Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

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Howard Jones, Printing the Classical Text, ‘t Goy‐Houten, Hes & De Graff, 2004, 4to., publisher's green cloth


Juanita Feros Ruys, John O. Ward & Melanie Heyworth, ed., The classics in the medieval and Renaissance classroom : the role of ancient texts in the arts curriculum as revealed by surviving manuscripts and early printed books, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013, 4to., publisher's printed boards


Homerus

Glenn W. Most & Alice Schreyer, Homer in Print: A Catalogue of the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana at the University of Chicago Library, Chicago, University of Chicago Library, 2013, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket


Lucretius

Cosmo Alexander Gordon, A Bibliography of Lucretius. Second edition [introd. and notes by E.J. Kenney], Winchester, St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1985, 8vo., publisher's red simulated cloth


Pausanias

Maria Georgopoulou, Céline Guilmet, Yanis A. Pikoulas, Konstantinos Sp. Staikos, George Tolias, ed., Following Pausanias: The Quest for Greek Antiquity (National Hellenic Research Foundation & Gennadius Library), Oak Knoll Press & Kotinos National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2007, fol., publisher's printed stiff paperboard covers


Seneca

Teresa De Robertis & Gianvito Resta, ed., Seneca, una vicenda testuale, Florence, 2004, fol., publisher's printed colored wrappers


Vergil

Martin Davies & John Goldfinch, Vergil: A Census of Printed Editions 1469‐1500 (Occasional Papers of the Bibliographical Society, no. 7), London, 1992, fol., publisher's blue printed wrappers


Vergil

Craig Kallendorf, A bibliography of Renaissance Italian translations of Virgil, Florence, L.S. Olschki, 1994, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers


Vergil

Craig Kallendorf, A Bibliography of Venetian Editions of Virgil, 1470‐1599, Florence, L.S. Olschki, 1991, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers


Vergil

 Matteo Venier, Per una storia del testo di Virgilio nella prima età del libro à stampa (1469‐1519), Udine, 2001, 4to., publisher's red printed wrappers


Vergil

Craig Kallendorf, A Catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil Collection in the Princeton University Library, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2009, fol., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket


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