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‎DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE. Botanique. Gnaphalium pulvinatum Gnaphalium spathulatum Gnaphalium crispatulum. Histoire Naturelle planche 44‎

‎Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1809. Fine. Imprimerie Impériale Paris 1809-1829 71 x 54 cm une feuille Original unshaved full-page etching from the “Imperial edition” of the Description de l'Égypte or ‘Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great'.Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828 1000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark visible when held up to the light. Light marginal spotting not touching image otherwise in very fresh fine condition. An engraving from the Description de l'Egypte one of the masterpieces of French printing and the birth of a new field: Egyptology. A gigantic survey of Egypt at the time of Bonaparte's conquests in 1798 and 1799 the work is divided into 13 volumes of engravings making up 892 plates of which 72 colored as well as presenting the splendors of the Egypt of the Pharaohs in 9 volumes. The other volumes discuss natural history and present a fascinating portrait of Coptic and Islamic Egypt as it was seen by Bonaparte's Eastern Armies. The ‘Egyptian campaign' militarily a disaster demonstrates through the engravings of the Description d'Egypte the scientific success it nonetheless became thanks to the 167 expert members of the Commission of the Sciences and Arts of the Institut d'Egypte Egyptian Institute who followed Napoleon's army. The Institut gathered together in Egypt the mathematician Monge the chemist Berthollet the naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as well as numerous artists engineers architects and doctors. They were tasked with re-discovering modern and ancient Egypt and displaying its natural treasures as well as the know-how of its inhabitants.This edition the so-called “Imperial” edition of the plates for the Description de l'Egypte was printed in four large formats two of which were specially created for it and christened “Moyen-Egypte” and “Grand-Egypte”. A special press was built to print it the process extending over 20 years from 1809 to 1829. The “Imperial” edition proved so popular that a second edition this time in black and white and without the “Egypte ancienne et moderne” watermark – known as the “Royal Edition” – was published during the Restoration by the printing house of C.-L.-F. Panckoucke Paris.The engravings of the Description d'Egypte owe a great deal to Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon illustrator diplomat collector and later Director of the Musée Napoléon the Louvre. His exploration of the South of Egypt gave Bonaparte the idea of sending the experts of the Institut there thus creating a faithful and complete portrait of the area. This was the research gathered together from 1802 in the mammoth Description de L'Egypte.Denon embarked on this story of archeological exploration at the age of 51 reaching first Alexandria and then Cairo before exploring Upper Egypt. Along with the members of the Institut d'Egypte the Natural History Museum's painter H.J. Redouté brother of Pierre-Joseph Redouté author of Roses the mineralogist Dolomiue and the draughtsman Joly Denon then explored the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt. When however he joined the 21st Light Infantry Regiment as it marched across Upper Egypt in pursuit of the retreating Mameluks in November 1798 he found himself the only civilian. In the very midst of the battle itself he reeled off sketches of the works of art that peppered his path right up to the threshold of the Sudan. He said that he had crossed “a country that is apart from its name entirely unknown to Europeans and therefore everything was worth describing” Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes de Imprimerie Impériale unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 26431

‎Plesset, Milton‎

‎Analytical Mechanics‎

‎Pasadena: California Institute Of Technology 1968. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Iii 168 Pp. Stapled Mimeo Sheets With 1968 Copyright. Advanced Class Text Of A Caltech Professor. Scarce; Indexed In Worldcat But No Institutional Holding Identified. <br/> <br/> California Institute Of Technology paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 032520

‎PLINIUS MINOR‎

‎C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolarum libri X. Notis integris Is. Casauboni Jani Gruteri H. Stephani Augusti Buchneri Casp. Barthii Joh. Fred. Gronovii Selectissimisque Joh. Mariae Catanaei Ritterhusii & aliorum insertis suo loco integris commentariis Francisci Balduini J.C. Cunradi Ritterhusii J.C. & Gerh. Joh. Vossii in 'Relationem' seu consultationem 'Plinii' & ad hanc 'Rescriptum Trajani' Imper. de 'Christianis' illustrati & accurate recensiti a Johanne Veenhusio Brem.‎

‎Leiden Rotterdam Lugd. Batav. Roterodami Ex Officina Hackiana 1669. 8vo. LII81823 index1 blank p. frontispiece. 19th century half calf. 19.5 cm 'We shall have reason to congratulate ourselves on the acquisition of so elegant and desirable an edition' Ref: STCN ppn 840239440; Schweiger 2809; Brunet 4722: 'bonne édition'; Fabricius/Ernesti 2415 among the 'meliores editiones'; Dibdin 2331: 'is one of the scarcest and most valuable of the octavo Variorum classics'; Moss 2494/95: 'the text of Pliny is correct and the select notes of Veenhyseen sic do great credit to his learning and judgment'; Ebert 17351: 'eine der bessern Augaben cum notis varior.' Graesse 5347/48 Details: Back ruled gilt and with 4 raised bands. The frontispiece engraved by G. Wingendorp depicts Plinius at his desk in front of him 2 quills and an inkpot. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a soaring eagle motto 'Movendo'. Dibdin adds: 'and whether we consider the elegance of its typography the accuracy of the text or perspicuity of the notes we shall have equal reason to congratulate ourselves on the acquisition of so elegant and desirable an edition'. Winckelmann used this 1669 edition of Pliny when he visited the Laurentine Villa Ep. II17 of Pliny Condition: Binding slightly scuffed. Seven small wormholes at the foot of the spine. New endpapers. Ownership entry on the title. Some foxing Note: The Roman civilian administrator Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus 61-112 A.D published 10 books of literary letters consisting of short essays character sketches and sensible observations. The letters paint the high society of the young Roman empire. The ninth book contains Pliny's correspondence with the emperor Trajan. Pliny is famous for his description of the eruption of the Vesuvius on the 24th of August in 79 A.D. He was a nephew of the encyclopedist Pliny the Elder who died observing the eruption from afar overcome by poisonous fumes. Pliny the Younger held under Trajanus a number of magistracies. In 111 or 112 he became governor of Bithynia. From here he was in constant correspondence with the Emperor. His letters which were conceived of as artistic productions are more or less epistolary essays. In the late antiquity and later in the Renaissance the literary letter had a widespread influence. § The German classical scholar Johannes Veenhusius of Bremen 1643-1675 published the 'Epistulae' with the complete commentaries of Casaubon Gruterus Henri Estienne Buchnerus Barthius Johannes Fredericus Gronovius and with select notes of Cattaneo Ritterhusius and himself. The emendations of Gronovius are published here for the first time. Added are Henri Estienne's 'Praefatio' and Conrad Lycosthenes' 'Vita Plinii' Boxhornius' essay on Pliny's alleged Christianity and the notes of Balduinus Ritterhusius and the Vossii. For his text of the 'Epistulae' Veenhusius generally follows Estienne/Cattaneo even when he reports in the footnotes the notes and the comments of other scholars who disagree with or correct the text he is printing. To confirm Pliny's authorship of book 10 he reprints at the beginning of that book the dedicatory letter of Giovanni Maria Cattaneo who published an edition of Pliny's letters in 1506 to Ambrogio del Maino. In his own dedication to the officials of the city of Bremen Veenhusius speaks of the difficult task of an editor. But he affirms that Pliny is an author worthy of their sponsorship; many of his letters deal with Roman law which would be useful to compare with common law and many contain learned observations about antiquity and politics which are not only useful but also necessary to know. 'Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries annotated lists and guides'. Volume IX editors V. BrownJ. HankinsR. A. Kasterp Washington 2011 p. 94 § Not much is known about Veenhusius he is not to be found in ADB and NNBW. At the beginning of the 'dedicatio' to this edition he calls himself Johannes Veenhusen and Bremen his 'Patria'. In 1671 he produced for the Leiden publisher Hackius another 'Variorum' edition now of Statius. Provenance: On the title 'Bibliotheca vallis Sti Lamberti 1749'. We found on the internet one book with exactly this same provenance: crlvorg/bibliographie-des-voyages/1203. The Cistercian abbey Val St. Lambert was situated in Seraing Southwest of the Belgian city of Liège. It was founded in 1202 and closed down in 1796. Nowadays it is a crystal glass factory. See Wikipedia 'Val-Saint-Lambert'. On the front flyleaf the name of the Dutch specialist of Roman law 'J.W. Tellegen'. On the front pastedown a small label of 'Libreria dello Studente Add.: Paolo Franchini Firenze' Collation: -38 42; A-3G8 leaf 3G5 verso blank; minus leaf 3G6 7 & 8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 153325

‎PLINIUS MINOR‎

‎Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolarum libros decem cum notis selectis Jo. Mariae Catanaei Jac. Schegkii Jac. Sirmondi Is. Casauboni Henrici Stephani Conradi Rittershusii Cl. Minois Casparis Barthii Aug. Buchneri Jo. Schefferi Jo. Frid. Gronovii Christophori Cellarii aliorumque recensuerunt suisque animadversionibus illustrarunt Gottlieb Cortius et Paullus Daniel Longolius qui etiam universum opus indicibus locupletissimis instruxit.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1734. 4to. Frontispiece LII924;8461191 blank p. Contemporary mottled calf 26 cm Ref: STCN ppn 186700156; Schweiger 2809/10; Brunet 4722: 'bonne édition'; Dibdin 2332; Graesse 5343; Ebert 17356; Fabricius/Ernesti 2416 Details: Back with 5 raised bands and panelled in gilt with floral motives. Frontispiece it depicts Pliny writing a letter. Title in red & black. Engraved printer's mark on title; a mole with the motto: 'Vulgo caeca vocor. Video sed acutius ipso' Condition: Binding rather worn and scratched. Head & tail of the spine damaged. Back rubbed shield in the second compartment gone. Corners bumped. Endpapers chipping and loosening. Right margin of the frontispiece chipped. Title soiled and with a small hole and a small tear in the outer margin. Small tear in the outer margin of the first 5 leaves. Outer margin of last 6 leaves chipping. Some foxing Note: The Roman civilian administrator Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus 61-112 A.D published 9 books of literary letters consisting of short essays character sketches and sensible observations. The letters paint the high society of the young Roman empire. The tenth book contains Pliny's correspondence with the emperor Trajan. Pliny is famous for his description of the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 A.D. § The German classical scholar Gotlieb Cortius or Kortte 1698-1731 made his name producing editions of Latin authors whose works were provided with very extensive commentaries in the manner of the Dutch scholar Petrus Burmannus to whom this edition is actually dedicated. Dibdin admires the work of Cortius: 'this' he says 'is a very critical and elaborate edition calculated for those who wish to enter minutely into all the niceties of grammatical construction and historical illustration'. Ernesti says that this is a work 'quae est sane luculenta et ut nunc est optima editio'. Cortius died before he could finish the job. Most remaining work was done by a pupil of Cortius the young German philologist Paul Daniel Longolius 1704-1779 from 1735 Rector of the Gymnasium in Hof Saale. He published 3 ancient authors in an exemplary manner the Letters of Pliny the Younger and the works of Diogenes Laertius 1739 and Gellius 1741. ADB 19156/7 The edition of the letters and the commentary is preceded by a 70 pages long biography of Pliny by J. Masson which was first published in Amsterdam in 1709 Collation: pi1 4 minus 4 2-74 minus 74; a-m4; A-5O4 a-p4 leaf p4 verso blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 140108

‎PLINIUS MINOR‎

‎Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa. Liber I-X: ex recensione Cortii et Longolii. Panegyricus Nervae Trajano Augusto dictus ex editione T. Hearne‎

‎Glasgow Glasguae In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae typographi 1751. 12mo. 3 volumes in 2: IV1-2751 blank; IV277-6331 blank23 p. index1 blank p. Vellum 13 cm Ref: Gaskell no. 208 p. 163 and especially no. 208 p. 419; ESTC Citation No. T190303; Schweiger 2807: 'Sehr saubrer Abdruck des Textes der Briefe nach Corte und Longolius und des Panegyricus nach Th. Hearne'; Graesse 5346; Ebert 17358; cf. Dibdin 2331 & 332; cf. Moss 2495 Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and scratched. Some foxing. Paper yellowing Note: The Roman civilian administrator Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus 61-112 A.D published 9 books of literary letters consisting of short essays character sketches and sensible observations. The letters paint the high society of the young Roman empire. The tenth book contains Pliny's correspondence with the emperor Trajan. Pliny is famous for his description of the eruption of the Vesuvius on the 24th of August in 79 A.D. He was a nephew of the encyclopedist Pliny the Elder who died observing the eruption from afar overcome by poisonous fumes. Pliny the Younger held under Trajanus a number of magistracies. In 111 or 112 he became governor of Bithynia. From here he was in constant correspondence with the Emperor. His letters which were conceived of as artistic productions are more or less epistolary essays. In the late antiquity and later in the Renaissance the literary letter had a widespread influence. § The Scottish printers Robert and Andrew Foulis chose for this edition of Pliny's 247 letters the best available text at the time. It was produced by the German classical scholar Gottlieb Cortius or Kortte 1698-1731 who made his name producing editions of Latin authors and whose works were provided with very extensive commentaries in the manner of the Dutch scholar Petrus Burmannus. His very critical and elaborate Plinus Minor edition was published in Amsterdam in 1734. Cortius died before he could finish the job. Most publishing work was done by a pupil of his the young German philologist Paul Daniel Longolius 1704-1779. He added also emendations of his own. Longolius published 3 ancient authors in an exemplary manner these Letters of Pliny the Younger and also Diogenes Laertius 1739 and Gellius 1741. ADB 19156/7 His Plinius edition is called by Ernesti the editio optima Ernesti/Fabricius Bibliotheca Latina 2416 For the Panegyricus Foulis used the edition of Pliny the Younger which was produced by the English scholar Thomas Hearne 1678-1735 and which dates from 1703 Oxford. It is called by Dibdin a 'very respectable edition'. § Thousands of panegyrics must have been delivered in antiquity. Only a few of them survive. A panegyric is an elaborate eulogy a formal set-piece oration in praise of an emperors or a high dignitary and was an integral part of the ceremony of politics in the Roman empire. The most influential panegyric speech was delivered in 100 A.D. by Plinius Minor before Trajan and the Senate in Rome in which he thanks the emperor for his election to the consulship. It served as a model of rhetoricians in late antiquity. 'It went on to teach many Renaissance and Baroque ceremonial orators how to address supreme political authorities in public speeches. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 745. His most famous imitator in the Renaissance was Erasmus. By the 18th century the panegyric was treated with suspicion for it easily slid from a showpiece of praise to mindless flattery. 'For Enlightenment critics panegyrics were not to be seen as part of a vital political culture; rather they were a sure index of the constriction of personal liberty and the inevitable bankruptcy of language under autocracy'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 684 In the 35 years between 1742 and 1776 the learned Foulis brothers who were University Printers to the University of Glasgow produced ca. 590 titles. Circa 100 of them are Greek or Latin editions. The Foulises printed textbooks for the University but also works of learning and general literature. From their presses have come some of the finest specimens of accurate and elegant printing that was produced in the eighteenth century. They once hung up the sheets of an Horace edition 1744 which was being printed in the college of Glasgow and offered a reward to those who could discover an inaccuracy. It seems that this Pliny edition was originally planned in two volumes. On the verso of the titles of volume 1 and 2 one reads: 'Epistolarum libri sex priores' and 'Epistolarum libri quatuor posteriores. Panegyricus Nervae Trajano Augusto dictus'. However at the bottom of page 503 the first page of the Panegyricus is printed 'Vol. III'. It was probably intended later on that the Panegyricus should comprise the third volume 'but no copy has been seen with a separately-bound vol. III nor one with a Vol. III title page'. Gaskell p. 164 The Panegyricus is instead of a title preceded by 2 leaves which only announce the Panegyricus and donot have an imprint. The Foulises produced in this same year also a quarto edition of the Letters of Pliny. Gaskell 207 Collation: Vol. 1: pi2 A-L12; M6. Vol. 2: pi2 N-X12 Y6 minus blank leaf Y6; pi2 leaf pi1 half-title pi2 volume title Z-2D12 2E6 2F12 leaf 2F12 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 120516

‎PLINIUS MINOR‎

‎Lettere di Plinio il Giovane tradotte in lingua Italiana e dedicate all'Illustriss. ed Eccellentiss. Signore D. Alessandro Albani nipote di nostro Signore Clemente XI Pontefice Ottimo Massimo dal Canonico Gio. Antonio Tedeschi e tra gli Arcadi Orticolo Eleo.‎

‎Roma Della Stamperia di Gio. Maria Salvioni nella Sapienza 1717. 4to. XXXV1 blank; 4411 errori2 blank p. Calf 24 cm Ref: Schweiger 2816; Moss 2502 quotes Nicola Francesco Haym 'Biblioteca Italiana o sia notizia de libri rari nella lingua italiana' Venice/Milan 1741 p. 157: 'La traduzione e l'impressione sono ambi bellissime'; Ebert 17379; Graesse 3351 Details: Back with 5 raised bands and a gilt red morocco shield in the second compartment. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut initials. Excellent quality paper Condition: Binding scuffed. Boards scratches and spotted. Corners bumped. Foot of the spine slightly damaged. Front joint partly split. Bookplate and small label on the front pastedown. Front hinge cracking but strong. First two leaves foxed. Faint name on the title Note: The Roman civilian administrator Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus 61-112 A.D published 10 books of literary letters consisting of short essays character sketches and sensible observations. The letters paint the high society of the young Roman empire. The ninth book contains Pliny's correspondence with the emperor Trajan. Pliny is famous for his description of the eruption of the Vesuvius on the 24th of August in 79 A.D. He was a nephew of the encyclopedist Pliny the Elder who died observing the eruption from afar overcome by poisonous fumes. Pliny the Younger held under Trajanus a number of magistracies. In 111 /112 he became governor of Bithynia. From here he was in constant correspondence with the Emperor. His letters which were conceived of as artistic productions are more or less epistolary essays. In the late antiquity and later in the Renaissance the literary letter had a widespread influence. § Not much is known about the Canon Giovanni Antonio Tedeschi or Johannes Antonius Tedeschi who produced this first complete Italian translation of the correspondence of Pliny Minor. He also published a translation of the letters of Symmachus 1724. He died in 1727. We found one Giovanni Antonio Tedeschi who was dean archiprete of the family Borghese in whose palace he died in 1727 and who was buried in S. Lucia della Tinta. Claudio De Dominicis 'Carlo De Dominicis architetto del settecento romano' Roma 2006 p. 73 This must be our Tedeschi for he dedicated his Symmachus translation to Marcantonio Borghese. Tedeschi was a member of the Italian literary academy/society 'Accademia degli Arcadi' or 'Accademia dell'Arcadia'. In 'Prose degli Arcadi tomo terzo' Roma 1718 p. CV he is described as 'Orticolo Eleo. Il Canonico Gio. Antonio Tedeschi da Pesaro'. 'Orticolo Eleo' being his 'nome arcadico' i.e. his pen name or pseudonym. So the phrase 'e tra gli Arcadi Orticolo Eleo' probably means 'and among the Arcadi his name is 'Orticolo Eleo''. Might this pen name refer to a 'olive grove' A problem is that there is in this same period a namesake who was a sculptor/stonemason Provenance: On the title the name of 'Harriet Taylor'. This is Harriet Taylor Upton 1853 - 1945 who was an American political activist and author. Taylor 'Upton is best remembered as a leading Ohio state and national figure in the struggle for women's right to vote and as the first woman to become a vice chairman of the Republican National Committee'. Harriet Taylor married in 1884 the attorney George W. Upton. She 'was a key organizer and the first president of the Suffrage Association of Warren. She was also a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association NWSA from 1890. In 1891 Upton hosted a conclave of women seeking equal rights with men Ohio Women in Convention in her home. . Harriet Upton was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1981 in the category of Government and Military Service. In early 2010 Upton was proposed by the Ohio Historical Society as a finalist in a statewide vote for inclusion in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol'. She probably wrote her name before 1884. See Harriet's lemma in Wikipedia § On the French title in pencil: 'J.W. Tellegen' § On the front pastedown the bookplate of 'Thomas Conolly' depicting a round garter with the motto: 'En Dieu Est Tout'; in the center a cubit arm the hand is grasping an annulet. Someone wrote once in pencil beneath the plate: 'One time Speaker in the Irish House of Commons'. This is not correct. This Speaker was William Conolly of humble descent who was the first of his line and in his time the wealthiest and the most powerful politician in Ireland. He died childless in 1729. Thomas Conolly 1738-1803 was a son of his nephew William James Conolly. Thomas inherited the estate of his father William James when he was still a minor. 'Thomas Conolly was the quintessential Irish gentleman a keen huntsman and a fine horseman as well as a politician and landowner. Regarded as the wealthiest commoner in the kingdom: he actually spent much of his career in debt because of large debts he inherited from his father. Conolly sat in the Irish parliament for forty years where he prided himself on his often imagined independence'. See for this interesting family: wwwcastletown.ie Collation: pi4 b-c4 d6 leaf d6 verso blank; A-3H4 3I6 leaf 3I6 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 153326

‎Plinval de Guillebon, Regine de‎

‎Musée du Louvre Department des Objets d'Art Porcelaines Françaises I: Chantilly Mennecy Saint-Cloud Boissette Bordeaux Limoges Niderviller Paris Valenciennes‎

‎Paris: Reunion des Musées Nationaux 1992. 1st. Soft cover. Near Fine. 10.7x8.3x1.0in. light wear at corners of front cover. <br>The first volume on the French porcelain in the collection of the Louvre. Illustrated with 14 color and 117 monochrome plates. Text in French. <br>314pp 2.76lb 10.7x8.3x1.0in Reunion des Musées Nationaux paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 25411 ???????? : 2711822869 9782711822867

‎PLOMER HENRY‎

‎A Short History of English Printing 1476-1900‎

‎London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd 1915. Second popular edition 8vo ix & 276pp. cloth paper label small bookplate on front pastedown; light stains on upper cover else very good. Part of Books about Books Series edited by Pollard. <br/><br/> Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd hardcover books‎

书商的参考编号 : 29285

‎PLOMER Henry‎

‎Wynken De Worde and his Contemporaries from the Death of Caxton to 1535. BRIGHT CLEAN CRISP COPY‎

‎Grafton 1925. 4to. First Edition on laid paper with frontispiece and 13 facsimiles 11 of which are full-page in the text; minimal spotting on endpapers; boards holland back paper label gilt top covers very slightly age-marked else a bright clean crisp copy. Grafton, hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 175

‎Plomer, William; Wraparound Dust Jacket By Andy Warhol‎

‎Borderline Ballads‎

‎Noonday Press 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 111 Pp. Green Cloth Gilt. First Edition. Fine No Wear Or Marks Gilt Brilliant. Dust Jacket With $3.00 Price Slight Browning To Dust Jacket Minute Loses At Edges. <br/> <br/> Noonday Press hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 056005

‎Plowman George T.‎

‎Etching and Other Graphic Arts: An Illustrtaed Treatise‎

‎London: John Lane/The Bodley Head 1922. First Edition. Pub Cloth. NF/NF-. 8vo pub cloth 158p illustrated w/ 49 plates including an original etching plate frontispiece plus two plates in rear of etching tools. An appareatnly unused copy. Internals fine. In scarce dw that is lightly soiled. John Lane/The Bodley Head unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 008167

‎Plowman, Dr. J.M.‎

‎Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society: December 1981, Volume Thirteen, Number Two‎

‎Features: The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers; Mudge Milestones; Josiah Emery and John Leroux; John Arnold; Thomas Mudge - the Complete Horologist; Thomas Earnshaw; Watch by Thomas Mudge No. 574; William Oughtred; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Plowman, Dr. J.M.‎

‎Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society: Autumn 1980, Volume Twelve, Number Three‎

‎Features: Disputes Between Masters and Their Workmen; The Use of the Ultra-Violet Lamp in Painted Dial Restoration; Visit to a Clerkenwell Clock Factory; The Froxfield Clock; The Rise and Fall of Chronometer Manufacturing; The 13th Century 'King Hezekiah' Water Clock - Addenda; A New Look at the Dating of Early English Clocks; Sundials at Hever Castle; Eclipses and the St. Alban's Clock; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book‎

‎Plowman, Dr. J.M.‎

‎Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society - Winter 1980, Volume Twelve, Number Four‎

‎Features: Longcase-Engraved Dials, Mid-Scotland; Martin Matthews - Watch Case Maker; George Newton, Blacksmith turned Clockmaker, of Seend, Wiltshire; Sully, Verlinden and others; Clocks and Bells; Section News; Burgi and the Pendulum controlled Escapement; Huygens, Coster and Fromanteel, Some Secrets Remain; Hands; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Small tears to bottom edge of front cover and first leave. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Plowman, Dr. J.M.‎

‎Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society - Autumn 1979, Volume Eleven, Number Five‎

‎Features: Why Barrow?; An Early Pocket Sundial Illustrated in Art; The 13th Century 'King Hezekiah' Water Clock; The 19th Century Watchman's Clock; A.G.M. Report; The Clocks in Westminster Abbey; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Plowman, Dr. J.M.‎

‎Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society - Winter 1978, Volume Eleven, Number Two‎

‎Features: A Short History of the Antiquarian Horological Society; Early Pendulum Clocks; Antiquarian Horology; Turret Clocks; Watches Prior to 1750; British Clocks, 1700-1900; The Pocket Watch; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book‎

‎PLUM DOROTHY A.‎

‎Adirondack bibliography. A list of books pamphlets and periodical articles published through the year 1955‎

‎Gabriels NY: Adirondack Mountain Club 1958. First edition; 8vo; pp. xviii 354; frontispiece map pictorial endpapers; near fine in original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. <br/><br/> Adirondack Mountain Club hardcover books‎

书商的参考编号 : 28683

‎Plunkett, Edward John Moreton Drax, Lord Dunsany ( 1878 - 1957); S H Sime Plates‎

‎The Gods Of Pegana Third Edition Signed In Dust Jacket‎

‎London: Elkin Mathews 1919. Third Edition stated . Cloth/Boards. Very Good/Very Good DJ. 94 Pp.Beige Cloth Over Tan Boards Lettered In Brown. Stated Third Edition Actually A Third Printing In Modern Terminology. A Near Fine Book Trace Of Rubbing At Tips Pages Partly Unopened Still Attached Along Top Edge. Full Page Inscription " For --- Since First I Brought To Birth These Dreams Of A Strange God Have We Not Seen Our Earth Grow Near As Odd Dunsany May 17 1948." . Foxing To Front And Rear Free Endpapers From Chemical Reaction With Binder's Glue1" Crack Near Center Of Gutter Between Endpapers. Pink Dj With Light Wear At Corners 1/8" Loss At Lower Right Corner Of Spine 1/2" Almost Closed Tear At Lower Left Corner Of Spine With Minute Loss Spine And Edges Slightly Browned To Pinkish-Beige Black Lettering All Strong No Creases. <br/> <br/> Elkin Mathews hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 032176

‎PLUTARCH‎

‎Plutarch's lives. The translation called Dryden's. Corrected from the Greek and revised by A. H. Clough. . With Dr. William Smith's historical notes.‎

‎New York: Bigelow Brown and Co. n.d. 1920. 5 volumes 8vo 30 plates; contemporary quarter green levant gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spines t.e.g.; spines faded to brown else near fine. <br/><br/> Bigelow, Brown and Co., n.d. unknown books‎

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‎PLUTARCHUS‎

‎Eenige morale of zedige werken van Plutarchus. Vertaalt door R. T.‎

‎Amsterdam Voor Hendrik Maneke 1634. 12mo. VIII4773 blank p. frontispiece. Vellum 12.5 cm Ref: Geerebaert 698; Geerebaert gives as date 1644; OiN 307 Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved frontispiece depicting a writer/philosopher and the Greek god Hermes standing beneath a bust of Plutarch The frontispiece bears the impressum 'Amsterdam 1643' Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and spotted. Front hinge cracking frontispiece loosening. Right margin of first gatherings somewhat thumbed. Very tiny and almost invisible pinpoint wormholes in the left lower corner never coming near any text Note: This is a translation into Dutch of 10 treatises of Plutarch's Moralia: 'Van d'opvoedingh der Kinderen. Hoe en met wat inzicht de Ionghelinghen de Poeeten leezen moeten. Hoe men hooren moet. Van de zeedelijkcke duechd. Van de zonde en van de duechd. Dat men de duechd kan leeren. Hoe men de vleider en pluim-strijcker van de vriend onderscheiden kan. Van de langhmoedichheyd. Van de Nieus-gierichheydt. Van de veelheit der Vrienden'. The Greek philosopher historian and educator Plutarchus of Chaeroneia was born before 50 A.D. and died after A.D. 120. He is our most important witness of the spiritual climate of the first and second century A.D. He wrote numerous short treatises of popular moral philosophy which go under the general name of the Moralia. They include debating themes works in the form of question and answer and serious discussions of philosophical topics. His warm and sympathetic personality can be traced in many treatises which contain also a great deal of antiquarian knowledge picked up by Plutarchus in the course of his wide reading. H.J. Rose A Handbook of Greek literature London 1965 p. 408. The Moralia were very influential in the Renaissance. 'It is no exaggeration to say that Renaissance and early modern Europe discovered Greece and Rome through Plutarch's eyes'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 748. § The 10 treatises were translated by one 'R.T.' Van Doorninck and STCN declare that this is Reinier Telle 1558/59-1618. He was rector of the Schola Latina of Zierikzee his hometown from 1604-1610. He translated several works from Latin and Italian. According to De la Fontaine Verwey he was also a worthy satirical poet. Interesting as this may be this cannot be correct for the translation is preceded by a dedication to 'Franciscus Heermans' signed by R.T. The writer of this dedication tells that the publication of the 'gulde spreuken' of Heermans inspired him to translate a number of golden treatises of Plutarch as well. Now Franciscus Heermans or Franciscus Heerman who lived from 1610 till after 1670 published his 'Toneel der deughdt ofte guldene annotatien' only in 1631 13 years after the death of Reinier Telle. Heermans was only 10 when Telle died. Heermans book was very successful about 30 editions appeared during the next hundred years. See for Heermans or Heerman Van der Aa 8382/83; see for Telle preferably 'Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme' volume 1375/6 Provenance: On the front pastedown a nice small paper label 'M.M. Couvée Lange Pooten 41 La Haye'. M.M. Couvée ran a posh bookshop and publishing firm in The Hague from 1859 till 1885. Members of the Royal family were among his clients Collation: A-8 A - V-8 V7 verso & V8 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PLUTARCHUS‎

‎Opuscula Plutarchi Chaeronei sedulo undequaque collecta & diligenter recognita ac in unam faciem bellatule coimpressa quorum ante praefationem patebit & numerus & series praemisso quam amplissimo & rerum & verborum indice. Addita autem sunt nuper opuscula haec duo De cohibenda iracundia & curiositate.‎

‎N.pl. Paris Vaenundantur in Officina Ascensiana 1526. Colophon at the end: 'Sub prelo Ascensiano ad Nonas Febru. 1526' Small folio. XIV191 leaves. Contemporary leather. 31 cm Ref: BP16_104378; Renouard Badius Ascensius 3 p. 175 no. 9; Hoffmann 3198/99; cf Schweiger 1264 ed. Paris Asc. 1521; Graesse 5362 Graesse forgot to mention the year 1526; Pettegree/Walsby 83345 Details: Spine with 6 raised bands. Gilt floral motives in the compartments. Ascensius's woodcut printer's device with the date 1520 on the title-page surrounded by broad woodcut borders with some allegorical scenes. The short preface of Iodocus Badius Ascensius' is dated 1521. Ca. 60 big woodcut initials Condition: Cover grazed scuffed & soiled. Foot of the spine chafed. Red morocco shield in the second compartment partly gone. Gilt stamp in the centre of both boards erased and made unrecognizable probably with sandpaper. Two old and faint ownership entries on the title. Below the printer's mark a small name has been erased resulting in a tiny hole in the paper. Lower margin of the second half waterstained. Big stain on one leaf. Foxing near the end. Lacking the last blank leaf. Some old ink underlinings and notes Note: The Greek philosopher historian and educator Plutarchus of Chaeroneia was born before 50 A.D. and died after A.D. 120. He is our most important witness of the spiritual climate of the first and second century A.D. He wrote numerous short treatises of popular moral philosophy which go under the general name of 'Moralia'. They include debating themes works in the form of question and answer and serious discussions of philosophical topics. His warm and sympathetic personality can be traced in many treatises which contain also a great deal of antiquarian knowledge picked up by Plutarchus in the course of his wide reading. H.J. Rose A Handbook of Greek literature London 1965 p. 408 The Moralia were very influential in the Renaissance. 'It is no exaggeration to say that Renaissance and early modern Europe discovered Greece and Rome through Plutarch's eyes'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 748. Hoffmann mentions a great number of Greek Greek/Latin editions and Latin translations of part of the Moralia which were produced during the first half of the 16th century. The French publisher of Flemish origin Badius Ascensius 1462-1535 who was himself an accomplished Greek scholar produced between 1503 and 1526 9 different editions of treatises of the Moralia with translations of Erasmus and Guillaume Budé. The last one this edition of 1526 has Latin translations made by Erasmus Budaeus Melanchthon et alii. It copies the preceding edition of 1521 but adds at the end 8 leaves with 2 new treatises 'De cohibenda iracundia' & 'De curiositate' both translated by Erasmus. The edition contains also short introductions to several treatises written by the leading scholars of that period Provenance: 2 faint and illegible names on the title one word recognizable as 'Anthonii' Collation: â8 ê6 a-z8 A8 minus A8 a blank leaf Photographs on request hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 140127

‎PLUTARCHUS & ISOCRATES‎

‎Plutarchi Chaeronensis peri PAIDÔN AGÔGÊS seu De puerorum educatione libellus. Analysi grammatica interpretatione simplici ad textum graecum & paraphrasi perspicua ad modum Iohannis Minellii illustratus studio M. Christiani Iunckeri Dresd. Ill. Gymnas. Sax. Henneb. quod Schleusingae est Conr. Bound with: Isocratis Attici rhetoris Orationes tres. I. ad Demonicum. II. ad Nicoclem. III. quae inscribitur Nicocles. Analysi grammatica interpretatione simplici ad textum graecum & paraphrasi perspicua ad modum Iohannis Minellii illustratae studio M. Christiani Iunckeri Dresd. Ill. Gymnas. Sax. Henneb. quod Schleusingae est Conr.‎

‎Leipzig Lipsiae Apud Maurit. Georg. Weidmannum 1719. 8vo. Two parts in 1 volume: XIV3813 stocklist p. Vellum 17 cm Ref: VD18 10402462; Ad 1: Hoffmann 3185; Ad 2: Hoffmann 2478 Details: Two title-pages both printed in red & black. On the left pages printed in two columns the Greek text and a parallel literal word for word translation into Latin; on the right page a polished translation on the lower half of the right pages notes in Latin Condition: Vellum soiled and spotted. Paper foxed and browning Note: The Greek philosopher historian and educator Plutarchus of Chaeroneia was born before 50 A.D. and died after A.D. 120. He is our most important witness of the spiritual climate of the first and second century A.D. He wrote numerous short treatises of popular moral philosophy which go under the general name of Moralia. They include debating themes works in the form of question and answer and serious discussions of philosophical topics. 'It is no exaggeration to say that Renaissance and early modern Europe discovered Greece and Rome through Plutarch's eyes'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 748 The treatise 'de puerorum educatione' is the first treatise of the 'Moralia' No. 1 1a-14c. Since Wyttenbach's 'Moralia' edition 1795-1810 Animadvers. I 29-156 it is generally assumed on stylistic and grammatical grounds that this treatise cannot have been written by Plutarchus. Therefore it is very remarkable that a not genuine essay has such a strong influence on European intellectual and cultural life. 'The essay however is interesting in itself since it reflect in many ways the educational conditions of its time. Frankly recognizing the difference in natural endowments the author insists on the great benefits which inevitably come from training. Physical training is of course required and military training is held to be most important for preparing men to win in battle. A knowledge of philosophy is the final goal of education'. Plutarch 'Moralia' with English translation by F.C. Babbitt LCL 197 p. 3 § In the first half of the 18th century alone German scholars published editions in 1705 1719 1738 1744 1745 1749 1750. In 1738 and 1754 German translations appeared. There was evidently much demand for Plutarchus' treatise on the education of children in Germany in the 18th century. § The German historian and schoolmaster Christian Juncker born 1668 became Conrector in 1695 of the 'Hennebergisches Gymnasium Schleusingen'. In 1713 he was appointed Rector of the Gymnasium of Altenburg where he died in 1714. Juncker produced for the Leipzig publisher Weidmann a whole series of Latin school editions in the same manner as this Plutarch/ Isocrates edition of Sallustius Terentius Florus Horatius Vergilius & Suetonius. Weidmann reissued them for decades. They were made in the manner of the popular 'Latin made easy method' of the Dutch schoolmaster Johannes Minellius. The Greek ones first published in 1704 Juncker made as a next step for schoolboys who had already mastered the Greek of the New Testament. p. 2 verso Provenance: On front flyleaf in ink 'Weidlich 1793' Collation: 8 minus leaf 8; A - 2A-8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PLUTARCHUS‎

‎T'Leven der doorluchtige Griecken ende Romeynen tegen elck anderen vergeleken door Plutarchus van Chaeronea. Wt de Griecsche sprake overgeset door M. Iaques Amyot Abt van Bellozane ende Raedt des Coninckx van Franckrijck by hem overzien ende verbetert. Mitsgaders het leven van Hannibal Scipio den Africaen uyt het Latyn verfranscht by Carolus Clusius. Voorder het Leven van Epaminondas Philippus van Macedonien Dionysius den Ouden Tyran van Sicilien Augustus Cesar Plutarchus ende Seneca ende noch het Leven vande negen treffelijcke krijgs-oversten beschreven door Aemylius Probus. Met een cort begrijp op elcx leven Leeringen op de kant Chronijck ende Leer-registers alles versamelt ende uytgegeven by Simon Goulart Senlisien. Tesamen van nieus tot gemeen nut verduyscht door A. Van Zuylen Van Nieuvelt ende ten deele by eenen anderen beminder.‎

‎Delft Tot Delft Utrecht Tot Wtrecht By Adriaen Gerritsen van Beyeren ende Felix van Sambrix sic & By David van Hoogenhuysen 1644. Folio. VI5484 leaves. Calf 32 cm Ref: STCN 141469102; Geerebaert 693 records this second edition of the first complete Dutch translation of 1603; OiN 310; Hoffmann 3227; Graesse 5365/66; Ebert 17507 Details: Back gilt & with 6 raised bands. Unsigned engraved architectural frontispiece depicting a chapel in a temple in the niches of which stand 4 statues one of them is Mercurius. The chapel is flanked by Romulus and Theseus the founders of Rome and Athens; in the dome of the chapel is a portrait of Plutarchus. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a three-master on a rough sea motto: 'Durate'. Woodcut initials at the beginning of a 'vita'. To some copies has been added after the title page 1 leaf with a dedication 'Aende Hoogh-Moghende Heeren de Staten Generael' to the States General of the Dutch Republic. This copy doesnot have that dedication Condition: Head & foot of the spine partly worn away. Old leather repairs to the upper part of both joints. Upper joint and hinge cracking but still strong. Leather repairs to 3 corners. 1 bumped corner grazed. Small hole in the leather of the lower board. Front endpapers renewed. Original front flyleaf preserved but worn & with a fold. Margins of the frontispiece thumbed & slightly frayed. Some faint & small waterstains on the lower margin of ca. hundred leaves Note: This translation of 1644 is reissue of the first complete Dutch translation originally published in 1603. § The Greek philosophic stylist Plutarchus of Chaeroneia ca. 46-120 A.D. wrote numerous short treatises on ethics and philosophy. He is however best known as historian and biographer. Plutarch composed with his famous 'Vitae' or Parallel Lives written ca. 100-120 A.D. a work of timeless quality. His aim was not writing history but biography so his chief interest was in the characters of the heroes and villains he portrayed never avoiding a good story. Plutarch exercised a very profound influence on Western civilisation. His 'Vitae' has been one of the most frequently and continuously read books of the Western tradition. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 747. Treacherous to the historian Plutarch has won however since the Renaissance the affection of the many generations to whom he has been a main source of understanding of the ancient world that is early modern Europe discovered the ancient world for a great part through Plutarch's eyes. The Lives could gain an enormous impact by providing later biographers and literary authors an outstanding model. It is very well known for example that authors like Montaigne Corneille Racine Rousseau Schiller and Shakespeare heavily drew upon the Lives. Until the 19th century the Lives were invoked as models of totalitarism anticlericalism by supporters and opponents. 'The founders of American democracy were avid readers of Plutarch as well and some laced their prose with evidence of that fact. Franklin and Hamilton in particular proclaimed their admiration for the Lives' Idem p. 749 § On the continent the 'Lives' were widely read in the French translation of the French humanist Jacques Amyot 1513-1593 who was one of the most famous and influential translators of the Renaissance. Although the son of poor parents he was appointed professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Bourges. He even became bishop of Auxerre. From 1559 till 1565 he worked on his famous translation of the 'Vies Parallèles des Hommes Illustres'. For his translations he visited the 'Bibliotheca Vaticana' and the libraries of Venice to study Greek codices. His translation was considered by some to be so excellent that it even excelled the original Greek. 'Maer sal tot besluyt ghenoech sijn alleen aen te roere hoe dat M. Iacques Amyot s'conincx Raedt in dit groote werck sijnen swaren arbeyt zoo heeft besteedt ende de oversettinge zoo wel getroffen dat veele cloecke mannen meenen dat deselve den Griecxen text in cierlijckheydt overtreffet.' Leaf 3 verso of the preface § This Dutch translation was based on the French text which was reedited by the French calvinist minister author and translator S.G.S. i.e. Simon Goulard Silvanectinus from Senlis 1547-1628. Goulard published an expanded edition of Amyot's French translation in 1587. He added translations of the 'vitae' of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus in the 16th century believed to be the work of Plutarch himself but written by the 15th century imitator of Plutarch Donato Acciaiuoli 1470 and translated into French by the Dutch botanist Carolus Clusius in French Charles de l'Écluse 1561. Goulard also 'produced comparisons where these were missing in Plutarch as well as new Lives of Epaminondas and Philip Dionysius and Augustus Caesar and Plutarch and Seneca'. F. Manzini 'Stendhal's Parallel Lives' Oxford etc. 2004 p. 37/38 § The title of this Dutch translation is more or less an adaptation of the French title page of the edition Paris 1592. The Dutch translation was made the preface reveals by A.V.Z.V. Nieuvelt that is Adam van Zuylen van Nieuvelt and was first published. posthumely in 1603. This edition of 1644 is a line for line reedition of that translation. Van Zuylen van Nieuvelt also translated the 'Cyropaedia' of Xenophon published in 1592. He is a fine example of the Renaissance soldier. He fought in the Eighty Years' War the Dutch war of Independence 1568-1648 against the Spaniards. In 1583 he was for a year baljuw bailiff of Schoonhoven a small city just east of Rotterdam. Later he was captain of an infantery regiment of the son in law of William of Orange Philips of Hohenlohe fighting against the Spaniards in the East of the Netherlands. In 1580 Adam van Zuylen was wounded in the lost and forgotten battle of Hardenberg where the troops of the young republic lost 1500 man. See: members.home.nl/m.tettero/Watergeuzen/Hardenberg.htm Later Van Zuylen campaigned in the province of Friesland and in 1596 he took part in the defence of Hulst a fortified city in Zeeland. There he was taken prisoner by the Spaniards. He died that same year. Still this soldier found time to translate 'Vies Parallèles des Hommes Illustres' of Amyot and Machiavelli's 'Discorsi' and 'Il Principe' also from the French. After his death the manuscript with the translation of Amyot's Plutarch came into the possession of the Leiden publishers Paedts and Bouwens who decided to enlarge this work and to adopt it to the highly successfull French Amyot edition produced by Simon Goulart which contained not only useful notes and some commentary but also a kind of continuation consisting of the biographies of a number of ancient generals and kings. These new additions were translated by an anonymous man of letters. 'Maer alle de voorverhaelde nieuwe byvoegselen van Simon Goulart sijn ten jongsten verduytscht zoo in gedicht als anders by eenen anderen wesende een liefhebber sijner moeder tale'. Leaf. 3 verso of the preface Van der Aa 13393 Collation: 6 A-4Z6 leaf 4Z6 verso blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 151922

‎PLUTARQUE‎

‎Epitome vitarum Plutarchi‎

‎Cenomanis Le Mans Le Mans: Apud Hyeronimum Olivier 1608. Fine. Apud Hyeronimum Olivier Cenomanis Le Mans • Le Mans 1608 S.d. 7.4 x 12.5 cm relié New edition the first of which appears to have been published in 1541 in Basel. It was produced by Dario Tiberti. Contemporary limp vellum binding. Smooth spine with author in pen. Vellum yellowed and showing rubbing. From its first appearances this edition was highly successful and was reprinted many times. In our era where the tendency is toward complete and unabridged works one may question the importance of a condensed version of an edition of Plutarch's lives but it must be acknowledged that this abridgment or condensation was remarkably popular undoubtedly with a broader and less erudite public. Apud Hyeronimum Olivier hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 63593

‎PLUTARQUE - Jacques AMYOT (trans)‎

‎Oeuvres morales et meslees. Translatées de grec en français reveues & corrigées en plusieurs passages par le translateur‎

‎à Cologni Cologne: Pour Samuel Crespin 1614. Fine. Pour Samuel Crespin à Cologni Cologne 1614 38 x 25 cm relié The first edition of Amyot's translation dates from 1572 published by Michel de Vascosan in Paris. Contemporary full calf binding spine with six raised bands 6 fleurons double fillet frame on boards. Jacques Amyot 1513-1594 was tutor to the sons of Henri II future Charles IX and Henri III he was also professor at the University of Bourges and became grand almoner of France and bishop of Auxerre which he made an important center of humanism. It was on the recommendation of François I that he translated Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. This work and subsequently the moral works had and would have considerable impact not only for the rediscovery of antiquity which thus had greater resonance than for a few scholars and of Plutarch but for the French language itself. Montaigne wrote: 'We others ignorant were lost if this book had not lifted us from the mire. It is our breviary'. But not only a skilled translator concerned with accuracy he is also a very able popularizer rather than a scholar for he wrote for a broad public and not for the learned thus he explains comments on what needs to be clarified he seeks a pure French removed from Hellenisms and pedantic turns a French that would be praised by all specialists of the French language in the 17th century such as Vaugelas. Finally he brought translation into a new era. Brunet IV 738. Skillful restorations to corners headcaps and edges. Pour Samuel Crespin hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 8875