![[Commentarii in Somnium Scipioni] Saturnaliorum, lib. VII. Ex variis, ac vetustissimis codicibus recogniti, & aucti. Ambrosius Theodosius MACROBIUS.](/pictures/thumb/4504804.jpg?v=1548388213)
Lyon: Sebastianus Gryphius, 1556.
An early pocket Macrobius with the world map, in original dated pigskin binding
Octavo, with diagrams and woodcut map, woodcut initials, printer's device on title; marginal notes; contemporary dated binding (1560) of blind-embossed pigskin over wooden boards, two engraved metal clasps. This is a most attractive... More![Hoc Volumine Continentur… [Opera, edited by Nicolaus Angelius]. Ambrosius Theodosius MACROBIUS.](/pictures/thumb/3002024.jpg?v=1500602870)
Florence: Juntae, 1515.
The pocket Macrobius
Octavo, ff. [xii], 280, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on last leaf, with six woodcuts; contemporary vellum, This was the first popular pocket edition of Macrobius's influential text, printed by the Giunta family in Florence; such smaller format publications were a feature of publishing... More
Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, 1483.
First appearance of the Macrobian world map
Small folio (302 x 198mm), 191 leaves (initial blank leaf discarded), with seven diagrams and a world map within the text; capital spaces blank; a fine, large copy in handsome Regency russia leather, sides richly tooled in gilt... More
Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1521.
Early Macrobius with a refigured world map
Folio, title within an ornate woodcut border; fine woodcut map of the world and several woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials; nineteenth-century continental binding of half calf, flat spine gilt in compartments. An important early edition of Macrobius, the first to... More
London: T. Dring & C. Harper, 1694.
First appearance of Macrobius in England
Octavo, with an additional engraved allegorical title, letterpress title printed in red & black, complete with the often missing imprimatur leaf at start; with a map and other figures in the text;; early eighteenth-century calf with contemporary... More