Books and Manuscripts

1. Priscian
Prisciani Grammatici Caesariensis Libri Omnes
Venice: Aldus Manutius, May 1527. First edition. 8vo. ff. 13, (i), 299, (3); lacking ff. 83-86. Publisher's device on title-page and verso of colophon. Full old vellum, old paper label on spine, scattered light wear; all edges trimmed; ownership stamp on front free endpaper ("Dr. L. Oster Konstanz"); scattered foxing to text; some top edges repaired. Goldsmith and Renouard 213

2. Arentino, Leonardo (Leonardo Bruni)
Libro della Guerra de Ghotti…
Venice: Gabriel Iolito de Ferrari, 1542. 16mo. ff. (i), (v), 2-88. Title-page within decorative woodcut border; printer's device on colophon. Full vellum over boards, morocco spine label, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; marbled endpapers; scattered minor spotting to text; faint dampstaining in some edges. 

3. Ficino, Marsilio
Theologia Platonica De Immortalitate Animorum Duo de Viginti Libris, Marsilio Ficino Florentino…
Paris: Apud Aegidium Gorbinum, 1559. 16mo. ff. (36), 347. Woodcut printer's device on title-page. Full mottled brown calf, morocco spine label, stamped in blind and in gilt; red speckled edges; marbled endpapers; old ownership signature on verso of front free endpaper; bottom half of title-page laid down, affecting some text on verso; old staining in bottom corner of prelims; scattered minor spotting to text. 

4. Martial, Marcus Valerius
M. Val. Martialis Epigrammaton Libri XIIII…
Lyon: Apud Antonium Gryphium, 1567. 32mo. 475, (3) pp. Woodcut printer's device on title-page. Full 18th-century mottled red calf, morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, light wear to boards and extremities, spine browned, wear at foot of same; red speckled edges; marbled endpapers; remnants of armorial book-plate on front paste-down; scattered minor spotting to text. 

5. Drayton, Michael
Poems
London: Printed (by R. Young) for John Smethwick, 1637. Newly Corrected. 12mo. (viii), 487 pp. Illustrated with engraved title-page. Full contemporary black morocco, stamped in gilt; red speckled edges; 16th century wastepaper bound as free endpapers; dampstaining to text. 

6. Catullus (Gaius Valerius)
Catullus Tibullus Propertius Cum C. Galli Fragmentis Serio Castigati
Amsterdam: Isbrandum Haring, 1686. 16mo. 239 pp. Illustrated with an engraved title-page. Full contemporary tan calf, stamped in blind; red stained edges; contemporary inscription front free endpaper.