Caesar. Commentaria: seculorum iniuria antea difficilia: et valde mendosa. Venic…

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Caesar. Commentaria: seculorum iniuria antea difficilia: et valde mendosa. Venice, Agostino Zani, 1517. In 2nd (308 x 215 mm);[8], CX [but 109], [7] papers.Frontispiece printed in red and black with woodcut vignette within frieze, two large woodcuts on half page and numerous small woodcut figures in text (small woodworm hole, restoration to inner and outer margins of last few papers). Coeval half-leather binding with embossed plates, traces of two clasps and spotting inside (renewed wood boards). Traces of Austrian library stamp. Elegant illustrated edition containing all of Caesar's works.

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PROUST (Marcel): La recherche du Temps Perdu. Paris, NRF, 1946-1947. 15 volumes. 11 by 17.5 cm. Publisher's decorated boards based on designs by Mario PRASSINOS, known as "Cartonnages Bonet". A tiny stain on the spine of volume 1, otherwise in mint condition. Du côté de chez Swann: 2 volumes - À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs: 3 volumes - Le côté de Guermantes: 3 volumes - Sodome et Gomorrhe: 2 volumes - La Prisonnière: 2 volumes - Albertine disparue: 1 volume - Le Temps retrouvé: 2 volumes. Numbered copies, from a total edition of 2,100. Hard to find complete, and even harder to find in such fine condition.

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Socialism - Anarchism. Important set of letters and photographs by socialist and communist activist Louis Georges EPINETTE, known as MAILLET, a thurifer of Jules Guesde and friend of his son, c. 1900. A series of letters from 1904 to "Jeanne", who was to become his wife, in which he describes his difficult situation. The photographs show him in the Army, with his family and friends. A file to be added to the origins of French Socialism. cf. https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article24432, notice ÉPINETTE Louis, Georges, dit MAILLET Louis et MAILLET Georges by Claude Pennetier, version uploaded February 3, 2009, last modified November 27, 2013.

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*Italy - PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SEVERUS L'Etna de P. Cornelius Severus et les Sentences de Publius Syrus, traduits en françois, avec des remarques [par Accarias de Sérionne][...] Paris, Chaubert et Clousier, 1736. In-12 brown basane, smooth ornate spine, title page, gilt fillet framing the boards, red tr. (period binding). Covers gnawed, leather missing, rubbed, corners worn. Rousseurs. Edition decorated with two folding plates (view of Etna and map of Sicily). Publius Cornelius Severus was a Latin poet and contemporary of Ovid. He died an untimely death. He left behind a fragment on the Death of Cicero. The Etna poem has been attributed to him, but Johann Christian Wernsdorf believes it is by Lucilius the Younger. Publilius Syrus (or, less correctly, Publius Syrus), born in Syria around 85 BC and died at an unknown date after 43 BC, was a Latin poet. Brought as a slave to Rome, named Syrus after his province of origin, he was educated and later freed by his master for his intellectual qualities, humor and talents. Along with Decimus Laberius, a Roman knight whom he is said to have defeated in a literary joust in Caesar's presence in 46 BC, he is the leading exponent of mimicry. Syrus outlived both Caesar and Laberius, and enjoyed great success in Rome. We owe him a series of mimes, two titles of which have survived. We can also read his Sentences, a series of aphorisms taken from his plays. They include maxims and piquant observations, such as "judex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur" ("The judge is condemned when the guilty man is acquitted"). These maxims were still appreciated a century later by Seneca. (source Wikipedia).

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