible withdrawal stamp of German university library on t-p and verso. Early C20th binding in half calf and decorated paper. Light soiling to t-p. Internally crisp, fresh and clean. A good copy.First edition of Spinoza's posthumous works, which "have served, then and since, with the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, to immortalize his name" (PMM). It includes his influential Ethica, more geometrico demonstrata, the work which established Spinoza's reputation as a rationalist and "atheist." It is considered the first systematic exposition of pantheism… Read More

FOUR RARE ENGLISH SATYRICAL POEMS AND TRACTS, INCLUDING SHANNON'S GIUSEPPINO8vo, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt-tooled lettering to spine, 4 works in 1 vol.: SURREBUTTER, John (pseud. of John ANSTEY). The Pleader's Guide…Book II. London, T. Caddell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802, pp. vi, vi, 90, [2] [bound with] WHISTECRAFT, Robert and William (pseud. of John Hookham FRERE). Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work… Relating to King Arthur and His Round Table. Third Edition. London, John Murray, 1818, pp. vii [1], 55, [1], 61, [1], containing all 4 cantos [bound with] [SHANNON, Edward N.] Giuseppino: An Occidental Story. London, Longman, 1821, pp. [2], 64, after the style of Byron's Beppo [bound with] POLYPUS (pseud. of Eaton Stannard BARRETT). All the Talents… Eleventh Edition. London, John Stockdale, 1807, pp. xv (missing half-title), [1], 81, [1]. The bookplate of the early owner H. R. Evans, Esq., is glued to the front pastedown, just below a ms.… Read More