En Leon: Mathias Bonhomme, 1556. An early Lyons edition by publisher Macè Bonhomme of the Spanish translation by Jerónimo Jiménez de Urrea. USTC 342675; this imprint not found in Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe 1501-1600. Ariosto's masterpiece in an early edition of its important translation.....
Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited.....
[Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1502]. (Colophon: Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi. Mense Ianuario m.d.ii). First Aldine edition, first issue with the misprint of "Propetius" for Propertius on the title-page and the cancellan of the corrected title-page on the final leaf. Renouard 1502-16; Adams C1137; Clemons and Fletcher 32. The first Aldine.....
Paris: Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in Officina Rob. Stephani, 1577. First edition edited by Joseph Scalinger. Adams C1156; Schreiber, The Estiennes, 248. The celebrated and often reprinted edition of Catullus and his two fellow Roman poets, Tibullus and Propertius, edited by French scholar Joseph Justus Scalinger (1549-1609), one of the most.....
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....
Paris: Chez Maradan, 1811. First edition. A study of the influence on French literature of over 40 French women authors, from Radegonde of the 6th century to Madame Cottin of the 19th, by one of the most famous and prolific of all French women authors, Madame de Genlis (1746-1830).
Lvgd. Batavorum: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1640. One of two Elzevier editions published in 1640; as noted by Willems, one contains summaries at the head of each chapter; the other did not; this copy does not have the summaries and is described first in Willems. Willems, Les Elzevier, 502; Brunet III.....
Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere’s famous play, Tartuffe, and the.....
Amsterdam: Antonium Schonenburg, 1730. Eighth edition; the first was published in 1658. ¶ A handbook to the gods of the ancients by Francisco Pomey, S.J. (1619-1673), prefect of Lyon and author of other educational books and well-known mythographer. From the library of 20th century scholar Gershon Legman, with his signature.....