UNSWORTHS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS

5. Basil I: Admonitoria ad filium suum Leonem. Interprete Ioanne Paradis Beluaco -
Villariensi à S. Domini Sepulcro, Iuris Pontificii Doctore, Sanctae sedis Apostolicae
Protonotario, & in Academiâ Parisiensi Professore. Parisiis [Paris]: Nicolai Buon,
1637. [48034] £1,250
12mo., pp. [xii], 193, [vii]. Parallel Greek and Latin text, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. MS note
in an old hand opposite title-page, narrow margins, a few occasional spots of foxing but otherwise very nice
and bright. Contemporary brown mottled calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, edges red, marbled
endpapers. Joints only slightly creased, corners worn, slight dent to very edge of upper board.
A rare printing, with no copies in COPAC and only four traced in Worldcat, in the BNF, the Bavarian
State Library, the Royal Library of Denmark, and the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve.
6. Brisson, Barnabe: Hotman, Antoine and François: De Veteri Ritu Nuptiarum & Jure
Connubiorum. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Petrum le Grand, 1662.
[46568] £250
12mo., pp. [iv], 504, [xliv] + engraved title-page. Neat paper repair to bottom of leaf Z1 affecting some
text (‘N’ section of Index), a few small ink blots, two index leaves unopened. Contemporary vellum with
yapp fore-edges, ink title to spine, edges sprinkled. Spine a little sunned, some smudges and light spotting.
Inkstamp of Herman Frederik Willem David Fischer and red stamp ‘Ex Bibliotheca Heldiana’ to f.f.e.p.
Some booksellers’ notes to front paste-down.
Contains chapters on wedding ceremonies and on matrimonial law. French jurist and politician
Barnabé Brisson’s (1531-1591; latinised as Brissonius) public career included holding various positions
by appointment of Charles IX and Henry III, among them the sixth president of Parlement. When the
Seize took over Paris in 1589, Brisson was sufficiently diplomatic for them to also appoint him first
president of the new Parlement, but before long he lost their trust and was executed in 1591.
Willems, 1615.
7. Caesar, Gaius Julius: (Orsini, Fulvio, ed.:) [Opera Omnia] Rerum Ab Se Gestarum
Commentarii. Quae hoc volumine continentur, & quid huic editioni accesserit,
sequens pagella indicabit. Lugduni [Lyon]: (Jacques Roussin), 1626. [48577] £500
12mo., pp. (xxxii), 879, (lxxvii) + 2 fold-out woodcut maps. Three further woodcut illustrations to text,
occasional headpieces, printer’s device to title-page. Foxed and sporadically toned with pp. 481-518
being particularly affected, paper flaw to p.529 resulting in hole to roughly three lines of text each side,
another paper flaw to p.69 not affecting text. Contemporary semi-limp vellum, yapp fore-edges, blind
ruled spine and borders, ink title to spine, faint ink ownership inscription in an old hand to upper board. A
little darkened, stain to upper board, ties lost. Ownership inscription to front of upper board, ‘Ex Libris
Christopher Sonnenberg’ followed by a few further illegible words. Remains of erased pencil notes to f.f.e.p.
Likely a licenced, or perhaps pirated, copy of the early Aldine edition, and a rare printing. Not found
on COPAC and apparently unseen by either Dibdin or Schweiger, Worldcat has two records for the
edition but neither seem to be associated with any actual physical holdings.
8. Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Ernesti, Johann August, ed.:) Opera Omnia [...] cum Notis
et Clave Ciceroniana. Halis Saxonum [Halle an der Saale]: In Orphano Tropheo,
1774-77. [29938] £450
5 vols in 6, 8vo., lxxxvi, xvi 734 [ii] + 2 plates; xxii [ii] 847 [i]; [iii] 852-1696; xvi 510 [ii] viii [i] 514-1166
[ii]; viii 736 [iii] 740-1200; xvi 910 + engraved frontispiece portrait of author. Contemporary mottled calf,
spines in six compartments with raised bands, tan labels in second comparments, the rest with central floral
stamps and corner decorations, a.e.r., a touch rubbed at extremities with slight wear to heads of spines.
Bookplates of the Bibliotheek van de Doopsgezinde Gemeente of Amsterdam to upper pastedowns.