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PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (?254-184 B.C.). Comoediae viginti, olim a Ioachimo Camerario emendatae ... Opera ... Ioannis Sambuci .... Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1566. 16° (116 x 77mm). Title within a woodcut architectural border (2 wormholes in the text diminishing to one as far as O2, another in the fore-margin as far as S4, title a little discoloured). Old-style calf by Fazakerley of Liverpool. Provenance: Thomas Skeffington (late sixteenth-century signature on title and a Greek quotation at head of title, possibly in his hand). Adams P1499.
PORCACCHI, Tommaso. Funerali antichi di diuersi popoli, et nationi. Venice: [Simon Galignani], 1574. 4° (266 X 197mm). Engraved title and 23 engravings in the text by Girolamo Porro, woodcut device on penultimate page (most corners very waterstained). 18th-century mottled calf (rebacked, slightly worn). FIRST EDITION of Porcacchi's description of funeral rites of the ancient world including those of the Indians, Scythians and Herulians (Germans). (2)
PORCACCHI, Tommaso. Funerali antichi di diuersi popoli, et nationi. Venice: [Simon Galignani], 1574. 4° (266 X 197mm). Engraved title and 23 engravings in the text by Girolamo Porro, woodcut device on penultimate page (most corners very waterstained). 18th-century mottled calf (rebacked, slightly worn). FIRST EDITION of Porcacchi's description of funeral rites of the ancient world including those of the Indians, Scythians and Herulians (Germans). (2)
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