Collection Highlight: Webber's The Hunter-Naturalist
The Hunter-Naturalist: Romance of Sporting, or, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters.
C. W. Webber. Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1851.
The Hunter-Naturalist: Romance of Sporting, or, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters.
C. W. Webber. Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1851.
Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
L'opere di Virgilio Mantoano, cioè la Bucolica, la Georgica, e l'Eneide, commentate in lingua volgare toscana, da Giouanni Fabrini da Fighine, da Carolo Malatesta da Rimene, & da Filippo Venuti da Cortona. Venice: Heirs of Melchiorre Sessa, 1588.
On the title page we can clearly read the following Latin inscription indicating ownership of the book: Ad usum D. Francisci Mariae Senighi.
Varro, Marcus Terentius (116-27 B.C.)
De Lingua Latina (ed. Julius Pomponius Laetus). [Rome: Georgius Lauer, c. 1471-2].
This Roman edition is the editio princeps of De lingua latina and the first work of Marcus Terentius Varro to be printed. Unfortunately, our copy is missing the first ten leaves, which included a letter addressed to Bartholomaeus Platina, a summary of the De lingua latina, and a mention to Laetus' editorial work on the text.
Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII (1568-1644).
Maphaei S.R.E. Card. Barberini nvnc Vrbani Pp. VIII. Poemata. Antwerp: Balthasar I Moretus, 1634.
Thucydides (c. 460-404 B.C.)
Thucydidis Olori filii de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Geneva: Henricus Stephanus (Henri Estienne II), 1564.
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (69-after 122)
C. Suetonius Tranquilli XII Caesares. Sexti Aurelij Victoris à D. Caesare Augusto usq; ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropij de gestis Romanorum. Lib. X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII ad Eutropij historiam additi. Venice: In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, 1516.
C. Crispus Sallustius (86-35 BC); Lucius Annaeus Florus (2nd century AD)
C. Crispus Sallustius; et L. Annaeus Florus. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773.
Francesco Sacchini (1570-1625)
Leben dess ehrwürdigen Patris Petri Canisij der Societet Jesv Theologen, auss dem Lateinischen ins
Teutsch versetzt. Dillingen: Ulrich Rem, 1621.
Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507)
Thesavrus Artificiosae Memoriae, Concionatoribus, Philosophis, Medicis, Iuristis, Oratoribus, Procuratoribus, caeterisque; bonarum litterarum amatoribus.Venice: Antonius Paudanius, 1579.
Werner Rolewinck (1425-1502)
Fasciculus Temporum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 24 Nov. 1480.