•  Old calf, rebacked and recornered; abraded with some loss on edges. Some waterstaining and browning; soiling and shallow chipping. Lacking final [62] ff., the index (only).  (7532)

•  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and fish vignette with blind-stamped decorative borders; spine slightly darkened, small spots of light discoloration, extremities rubbed. Sewing just barely starting to loosen but holding; pages clean. A more than decent copy of this interesting and, shall we say, “highly personal” work.  (35139)

The book is illustrated with 100 engraved plates and numerous in-text engravings, as well as a frontispiece map of the Holy Land in each volume. The plates are mostly figural illustrations taken from paintings in catacombs and on sarcophagi, illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, ivory figurines, murals, etc. The title-pages are printed in black and red ink, and decorated with an engraved vignette.

•  Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt on the spines and front covers. Spines sunned and front cover of vol. II slightly sunned along fore-edge also; cloth of spines frayed at extremities and chipped in other places. Hinges (inside) of vol. I a little weak, stitching exposed; corners bumped with cloth damage; pages very shallowly bumped. Ex-library, with shelf labels on spines, institutional bookplates on front pastedowns, pressure-stamp to title-pages and one other page in each volume. Paper very good; pages clean and bright.  (24688)

Provenance:  Booklabel and small rubber-stamp from B.M. Pickering Bookseller on endpapers; inked Latin inscription of Charles Richard Stevens giving the book to Francis Eduard Dunford dated 1864 at Eton on front endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Pickering & Chatto, William Pickering (catalogue 708), 321. On Sallust, see: Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, pp. 505–506.   19th-century blue-green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, covers and turn-ins outlined with double fillets, board edges with dotted roll in blind, French curl marbled endpapers, all edges stained red; binding unevenly faded, rubbed with slightest loss of leather, moderate foxing to endpapers. Otherwise a scarce few spots or dust-soiled leaves, a few pencilled bibliographical notes on front endpaper, one small paper flaw from manufacture, and booklabels, stamp, and inscription as above. An attractive production.  (38843)

Evidence of Readership: Five leaves with marginal words, numbers, underlining, or accents in an early hand; a French genealogical note, written in another hand, tucked into the front cover.

Provenance:  Small armorial rubber-stamp of Christian symbolist and archaeologist Louis Charbonneau-Lassay on first and last leaf of text, with his gift inscription to “le Comte François de Rilly” (i.e., François Odart de Rilly d'Oysonville) dated 18 March 1929 on front endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Not in Adams; Brunet, III, p. 1285.   On the device, see: CRAI, Centre de Recursos per a l'Aprenentatge i la Investigació, University of Barcelona. Bound as above; a few miniscule scuffs on covers. Provenance and readership markings as above. Pages with light age-toning; one small ink smudge. Neo-Latin poetry gorgeously “packaged.” (37911)

This is this history’s first edition and was followed by 1579, 1593, and 1628 editions. It is printed with a woodcut printer’s device on the title-page showing the goddess Liberty with two books labelled “Bononia docet” (“Bologna teaches”) at her feet. The text is enclosed in double-ruled borders and simply ornamented with a few woodcut initials, one of which shows Juno being pulled in her chariot by peacocks.

•  Adams S1117; Soltész, Catalogus librorum sedecimo saeculo . . . in Bibliotheca Nationali Hungariae . . . S524. On Sigonius, see: Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., XXV, 82; and Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, II, 143–45. Full calf old style: Round spine with raised bands, accented in gilt beading; tan leather title label; fillets in blind extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils with blind double fillets beyond. Pages lightly washed, clean, and crisp: a few instances of staining, not obscuring text; a few short notations in ink and occasional worming in the margins, neither affecting text; ink stain on p. 95 obscuring letters without loss of sense. Inked title on lower edge, old style. Three ink ownership stamps on title-page. EEe3–4, the last two leaves of the index, are lacking. (4561)

Provenance:  No bookplates or inscriptions, but spine with initials “G.O.B.” tooled at base.

•  20th-century cordovan-color sheep, covers framed in single gilt fillet with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped fleurons in compartments; spine sunned/lightened with darker streaks and patches evident, one spine compartment with small scuff, joints with excellent repairs and corners likewise well refurbished. Text with only an occasional age-stain or instance of foxing; plates remarkably unblemished. Blue silk placemarker. Overall indeed aVERY NICE COPY.   (33233)

An epitome of the “antiquarian” both in form and content, this is a marvelous compendium of royal history and lore.

The title-page is printed in black and red, with an interesting engraved acanthus- and pineapple-decorated architectural border incorporating the Jesuit device. WorldCat locatesonly five reported U.S. institutional holdings (Claremont, Boston College, Harvard, Michigan State, Johns Hopkins).

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked ownership inscription from a Jesuit institution (difficult to decipher).

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, 1605. See Sandys, II, 280.   Later cream, ochre, and green patterned pastepaper-covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped cloth label; spine slightly sunned, minor wear to extremities. Title-page with early inked annotations, two lines in lower margin inked over. Text variably trimmed at top, occasionally shaving a header; pages age-toned with some corners creased; one leaf with inkstain in lower margin (not touching text), a few leaves with light staining in upper outer corners.  (40035)

•  American Imprints 9398.   Contemporary tan paper–covered boards with brown cloth shelfback; cloth worn, paper lost over rear board and wrinkled/chipped on front board. Front pastedown and free endpaper with early inked and pencilled inscriptions; tracing and annotation as above. Pages age-toned; one plate with upper portion excised, just shaving top of image.A quirky copy of a quirky work.  (36683)

•  VD16 T1606; Benzing, Hagenau, 39, 184. On Heinrich Gran's device, see: Heitz & Barack 2.   20th-century boards covered with vellum-like paper. Light age-toning with very light waterstaining across corners at end and some light foxing to margins elsewhere; very good and in fact for a “student book” remarkably good. A rare and attractive item.  (37834)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  EDIT16 CNCE 60555; Mortimer, Italian 16th-Century Books, 523 (note); USTC 862550. This edition not in Adams.   Contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine with red painted shelfmark, title inked on fore- and bottom edges in an early hand; vellum stained and cockled, heavily chipped at spine head and very loosely attached, endpapers torn and soiled with evidence of worming and a few bibliographical notes in ink and pencil. Booklabel as above; light age-toning throughout, with waterstaining to lower and outer portions of the very faint to moderate level that reduces price but not pleasure. This was printed on inexpensive paper, as evidenced by one leaf with a small hole and a few examples of uneven edges; it has also been well read, with a few loosely attached quires, worn edges, occasionally a spot or a tear. A scarce edition that in this copy has had plenty of adventures and is ready for more; the illustrations arewonderful.  (39635)

The work is here illustrated witha copper-engraved frontispiece and four plates, generally bucolic, done by Joseph de Longueil after Francesco Giuseppe Casanova and Charles Eisen. The text is additionally decorated with pictorial headpieces and fruit and floral tailpieces.

•  Brunet, V, 1303; Cohen & de Ricci 1022; Graesse, VII, 359; Schweiger, II, 1221/22.   Contemporary mottled calf framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral compartment decorations; joints and extremities rubbed, spine leather with small cracks, sides with expectable moderate acid-pitting. All edges gilt. Front hinge (inside) tender; a few scattered light spots, pages overall clean. An early, attractive edition of an excellent translation, withcrisp, lovely, well-impressed plates.  (30949)

Binding: Contemporary olive calf, covers framed in blind and gilt rolls with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped black leather title-label. Board edges with gilt roll and turn-ins with blind roll; all edges marbled.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Robert Alfred Herman, a fellow of Trinity College, known for his success in coaching students in the grueling Cambridge Mathematical Tripos; also with small bookseller's ticket of D. McWatters. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  NCBEL, III, 516; NSTC 2C34000 (for first ed.).   Bound as above; back joint starting from foot, boards with unobtrusive mottling, edges and joints showing mild to moderate rubbing. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. A suitably elegant appearance of this early edition.  (39876)

WorldCat, Copac, STCN, and NUC Pre-1956 do not find any locations of this Jansson-Waesberg edition; Palau does not list it.

Provenance:  Front free endpapers each with early inked inscription mostly inked over, title-page verso with inked inscription “de los libros . . . D. Emanuel Lopez Forrecilla y dela Fuente.”

•  Not in STCN. See Palau 377674–377683 for other eds.   Contemporary vellum over paste boards, spines with early hand-inked title; minor staining and back outer (yapp) edge of vol. I chipped, ties on both volumes still partially present. Pages age-toned with intermittent spotting; vol. I with light waterstaining to margins of some leaves and a few early inked corrections and marks of emphasis. Vol. II: Text block pulling away from spine, first few leaves separating, some leaves with worming in inner margins touching text without obscuring sense, one leaf with tear from outer margin extending into text without loss. All edges stained red, and both volumes with inscriptions as above.  (29082)

•  BAL 20798; Grolier, American 100, 82; Russo & Sullivan, Bibliographical Studies of Seven Authors of Crawfordsville,Indiana, 315–17; Wright, III, 5720.   Publisher's textured brown cloth with bevelled edges, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly shaken, edges and extremities rubbed, sides with spots of discoloration. Hinges (inside) tender. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, dedication page with inked numeral, back free endpaper with slip. Front free endpaper with faint early inscription, front fly-leaf with inked ownership inscription. Pages age-toned; a few leaves with light staining, most clean.  (26381)