London: Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck, 1697. First edition, separate issue. ESTC R14052; Wing B1928; cf. Bibliotheca Fictiva 39. The seminal treatise by Richard Bentley (1662-1742) on the authenticity of ancient texts, most notably the alleged letters of the 500 BC tyrant Phalaris, which Bentley convincingly demonstrated on.....
[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.....
London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1606. Second edition in English of Justinus's Historiæ Philippicæ; the first edition of this translation. ESTC S117759; STC 24293. Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus’ epitome of the expansive history and origins of the world from the beginning of time to the era of the Caesars.....