Lot 37
Polybius
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
Historiarum libri quinque. Nicolao Perotto interprete. Lyon: apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542. (122674) [bound with] Beatus Rhenanus & Sigmund Gelen. In Titum Liviusm annoationes. Lyon: apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542 (USTC 140466) [bound with] Livy. Decadum XIIII epitome. Lyon: apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542 (122674), 3 works in 1 volume, 8vo., publisher's devices on the title-pages of all three works and on the final leaf of the first, wood cut historiated initials, contemporary vellum, worm hole at the upper inner margin of the first signature in the first work, paper uniformly a little discoloured throughout, occasional underling of the text: Appianus. De civilibus romanorum bellis historiarum. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1551. 16mo., printer's device on the title-page, with the final two blank leaves, contemporary blind calf, spine damaged (USTC 150802); Ovid. Heroidum epistolae P. Ouidii Nasonis et Auli Sabini Responsiones, cum Guidonis Morilonii argumentis, ac scholiis. His accesserunt Ioannis Baptistae Egnatii observations. Venezia: apud Giovanni Griffio, 1575. 8vo., printer's device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, contemporary limp vellum, buckled, some worming at lower inner margin, title-page dusty and a little stained, verso of last leaf with 17th century ownership inscription and ink scrawls (USTC 845871); Egnazio, Giovanni Battista. Caesarum vitae post Suetonium Tranquillum conscriptae. Lyon: apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1551. 16mo., title-page with device, ruled in red throughout, contemporary vellum, title-page soiled and rebacked (USTC 123100); Cicero. Rhetoricorum ad Herennium libri quatuor. De inventione libri duo. Omnia ad optima quaeque, eaque vetusta exemplaria, castigate. Lyon: apud Antoine Gryphe, 1588. 16mo., device on the title-page, contemporary blind stamped calf, title-page dusty and with early ownership inscription, repairs to tears in p. 165 (USTC 203393) (5)