Paris: Ingenia, Constructions de Precision, n.d. [1950s?]. Cardboard Covers. 4p., giant cardstock leaves (11.5x16.5 inches) printed recto-only in vivid colors (Roman interior decoration wasn't subtle), enclosed in a doubly-giant folder printed two-colors in French and Latin, francophone instructions for assembling a tiny cardboard villa (lotsa rooms) around gardens and pools..... More
Cat.No: 291553
Madrid: Real Monasterio de El Escorial, 1960. Pamphlet. Pagination as above, softbound, a sewn booklet in 9.5x6.5 inch photo-decorated wraps, illustrated with a number of b&w plates on semi-glazed inserted stock (clerical photoportraits, exhibit photos), a generally sound, handleable copy with a ruined spine panel that resembles "disbound" status but..... More
Cat.No: 312766
North Easton, MA: the author, 1901. Letter. Single sheet of stationery, 8.5x11 inches, faint creases from having been folded. The letter begins with an apology for mislaying the precise amount of money Ames owed to Baker, an instructor of Latin at Harvard, for some recent translation work. “The translations were..... More
Cat.No: 201579
Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtu Siegfr. Lebr. Crusii, 1782. 188p., Greek text on calendared paperstock (alkaline, only slightly toned) with subscribed Latin commentary printed double-column in smallpoint. A remarkable clean sound copy with two original blanks, re-cased into dark green buckram boards with brown leather spine label gilt. No ownership marks or..... More
Cat.No: 177328
Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, S.A., 1960. Paperback. Pp179-210 [i.e., thirty pages total], softbound, a booklet in 9.5x6.5 inch plain printed wraps, alkaline paperstock throughout, three corner-tips are bumped one of which seriously, a generally sound copy that is quite clean and totally unmarked. De la "Revista de Filologia Espanola" tomo..... More
Cat.No: 312761
Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1960. Paperback. Pp115-139 [i.e., about twenty-five pages total], softbound, a booklet in 9.5x7 inch plain printed wraps, alkaline paperstock throughout, three corner-tips are bumped one of which seriously, a generally sound copy that has mild exterior dust-soil but is totally unmarked. Concerns El Cid. No other part..... More
Cat.No: 312765
Upsala: J. Arrhenii, 1863. 51p., slender 8x5 inch hardcover with decorative marbled paper on boards and cloth binder's tape spine; volume was long ago professionally strengthened, with titlepage mounted on heavier stock, patch-repair of large chips within, and stubs here and there in the gutters showing reinforcement. These old repairs..... More
Cat.No: 198402
Rome: Editiones Calasanctianae, 1969. Oversized Paperback. xxxi, 1262 p.,softbound, 9.5x6.5 inch buff wraps, nearly 2.5 inches thick, edgeworn with creasing of upper corner-tips, a good copy. Text in Latin. Monumenta Historica Scholarum Piarum. Collected letters of the Ordo Clericorum regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum, which established a widely respected..... More
Cat.No: 171018
Berlin: Vollmer Verlag, [1955]. 87p. illustrated with drawings by Bele Bachem, very good in cloth and gilt, lightly-sunned spine. Catallus' poetry in Latin and German translation. More
Cat.No: 84144
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1985. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1982 Combined Edition, xxiii [plus Corrigenda, single page of text], 2126p., entire edition hardbound in one cloth casing, classic OUP: super-massive black cloth boards gilt. Item must have been frequently resorted to, as both hinges are slightly weak and..... More
Cat.No: 319037
New York: The Poets Press, 1965. Pamphlet. [32]p., 6x9 inch wraps; a gift inscription on front cover, otherwise in very good condition. Latin poems facing English translations. More
Cat.No: 315948
London: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd., 1960. Hardcover. viii, 287p., first issued in the 1930s. Hardbound first printing of the Third, cased into blue cloth boards gilt. No dust jacket (if one were ever added). Faintest signs of age and handling, very good. More
Cat.No: 319108
Cambridge: Villa I Tatti: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 1969. Unpaginated, about eighteen pages, printed on laid-lined paperstock, hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch cloth boards gilt, and provided with a plain glassine jacket, a throwaway; this jacket is badly torn. The book itself is perfectly clean, sound and unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 229700
Bogota: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1952. Pamphlet. 46p., softbound in plain printed 9x6 inch stapled wraps, inscribed neatly on the cover to Joaquin Nin-Culmel (Anais Nin's brother) and signed with Malkiel's initials. Item has a bad bump to the head of the spinefold affecting all leaves, and a little edgewear..... More
Cat.No: 206992
n.p. Language [journal], 1959. Paperback. Offprint, pp.193-258p., softbound in side-stitched 10x7 inch plain printed wraps; staples have rusted with migration, and item shows mild sunning and dust-soil. Very good, save for a couple of small dog ears. Generally sound, unmarked, and otherwise clean. More
Cat.No: 314666
no city, Germany: not shown, undated, circa 1920s. Hardcover. Contents entirely maps in facsimile with explanitory text in blackletter, most maps (there are many) are doublespreads, we see no damage to these, to the singletons, or to the text leaves. Hinges of item have been strengthened neatly (indeed expertly) with..... More
Cat.No: 276644
Vatican: the church, 1990-2003. Paperback. Plain printed journal wraps with mild variation in cover stock (mostly matte grey; glossy colors for the millennium), 9.5x6.5 inches, averaging just under 100p. each, one issue bears a holograph comment relating to content, else very good to fine copies: perfectly sound, clean, and else..... More
Cat.No: 262530
Zaragoza: Libreria General, 1962. Paperback. 85p., softbound in 7.5x5 inch plain printed buff wraps, alkaline stock throughout. Nice copy, marked only by translator's brief inscription in ballpoint pen, signed. Mildest edgewear, sound and cleanly. Biblioteca del Hispanista V. More
Cat.No: 312690
Brisbane, QLD: Toowoomba Catholic Research Centre, 1990. Pamphlet. 28p., texts in Latin and English, softbound in plain printed wraps, 8.5x5.5 inches. Presswork on unglazed but alkaline paperstock, covers are mildly dusty, bent at the corner-tips, with many dog-ears within. Text is complete, a reading copy. More
Cat.No: 299567
Milano: Ulrico Hoepli (Ristampa anastatica 1948), 1948. Hardcover. From the 1919 issue: xv, 407p., small hardbound in 6x4 inch flexible papered boards, mild edgewear to casing, paperstock is acidic and somewhat toned, and a former owner has covered margins with brackets and endsheets with penciled notes in Italian. As is..... More
Cat.No: 314395
Madrid: Imprenta de Fortanet, 1881. Hardcover. xiii, 281p., text in Spanish, nineteenth century Spanish translation of all four books of the poem in one volume; very worn, insect-nibbled tan cloth (now toned) over severely edgeworn boards, spine titling in gilt is quite dim. As is. Virgil's "Georgics" in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 192536
Zagreb: The Bridge, 1998. Paperback. 312p., softbound, 8x5.5 inch paperback in glossy decorated wraps. Head of spine panel has a very light bump and the back cover a couple short scratches, a sound clean copy without ownership or any other marks. Laid in, on notepaper, find a brief English message..... More
Cat.No: 227384
