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"Scarce antique stone lithograph drawn by H Lamb. The print was made on India paper, laid on art paper. The margins are rather scruffy all round with marks on the edge of the image top. Please see image.

This coloured lithograph is in a Hogarth frame with a bevelled ivory mount. Mount window 185 x 110 mm; frame 295 x 220 mm overall. Print appears in a very good condition. Not examined out of the frame. Please see images. 29.5 x 22 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Forty full page hand-coloured lithographs by S. Bendixen and printed by C. Graf. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition Nd. c. 1840's. The superb full page hand coloured pates are printed on heavy duty paper and the colouring is very fine. There is some foxing and marking, mostly to margins. With some small tears repaired on the back of the prints. Some plates are heavily foxed and browned to the verso. This is only the first series of the prints as the title states there were 52 published, first series 1-40 and the continuation series of twelve plates. On the verso of the title page the publisher advises how the plates are to be sold, plates 1-40, coloured in one volume and bound in cloth for 46 shillings. Then two volumes could be purchased with all 52 prints. The title page has a water stain and is heavily foxed. Bound in contemporary half leather with blue cloth sides. No spine and corners heavily chipped and rubbed. A really fine series of plates and an interesting teaching aid. Presumably most copies were broken up and displayed making it a rare series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Declamatiunculae aliquot, eaedemq[ue] Latinae, per Des.Erasmum Rot. Cum duabus orationibus Lysiae itidem versis, incerto interprete, & aliis nonnullis. Basel, Johann Froben, March (at end: 1st May) 1522. 4to. [114]f. Greek text with Latin translation on opposite pages. With ornamental woodcut borders and historiated initials after Hans Holbein; ornamental title woodcut border signed by U[rs] G[raf]. Large printer's device at end. Contemporary blind-tooled half pigskin over oak boards. Erasmus proved his linguistic skills in his Latin version of the collected speeches on set topics by the 4th century Greek rhetorician Libanius, his first attempt at translating a classical text. Working from a Greek manuscript at Louvain University, he corrected several errors and omissions, for the first printing in 1519. The remaining errors were eliminated for this 2nd edition prepared by Froben, in which a number of passages were given a more accurate form. Libanius, who taught at Antioch and Constantinople, was regarded as a model of style both in Christian Byzantium and in Renaissance Europe. He was advisor to both the pagan emperor Julian (362-3) and the Christian emperor Theodosius I (379-393). The volume additionally contains Latin versions of Isocrates' Orations (by Petrus Mosellanus), the declamations of Lucian of Samosata by Erasmus, and the orations of Lysias. The Latin translations are printed facing the Greek texts on parallel pages. The splendid woodcut title border is illustrated in Walter Lüthi, Urs Graf, Zürich 1928. A good copy with a contemporary manuscript entry on title and contemporary manuscript notes in Greek in a few blank margins; occasional light traces of waterstaining in blank margins, otherwise well preserved in its original binding. Adams L-630. Hoffmann II, 519; VD16-L1480. Signed by Author(s).