Lipsiae - In Libraria C.F.R.G.S. de Kleefeld:. Hardcover. Fair. Theocritus was a Greek poet generally considered the founder of the bucolic poetry genre. His poems explore various themes including love nature mythology and the social and cultural life of his time. His work is important for its literary and cultural impact and for the insights it provides into the Hellenistic world. It is particularly notable for its vivid depictions of rural life love and mythology. "Theocriti Carmina" refers to a collection of poems attributed to Theocritus. The term literally translates to "poems of Theocritus". These poems primarily known for their pastoral and idyllic themes have been studied and collected for centuries. In this volume the poems appear in ancient Greek with annotations in Latin. Fair condition hardback. Paper covered boards with fragile attachment of front board to spine. Edges rubbed. Front fold of spine torn at top and bottom. Pages tanned with age spotting throughout. Text block is held together securely. Lipsiae - In Libraria C.F.R.G.S. de Kleefeld: hardcover
Oxonii Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano Clarendon Press 1770. Two volumes complete. A STUNNING LARGE ELEGANTLY-BOUND SET OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITION OF THEOCRITUS AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS EVER TO BE PRODUCED BY THE CLARENDON PRESS. iv lxx 2 316; iv 416 complete. 29 x 24 cm. Edited by Thomas Warton with notes by Jean Toup. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper in Greek Roman and Italic types. From the library of French antiquarian bookseller and bookplate expert Jacques Laget with his bookplates. 4tos. Elegantly bound in contemporary full polished calf spines richly gilt in six compartments with fleurons covers decorated in gilt all edges marbled silk ribbon page markers. Tiny traces of wear to bindings else FINE AND BRIGHT. Moss II pp. 692-693: "This I consider upon the whole the third best book which has ever issued from the Clarendon Press. It is says Harwood 'a very splendid edition and after a careful perusal I can pronounce it as correct as it is splendid.'" A WONDERFUL SET IN ALMOST PERFECT CONDITION. <br/><br/> E Typographeo Clarendoniano (Clarendon Press) unknown
GB: Oxonii: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano 1770. Contemporary full leather with raised bands and burgundy title labels. Volume I title page dedication i-lxix then lx shoudl be lxx 2 1-134 4 135-191 193-236 80. index verborum Volume II title page contents 1-388 4 389-412 Some pages misnumbered 95 93; 183 283 & 238 and 239 used twice resulting in no pages 243-4. Text is complete as issued and fully collated. Generally the texts are clean and tight with occasional dustiness mostly to top margins. BUT NOTE I old worm holes to leading edge and bottom margin of endpapers and first eight leaves minor. Some sections of text appear to be printed on poorer quality paper and show some minor browning. A few other pages a bit marked. The leather bindings are in very good condition with covers holding very soundly but both books are a bit warped. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Townley featuring their arms Argent on a fesse sable a cinquefoil or in chief three mullets of the second in wreaths of flowers etc but not their name. From the library of Town Head House Windermere. in both books.SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY GB 2018 £8 Packed weight 4200g. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW. Oxonii: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano Hardcover
Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Abrahamum et Janum Honkoop 1781. 8vo. XVIII5671 blank p. engraved frontispiece. Half calf. 21.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 23992424X; Hoffmann p. 3482; Schweiger 1311; Didbin 2492: 'Valckenaer alone has done more for Theocritus than all the previous editors of the poet put together'; Moss 2693: 'the notes are short and perspicuous and chiefly critical'; Ebert 22779; Graesse 6/2115 Details: Greek text and Latin translation. Back gilt. Marbled endpapers. The frontispiece by B. de Bakker depicts a bucolic scene from the first idyll of Theocritus two chatting shepherds. Id. 1 12-14 Engraved coat of arms of the Russian Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov 1750-1831 at the beginning of the 'dedicatio'. Valckenaer tell us in the dedication that he has good memories of the Prince's visit to Leiden and how they read poems of Theocritus. The prince was a great book and art collector. See his article in Wikipedia 'Nikolay Yusupov' Condition: Small old paper label at the foot of the spine. Boards with some small scratches. Small paper label on the upper board. Bookplate on the verso of the front flyleaf Note: The Greek poet Theocritus ca. 300 - ca. 260 BC was a native of Syracuse. He is called the father or inventor of bucolic and pastoral poetry and the reviver of the mime. His fame chiefly rests on his Idylls written in hexameter verse and in the Doric dialect. His outstanding dramatic descriptive and lyric qualities are best displayed in his bucolic poetry. 'Theocritus shares with other poets of his age a preference for the short highly finished poem for fresh and sometimes exotic themes and for new forms or old forms used in new ways. Nevertheles he transcends his age in his ability to select and concentrate his material in the freshness of his observation of people and scenes in the vivacity of his narratives and descriptions in imagery and lyricism and above all in his dramatic power.' OCD 2nd ed. p. 1054 § Moschus ca. 150 BC and also from Syracuse is according to Suidas the next after Theocritus to write pastoral poetry. He was an imitator like Bion. § This edition of 1781 is a reissue of the edition which was previously published in 1779 by Le Mair and De Chalmot at Leiden and Kampen. Honkoop purchased the remaining stock of this Theocritius edition after the death of Le Maire changed the impressum on the title page and brought it on the market for a second time now with his own name. § The edition contains Bion and Moschus and the whole of Theocritus. 'It is by far the most critical and valuable which has yet been published; in it the editior has bestowed very great labour upon the restoration of true readings - it contains an amazing fund of valuable illlustrations which no man was ever so well calculated to amass as Valckenaer who to an almost incredible extent of reading united sound ciritism and elegant erudition'. Moss. Valckenaer based his edition on many earlier Theocritus editions e.g. of Zacharias Kallierges Rome 1516 and of Ralph Thomas Winterton Cambridge 1635. He adopted the Latin translation of Theocritus made by the German scholar Helius Eobanus Hessius first published in 1530 supplementing it with translations of Daniel Heinsius and Hugo Grotius. Valckenaer also added 'ex autographis' a Latin translation of Bion & Moschus made by the Dutch poet Ernst Willem Higt latinized as Higtius 1723-1762. Higt was for 6 years a student of Valckenaer in Franeker. After his studies Higt was appointed in 1749 rector of the Gymnasium at Alkmaar. Valckenaer praises in a short 'Lectori' his poetic talents and calls him a 'Poeta graece et latine perdoctus' who 'media aetate nobis omnibus flebilis occidit'. § The Frisian scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer latinized Ludovicus Casparus Valckenarius 1715-1785 who produced this edition of the Greek poets Theocritus Bion and Moschus was a pupil of Tiberius Hemsterhuis a Frisian too and after him the greatest Dutch classical scholar of the 18th century. Hemsterhuis was professor of Greek at the University of Franeker from 1717 till 1740 and from 1740 till 1765 at the University of Leiden. Hemsterhuis was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism the so-called 'Schola Hemsterhusiana' which had in Valckenaer its best known disciple. Valckenaer studied Greek in Franeker under Hemsterhuis and succeeded to his chair in 1741. In 1765 he left for Leiden once again as successor of his beloved teacher. Both created a golden age of Greek studies in the Netherlands. Still a student Valckenaer edited a Greek lexicon of the grammarian Ammonius 'De adfinium vocabulorum Differentia' Leiden 1739. In Franeker he produced a revised and augmented edition of Fulvio Orsini's 'Virgilius illustratus' Leeuwarden 1747. This title is important for the history of scholarship for its inclusion of the text of the 22nd book of the Iliad of Homer accompanied by an introduction 'variae lectiones' and the 'editio princeps' of scholia of Porphyrius and other hellenistic and byzantine scholars. In 1755 Valckenaer published an edition of Euripides' 'Phoenissae' with his rich commentary and a Latin translation by Hugo Grotius. Among his best works are two other Euripides editions this Hippolytus edition of 1768 and his 'Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias' of 1767. Valckenaer also produced editions of the Idylls of Theocritus Leiden 1773 and of the complete works of bucolic poets Theocritus Bion and Moschus. 'Theocriti Bionis et Moschi Carmina Bucolica' Leiden & Kampen 1779. His Callimachus was published posthumously by J. Luzac in 1799 Provenance: This book was bound by the Gouda bookbinder S.H. van der Kraats 'achter de Groote kerk A. 31'. Sijbrand Hendrik van der Kraats born in Workum in 1828 came to Gouda and was there bookbinder from 1855. He died in Gouda in 1904. His small blue paper label is on the front pastedown. We could not trace on the internet any other book bound by this binder. § On the flyleaf the book-label of 'Dr. J.H. Holwerda'. The Dutch archeologist Jan Hendrik Holwerda 1873-1951 was appointed curator at the 'Rijksmuseum van Oudheden' RMO in Leiden in 1904 and in 1910 as its vice president onderdirecteur. In the same year he became lecturer in Leiden in Prehistoric and Roman archeology. In 1919 he succeeded his father as director of the Museum. This directorate lasted till his retirement in 1939. From 1935 to 1948 he was also director of the Provincial Roman 'Rijksmuseum Kam' in Nijmegen Collation: 81pi1 leaf 1 is a stocklist of 11 titles available at Honkoop's; between leaf 1 and 2 the title page has been added leaf p1 the frontispiece A-2M8 2N4 leaf 2N4 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover
Oxonii Oxford: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano 1770. First edition thus 2 volumes 4to iv lx ii 236 80 index; iv 412 4 pp. Light marginal damp staining in volume I volume II with heavier damp staining at the beginning and end some old and more recent marginal repairs to several leaves at the beginning final 7 leaves with a marginal hole to the top corner. Recent half calf gilt spine with red and black labels. Oxonii [Oxford]: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano unknown
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1770. Leatherbound. Very good. lx 2 134 236 p. 31 cm. Leather. Marbled endpapers and yellow text block edges. Hinges cracked some scuffing corners worn spine label missing. Bookplate on front pastedown for F. W. Brydges and on front free for Robert Henry Lee Warner. Small reference label on lower part of front pastedown. A little foxing to first pages. Latin text. <br/><br/> Clarendon Press hardcover
London 1760. hardcover. fine. viii 493 3 pages with parallel Greek and Latin texts. Imperial 8vo a beautiful binding in choice state attributed to Staggemeier. Full navy blue straight-grained morocco gilt broad roll border on sides in gilt and blind with gilt inner cornerpieces; ornate spine tooled in gilt and blind in compartments with double bands; edges marbled and gilt. London: Impensis Editoris. Prostant venalia apud C. Hitch & L. Hawkes D. Prince and E. Easton 1760. A superb copy of this scarce large paper edition.<br/> <br/> From the library of William Beckford of Fonthill Lot 2533 in Part III of the Beckford sale July 1883. Later in the collections of Sir Edward Sullivan Jean Gennadius & Henry Clements. OCLC lists 23 copies including those at Columbia Yale Harvard & Cambridge.<br/> <br/> unknown
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