Lot 90
Continental books
Collection of works, 17th-18th century
The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician
Auction: 23 October 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Ta euriskomena, istorika te kai retorika, suggrammata [in Greek]. Scripta quae exstant, omnia, et historica, et rhetorica. Frankfurt: apud heredes Andreae Wecheli, 1584. 2 volumes, folio (34.8 x 21.5cm), old vellum, manuscript spine-titles, each volume retaining final leaf (blank but for printer's woodcut device verso), volume 1 with wear to board-edges, volume 2 with loss to vellum at head of spine, variable spotting and browning, marginal repairs to volume 1 index leaf 2V1 and volume 2 preliminary leaf (:)3 [Adams D625];
Seneca. Opera quae exstant omnia: a Justo Lipsio emendata et scholiis illustrata. Editio quarta. Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1652. Folio (41 x 25.5cm), contemporary Dutch vellum prize-binding for Dordrecht gymnasium, each cover with gilt device comprising figure of Minerva within laurel frame and legend ‘Minerva Dordracena’, [16] xxxvi 911 pp., half-title with engraved portrait verso (=*1), engraved architectonic title-page (=*2), 2 full-page engravings (the dying Seneca in his bath by Cornelis Galle after Peter Paul Rubens, and a bust portrait), damp-staining to index, printed prize-leaf dated 1724 addressed by hand to one Jan van Cruijskerken (now detached);
Clüver, Philipp. Germaniae antiquae. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1631. Folio (36.2 x 22cm), contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, arabesque centrepieces to covers in blind, [32] 748 [16] pp., half-title with engraved portrait frontispiece verso, engraved allegorical title-page, 26 plates, 11 folding maps, plates 15-16 (on a single bifolium) loose [Willems 345];
Horace. [Opera] cum erudito Laevini Torrentii commentario, nunc primum in lucem edito. Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana apud Joannem Moreum, 1608. 4to (25.8 x 18.2cm), contemporary Dutch vellum prize-binding, [20] 839 [47] pp., engraved title vignette, 2 engraved portraits, colophon leaf with printer's woodcut device verso, printed prize-leaf dated 1617 and completed in manuscript bound in before title-page, vellum soiled, front inner hinge split, title-page with two ownership inscriptions (one effaced) and marginal repair, variable browning throughout (5)