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Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments. Joseph BARROIS.

Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments. Paris: Firmin Didot frères [for the author], sold by Didot, Jules Renouard and Techener, 1850.

Large 4to (308 x 230 mm). [8], 360; 35 pp. Large-paper issue on heavy wove paper (papier vélin). Includes Greek printing. 61 plates of pen-and-ink lithographs with text, lithographed by Lalanne, printed by Lemercier, including one double-page plate and two chromolithographs with gold-printed captions. Occasional light foxing. presentation binding commissioned... More

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Question royalle et sa décision. Jean DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, abbé de Saint-Cyran.

Question royalle et sa décision. “Paris: chez Toussainct Du Bray, 1609” [i.e., mid-18th century].

12mo (161 x 99 mm). [1], 56 (recte 65) ff. Woodcut title vignette (harvesting scene with lion at top), woodcut headpiece and initial. Publisher’s binding? of 18th-century French olive morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, flat spine gold-tooled and -lettered, gilt edges (joints and extremities scuffed, spine a trifle faded).*** Counterfeit... More

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Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). GREEK ANTHOLOGY.

Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). Florence: Lorenzo (son of Francesco) di Alopa, 11 August 1494.

Median 4to (226 x 162 mm).Collation: [Greek type:] A-O AA-KK8; [LL]8 (A1r blank, A1v Greek alphabet and diphthongs, title and table of contents, A2r-KK8v text; [LL]1r Lascaris' verse epilogue in Greek, [LL]v-7v editor's dedicatory letter to Piero de' Medici in Latin, [LL]7v Latin colophon, [LL]8 blank). 280 leaves. Types: 5a..... More

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[Odes]. Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia, in Greek. PINDAR.

[Odes]. Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia, in Greek. Rome: Zacharias Kallierges for Cornelio Benigno, 13 August 1515.

4to (220 x 154 mm). [240] leaves, including blanks 6 and 10. Woodcut devices on title of Benigno (caduceus, Kristeller 149) and Kallierges (double-headed eagle, Kristeller 206), Kallierges’ device reprinted on final verso. Fols. 1 and A3 (opening pages of Olympia and Pythia respectively) with headings, woodcut initials, and a.... More

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