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PROCOPIUS CAESARIENSIS V.I. ANEKDOTA ARCANA HISTORIA, QUI EST LIBER NONUS HISTORIARUM. EX BIBLIOTHECA VATICANA ; THE SECRET HISTORY by Procopius (Translated by Nicolas Alemannus) - 1623

by Procopius (Translated by Nicolas Alemannus)

PROCOPIUS CAESARIENSIS V.I. ANEKDOTA ARCANA HISTORIA, QUI EST LIBER NONUS HISTORIARUM. EX BIBLIOTHECA VATICANA ; THE SECRET HISTORY by Procopius (Translated by Nicolas Alemannus) - 1623

PROCOPIUS CAESARIENSIS V.I. ANEKDOTA ARCANA HISTORIA, QUI EST LIBER NONUS HISTORIARUM. EX BIBLIOTHECA VATICANA ; THE SECRET HISTORY

by Procopius (Translated by Nicolas Alemannus)

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Lyon, France: Andreae Brugiotti, 1623. First Edition (Editio Princeps). Vellum-Bound. Good. IN LATIN AND GREEK. Tall 4to. a6, e4, i4, o4, A-R4, a-u4. [12], xxiv, 136, 142, [20]. Full old vellum, remains of more recent leather label with title in gilt lettering, peeling from spine, revealing older title in manuscript. Vellum boards cocked. Gorgeous printer's device on title page, 8 woodcut text illustrations. Engraved head and tail pieces. Light to moderate browning and foxing,with occasional dampstain. Remains of bookplate and old name in manuscript to front pastedown. Titlepage in black and red inks. Small notch to bottom margin of O4,lower right corner of e4 and m2 missing,and rough bottom edges on m1, n2, and n3, all without affecting text. Worming in bottom margins of a2-E1 and o1-u4, not affecting text. Diglot, double-column format, in Greek and Latin. A nice copy. Procopius, a Byzantine scholar known for his works on "The Wars of Justinian" and "The Buildings of Justinian", was the secretary of the general Belisarius during the reign of the emperor Justinian.

"However, for centuries there were a few scattered references to another work by Procopius -- a work so scandalous that Procopius did not dare officially publish it in his lifetime. This third work remained a mystery until the early 1620s, when a scholar working in the library of the Vatican came across a Greek manuscript, copied sometime in the 14th century. It was, it turned out, Procopius's literal secret work. The scholar, Nicoló Alamanni, then translated the work into Latin (heavily edited, as some of the accounts were too scandalous for even 17th century audiences) and published it Lyon in 1623. An English translation wasn't published until fifty years later.

The famous descriptions of Justinian's wife Theodora's stage "act" has made it a text of considerable interest to the salacious. ...The work claims to expose the lives of the emperor and his entourage. Justinian is portrayed as cruel, venal, prodigal, and incompetent....The Theodora of the Secret History is a garish portrait of vulgarity and insatiable lust juxtaposed with cold-blooded self-interest, shrewishness, and envious and fearful mean-spiritedness. (Wikipedia)

Among the more titillating (and dubious) revelations in the Secret History is Procopius's account of Theodora's on-stage jperformances: ...she removed her costume and stood all but nude in their midst, ... she would sink down to the stage floor and recline on her back. Slaves to whom the duty was entrusted would then scatter grains of barley from above into the calyx of this passion flower, whence geese, trained for the purpose, would next pick the grains one by one with their bills and eat..." Wikipedia

Graesse V, 455. Brunet 10, 897. Hoffmann III. 298.

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In 2 volumes. Atlas folio (38 x 55 cm): a suite of 25 lithographic plates in printed publisher's wrappers; text in 8vo., (5) pp., 6-44 pp., (4) pp. of advertisements in printed publisher's wrappers. Excellent.
The expanded, third edition (1866-first; 1869-second) of a very rare publication on late nineteenth century German beer making on the eve of the invention of pasteurization. Thanks to technological advances, the second half of the nineteenth century saw a boom in the industrialization of beer-making, marked by the opening of numerous beer factories and beer academies for modern brewers.
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SPORT IN THE CRIMEA AND CAUCASUS
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THE POEMS OF W. B. YEATS (2 VOLUMES, SIGNED); The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Definitive...
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THE POEMS OF W. B. YEATS (2 VOLUMES, SIGNED); The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Definitive edition with the Authors Final Revisions

by Yeats, W.B.

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London, England: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1949. Limited, Numbered, Signed Edition (9/375). Hardcover. Near Fine in mylar, and housed in a slipcase.. Quartos. (10 3/16" x 6 1/4"). Two-volume set in beveled green cloth with bright gilt monogram device to front boards. . This edition limited to 375 copies, of which 350 were for sale. No. 9 of 375, signed by the author on the limitation page, published after his death. Printed on specially made Glastonbury Ivory Toned Antique Laid Paper, manufactured by Messrs. John Dickinson and Co. Ltd. The type selected is Fournier. The work was published on November 25, 1949. A tissue-guarded frontispiece of Volume I is a reproduction of a drawing by John S. Sargent of a young Yeats, and in Volume II, the frontis is from a painting of an older Yeats, by Augustus John.Very faint rubbing to lower corners, and a tiny bump to the outer edge of Volume II. Housed in a beige, cloth-covered and suede-lined slipcase, with some brown staining to one side. Prospectus laid… Read More
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THE TAIN; (Táin Bó Cúailnge)
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Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press, 1969. Limited, [Not Numbered], Edition, (1/1750). Leather-bound. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket and Very Good Plus Slipcase. Louis le Broquy. Folio. Black boards with white vignette to front board, as well as to spine, along with lettering. Special limited edition, 1 of 1750 copies. Translation from the Irish by Thomas Kinsella, from the Irish Tain Bo Cuailnge. With 131 brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Plates and maps. 14 point Pilgrim type with Perpetua and Felix titling. Dust jacket shows two half-inch-wide bands of fading from top to bottom, on either side of the spine. Price clipped from bottom of front dustjacket flap. A wee bit of shelfwear to one of the corners of the slipcase, where the le Brocquy illustration has been affixed by the publisher to the slipcase. 294 [2] pp. "Táin Bó Cúailnge (Modern Irish pronunciation: [ t a n bo ku l ]; 'the driving-off of cows of Cooley'), commonly known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin, is an epic… Read More
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THE POEMS OF W. B. YEATS (2 VOLUMES, SIGNED); The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Definitive...
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by Yeats, W.B.

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London, England: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1949. Limited, Numbered, Signed Edition (9/375). Hardcover. Near Fine in mylar, and housed in a slipcase.. Quartos. (10 3/16" x 6 1/4"). Two-volume set in beveled green cloth with bright gilt monogram device to front boards. . This edition limited to 375 copies, of which 350 were for sale. No. 9 of 375, signed by the author on the limitation page, published after his death. Printed on specially made Glastonbury Ivory Toned Antique Laid Paper, manufactured by Messrs. John Dickinson and Co. Ltd. The type selected is Fournier. The work was published on November 25, 1949. A tissue-guarded frontispiece of Volume I is a reproduction of a drawing by John S. Sargent of a young Yeats, and in Volume II, the frontis is from a painting of an older Yeats, by Augustus John.Very faint rubbing to lower corners, and a tiny bump to the outer edge of Volume II. Housed in a beige, cloth-covered and suede-lined slipcase, with some brown staining to one side. Prospectus laid… Read More
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THE TAIN; (Táin Bó Cúailnge)
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Berlin: Fischer Verlag, 1928. 100th Edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. 345/1000 signed Thomas Mann on colophon. Octavo. Original half vellum with gilt decor and lettering on spines over elegant decorative paper-covered boards with Mann's monogram in gilt on covers. Gilt top edges. Frontispiece lithograph of portrait drawing by Olaf Gulbransson. Introduction by Hans Reisiger. Cover design by E. R. Weiß. The German author, essayist and playwright Thomas Mann (1875-1955) worked and wrote in Germany until the Nazis rose to power in 1933. Mann fled to Switzerland and moved to the United States in 1939 where he became one of the exponents of the so-called Exile Literature. The novel Magic Mountain was first published in 1924. It is considered by many as the pinnacle of his work and is one of the most influential works of German literature in the 20th century. Two postcards addressed to the family Schwendy, possibly relatives of the German painter Albert Schwendy, laid in, postmarked and… Read More
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The Secret History

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