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Monthly Archives: August 2011

IMPORTANT AND RARE WORKS ON ROMAN LAW BY TWO FAMOUS FRENCH JURISTS

PRINTED 1536-1576: TWO SEPARATE BOOKS BOUND in ONE [I] Caballinus de Cingulo, Gasparus [Pseud.] DuMoulin, Charles. De eo quod interest tractatus ad theoricam praximque utilissimus : Accessit brevis et analytica discussio de inofficiosis testamentis, donationibus et dotibus : Discutitur etiam quaestio una ad materiam … l. si unquam C. de reuo. dona. spectans, de donatione...

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PRINTED BY PAULUS MANUTIUS, the great Venetian printer and humanist

PRINTED 1554: FAMOUS COMPENDIUM OF ANCIENT MEDICAL SOURCES- SOME ONLY FOUND IN ORIBASIUS WITH THE SPLENDID ALDINE DOLPHIN AND ANCHOR The Book: Oribasius; Giovanni Battista Rasario; Manuzio family.. Oribasii Sardiani Synopseos ad Eustathium filium libri novem : quibus tota medicina in compendium redacta continetur. Venetiis : Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium, 1554. Colophon: Venetiis, Apvd...

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PRINTED 1502: HANDSOME FIRST ALDINE EDITION OF STATIUS WITH THE ORTHOGRAPHIA

WITH THE FAMOUS ANCHOR AND DOLPHIN A major character in the Purgatory section of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy [P Papinius Statius; Aldo Manuzio; Markos Mousouros; Giovanni Gioviano Pontano] STATIUS. [Opere.] Venice: Aldus, 1502. 3 parts, including ‘Orthographia et Flexus Dictionum Graecarum’, in one volume. Imprint from colophon. Colophon: Venetiis in aedibus Aldi. mense...

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PRINTED 1583: RARE ERASMUS BOOK AND VELLUM BINDING

He who cries “crocodile tears”, or will “call a spade a spade”, or needs to “start from scratch” ORIGINAL LIMP VELLUM RETAINING STRING TIES The Book: [Desiderius Erasmus;] Epitome adagiorvm D. Erasmi Roterodami : in locos digesta commvnes : singulari fide recognita, & multis aucta locis, in quibus antea manca videbatur : huic adiecta proximè, pars...

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