ANTIQUE BOOKS. Set of 8 books. ÆLIUS ARISTIDE. Orationum tomi tres. Basel, Pietro Perna and Heinrich Petri, 1566. In-folio, fawn half-basin, spine decorated with cold fleurons, gilt edges (Modern binding). First collective edition in Latin, translated and published by the Flemish humanist Willem Canter (1542-1575), whose philological essay Syntagma is printed as an appendix. The order of the speeches determined by Canter was retained in later editions until that of K. W. Dindorf (1829). The works of the rhetorician Ælius Aristides (117-181) had already been the subject of a collective edition in Greek, printed in Florence in 1517 by Filippo Giunta. Mottling and foxing. Schweiger, I, 45 - Hoffmann, I, 249 - Adams, A-1703. BUDÉ (Guillaume). Commentarii linguæ græcæ. S.l.n.n. [Florence, Lucantonio Giunta], 1530. in-folio, orange saddle-skin, spine decorated, marbled edges (modern binding). Rare edition of this essential work for the revival of Greek studies in the 16th century. The original had been published the previous year in Paris by Josse Bade. Greco-Latin printing by Lucantonio Giunta, with his typographical mark of the Florentine lily on the title and at the end. Title restored with slight tears, scattered dampstains. HERODIAN. Ιστοριων βιβλια Η. Histor[iarum] libri 8. Lyon, Claude Cayne for Pierre Ravaud, 1624. In-8, half sand basane, spine ornate (Modern binding). Lyon edition printed on two columns with the Greek text and its Latin translation by Ange Politien. A short-margined copy; scattered freckles and stains. HYGIN. Fabularum liber. Ejusdem Poeticon astronomicon libri quatuor. Basel, Johann Herwagen, 1549. In-folio, purple morocco basane, roulette and cold fillets framing, spine decorated with cold fleurons, smooth edges (Modern binding). Second edition of Hygin's Fables published by Jacobus Micyllus at Herwagen after the 1535 princeps edition. It also contains the Poeticon astronomicon by the same author, illustrated with 48 woodcuts of zodiac signs and constellations, as well as five treatises attributed to Paléphatos, Fulgence, Aratos and Proclus, two of which are printed in Greek and Latin. Copy of Pierre de la Porte, of Chambéry, with manuscript bookplate from the period. Freckling; binding unevenly faded. JAMBLIQUE. Περί μυστηρίων λόγος. De mysteriis liber. Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1678. In-folio, half white vellum (Modern binding). Greco-Latin edition published by Thomas Gale of this important work by the Neoplatonic philosopher Jamblicus on ancient Egyptian magic, theurgy, the efficacy of sacrifices, the nature of angels and genii, etc. Stamp of the Dominican Fathers of Edinburgh. Minor wetness. ONOSANDER. Στρατηγικος. Strategicus, sive de imperatoris institutione liber. Nuremberg, G. N. Raspe, s.d. [1762]. - The General of the Army. Translated from the Greek by M. le Baron de Zur-Lauben. Paris, Vincent, 1757. 2 parts in one volume, half morocco, spine decorated (Modern binding). An excellent Greco-Latin edition of Onosander's military treatise, published by Nicolaus Schwebel with unpublished notes by Joseph Scaliger and Vossius. The French translation of the same treatise by B. F. de la Tour-Châtillon de Zurlauben is appended. The illustration consists of a frontispiece, 2 out-of-text figures and 13 in-text illustrations of ancient weapons and war machines. Scattered brown spots. POLYBE. Historiarum libri priores quinque. Basel, Johannes Herwagen, 1549. 2 parts in one volume in-folio, fawn half-basin, spine decorated, spotted edges (Modern binding). Greco-Latin edition translated by Niccolo Perotti. Doubled title, wetness and traces of mould, worm work and numerous paper restorations sometimes affecting the text. Adams, P-1803. PLUTARCH. Dialogue sur la musique, translated into French with remarks, by M. Burette. [Paris, Mémoires de littérature tirés des registres de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1736]. Followed by other memoirs by the same author. Ibid, 1717-1751. Small in-4, half brown basane (Modern binding). In addition to Plutarch's Dialogue sur la musique established in Greek, translated into French and annotated by Pierre-Jean Burette (1665-1747), this factitious collection brings together several memoirs by the French musicologist: Supplément à la dissertation sur la théorie de l'ancienne musique comparée avec celle de la musique moderne (with 3 folding plates of engraved music), Dissertation sur la symphonie des Anciens, Dissertation sur le rythme de l'ancienne musique, Dissertation sur la mélopée de l'ancienne musique (with 5 plates of music), etc. Some foxing, spine lightened.