Chaalons’ [i.e. Châlons-sur-Marne], ‘pour la Communauté des Libraires’, 1735. New edition, apparently unrecorded. Not found on OCLC or the Union Catalogue of France (CCFr). By the late 17th century, the French government attempted to regulate all aspects of printing and the distribution of books in and around Paris. In 1686.....
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.....
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.....