£100 - £150
Classics. Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Regius (Raphael, translator) & Erasmus (Desiderius of Rotterdam, contributor), Apophthegmata Graeca regum & ducum, philosophorum item, aliorúmque quorundam, [Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, 1568, title-page with printer's device, paraellel ancient Greek and Latin text, complete, collating: *-**⁸ A-Z⁸ ²A-X⁸; i.e. [xxxii], 703pp, prelims with contemporaneous underlining, 17th/18th c vellum over boards, slight yapped edges, later morocco lettering piece, somewhat chipped, 8vo; Bodin (Jean), Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem, Amstelædami: Sumptibus Joannis Ravestein, 1650, allegorical engraved title, contemporary English calf over boards, blind-ruled triple-fillet borders, recto and verso with earlier English Gothic Black Letter printer's waste - two leaves from the Psalms, title and ffep with contemporary 17th & 18th c ownership inscriptions, including the Owens of Shropshire, red speckled edges, 12mo; Lactantius & Fell (Robert, editor), Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De Mortibus Persecutorum Liber. Accesserunt Passiones S S. Perpetuae & Felicitatis, S. Maximiliani, S. Felicis, Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1680, title and some leaves with ealy annotation, ffep with ownership inscription: Samuel Knight (?1675-1746; priest and antiquary), Victorian grey cloth over boards, pastedown with later bookplates, 12mo in 6s, (3)
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