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‎LAMPREDI,GM G M‎

‎Saggio sopra la filosofia degli antichi Etruschi. Dissertazione istorico-critica di Gio. Maria Lampredi.‎

‎Firenze Appresso Andrea Bonducci con licenza de Superiori 1756. 4to. 831 blank p. Old plain grey paper wrapper. 24 cm Ref: Details: Title printed in red & black. Engraved coat of arms of the cavaliere Gaetano Antinori the dedicatee on the title. Uncut and with broad margins Condition: Title spotted and yellowing; a small paper repair in the upper margin of the second leaf Note: Etruscomania or 'etruscheria' was an 18th century cultural movement. An obsessive curiosity about the origins language art and customs of the Etruscans swept all over Europe especially Italy at the beginning of that century. It exploded with the publication of 'De Etruria Regali Libri Septem' 'Seven Books about Royal Etruria' of the Scottish historian Thomas Dempster 1579-1625. It was the first detailed study of every aspect of Etruscan civilisation and was first published one century after his death in Florence in 1723/24. The 'Accademia Etrusca' was then established at Cortona in 1726. This Academy produced papers and reports on Etruscan culture religion architecture antiquities and their language. One of the leading exponents of this etruscomania was the Italian scholar of Florentine origin Giovanni Maria Lampredi 1731-1793. His 'Saggio sopra la filosofia degli antichi Etruschi' is considered an important contribution to Etruscology. See Italian version of Wikipedia 'Etruscologia' The treatise is about the natural theology cosmogony botany medicin politics of the Etruscans. There even is a section on 'keraunoskopia' the Etruscan theory of thunder. Lampredi argued that the Etruscans had an 'emanative system' for the cosmos tied to Pythagoreanism and Stoicism. Lampredi dedicated this work to the Head of the 'Accademia Etrusca di Cortona' Gaetano Antinori. The erudite fervor of the 'etruscheria' came to an end thanks to the work of the German scholars Winckelmann and Karl Otfried Müller. The 20th century Italian ancient historian Arnaldo Momigliano who was also an important historian of ancient historiography wrote that the Etruscan frenzy was for a century a disintegrating force in Italy a real illness of Italian culture because it got bogged down in a one-sided patriotic and uncritical position of a parochial type on the history of civilization Rome Etruscans and Italy. It's positive side-effects were the foundation of collections musea and it broadened the view concerning the history of ancient Italy and the art and archaeology of the pre-roman peoples Collation: A-I4 K6 leaf K6 verso blank Photographs on request unknown‎

Ссылка продавца : 140028

‎CEBES- SPIEGHEL,HL H L‎

‎H.L. Spieghels Hertspieghel en andere Zedeschriften met verscheidene nooit gedrukte stukken verrijkt en door aenteekeningen opgeheldert door P. Vlaming. Met nieuwe figuren.‎

‎Amsterdam t'Amsterdam By Andries van Damme 1723 8vo. LXVIII564 p. Frontispiece 1 portrait 2 folding plates 8 full page engravings 2 folding tables and 4 poems embedded in full page engravings. Calf. 19.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 17136984X; OiN p. 138; Geerebaert XXIV7 Details: Back and boards gilt with floral motives. Frontispiece by J. Goeree C. van Haarlem A van Buysen it depicts Arion on the back of a huge dolphin playing his lyre while the storm rages. Title printed in red and black. Engraved printer's device designed and engraved by J. Goeree on the title depicting 3 bucolic musicians motto: 'Altro diletto ch' imparar non provo' 'I feel no greater delight than to learn'. After the preface follows a biography of Spieghel 'testimonia' concerning him and a bibliography. The biography is preceded by a portrait beautifully engraved by P. van Gunst. In the third book of the Hertspieghel which deals with the famous allegoric 'Cave of Plato' a folding plate has been inserted depicting the Cave where most people live in darkness and where a small number of philosophers percieves the true form of reality. This fine engraving is made after the wellknown engraving of the cave of Plato by Jan Pietersz Saenredam 1604. Each of the seven books of the Hertspieghel is preceded by an engraved headpiece. After the Hertspieghel a short section 'Hieroglifica' offers 8 moralistic poems of 8 lines with an opposing full page emblematic engraving. Then follow four 4 line poems embedded in an engraving of J. Goeree. They offer and illustrate eternal truths like 'Wel leven menschen wys in hutten/ Als Timmerkoorts den zotten plaegt/ 't Onnut gebouw dat kou zou schutten/ Praelbouwers vaek in armoê jaegt.' After a long section with occasional and moralistic poems and letters the book ends with a Dutch translation of the dialogue 'Cebetis Tabula' the table of Cebes made by Pieter Vlaming. This dialogue dates from the first century A.D. it was attributed to the philosopher Cebes a student of the Athenian Socrates. In it an ancient temple painting which caught the attention of two visitors is explained by an old man. It is an allegorical picture on which the dangers and temptations of human life are symbolically represented. It shows that happiness can only be reached by proper education and a virtuous life. This once popular ethical work is now almost forgotten. But in the 16th 17th and 18th century it was widely read especially by clerics and schoolboys. The accompanying folding plate 25x14.5 cm is an artist's impression of the 'Tabula Cebetis'. It shows the many ways leading to vice and the only straight and narrow path to virtue: we see a garden with 2 concentric walls filled with a host of allegorical figures. At the Entrance to life sits 'Seductio' Temptation offering a youth a drink from a goblet. In the foreground also the philosopher Cebes explaining to a bunch of young children the dangers and temptations which lie ahead. Most people within the first wall among them kings and bishops are busy gambling fighting drinking. Within the second wall we see philosophers and scholars. In the background is a high hill with a temple on top a destination which is reached by only a few. This engraving is a minimized version of Goltzius' engraving of the 'Tabula' of Cebes of 1592 Condition: Back severely damaged partly gone and loose along the front joint. Boards worn some small damages to the edges of the boards Note: Hendrik Laurenszoon Spieghel or Spiegel 1549-1612 is one of the most important writers and thinkers in the Dutch Republic during the turn of the 16th and 17th century. He is seen as a forerunner to the Dutch Golden Age with giants as Vondel Hooft and Huygens. Spieghel's principal work is the Hart-spiegel or Hertspieghel Mirror of the Heart published posthumously in 1614. In this didactic and moralistic poetic work Spieghel expounds his views on the human condition and how to lead a virtuous life. The essential idea of the Hertspieghel is that virtue makes a man happy and that this is in itself a reward. To accomplish this the author submits the inner life of man himself to a precise reflection. Spieghel upholds the freedom of will. Self-knowledge is the foundation of self-development and the starting point for achieving virtue. § Spieghel is a difficult poet who loves to use archaic words and invent neologisms and who is difficult reading for those who are not familiar with the Bible classical antiquity and ancient literature. His style is obscure complex and concise and sometimes lacks clarity. But once the reader has grown accustomed to Spieghel's style and views it is clear that the Hertspieghel which voices opinions of the pre 1600 generation is one of the first modern Dutch poems. For this work Spieghel asked the usual approbation of the Roman Catholic Church and for this purpose he sent the manuscript to Louvain but it was returned without the necessary approbation with the remark that the work was incomprehensible. Still it found readers who were interested in Spieghels ethics. In 1615 a second edition was published. The third printed by Hendrik Wetstein in 1694 is enlarged with other writings and poems by Spieghel. This edition of 1723 the most complete and the best was edited by the Dutch author Pieter Vlaming1686-1733 who has enriched it with several new pieces and with his notes Collation: -48 52 leaves 7 & 8 of the first gathering are cancels; A-Y8 Z4 Aa2 folding plates at p. 49 and 237 12 plates between p. 161 and 175 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 130377

‎MELA POMPONIUS‎

‎Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri III. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari Petri Joannis Olivarii Fredenandi Nonii Pintiani Petri Ciacconii Andreae Schotti Isaci Vossii & Jacobi Gronovii. Accedunt Julii Honorii oratoris Excerpta Cosmographiae. Cosmographia falso Aethicum auctorem praeferens cum variis lectionibus ex MS. Ravennatis Anonymi Geographia ex MS. Leidensis suppleta curante Abrahamo Gronovio.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex officina Samuelis Luchtmans 1722. 8vo. LXXX81136 index1 blank p. frontispiece folding map. Vellum 21 cm Prize copy Ref: STCN ppn 238632024; Schweiger 2611; Brunet 4801; Dibdin 2356; Graesse 5402/403; Ebert 13632; Spoelder p. 683 Utrecht 3 Details: Prize copy of the 'Gymnasium Hieronymianum' at Utrecht without the prize. Gilt coat of arms of Utrecht within gilt borders on both boards. 6 thongs laced through the joints. The frontispiece designed by H. van der My and etched by F. Bleyswyck depicts a cartographer drawing a map of the world in the foreground 2 women one is a cartographer inspecting a map with rule and compass the other is an archaeologist busy inspecting ancient treasures. Title printed in red and black. The folding map of the earth according to Mela at the beginning of the text is by 'P. Bertius christianissimi regis geographus'. Engraved text illustrations of coins. 1 full page illustration of 2 sculptured scenes from reliefs 'in hortis Mattheis' p. 117 The first 304 pages contain the text and commentary. The rest of the book is filled with the annotations of earlier important scholars especially Isaac Vossius. His observationes fill the pages 316-606. At the end we find Julius Honorius' 'Excerpta quae ad Cosmographiam pertinent' p. 685-702 the 'Cosmographia antehac temere Aetico adscripta' p. 703-733 and the 'Ravennatis Anonymi Geographiae libri quinque' 737-811 Condition: Binding slightly soiled. Prize gone. All four ties gone. Name on the front flyleaf. Prize removed Note: Pomponius Mela a geographer from the South of Spain wrote in 43/44 under Claudius the first surviving work on geography in Latin. Pomponius is foremost a writer: distances directions and other useful information for sailors or travellers is lacking. His work was meant for the educated and curious Roman public. The work was known in the Middle Ages and in the following centuries he was read at school. § The Dutch classical scholar Abraham Gronovius 1695-1775 acted as librarian at Leyden University from 1741 until his death. He edited editions of the 'Historiae Philippicae' of Justinus and two editions of Aelianus. He showed interest in geographical matters and published at Leiden in 1739 his 'Varia Geographica'. He based this new 'Variorum' edition of the geographer Mela Pomponius on an edition which was previously published in 1696 by his father Jacobus Gronovius 1645-1716 who was professor Greek of the University of Leiden Provenance: On the front flyleaf in ink: 'Ex praemiis P.G. v. Poolsum 1731'. We found a Petrus Georgius van Poolsum born in Utrecht in 1718 who became minister of the protestant church of Doorn in 1741. He died in 1772. Does the inscription mean that young Van Poolsum age 13 received this prize in 1731 This seems possible for he has the right age and was from Utrecht. Spoelder signals 3 copies of prizes with this type of coat of arms; they were awarded between 1689 and 1711 Collation: pi1 -58; A-3G8 leaf 3G8 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 130360

‎WILLINK,D‎

‎Daniël Willinks Amsterdamsche Tempe of de Nieuwe Plantagie. Begrepen in twee boeken. Nevens den Amstelstroom. Met kopere platen. De tweede druk.‎

‎Amsterdam Te Amsterdam By Andries van Damme Boekverkoper op 't Rokin bezuyden de Beurs 1721. 8vo. XL1271 blankXII36 p. frontispiece 3 engraved plates and 2 text engravings. Vellum 19 cm Ref: STCN p.p. 171375564 Details: Nice copy; 5 thongs laced through both joints. Frontispiece designed executed and explained by J. Goeree; it shows several allegorical figures in a bucolic landscape de Nieuwe Plantage; in the foreground sits 'Dichtkonst' Poetry listening to 'Zeede-leer' Ethica a woman who holds a bridled lion: 'Die Wyze Leermeestres die Leeuwen fel en wreedt / Door haare lessen temt en zacht te leyden weet / En hunnen woesten aart voorzigtig in kan tomen'; p. A1 verso on a pedestal in the center of the frontispiece rests the rivergod Amstel surrounded by a host of merry putti; in the distance we get a glimpse of the Muiderpoort. The other 3 plates are designed by A. Houbraken. The first shows the personification of wealthy Amsterdam steedemaagd in the background again the Plantage and the Muiderpoort. The second plate depicts 'Dichtkonst' and some putti. The third is an engraving of the rivergod Amstel in a bucolic polder-scene south of the city. After the title page there is a 3 page dedication with the engraved coat of arms of the Mayor of Amsterdam Mr. Jan de Witt. At the beginning of the second work the 'Amstelstroom' one finds the coat of arms of Willem Noltenius. On the title a printer's mark engraved by J. Goeree it depicts putti playing a game of checkers the motto reads: 'Let eerje zet' Condition: Vellum age-toned. Small bookplate on the front pastedown. Paper slightly yellowing Note: The Amsterdam wine merchant Daniël Willink 1676 - 1722 was in his sparetime a local historian and poet. He became a member of the Poetry Society 'Constantia et Labore'. A great poet he was not and he is only remembered for his poetry on the city of Amsterdam in which he praises its beauty. These poems based on his historical investigations are still of interest. His oldest poem is the 'Amstelstroom' which was first published in 1708. Its second revised and augmented 1/3 edition was combined with the first edition of 'Amsterdamsche Tempe of Nieuwe Plantagie' of 1712 of which this book of 1721 is a reissue. Willink's best known poem 'Amsterdamsch Buitensingel' was published posthumely in 1723. His interesting historical investigations appeared under the title 'Amstellandsche Arkadia' only in 1737. The history of Amsterdam and its surroundings is told here as a kind of travel story. NNBW 41463/65 § The 'Amsterdamsche Tempe' sings the praises of a so-called 'locus amoenus' in this case the 'Planatagie' which is presented as an idealized place of safety and comfort. There are trees schoon bosschaadge there is grass lustprieël and water zilvren vliet. It is a place of refuge that highlights the differences between urban and rural life. 'Zo even doet ook de Ambachtsman/ Die hier komt treeden zonder kommer/ Daar ieder 't zweet opdroogen kan/ Gedekt door deeze groene lommer/ Waar onder hy het zuur vergeet/ Der weeken waar in hy moet werken / En troost zich hier in dat men weet/ Dat Godt den arbeid kan versterken'. p. 9 The prose preface to 'Amsterdamsche Tempe' opens thus: 'De Nieuwe Plantagie een wellustige streek lands in den omkring der wydberoemde Stad Amsterdam geleegen in het Jaar 1682. begonnen aangelegt bebouwt bepoot en beplant te worden sedert krachtig toegenoomen in allerlei soorten van in- en uitheemsche boom-bloem-en plantgewassen koomt u hier bescheiden Leezer in twee boeken verdeelt te vooren; waar van het eerste eene beschryvinge der plaatse zelve met haare rondomleggende gezigten bevat en het tweede 't geene nut en sierlyk binnen de hoven gevonden wordt nevens het zoet vermaak en de aangenaame tydkortinge van ieder jaarsaizoen'. p. 5 verso § The 'Plantagebuurt' Plantage-district a polder which came within the walls of Amsterdam with the city expansion of 1682/83 was created a park because it turned out to be impossible to find buyers who wanted to build their houses there. For two centuries this park or 'plantage' served as an entertainment district for the bourgeoisie. It included the city's 'Hortus Botanicus' and from 1838 the Zoo commonly called 'Artis'. From 1860 onward the park was transformed into a housing-area an area which still is green and still popular among the bourgeois. It attracts tourists from all over the world to visit the Hortus and the Zoo Collation: -28 including frontispiece 34; A-H8 leaf H8 verso blank; 2A-C8 Plates before the leaves A1 E1 and 2A1 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 130460

‎(MAAS,JF) J F‎

‎Manuel militaire ou cayers détachés sur toutes les différentes parties de l'art de la guerre. Cayer I. sur les convois.‎

‎Copenhagen Copenhague Leiden Leide Chez Elie Luzac 1761. 8vo. XII11-1144 p. 2 folding engraved tables. Calf 20.5 cm Ref: M. van Vliet 'Elie Luzac 1721-1796' Nijmegen 2005 p. 153-54 & 571 Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Brown morocco shield in the second compartment. Edges of the boards gilt edges of the book dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Title in red and black. 2 folding maps depicting an imaginary landscape with 1 47x24 cm 'Plan de la marche d'un convoy' and 2 35x24 'Plan de l'attaque d'un convoy' Condition: Boards somewhat scratched and stained. Wee wormhole at the bottom of the back. Both pastdownes detached. Red ink stain on the front flyleaf. Edges of the first table thumbed it also suffers from 3 tears of 6 cm on the folds Note: KVK The Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog presents only a small number of copies of this title. Most copies are catalogued anonymously. The Staatsbibliothek Berlin records a copy and attributes it to one 'Johann Friedrich Maas'. The 'Kongelige Bibliotek Dänemark' calls the author 'Maasev.d.' Worldcat. records 9 copies 7 anonymous and 2 ascribed to one 'v.d. Maase'. A passage in a letter of the Danish publisher J.F. Hansen to the German author Heinrich Wilhelm Gerstenberg dated 'Slesvig d. 27 Jul. 1763' sheds light on this matter: 'Bei dem Manuale ist mir beigefallen ob Ew. Hochwolgeb. es nicht für ratsam schicklich u. fast für notwendig erkenen dass ich das teutsche Msct. H.M. v. Maas vorher praesentire u. gleichsam seine Genehmigung zum Druck bei ihm suche. Sie wird mir nicht entgehen: eine Folge aber welche bei H. Major zwar nicht eintreffen aber bei dergleichen sonst gar leicht sich begeben kan ist: dass der Autor wenn sein Werk ohne sein Vorwissen veranstaltet wird einige Veränderungen mit demselben entweder vornemen oder Zusätze dazu macht u. alsdenn zieht der gleichsam stillschweigende Verleger den kürtzern ja irre ich mich nicht so deucht mir mal gehört zu haben dass H.M. bei einer etwarigen Übersetzung noch einige Anmerckungen demselben beifügen wollte. Desto besser!' The note which accompanies this passage reveals more: 'Wie bisher unbekannt war scheint Gerstenberg eine Übersetzung folgenden Werks geplant zu haben: 'Manuel militaire. Ou cayers détachés sur toutes les différentes parties de l'art de guerre. Cayer 1-2'. Verfasser war Johan Frederik Maas 1713-1790 seit 1759 dänischer Major'. R. Whittmann 'Zur Verlegertypologie der Goethezeit. Unveröffentlichte Verlegerbriefe an Heinrich Wilhelm Gerstenberg' in 'Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik' 8/1 1976 p. 99-130 § His plan is the author of the 'Manuel militaire' tells us in the preface 'de donner sur toutes les Opérations militaires de petits volumes détachés' to produce small volumes. He plans to produce slim and handy volumes not only 'pour la commodité des Acheteurs' but also because the art of warefare reaches more perfection every day and every now and then new discoveries influence warefare. He begins the series with the 'Convoy': 'la manière de les conduire de les assûrer de les attaquer & de les défendre'. This is explained in theory and in practice. Maas describes e.g. elaborately the skirmishes around the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom between the French troops and the Dutch forces at the end of the War of Austrian succession in 1747 and 1748. See Wikipedia s.v. Het beleg van Bergen op Zoom The author is full of optimism about his project 'S'il est gouté les autres le suivront de près'. p. IX & X. A second volume 'sur les fourrages' followed in 1763. Then it stops. The series did not catch on and a German translation of the first part was never published. This translation would probably have been published by the Leiden publisher Elie Luzac in cooperation with the firm of Weidmann. Nothing came of it. To confuse matters M. van Vliet refers in her dissertation on Elie Luzac to 'Johann Friedrich Maas' not as an officer but as a Copenhagen publisher. Luzac had certainly as Maas high expectations concerning the Manual. From an auction list of 1801 Luzac died in 1796 we learn that there were still 586 with tables and 599 copies without tables available and 112 copies of volume 2 of the series were still gathering dust. Vliet M. van 'Elie Luzac 1721-1796 Boekverkoper van de Verlichting' Nijmegen 2005 p. 153/4 and p. 571 This huge number contrasts sharply with the small number of copies on library shelves. The lot probably did not find a buyer and the remainder must have been destroyed. We found an advertisement for this book in the 'Rotterdamsche Courant' of the first of january 1785 and repeated on the 8th. Luzac announces that it might be wise considering the turbulent times naval war with the English an immanent war with Prusia and domestic troubles violent riots between the patriot militias and the orangist mobs for officers and those interested in the military to buy this book. The price is 1 guilder and 15 stuivers. As we saw it was of no avail Collation: A-8 A5 plus A6 ; B-G8 H2; A second leaf A6 has been inserted after the preliminary pages between the regular A5 and the not signed A6; this inserted A6 gives on the recto side a list of authors and on the verso the table of contents and a list corrigenda; most copies we saw had the second leaf A6 which is not paginated at the end after H-2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 130444

‎Carl Kjersmeier‎

‎Centres De Style de la Sculpture Negre Africaine. Quatrieme Volume: Cameroun Afrique Equatoriale Francaise Angola Tanganyika Rhodesie‎

‎Paris / Copenhague: Albert Morance / Fischers Forlag 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 9" X 11.5. 86pp. Full page monochrome plates of Africa sculpture with supporting text. Volume / Tome 4 only. Some wear / handling to the boards. no dust wrapper. There is a gifting dedication dated 1939 signed by the author on the front free end paper. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. The text is in French. This book can only be shipped outside the UK if ordered with the fast / air shipping service. Please email with queries. 9"x11.5 <br/> <br/> Albert Morance / Fischers Forlag hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 025538

‎MINUCIUS FELIX‎

‎M. Minucii Felicis Octavius. Cum integris omnium notis ac commentariis novaque recensione Jacobi Ouzeli. Cujus & accedunt animadversiones. Insuper Johannis Meursii notae. Et liber Julii Firmici Materni V.C. De errore profanarum religionum.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex Officina Hackiana 1672. 8vo. XLVIII3526429 index1 blank p. frontispiece. Half calf frontcover detached. 19.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 063021110; Schoenemann I72; Graesse 4534; Ebert 14107 Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Marbled boards. Frontispiece engraved by G. Appelmans depicting 3 men Octavius Minucius and Octavius Januarius discussing in the shadow of a tree which grows on the border of a river behind them a statue of a naked male figure a statue of Serapis in the distance the city. This is an illustration of the crucial scene as told by Minucius at the end of the second chapter where Minucius tells how his friend Caecilius as heathens used to do threw a kiss to the statue. Octavius then criticizes Minucius for letting his friend walk 'in hac inperitiae vulgaris caecitate' the blindness of vulgar heathen ignorance and to let him greet anointed stones lapides which are adorned with a laurel wreath unctos et coronatos Condition: Binding scuffed. Upper board detached. Rear joint cracking but still firm. Flyleaves gone. Blank upper margin of the frontispiece chipping and soiled. Some small inkstains. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Small name on the title Note: The Octavius is a dialogue in defence of the christian religion and perhaps the oldest literary work of christian Latin. It was written by Minucius Felix who lived in the second or third cent. A.D. In it he tries to prove that christian principles were not contrary to pagan culture and that the Greek and Roman philosophers paved the path for christianity. The inspiration seems to come from Cicero's dialogue 'De Oratore'. The dialogue starts with Minucius’ recollections of the friendship he had with the recently deceased christian advocate Octavius. The setting is Ostia2. Minucius Octavius Januarius and the heathen Caecilius have come there to enjoy their holiday free from 'iudicariam curam'. Caecilius then launches a vehement attack upon the christians and their doctrines. It is the opinion of Octavius that no honorable Roman should leave a friend in the darkness of ignorance. He ridicules the folly of heathen fables and proves the existence of providence and of God. Octavius warmly praises the purity courage and other virtues of the christians. At the end Caecilius acknowleges himself vanquished and converted. § Jacobus Ouzelius Oiselius 1631-1686 born as Jacques Oisel Oesel in Dantzig was only 21 when he edited this book. Although destined for a commercial career he chose to study classical literature in Leyden. Later he switched to law and became professor of law in Groningen. He also edited Gaius and Gellius. Van der Aa vol. 14 p. 59 Ouzelius says in the 'praefatio' that he hopes that the reader will forgive him any mistakes without 'livor' and 'maledicentia'. He dedicates the book to Queen Christina of Sweden. Well if we may believe Schoenemann Christina had reason for complaint. Schoenemann is very critical about Ouzelius. He calls him a 'futilissimus commentator'. 'Omnia apta inepta incredibile stupore et imprudentia corrosa sunt'. The value of this edition lies Schoenemann insists in the printed commentaries of previous commentators. The reader should skip the notes of Ouzelius and consult the presented notes of greater scholars as Nicolaas Rigaltius or Desiderius Heraldus or Elmenhorst or Wouwer.§ At the end has been added 'De errore profanarum religionum' by Julius Firmicus Maternus edited by Wowerius with his commentary. § Firmicus lived in the 4th century A.D. In it Firmicus urges the emperors Constans and Constantius both sons of Constantine the Great the man who in 313 A.D. had declared christianity to be the state religion to take the next step and abolish paganism. § This edition of 1672 is a reissue of the edition Leiden 1652. Schoenemann tells that the publisher increased the usefulness of the book by printing the notes of the commentators below the text. In the edition of 1652 all the notes of those scholars were printed separately at the end of the dialogue Provenance: name of one 'John Bayly' on the title. The owner of this apologetic dialogue might well be the Irish clergyman John Bayly who was Dean of Lismore from 1828 until 1831. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He was Chaplain to Henry Paget 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He served as Dean of Killaloe from 1808 to 1828 when he was appointed Dean of Lismore. He died on 24 June 1831. Source Wikipedia § On the front pastedown tha armoral bookplate of one 'R.W.B.' The arms consist of a bar from which emerge 2 spread wings; they enclose a big heart which is pierced or pinned down by a sword Collation: -38 A-Y8 Aa-Ff8 minus leaf Ff8 leaf Ff7 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 130428

‎VALCKENAER,LC L C‎

‎Ludovici Caspari Valckenaer Oratio de sacra Novi Foederis critice a literatoribus quos vocant non exercenda. Habita Kalendis Iuniis 1745 quum abiret Magistratu Academico.‎

‎Franeker Franequerae Excudit Gulielmus Coulon Illust. Frisiae Ordd. atque Eorumd. Academ. Typogr. Ord. 1745. 4to. II60X p. Plain modern cloth 26 cm Ref: STCN ppn 151528659; Gerretzen p. 208/09 Details: Woodcut of the coat of arms of the province Frisia Friesland on the title. At the end a long laudatory poem of Johannes Daniel van Lennep a student of Valckenaer in Greek and by Ernst Willem Higt who studied theology in Franeker in Dutch Condition: The lower margin of last pages slightly stained. Lower margin of last leaf frayed. Last leaf soiled Note: The Frisian scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer 1715-1785 was a pupil of his fellow Frisian Tiberius Hemsterhuis and after him the greatest Dutch classical scholar of the 18th century. Hemsterhuis 1685-1766 advised his students in Franeker and later in Leiden to use especially the lexica of the ancient lexicographers. These works could be of great use for the understanding of textual problems and for the amending of texts of classical authors and they were of great help to gain a profound knowledge of the Greek language and its vocabulary. For his first fruits Valckenaer chose an unpublished work of the Greek grammarian Ammonius who lived probably in the first or second century A.D. This edition the 'editio princeps' of 'De adfinium vocabulorum differentia' made his name. It resulted in his appointment as professor of Greek at the University of Franeker in 1741 succeeding his teacher Tiberius Hemsterhuis who made a career move to the university of Leiden. Gerretzen Schola Hemsterhusiana 1940 p. 205/6 § Hemsterhuis was professor of Greek at the University of Franeker from 1717 till 1740 and from 1740 till 1765 at the University of Leiden. He was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism the so-called 'Schola Hemsterhusiana' which had in Valckenaer its best known disciple. In 1765 Valckenaer left for Leiden once again as successor of his beloved teacher Hemsterhuis. Both created a golden age of Greek studies in the Netherlands. In Franeker Valckenaer 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 his edition of Euripides' play 'Phoenissae' with his rich commentary. Among his best works are two other Euripides editions 'Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias' Leiden 1767 and 'Euripidis tragoedia Hippolytus' Leiden 1768. Valckenaer also produced editions of the Idylls of Theocritus Leiden 1773 and an edition with the complete works of the bucolic poets Theocritus Bion and Moschus Leiden & Kampen 1779. His Callimachus was published posthumously by J. Luzac 'Callimachi elegiarum fragmenta' Leiden 1799. § In his first speech as Rector of the University a masterpiece of ironic rhetoric Valckenaer made a stand against the literalists in the ongoing theological conflict between the orthodox and liberal ministers of the protestant church in the Netherlands. He will speak about the things a critic or a man of letters should avoid in order to live peacefully i.e. 'corrigere Novum Testamentum'. Critics and freethinkers will have to wait for better times he concludes when textual criticism and theology may combine forces solving biblical text problems in a fearless study of the New Testament. Valckenaer knew what he was talking about. From 1625 to 1815 it was one of the tasks of a professor Greek 'to teach New Testament Greek for undergraduates of the Faculty of Divinity.' H.J. de Jonge 'Jeremias Hoelzlin: editor of the 'Textus Receptus' printed by the Elzeviers Leiden 1633' in 'Miscellanea Neotestamentica' Volume I Leiden 1978 p. 112 Collation: pi1; A-H4; I4 minus blank leaf I4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎ERASMUS‎

‎MÔRIAS EGKÔMION. Id est Stultitiae laus. Erasmi Roterodami declamatio. Ad fidem editionis antiquae Frobenii figuris Holbenianis ornata. Cum duabus Erasmi epistolis ad Martinum Dorpium et ad Thomam Morum. Accessit dialogus Epicureus.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud D. Noothoven van Goor 1851. XL233 p.; illustrations in the text 2 portraits. Half calf. 24 cm Details: Rebound in antique style. Back with 5 raised bands. Portrait of Erasmus lithographed by H.J. Backer after H. Holbein bound before the title and a lithographed portrait of Hans Holbein at the end of the preliminary pages Note: This edition of 1851 is a reissue of an edition which was published earlier in the Dutch town of Hoorn in 1839. The sale of that edition apparantly fell short of expectation. The remainder was sold and was republished in Leiden in 1851. Only the title was renewed. The edition was produced by the Dutch schoolmaster Cornelis Alard Abbing 1800-1872 who was from 1826 Rector of the 'Schola Latina' of Hoorn. NNBW 4 col. 5/6 It contains Erasmus' satirical attack on superstitions 'Laus Stultitiae' Praise of Folly which follows Erasmus' own copy of the Basel edition of 1515 that was illustrated for him with pen and ink drawings by Hans Holbein Junior. Abbing also added a letter that Erasmus wrote to his friend the Louvain theologian Martinus Dorpius Maarten van Dorp who instigated by enemies of Erasmus had attacked his 'Laus Stultitiae'. Erasmus' letter was so convincing that Dorpius admitted his mistake. Added is also the text of a letter that Erasmus wrote in 1520 to his friend the English scholar Thomas Morus to whom he had dedicated his 'Laus Stultitiae'. At the end we find one of Erasmus' Colloquia Familiaria' called 'Epicureus' which is on 'voluptas' hardcover‎

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‎ZOSIMUS‎

‎Zôsimou Komêtos kai Apophiskosunêgorou Historia Nea. Zosimi Comitis ex Advocato Fisci Historia Nova. Ex recensione Friderici Sylburgii cum latina interpretatione Ioannis Leunclavii et Notis Variorum accurante Christophoro Cellario. Editio tertia.‎

‎Jena Ienae Sumtu Io. Felic. Bielkii 1729. 8vo. XXXVIII67034 index p. Calf. 18 cm Ref: Not yet in VD18; Hoffmann 3625; Brunet 51542: 'texte . amélioré et accompagné de bonnes notes'; Ebert cf. 24268: an edition 'welche sich durch theilweise Verbesserung des Textes durch Abtheilung in Capitel und durch gute Auswahl der frühern Noten empfiehlt'; Graesse 6/2519 Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Title in red & black. Printed in 2 columns Greek text with parallel Latin translation notes at the bottom of the page Condition: Binding scuffed. Small ink inscription on the front endpapers. Paper of half of the gatherings browning. 1 name and 1 small reference on the title. Small hole in leaf 5 with the loss of some text. We could not find out if this edition had a frontispiece or not Note: Zosimus second half fifth century wrote a Roman history in 6 books up to 410 AD. He used good sources and showed historical insight. The fall of Rome was caused he thinks by the neglect of the pagan gods. § The first Latin translation of Zosimus made by the German classical scholar and orientalist Johannes Loewenklau Leunclavius 1541-1594 was published in Basel in 1576. The edition contained also Leunclavius' 'Apologia pro Zosimo adversus Evagrii Nicephori Callisti et aliorum acerbas criminationes'. The translation was published even before the French printer/scholar Henricus Stephanus published for the first time a Greek text of the first 2 books of Zosimus' 'Nova Historia in his edition of Herodian Paris 1581. The first complete Greek text was produced after 2 manuscripts by the German classical scholar Friedrich Sylburg a friend of Leunclavius accompanied by Leunclavius' Latin translation Frankfurt 1590. Sandys holds Sylburg in high esteem: 'a thorough knowledge of Greek considerable critical acumen and an intelligent application of great powers of work were the characteristics of F. Sylburg'. Every one of his editions is distinguished by important corrections of the text. Sandys 2270 § The German scholar Christoph Cellarius or Christoph Keller 1638-1707 who was from 1693 Professor of Rhetoric and History at the newly established 'Friedrichs-Universität' at Halle is best known for his works on grammar and style on ancient history and the geography of the ancient world. Sandys 2369 In his edition of Zosimus with usefull historical and geographical notes he adopted also Leunclavius' 'Apologia pro Zosimo'. Leaf 6-34 in this edition of 1729 Cellarius' Zosimus edition was first published in 1679 at Jena by the printer Bielkius who also took care of a second reissue in 1713 and this 3rd reissue of 1729. A peculiar feature of this 3rd edition is that the gatherings A till O p. 1-224 are exactly the same as the second edition; the rest of this book was apparantly typeset anew and printed on better quality paper Provenance: On the title: 'Vollebregt 8 Oct. 1925'. This is J.C. Vollebregt who published in Amsterdam in 1929 a dissertation 'Symbola in novam Eunapii Vitarum editionem'. The Greek historian Eunapius was a contemporary of Zosimus. Vollebregt may have used this Zosimus for his dissertation. He was from 1943 till 1956 teacher the the Gymnasium Haganum in The Hague Collation: -28 minus blank leaf 8 34; A-O8 P4 Q-2X8 2Y6 minus blank leaf 2Y6 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EUTROPIUS‎

‎Eutropii Historiae Romanae Breviarium ab Urbe condita usque ad Valentinianum et Valentem Augustos notis et emendationibus illustravit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri filia jussu christianissimi regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini.‎

‎Paris Parisiis Apud Viduam Antonii Cellier 1683. 4to. XIV1833 blank p. recte 1813 blank p. Calf 24 cm Ref: Schweiger 2346; Moss 1436: 'edited by the celebrated Madame Dacier'; Brunet 21115; Fabricius/Ernesti 3136; Graesse 2529; Ebert 7181; La collection Ad Usum Delphini 2 304/12 Details: Back gilt & with 5 raised bands; brown shield in second compartment. Some woodcut initials headpieces and cul-de-lampes. Engraved coat of arms of the Dauphin at the beginning of the dedication Condition: Binding rubbed & worn at extremities. Corners bumped. The title leaf has been strengthened in the inner margin with a very small strip of paper. A tear in the outer margin has been repaired skillfully. Note: The minor Roman historian Eutropius probably from Gaul took part in the campaign of the emperor Julian against the Persians A.D. 363 and later was 'magister memoriae' of the emperor Valens. He wrote at the request of Valens a survey in 10 books the 'Breviarium ab urbe condita' of Roman history down to the death of the emperor Jovian in 364 A.D. Eutropius wrote in a clear and simple style. The work is short and well balanced showing good judgement and impartiality. This short history of Rome has however little historical value but it is occasionally useful where sources are lost. Eutropius was consulted by later christian writers. OCD 2nd ed. p. 424/5 § This Eutropius edition of 1683 was published for the education of the Dauphin in usum Delphini the young crown prince of France Louis of France who was born in 1661 as the eldest son of Louis XIV King of France. His title was as the heir apparent to the throne Dauphin Delphinus. As he died before his father he never became king Great care was bestowed on the editing and printing of the series. 39 editions of Latin authors from Cicero to Ausonius also difficult ones like Festus and Manilius were published by leading or promising French scholars. The series was also meant for a broader public des honnêtes gens and offered introductions reliable and readable texts easy interpretations and philological educational and historical notes without too much philological niceties or textual criticism. The series was a huge success. § The editor of this Eutropius edition is Anne Lefèvre 1654-1720 the daughter of the French classical scholar Tanneguy Lefèvre Tanaquillus Faber who was professor at the protestant Academy at Saumur. After his death in 1672 she moved to Paris where she began a career by publishing editions of classical authors. In 1683 she married André Dacier a former pupil of her father and so became the famous Madame Dacier. Together with her husband she abjured her Protestant faith in 1685. She produced 3 other editions in the 'Ad usum Delphini' series Florus 1674 Dictys Cretensis 1680 and Aurelius Victor 1681. In the 'praefatio' Anne Lefèvre stresses that Eutropius wrote in a clear and simple style and that he was very fit for schoolboys. 'Eutropius reliquis historicis praestantior teneraeque puerorum aetati convenientior: nam praeterquam stilo plano est & facili etsi quandoque minus puro tempora omnia accurate ponit .'. Praefatio p. ê recto She did not consult manuscripts or older editions but based her edition on that of her father which was published in 1672. 'En revanche les notes d'érudition abondent'. La collection Ad Usum Delphini 2308 The editor/commentator gives much information on geography history chronology and often rectifies errors of Eutropius. Much attention is paid to Roman civilization in the notes such as Roman games the toga triumphus Ides adoption the Roman army. The edition of 1683 was a great success for most 18th century shool editions of Eutropius were based on Anne Lefèvre's work Collation: â4 minus blank eaf â4 ê4 A-Z4 leaf Z4 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SUETONIUS‎

‎Histoire des douze Césars de Suétone traduite par Henri Ophellot de la Pause. Avec des Mêlanges philosophiques & des notes.‎

‎Paris Chez Saillant & Nyon Libraires 1771. 8vo. 4 volumes: CXXI1 blank3904; VIII522; IV528; VIII3831 blank 862 blank p. Half calf. 22 cm Ref: Schweiger 2984/85; Moss 2638; Brunet 5584; Graesse 6/1525; Ebert 21957; Cioranescu 22813 Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Title pages in red and black. Latin text with parallel French translation with notes and 'mélanges philosophique' Condition: Bindings scuffed. Backs rubbed and slightly damaged at the head and foot of the spine. Shields on the backs partly gone. Boards scratches. Tiny wormhole in the blank lower margin of the first 140 pages of the second volume only Note: The Roman historian Suetonius born c. 69 A.D is the most influential and best known biographer in the Latin language. He was appointed under the emperors Hadrian and Trajan to the secretarial posts of 'a studiis' 'a bibliothecis' and 'ab epistulis' of the palace administration jobs that gave him access to the imperial archives. His Lives of the Emperors 'De vita Caesarum' gives the biographies of 12 emperors from Caesar the founder of the imperial line to Domitian. 'Suetonius like Plutarch believed that a person's character could be revealed in small and insignificant details'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 912/13 Beyond simplicity he has no stylistic pretentions. He quotes verbatim from documents he knew and shows critical ability. 'The great number of scurrilous anecdotes in most of the lives may be due to the nature of his sources'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 1020/1 § Suetonius was read in the Middle Ages. Einhard wrote a biography of Charlemagne along the lines of a Life of Suetonius. From the Renaissance onward he was neglected until the edition of the French scholar Isaac Casaubon Geneva 1595 who did pioneering work on the text of Suetonius. The great edition of 1672 of the Dutch scholar J.G. Graevius and its later revisions became the foundation for the widespread interest and study of Suetonius in the 18th century. Important for the reception of Suetonius is the article that the French philosopher Pierre Bayle wrote about him in his 'Dictionnaire Historique et Critique'. 'Bayle adopted a view of Suetonius that became commonplace in subsequent decades. He presented Suetonius as a model of candor sincerity and impartiality. Suetonius reports without judgment he tells what he knows without fear and he flatters no one'. G.W. Bowersock 'From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition' Oxford 2009 p. 55 § The English historian Gibbon also praised the Roman historian for his strict dedication to historical truth and for composing the 'Lives' truthfully without or prejudice. This view of Suetonius was also dominant in 18th century France. Apart from the scholarly works two translations appeared in that century one made by De la Harpe in 1770 and one in 1771 translated under the pseudonym Henri Ophellot de la Pause an alias of the writer and philosopher of the Enlightenment Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales 1741-1816. He is best known for his 'De la Philosophie de la Nature' of 1770 which caused a scandal for professing atheism. 'Beginning in 1776 a faction in the French court began a campaign against De Sales as a way of attacking the French philosophical movement more generally. Voltaire championed his defense but De Sales was imprisoned in March 1777 for publishing a book deemed to be anti-royalist an event that brought his works out of obscurity'. Wikipedia Delisle de Sales The trial became a cause célébre in Europe and made him an international celebrity. § The apparant parallel between the Roman and French court may explain De Sales' interest in the biographer Suetonius who did not shrink from recording the dark sides and sordid details in the lives of the royals Collation: pi2 a-g8ch2; A-2A8 2B6 minus blank leaf 2B6; pi4 A-2G8 2H4 2I-2K82L1; pi2 A-2F8 2G4 2H-2K8 2L4; pi4 A-2A8 leaf 2A8 verso blank A-E8 2F4 leaf 2F4 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎ATHENAEUM ILLUSTRE-‎

‎A collection of dissertations: 1 Petrus Nieuwland: Dissertatio philosophico-critica De Musonio Rufo philosopho stoico. Praeside D. Wyttenbachio 1783 Bound with: 2 B.P. Van Wesele Scholten: Dissertatio philosophico-critica De Philosophiae Ciceronianae loco qui est De Divina Natura. Praeside D. Wyttenbachio 1783 &: 3 B.P. Van Wesele Scholten: Dissertatio juridica De foedere Madritano quod Franciscus I. Rex cum Carolo V. Imp. captivus fecit. Praeside H.C. Cras 1784 &: 4 Benjamin Petrus van Wesele Scholten: Dissertatio juridica inauguralis Ad fragmentum Scaevolae quod exstat in Leg. CII Princ. Dig. de Solut. et Liberat. Praeside D.G. van der Keessel 1785 &: 5 David Jacobus Van Lennep: Disputatio juris sive ethico-juridica De loco Ciceronis qui est De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. Praeside H.C. Cras 1793 &: 6 E.C. d'Engelbronner: Disputatio juris De loco Ciceronis qui est De Legibus. Praeside H.C. Cras 1802 &; 7 Jo. Conr. d'Engelbronner: Disputat‎

‎Ad 1-3 5-7: Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Petrum den Hengst et filium 1783 - 1804; Ad 4: Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Henricum Mostert 1785; Ad 8: Zaltbommel Bomliae Apud J. Noman civitatis typographum 1806. 4to. 8 volumes in 1: 8502;4804;4621 corrigenda; 4564; 4906; 8937;8845; 4401 p. together 629 p. Half calf 25 cm Ref: Ad 1: STCN 229913989; Ad 2: STCN 176943927; ad 3: STCN 176577432; Ad 4: STCN 238552810; Ad 5: STCN 182890422 Details: A nice copy. Back ruled gilt and with a red title label Condition: The leatherlike cloth on both boards has been renewed somewhere in the 20th century. Table of contents in ink on the front flyleaf Note: Collection of 7 dissertations defended at the 'Athenaeum Illustre' at Amsterdam. The eighth title in this convolute is the inaugural lecture held by Elias Carolus d'Engelbronner. § Petrus Nieuwland born in a village near Amsterdam studied in Amsterdam at the 'Athenaeum Illustre' and at the University of Leiden. In 1793 he was appointed professor of mathematics physics and astronomy at the University of Leiden. He was also a minor poet. He died 1827. § Nieuwland was a friend of Benjamin Petrus van Wesele Scholten born in 1762 in Amsterdam. He studied law at the local 'Athenaeum Illustre' and was from 1811 till 1813 'conseiller Impériale en Hollande' and from 1813 till his death in 1829 first councilor then president of the High Court. § David Jacob van Lennep born in Amsterdam in 1774 studied from 1790 at the 'Athenaeum Illustre' then studied law at Leiden. In 1799 he succeeded Daniel Wyttenbach as professor of Greek Latin History Rhetoric and Antiquities. He was also a neolatin poet. He died in 1853. He spoke at the funeral of Nieuwland. § Elias Carel d'Engelbronner born in 1779 in Amsterdam studied law at the 'Athenaeum Illustre'. In 1805 he was nominated rector of the 'Schola Latina' at Zaltbommel and in 1809 of the school at Middelburg. He translated the Code Napoléon into Dutch Amsterdam 1810. Later he became prosecutor at Goes. There he became involved in the forgery of signatures 'valsche handtekeningen onder een onderhandsche geschrift'. In 1817 he was sentenced to imprisonment in a house of detention at Gouda for defalcation and committing forgery. He died in 1832. § Johannes Conrad d'Engelbronner or Jan Coenrad d'Engelbronner 1782-1819 was his brother. He was a student of David Jacob van Lennep and finished his studies as 'juris utriusque doctor'. He moved to Zaltbommel apparantly together with his brother the rector. In the 'Gepreviligeerde Zalt-Boemelsche kantoor- en schrijf-almanak' of 1811 Mr. Jan Coenrad d'Engelbronner appears as 'praktizeerend advocaat'. He died young in the nearby city Tiel as clerk. § The contributors of this convolute were all from Amsterdam studied law at the 'Athenaeum Illustre' and probably knew each other Collation: 1: 4 A-F4 G2; 2: 2 A-I4 K6 leaf K5 verso & K6 verso blank; 3: 2 A-G4 H6 minus leaf H6; H5 verso blank; 4: pi2 A-G4 H2; 5: pi2 A-M4 leaf M4 verso blank; 6: 4 A-M4 N2; 7: 4 A-K4 L6 minus leaf L6; L5 verso blank; 8: pi2 A-D4 E6 minus leaf F6 F5 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎OVIDIUS‎

‎P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia in tres tomos divisa cum integris notis Nicolai Heinsii D.F. lectissimisque Variorum notis. Quibus non pauca ad suos quaeque antiquitatis fontes diligenti comparatione reducta accesserunt studio Borchardi Cnippingii. Volumen 1‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Ex typographia Blauiana Sumptibus Societatis 1683. 8vo. XVI83214 index2 blank p. One portrait of Ovid. Vellum. 20 cm Volume 1 of 3 Ref: STCN ppn 852573480; Schweiger 2631: 'Bloss Wiederholung der Ausgabe von 1670'; Brunet 4/272: 'Cette édition est belle et les notes en sont plus et mieux choisies'; Dibdin 2267/8: 'Yet of the Variorum editions that of 1683 is perhaps the general favourite'; Graesse 570; Ebert 15368; Rahir 2784 'Annexes de la Collection Elzevirienne' Details: Volume 1 of 3 only. One engraved portrait of Ovid. Engraved frontispiece depicting the Judgment of Paris; in the foreground Amor and a peacock in the background Troy. This volume contains the Latin text with extensive commentary of the 'Heroides' p. 1/308 'Amores' p. 309/510 'Ars Amatoria' p. 511/680 'Remedia Amoris' p. 681/738 the fragment 'Medicamina Faciei' p. 738/748 'Halieuticon' p. 749/760 'Consolatio ad Liviam' p. 761/793 and 'Nux' p. 793/806; at the end have been printed 3 verse epistles each written in the person of a legendary woman to her absent lover forged by the Italian humanist and impersonator of Ovid Angelo Sabino or Angelus Sabinus floruit 1460/1480. The 3 hoax poems were for a long time attributed to Aulus Sabinus a friend of Ovidius Condition: Binding age-tanned. Upper corner of back cover damaged. This is volume 1 of 3 only Note: The Roman poet Ovid 43 B.C. - 17 A.D 'is perhaps the most consistently influential and popular writer of the classical tradition. His central position is suggested by the many surviving manuscripts of his works and their early publication in printed editions. . Most would agree that it is his Metamorphoses that has had the greatest influence but his other major poems the Heroides Tristia Fasti and particularly his racier works the Amores Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris have played their part in maintaining his reputation as a writer of enduring importance and appeal'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 667 § Ovid was widely read in antiquity and remained to be read at the Carolingian court in the Middle Ages. Ovid became also the favourite poet of the Renaissance. Boccaccio and Petrarca were influenced by him. Shakespeare was inspired more by Ovid than by Vergil. Neue Pauly 9110/119 The huge number of editions and translations suggests that Ovid's appeal lies also beyond the bounderies of the scholarly and literary world. § A new age 1658-1837 dawns in the textual history of Ovid's poems with the work of the famous Dutch scholar neolatin poet and diplomat Nicolaas Heinsius 1620-1681 'who after 345 year remains the central figure in any account of the editing of Ovid. No modern editor will fail to mention his name in the preface as the 'sospitator Ovidii; no 'apparatus criticus' will fail to cite his numerous contributions to the improvement of the text'. P.E. Knox ed. 'A companion to Ovid' Chichester 2013 online version Heinsius' editions of Ovid offer texts that are based on an extensive first hand knowledge of the manuscripts and that are supplemented with a full textual commentary which records and discusses 'variae lectiones' and notes alterations of the vulgate text. Sandys 2323/6 § Our edition of 1683 is a reissue an an edition of 1670 published in Leiden. It is a so-called 'Variorum' edition. Such an edition generally offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these were useful but never broke new ground. This Variorum edition was produced by the Dutch classical scholar of German descent Bochardus Cnippingius 1623/24-1674. At the age of 23 or 24 he was appointed Rector of the Schola Latina at Culemborg. He gave up this position and moved to Leiden to teach classics at the local 'Schola Latina' later he became Conrector. Cnippingius' edition was the main source for the Ovid translation of the English poet John Dryden. J.A. van der Welle 'Dryden and Holland' Groningen 1962 p. 122/24 Collation: 8 A-3G8 leaf 3G8 blank Photographs available on request hardcover‎

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‎TACITUS‎

‎C. Cornelii Taciti Opera quae exstant integris Beati Rhenani Fulvii Ursini M. Antonii Mureti Josiae Merceri Justi Lipsii Valentis Acidalii Curtii Pichenae Jani Gruteri Hugonis Grotii Joannis Freinshemii Joannis Frederici Gronovii & selectis aliorum commentariis illustrata. Ex recensione & cum notis Jacobi Gronovii.‎

‎Utrecht Trajecti ad Rhenum Apud Jacobum a Poolsum & Johannem Visch 1721. 4to. 2 volumes. Frontispiece XXXVI756 recte 764;578158 index p. Vellum 26 cm Ref: STCN ppn 198473214; Schweiger 21003/04; Dibdin 2454: 'A very ample and excellent edition; containing the notes and observations of almost all the old and best editors'; Moss 2644/45; Brunet 5 635; 398/99; Graesse 6/2 p. 9/10; Ebert 22169; Fabricius/Ernesti 2398/99 Details: Backs with 6 raised bands. Short title in ink in the second compartment. Boards with blindstamped double fillet borders enclosing another blindstamped rectangle and ornament. Frontispiece designed and engraved by J. Goeree the upperpart of which shows 2 women crowning a bust of Agricola in the foreground stands a royal woman with a crown Roma on her head; she points at a big engraving in the middle of a Caesar which is being engraved by winged woman a Muse. Title printed in red & black. Engraved printer's device on the first title showing a scholar in his study he is flanked by statues of Athena and Artemis; the motto is: 'Ingenio stat sine morte decus'. Propertius III226 On the second title page we find a portrait of Tacitus engraved by Goeree; Tacitus is flanked there by Athena an eagle & 2 putti Condition: Vellum age-tanned and slightly soiled. The boards are rather curved and outstanding Note: The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus offered ammunition for many intellectual and political battles in 16th and 17th century Europe. The turmoil caused by the emerging new monarchies in England France en Spain civil and religious wars in Italy and Germany and the plague made Tacitus' account of the state of the early Roman Empire increasingly topical and relevant. The debate Tacitus provoked in intellectual circles was of course on Roman history but also on literary style in Latin and the vernacular but more so on historical and political thought. Tacitus ideas were not original but he brought them in a forceful lapidary way oneliners ready for the use in debate. Tacitus became in a corrupted world 'the one true guide for those involved in the awful revolution of modern times' he 'teaches well the mode of life under tyrants just as he teaches tyrants how to establish tyranny''. 'The Classical Tradition' Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 921 The French humanist scholar Muretus Marc Antoine Muret 1526-1585 declared that 'Tacitus' descriptions of lost liberty failed revolutions vicious civil wars and mad emperors amounted to a theater of our time'. Op. cit. ibid. § The Flemish latinist Justus Lipsius 1547-1606 one of the most learned men of his day praised Tacitus as a teacher of vital political lessons. Students and men of letters busied themselves in what they called the study of 'politics' summarizing in pointed abrupt witty Latin theses the Tacitean lessons about politics. By reading Tacitus' Annals and Histories the student could learn what constructive role the members of the social elite could play in the creation of a political and military system. Students in the Netherlands found ammunition especially in Tacitus' Germania a detailed description of the peoples in Germany and the Low Countries. To show that the new Dutch Republic founded in 1588 'rested on solid historical foundations they turned to Tacitus who made clear that their ancestors the Batavi had resisted the tyranny of Rome just as the modern citizens of Holland and Zeeland resisted that of Spain'. Op.cit. 923 § This Tacitus edition of 1721 is based on the edition of 1672 of the Dutch scholar of German origin Johannes Fredericus Gronovius 1611-1671 who was professor of Greek at the University of Leiden. That edition of 1672 appeared one year after his death and was posthumously produced by his son Jacobus Jakob Gronovius 1645-1716 who was also professor of classics at Leiden. This edition of 1721 was produced by the next Gronovius in line a son of Jacobus Gronovius the classical scholar Abraham Gronovius 1695-1775 who became librarian at Leyden University from 1741 until his death. § This copious and excellent Tacitus edition of 1721 is a so-called 'Variorum' edition. It offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. Their production was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century Collation: pi2 frontispiece & title -44 A-5C4 5D2; A-4Z4 Photographs on request Heavy set may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎PERSIUS‎

‎Auli Persii Flacci Satirarum liber. Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit & commentario libro illustravit. Ad virum amplisissmum D. Achillem Harlaeum senatus principem. Volume 2: Isaaci Casauboni in Persii Satiras Liber commentarius. Eiusdem Persiana Horatii imitatio‎

‎Paris Parisiis Apud Ambroisum et Hieronymum Drouart sub scuto Solari via Iacobaea 1605. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: XVI4341 blank; XXXII5582 blank26 index1 errata1 blank p. Modern calf antique style. 18 cm Ref: Schweiger 2710; Graesse 5212; Ebert 16282; cf. Smitskamp 'The Scaliger collection' no. 116; Fabricius/Ernesti 2165/66: 'eruditissimus atque divinus commentarius' Details: Back with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering. 2 title pages the first shows an oval engraving of a 'thiasos': a drunken Bacchus is carried by a bunch of satyrs accompanied by some revellers. The second title has an oval woodcut printer's mark; it depicts a thisle flanked by the initials A and D of Ambrosius Ambroise Drouart; there are 2 appropriate mottoes: 'Nul ne s'y frote' let no one meddle and 'patere aut abstine' bear or forebear. The first volume contains a preface the Latin text of the Satires and 18 pages with 'Glossae veteres in Persium'. The second volume contains the commentary of Casaubon Condition: Endpapers renewed. The slightly thumbed first title has been repaired expertly in the gutter. Small oval library stamp on the title. Old and small marginal ink notes and underlinings on 2 pages Note: The well-born and well-to-do Roman poet Aulus Persius Flaccus 34-62 A.D. produced during his short life one book libellus with 6 satires together 650 hexameters. 'They are well described as Horatian diatribes transformed by Stoic rhetoric'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 805 The first is 'on the decay of literary taste in his own time and the neglect of the manly Republican authors the second on vanity of wealth and luxury the third on idleness the fourth on self-knowledge the fifth on true liberty the sixth on the proper use of riches'. H.J. Rose 'A History of Latin Literature' London 1967 p. 377 The style is obscure contorted and crammed with allusions to Horace and Lucilius. He was much read in antiquity and admired as a moralist in the Middle Ages but now he is found dull too difficult cryptic too far fetched and too complicated. 'So fühlte sich zumal das 19. Jh. von seinem vielschichtigen Stil abgestossen während sich erst neuerdings eine gerechtere Würdigung durchsetzen beginnt'. Neue Pauly 9 619 A specimen of this new appraisal is the following quote: 'The elements of composition in Persius' satires - words and ideas images steps in the argument registers of speech and literary style speeches in dramatic dialogue- are abruptly or peculiarly even bizarrely combined. One is faced by an unpredictable surprising series of conceptions; continuous attention is necessary if one is to understand. However the surprises and incongruities are often observably intelligent apt and curiously artistic. From a literary point of view the quality of continual surprise in Persius' style makes the Satires amusing to read'. J.R. Bond 'Persius the Satires' Warminster 1980 p. 5 § 1605 saw the start of modern Persian philology with Isaac Casaubon's edition of the Satires his 'Prolegomena in Persium' and his commentary. The Latin text of this edition was based on the edition that was edited by the French scholar Pithou in Paris in 1585. The edition and its extensive commentary were produced by the French protestant scholar Isaac Casaubon 1559-1614 who is the first critical commentator of Persius. He deemed Persius the best of the Roman satirists. His preface is a vigorous defense of Persius' Stoic earnestness and philosophic constancy.'The ethical interest is strong in his Persius 1605 on which he had lectured at Geneva and Montpellier and his commentary on the Stoic satirist of which Scaliger said that the sauce was better than the meat was reprinted in Germany as late as 1833 and has been ultimately merged in Conington's edition' of 1872 Sandys 2209 Provenance: Stamp on the title of 'Repton School Library'. Repton School was founded in 1577 and is still thriving. The school stands on the site of a 12th century Priory founded by Augustinian Canons and adapted in Tudor times for use as a school. The beautiful Cloister Garth still forms the heart of this school Collation: a8 A-C8 leaf C8 verso blank â8 ê8 A-2N8 2O6 leaf 2O6 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SUETONIUS‎

‎C. Suetonius Tranquillus cum notis integris Jo. Bapt. Egnatii Henrici Glareani Laevini Torrentii Fulvii Ursini Isacii Casauboni Jani Gruteri Theod. Marcilii Joannis Georgii Graevii Caroli Patini qui ex numismatibus illustravit & selectis aliorum curante Petro Burmanno qui & suas adnotationes adjecit.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1736. 4to. 2 volumes: IV frontispiece & titleXX808;420234 plates2025 index numismaticum in Caroli Patini figuris & notis1 blank p.; p. 421-492;204 indices13 blank p. Brown morocco. 27 cm Ref: STCN ppn 183108442; Schweiger 2979/80; Dibdin 2442/43: 'a very valuable edition'; Moss 2632; Fabricius/Ernesti 2459; Brunet 5583; Graesse 6/1523; Ebert 21937 Details: Backs gilt and with 4 raised bands. Boards with gilt quadruple fillets. Marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispiece produced by W. Jong it depicts Father Time unveiling a monument for Suetonius in the middle of a kind of Pantheon; in the foreground sits a crowned woman writing a book; at her feet the spoils won in battles. Title printed in red and black. Engraved printer's mark on the title depicting a mole flanked by Athena and Hermes; the motto reads: 'Vulgo caeca vocor video sed acutius ipso'. Occasional small engraved illustrations in the text Condition: Joint of the lower board of volume 1 starting to split. The back of volume 2 has been expertly repaired and laid down on brown cloth a small piece of the leather is gone. The endpapers of the second volume have been renewed with new marbled endpapers. Some slight foxing Note: The Roman historian Suetonius born c. 69 A.D is the most influential and best known biographer in the Latin language. He was appointed secretary to the emperor Hadrian a job that gave him access to the imperial records and archive. He made good use of his sources writing the Lives of the XII Caesars or 'De vita Caesarum'. The collection consists of the biographies of 12 emperors from Caesar the founder of the imperial line to Domitian. 'Suetonius like Plutarch believed that a person's character could be revealed in small and insignificant details'. He 'organized his Lives by topics per species rather than chronologically'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 912/13 Beyond simplicity and clearness he has no stylistic pretentions. He quotes verbatim from documents he knew and shows critical ability. 'The great number of scurrilous anecdotes in most of the lives may be due to the nature of his sources'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 1020/1 Of another of his works 'De viris illustribus' a collection biographies of famous Roman authors the lives of Lucan Horace Vergil and Terence have survived and his 'Liber de illustribus grammaticis' and his 'De claris rhetoribus liber'. Suetonius was read in the Middle Ages. The Frank Einhard wrote a biography of Charlemagne along the lines of a Live of Suetonius. § From the Renaissance onward Suetonius was neglected. Pioneering work was done by the French scholar Isaac Casaubon who produced an excellent text and a valuable commentary. Geneva 1595/1615 This work was continued by the Dutch scholar Johann Georg Graeve or in Latin Johannes Georgius Graevius 1632-1703 with his great Suetonius edition of 1672. This edition became with her numerous reissues and revisions the foundation for the widespread study of Suetonius in the Netherlands and in England and in the next 18th century the scholarly interest in Suetonius has been greater than ever before or since. § Gibbon praised Suetonius for his strict dedication to historical truth. Nowadays 'historians of Rome take him more seriously than do literary critics'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 913 § This copious and excellent Suetonius edition of 1736 is a so-called 'Variorum' edition. It offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. Their production was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. § The Dutch latinist Petrus Burmannus based his edition on that of Graevius of 1672. It contains the complete notes of the best commentators such as Egnatius Glareanus Torrentius Casaubon and Gruter and selections and excerpts from others. Burmannus added also many excellent notes of his own. Petrus Burmannus 1668-1741 was professor of Latin at the University of Utrecht from 1696 and at Leiden from 1715. As an editor Burmannus was an industrious manufacturer of 'Variorum' Editions. He confined himself to the Latin classics. He edited Phaedrus Horace Claudian Ovid Lucan and the Poetae Latini Minores Petronius Quintilian and Suetonius. Sandys 2 p. 343/5 Provenance: On the front flyleaf in ballpoint the name of 'Lennart Hakanson' 1939-1987 professor of Latin at the university of Uppsala Collation: Volume 1: pi2 -24 32; A-5I4. Volume 2: A-3F4 3G2 chi1; 34 plates A- 2C4 verso leaf 2C4 blank; 3H2 3H-4S4; chi2 chi1 recto: binder's instruction; leaf chi1 verso and chi2 blank Photographs on request Heavy set may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎STEPHANUS BYZANTINUS‎

‎Stephanou Buzantiou Ethnika kat' epitomên. Stephani Byzantini Gentilia per epitomen antehac Peri Poleôn De urbibus inscripta. Quae ex Mss Codicibus Palatinis ab Cl. Salmasio quondam collatis & Ms. Vossiano restituit supplevit ac Latina versione & integro commentario illustravit Abrahamus Berkelius. Accedunt collectae ab Jacobo Gronovio variae lectiones ex codice Ms. Perusino & admixtae ejusdem notae.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Danielem Gaesbeeck 1688. Colophon at the end: Ex typographia Danielis à Gaesbeeck Folio. XVIII77216 index. VIII271 blank p. Contemporary marbled calf. 37 cm Ref: STCN ppn 83342419X; Hoffmann 3441; Brunet 5531; Graesse 6/1 492; Ebert 21740 Details: Back gilt and with 6 raised bands gilt letter shield. Boards with gilt broad borders and rectangle. Marbled endpapers. 2 title pages both printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on both titles depicting the entrance of a safe harbour; in the foreground a big wooden semaphore the entrance is between 2 rocks on which 2 columns stand the columns of Hercules; in the distance 2 ships ready to enter; the motto reads: 'Intelligentibus' for those who understand for initiated. Printed in 2 columns Greek text with parallel Latin translation with on the lower half of the page the commentary Condition: Binding scuffed and scratched. Small piece gone at the head & tail of the spine. Joints split. Corners bumped. Upper margin partly and slightly waterstained. Title page yellowing Note: The Greek grammarian Stephanus Byzantinus who lived at Constantinople after the time of the Roman emperors Honorius and Arcadius end 4th century is the author of a well-known geographic lexicon called 'Ethnika' of which work we only possess an epitome kat' epitomên. The 'Ethnika' which is lost consisted of between 50 and 60 books and listed in alphabetical order place-names with the adjectives derived from them. It offered information on foundation legends etymologies historical anecdotes proverbs etc. The lexicon was epitomized ca. 530 A.D. by a certain Hermolaus who dedicated his abridgement to the emperor Justinian. Stephanus Byzantinus was originally interested not so much in geography or history but in grammar and etymology i.e. the correct formation of ethnic adjectives derived from the names of places islands regions and countries in the ancient world. Stephanus Byzantinus' sources were Herodianus Dionysius Periegetes Strabo Hecataeus Pausanias Polybius and many other now lost grammarians and historians. The value of this compilation lies in the preservation of material from works otherwise lost. The title of the 'Ethnika' has been a matter of dispute ever since the Aldine 'editio princeps' of 1502 where it is entitled 'Peri Poleôn'. The Florentine Iunta edition of 1521 went 'Peri Poleôn kai Dêmôn' or 'de Urbibus et Populis' with which title Berkelius also headed his text. p.1 Thomas de Pinedo a Spanish Jew 1614-1679 who was obliged to leave his native country and seek a refuge in Amsterdam from inquisitorial persecution was the first to add a Latin translation to an edition of 'De Urbibus' Amsterdam 1678. This edition of 1688 was edited by the Dutch scholar Abraham Berkelius in Dutch Van Berckel or Van Berkel together with his commentary and Latin translation. He adopted collations made by the French scholar Claudius Salmasius 1588-1653 from manuscripts of the 'Bibliotheca Palatina' during his stay at Heidelberg and notes and 'various readings' collected by the Dutch professor of Greek Jacobus Gronovius 1645-1716 from the 'Codex Perusinus'. Berkelius 1639/40-1686 studied Greek under Gronovius and was appointed Rector of the 'Schola Latina' at Delft. Stephanus Byzantinus was not new to Berkelius. He had published earlier at the same publisher Van Gaesbeek in 1674 an edition that contained fragments of Stephanus Byzantinus' 'Ethnika' the 'Genuina Stephani Byzantini de Urbibus et Populis fragmenta' a small work of 25 pages. The involvement in the edition of 1688 of his master Gronovius also does not come as a surprise for he published for Van Gaesbeek in 1681 a fragment of Stephanus Byzantinus on the Greek oracle at Dodona with 3 Latin translations and a commentary Collation: Part 1: a4 b-c2 d1; A-5D4 5E2; 6A2-6D2. Part 2: A-I2 leaf I2 verso blank Heavy book may require extra shipping costs Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎TACITUS‎

‎C. Cornelius Tacitus ex I. Lipsii accuratissima editione.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex officina Elzeviriana 1634. 12mo. XX78629 index1 blank p. engraved title 1 plate with 3 portraits. Overlapping vellum 13 cm Ref: STCN ppn 833597485; Willems 415: 'l'édition est fort belle et très recherchée'. Berghman 2145; Rahir 403; Copinger 4630; Schweiger 21001/1002: 'Sehr niedlicher Abdruck des Textes nach Lipsius'; Moss 2643; Brunet 5634; Graesse 6/2 9: 'Édition très jolie'; Ebert 22157 Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Nice title engraved by C.C. Duysent depicting the river god Tiberinus who sits at the border of the Tiber and holds in his arms a big jar from which water flows and a cornucopia; behind him stands a woman who has a mirror in her hand. At the end of the preliminary pages a plate also engraved by Duysent showing within an oval frame 3 portraits of Tiberius Augustus and his wife Livia. Clear typography. Latin text only no commentary or notes Condition: Vellum age-tanned a bit soiled and slightly scuffed. Occasionally a small number has been written in ink in the margins Note: The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus offered ammunition for many intellectual and political battles in 16th and 17th century Europe. The turmoil caused by the emerging new monarchies in England France en Spain civil and religious wars in Italy and Germany and the plague made Tacitus' account of the state of the early Roman Empire increasingly topical and relevant. The debate Tacitus provoked in intellectual circles was of course on Roman history but also on literary style in Latin and the vernacular but more so on historical and political thought. Tacitus ideas were not original but he brought them in a forceful lapidary way oneliners ready for the use in debate. Tacitus became in a corrupted world 'the one true guide for those involved in the awful revolution of modern times: he 'teaches well the mode of life under tyrants just as he teaches tyrants how to establish tyranny''. 'The Classical Tradition' Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 921 The French humanist scholar Muretus Marc Antoine Muret 1526-1585 declared that 'Tacitus' descriptions of lost liberty failed revolutions vicious civil wars and mad emperors amounted to a theater of our time'. Op. cit. ibid. § The Flemish latinist Justus Lipsius 1547-1606 one of the most learned men of his day was invited in 1579 to come to Leiden to the recently founded university as a Honorary Professor of History. At that date he already had produced his great Tacitus-edition published by Plantin a work that placed and still places him in the front rank of classical scholarship. Antwerp 1574 His main strength lay in textual criticsm and in exegesis. His emendations are considered to be very clever and his commentary rich. Plantin published a second edition in 1581 with new emendations and variae lectiones. Lipsius's third edition Antwerp 1585 offered a new recension. The fourth edition was published by the son in law of Plantin Franciscus Raphelengius in Leiden in 1588. Lipsius remained in Leiden for 11 years a period of his greatest productivity. Lipsius praised Tacitus as a teacher of vital political lessons. In his 'Politics' 'Politicorum sive Civilis doctrinae libri sex' 1589 'a brilliant textbook in mosaic form composed of passages from the ancients far more of them taken from Tacitus than from any other source- Lipsius showed how to make a version of Tacitus' analysis of empire fit the practical needs of the modern governing classes'. Op. cit. ibid. At the University of Leiden the intellectual powerhouse of the new Dutch Republic 'dozens of young intellectuals busied themselves in what they called the study of 'politics'. They studied and summarized in pointed abrupt witty Latin theses the Tacitean lessons about absolute monarchy'. Op. cit. 922 By reading Tacitus' 'Annals' and 'Histories' the student could learn what constructive role the members of the social elite could play in the creation of a political and military system. Dutch students found ammunition especially in Tacitus' 'Germania' a detailed description of the peoples in Germany and the Low Countries. To show that the new Dutch Republic founded in 1588 'rested on solid historical foundations they turned to Tacitus who made clear that their ancestors the Batavi had resisted the tyranny of Rome just as the modern citizens of Holland and Zeeland resisted that of Spain'. Op.cit. 923 Collation: 10 A-2L12 leaf 2L12 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎TERENTIUS‎

‎Publii Terentii Comoediae sex ad optimas editiones nunc demum emendatae. Accedunt notae Joh. Min-Ellii et index absolutissimus.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud R. & G. Wetstenios 1721. 12mo. XVI including frontispiece54042 index2 blank p. Vellum. 14.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 30413497X; Schweiger 21067; Graesse 6/259 Details: Five thongs laced through both joints. The frontispiece depicts a scene from one of the plays the return of an abandoned child. Printer's device on the title: a burin being sharpened on a whetstone around it the motto: 'Terar dum prosim' Condition: Terentius written in ink on both boards and on the spine. Some small and faint ink annotations 18th century Note: The late antique grammarian Aelius Donatus 4th century A.D wrote not only a commentary on the plays of the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer ca. 190-159 B.C. but also a short biography in which he tells that Terentius was born in the Roman province Africa and that he came as a slave in the houshold of the senator Terentius Lucanus. He adopted his name when he was manumitted. Terentius is the author of 'fabulae palliatae' which means 'plays in Greek cloths'. He adapted Greek plays especially those of the Greek playwright Menander to the taste of the Romans. Six of his comedies have survived. For later generations he became a model for elegant Latin. His style was closer to everyday conversation than Plautus' an earlier contemporary comic playwright whose style was more extravagant. He was quoted by Cicero Horace Persius and the Church Fathers. § Ever since antiquity Terentius lived also a long and influential life in schools as a model for Latin language and rhetoric. In the Middle Ages he was read for his moral sentences. He was imitated by the German abbess Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim ca. 935 - ca. 973 in her 'Dramenbuch' with which she wanted to create a Christian alternative for the pagan comedies. With the coming of humanism Terentius enjoyed a renaissance in the classroom and on stage. Scholars rejected the 'barbaries' of Medieval Latin and chose the elegance of Cicero and Terentius as their model. They admired Terentius for his 'latinitas' and his civilized humour. In his 'De ratione studi'i 1511 the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536 encouraged the study of Terentius for his language and moral utility. 'Among Latin writers who is more valuable as a standard of language than Terence He is pure concise and closer to everyday speech and by the very nature of his subject matter is also congenial to youth'. The Classical Tradition 2010 p. 930. Erasmus' ideal as a humanist and pedagogue was the creation of better men with the help of the classics. He held the opinion that schoolboys should read Terentius over and over again. Thus they could master a pure Latin style and learn at the same time good morals. § One of the several 'Terentius for beginners' and a popular one too was produced by the Dutch schoolmaster Johannes Min-Ellius ca. 1625-1670. He was educated at the Erasmianum at Rotterdam and was until his death a Praeceptor at the same school. Minellius or Min-ellius produced several school editions of classical authors such as Horace Florus Vergil and Ovid with ample annotations in easy Latin. His first school text of Terentius with his numerous notes and commentary was first published in 1670 in his hometown Rotterdam. At the end of the 17th and in the 18th century reissues of his Tererentius' schoolbook were widely used not only on Dutch grammar schools but also on German English and Danish schools. Schweiger records editions in 1680 Rotterdam 1691 Hamburg 1691 Cambridge 1708 London 1710 Leiden 1721 Leiden & Amsterdam 1726 Leipzig 1730 London 1735 Leipzig 1741 Copenhagen 1757 London 1758 London 1771 Copenhagen 1775 Madrid. There must be more unrecorded editions Collation: pi1 frontispiece 8 minus blank leaf 8; A-2A12 2B4 leaf 2B4 blank hardcover‎

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‎FLORUS‎

‎L.A. Florus cum notis integris Cl. Salmasii et selectissimis Variorum accurante S.M.D.C. Additus etiam L. Ampelius ex Bibliotheca Cl. Salmasii.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Ex officina Elzeviriana 1674. 8vo. XVI588108 index462 blank p. Overlapping vellum 20.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 842457577; Willems 1490; Berghman 2064; Rahir 1598; Schweiger 2361; Ebert 7683. Spoelder p. 613 Hoorn 2 Details: Prize copy without the prize. 6 thongs laced through both joints. Blind stamped fleurs de lis on the back. Boards with blind double fillet borders in the center of them the coat of arms of the city of Hoorn. Engraved title depicting a throned goddess Roma on a pedestal allegorical figures representing Europe Asia and Africa offer her their treasures; in the foreground Tibur and little Romulus and Remus and their shewolf Condition: Prize gone. vellum age-toned slightly soiled and scratched. All 4 textile fastening ties gone. Front flyleaf gone. Title slightly worn. Name on the front pastedown Note: 'Favourite school-book in the 17th century'. This is the chief work of the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus who lived at the beginning 2nd century AD. It is an abridgement of Roman history with special reference to the wars waged up to the age of Augustus. Florus 'shows a certain literary gift marred however by a strong tendency to rhetoric. His brevity often entails obscurity though he sometimes produces a felicitous epigram. . As an historian he is often inaccurate in both chronology and geography but the work as a whole achieves a limited success as a rapid sketch of Roman military history. It was a favourite school-book in the 17th century'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 442 § This edition is a socalled 'Variorum edition'. It offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of these sometimes overloaded editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. Their involvement in publishing a new edition was limited to the necessary but ungrateful task of the beast of burden. § This Variorum edition was produced by so the title says S.M.D.C that is by Cornelis Schrevelius who took his doctoral degree in Paris as a Doctor of Medicine in 1627. Hence S.M.D.C. that is Schrevelius Medicus Doctor Cornelis. He taught classics at the Schola Latina at Leiden where he had been raised himself. In 1642 he succeeded his father Theodorus Schrevelius as the rector Moderator of the school. He died in 1664 a few days after having completed an edition of Claudian. He raised at least 11 kids and fell victim to the plague. A.M. Coebergh van den Braak Meer dan zes eeuwen Leids Gymnasium Leiden 1988 p. 47/55 § This edition of 1674 is a reissue of the Elzevier edition of 1660. The commentary of the French scholar Claude Saumaise latinized as Claudius Salmasius 1588-1653 was adopted from the Elzevier edition of 1638 which edition included also the 'editio princeps' of the 'Liber Memorialis' of Lucius Ampelius. Salmamius was since 1631 professor at the University of Leiden Provenance: On the front pastedown in ballpoint: 'Lennart Hakanson' 1939-1987 professor of Latin at the university of Uppsala Collation: 8 AQ-2Z8 3A4 leaf 3A4 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎HEMSTERHUIS,T & D RUHNKEN- LINDEMANN,F‎

‎Vitae duumvirorum Tiberii Hemsterhusii et Davidis Ruhnkenii. Altera ab eodem Ruhnkenio altera a Dan. Wyttenbachio scripta. Olim in Germania iunctim repetitae nunc iterum editae. Accessit Elogium Ioannis Meermanni auctore Constantino Cras. Curavit Fridericus Lindemann.‎

‎Leipzig Lipsiae In Libraria Hinrichsiana 1822. 8vo. 284 p. Contemporary dull stiff wrappers 22 cm Ref: Graesse 6/1191; Ebert 19587; Brunet 41457 Details: Margins uncut Condition: Spine covered with a strip of brown paper. Boards worn. Paper yellowing and foxed Note: The honour of reviving the study of Greek in the Netherlands belongs to the Dutch classical scholar Tiberius Hemsterhuis 1685-1766 who became professor Mathematics and Philosophy at the Athenaeum of Amsterdam at the age of 19. His great example was the English classical scholar Richard Bentley 1662-1742 with whom he corresponded early in his career. In 1705 Hemsterhuis was promoted to a professorship in Harderwijk and in 1717 he was appointed professor of Greek at the University of Franeker. In 1740 he was finally called to Leiden. He produced an edition of Pollux 1706 'Luciani colloquia et Timon' 1708 the complete works of Lucianus 1743 and of the Plutus of Aristophanes 1744 a work which Gudeman calls 'epochemachend'. He contributed also notes to the editions of many other scholars. Sandys observes that 'the work of a Hemsterhuis was worth whole bundles of the mechanically manufactured products of a Burman'. Sandys 2451 Hemsterhuis was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism the so-called 'Schola Hemsterhusiana' which had disciples in Valckenaer Jacob van Lennep and David Ruhnken. The last one was the most famous of his pupils. 'Hemsterhuis has had the supreme felicity of being immortalised by a 'laudator eloquentissimus'. The 'Elogium' delivered in 1768 by his devoted pupil Ruhnken on resigning the office of Rector is one of the Classics in the History of Scholarship. It presents us with the living picture of the perfect critic'. Idem ibidem § The Dutch scholar of German origin David Ruhnken or Ruhnkenius 1723-1798 was born in Pommern and was sent by his parents in 1737 to the Friedrichscollegium in Königsberg where he read Latin authors together with his friend Immanuel Kant. To finish his studies he went in 1744 to Leiden to study Greek under Tiberius Hemsterhuis whom he admired. He later told his biographer Wyttenbach that he found in his teacher the combined gems of Leiden classical scholarship Scaliger and Salmasius in one person. Hemsterhuis wanted to create a worthy successor and appointed him to assist him as Reader in Greek. In 1761 Ruhnken succeeded the Latin chair vacated by Oudendorp. He became one of the leading scholars of his days. 'Die Führerstellung der Philologie erbte . von Hemsterhuys der Pommer David Ruhnken der ganz zum Holländer ward und die vornehme und behäbige Würde eines Princeps criticorum zu wahren wusste. Als solchem hat ihm Fr.A. Wolf die Prolegomena gewidmet. . Musterhaftes Latein galt ihm soviel wie Wissenschaft. Aber als Lehrer muss er glänzend gewesen sein. . Alles was Ruhnken veröffentlicht hat ist in seinen Grenzen tadellos'. U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Geschichte der Philologie Lpz./Bln. 1921 p. 39/40 § Ruhnken was immortalized by Daniel Wyttenbach 1746-1820 born at Bern in Switzerland who came to Holland in 1770 to stay there like Ruhnken before him. 'In the next 28 years he held professorships at Amsterdam 1771-99 and then returned to Leyden as Ruhnken's successor for 17 years 1799-1816'. Sandys 2463 He published an edition of the complete Moralia of Plutarchus with Latin translation 1795-1806 a work of permanent value. On the death of Runken he became the most influential classical scholar in the Netherlands. 'The highest praise must be assigned to his 'Life of Ruhnken' a work of absorbing interest to his scholarly contemporaries which still retains its importance as a comprehensive picture of the Scholarship of the Netherlands and not of the Netherlands alone in the age of Ruhnken'. Idem 2/465 § The third biography in this convolute concerns the Dutch politician author and bibliophile Johannes Meerman 1753-1815. The eulogy was first published in Amsterdam/The Hague in 1817. Lindemann was aware that Meerman was not a classical scholar and that he in no way equalled Hemsterhuis and Ruhnken in scholarship and style yet he added the Life because he derived much pleasure from reading it he tells in the preface and hoped that it would stimulate young students 'iuvenes ad meliora eninentes et litterarum studia penitus amplecti cupientes'. Praefatio editionis secundae p. X Meerman who received private tuition from Ruhnken p. 232 is best known as a bibliophile. The Museum Meermanno House of the Book Huis van het boek in The Hague formerly called Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum was named after him and holds part of his huge collection of rare books and manuscripts. The museum focuses on the written and printed book in all forms Collation: pi6 minus blank leaf pi6 A-R8 S6 signature of gathering S irregular Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎LUCANUS & PETRONIUS‎

‎Marci Annaei Lucani Pharsalia eiusdem ad Calpurnium Pisonem poemation. Praemittitur notitia literaria studiis Societatis Bipontinae. Editio secunda auctior et emendatior. Bound with: T. Petronii Arbitri Equitis Romani Satiricon cum supplementis Nodotianis. Accedunt veterum poetarum catalecta. Praemittitur notitia literaria studiis Societatis Bipontiae. Editio accurata.‎

‎Ad 1: Zweibrücken Biponti Ex typographia Societatis 1807. Ad 2: Zweibrücken Biponti Ex typographia Societatis 1790. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: XLVIII2771 blank; XXXVI252 p. Half calf 21 cm Ref: Ad 1: Burkard p. 91/93; Schweiger 2566; Dibdin 2188: 'elegantly executed book'; Moss 2243: 'a very neat and correct edition'; Ebert 12355; Graesse 4274; Ad 2: VD18 11361557; Burkard 125/27; Schweiger 2725; Dibdin 2278: 'neat edition and useful for presenting us with a valuable Notitia literaria'; Ebert 16527; Graesse 5240 Details: Back ruled gilt and with a red morocco shield. Ad 1: The preliminary pages contain a 2 short biographies of Lucanus p. I-IX and a 'notitia literaria including a long and up to date critical bibliography of editions and translations the 'index editionum' p. X-XLVIII; the Pharsalia take up p. 1-265 followed by the 1st century A.D. Latin verse panegyric in praise of a member of the Piso family 'Laus Pisonis' p. 267-277. This panegyric has been attributed to Lucan but also to Ovid Bassus and Statius. Ad 2: The preliminaries contain a 'Live' of Petronius p. III-VIII followed by a 'Notitia Literaria' or a critical bibliography of important editions p. X-XXXVI. The Satiricon fills the p. 1-214 the 'Petronii fragmenta' p. 215-225. At the end a collection of fragments of ancient Latin poets the 'Veterum poetarum catalecta' p. 227/52. An engraved vignette adorns the title depicting a man and woman on a 'chaise longue' and a girl and boy standing beside them Condition: Binding slightly scuffedPhotographs on request unknown‎

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‎LIBANIUS‎

‎Libaniou Sophistou Epistolai. Libanii Sophistae epistolae. Quas nunc primum maximam partem e variis codicibus manu exaratis edidit latine convertit & notis illustravit Joannes Christophorus Wolfius. Accedunt in calce ejusdem Libanii epistolae a Francisco Zambicario olim Latine conversae & Cracoviae primum editae heic autem integra propemodum centuria ex MS auctae.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1738. Folio: XX8651 blank p. Vellum 42x27 cm 'The first comprehensive edition of the letters of Libanius accompanied by a Latin translation' Ref: STCN ppn 183220943; Brunet 31050; Hoffmann 2522; Graesse 4195; Ebert 11937 Details: Back with 7 raised band. Boards blind tooled. Broad margins. Title in red and black. Engraved printer's mark on the title depicting a mole flanked by a seating Hermes and Athena; the motto is: 'vulgo caeca vocor video sed acutius ipso' 'By the crowd I am called blind; but I see better than itself'. Printed in 2 columns Greek text with parallel Latin translation. Notes at the bottom of the page. A good copy inside fine Condition: Binding soiled and scuffed. Front hinge splitting but still tight. Small tear in the vellum on the back. Both pastedowns worn. Turn-in of the lower board loosening. Paper yellowing Note: The German christian Hebraist and classical scholar Johannes Christoph Wolf 1683-1739 is best known for his path-breaking 'Bibliotheca Hebraea' Hamburg 1715-1733 which remained long the most cited source for bibliographic information on Hebrew books and the background of their authors and which bore witness to christian interest in Jewish literature and realia. Wolf especially occupied himself with the study of Oriental languages and literature of which he became professor at the Hamburg gymnasium in 1712. There he compiled the 'Bibliotheca Hebraea'. Among classicists Wolf is known for the edition of his 'Anecdota Graeca sacra et profana' Hamburg 1722-1724 and this edition of 1738 of the letters of the Greek rhetorician and philosopher Libanius ca. 314-392/93 A.D. who was one of the most influential authors of late antiquity. It is the first comprehensive edition of the letters of Libanius accompanied by a Latin translation. § Libanius 'embodied in his work many of the ideals and aspirations of the pagan Greek urban upper classes of late antiquity'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 605 In 354 he was appointed to the official chair of rhetoric at Antioch. His pupils include pagans and christians e.g. Johannes Chrysostomos Basilius Magnus Gregorius Nazianzenus. As a literary figure of renown he corresponded with many leading figures in the Greek world among whom the Emperor and philosopher/scholar Julian Julianus Apostata who was much admired by him. In this edition of Wolf 1605 letters have been collected p. 1/728. At the end of these genuine letters Wolf added a reissue of a collection of 476 letters in Latin translation of Libanius which was first published in the Polish city Cracow in 1504 by one Johann Sommerfeldt who had got a mutilated manuscript depravatissimum exemplar with these translated letters from a local 'bibliopola'. p. 729 Well into the 19th century these Cracovian Latin letters were considered authentic works of Libanius. Now we know that they are forgeries by the Italian humanist Francesco Zambeccari ca. 1443 - after 1475 Hoffmann 2528. Zambeccari was unmasked in 1878 by R. Foerster in his 'Francesco Zambeccari und die Briefe des Libanios'. Stuttgart 1878 Collation: pi2 †2 -32 A-5L4 5M-5Y2 last leaf 5Y2 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎HESIODUS‎

‎HÊSIODOU ASKRAIOU ta heuriskomena. Hesiodi Ascraei quae extant. Daniel Heinsius interpretationem infinitis locis emendavit. Introductionem in Opera & Dies in qua Hesiodi philosophia nunc primum exponitur item notas addidit.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex Officina Ioannis Patij Iurati & Ordinarii Academiae Typographi Prostant in Bibliopolio Commeliniano 1613. 8vo. 2 parts in 1. XXXVIII2 blank1-2042 second title205-31233 blank p. Vellum 18.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 059312521; Hoffmann 2249; Graesse 3263; Ebert 9599 Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. First title in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title it depicts Pallas Athena standing in an archway at her feet the coat of arms of Leiden. Greek text with opposing Latin translation. The second part contains Heinsius' 'Introductio' and his 'notae emendationes & observationes in Hesiodum' Condition: Vellum soiled and scratched. Small wormhole in lower margin not affecting the text. Paper yellowing Note: Hesiodus from Askra a small town in Boiotia born ca. 775 BC is one of Greek's oldest poets. His poems are in Homeric hexameters and show his interest in ethics and systematization. His work was known throughout antiquity to rhapsodes scholars and schoolboys. The Byzantines compiled scholia from ancient commentaries for elucidation. The Renaissance did not quite appreciate him. Until 1667 ca. 18 editions of his 'opera omnia' were published not much. Hesiod's reception chiefly concerns myths and the motifs that he provides and these motifs certainly appealed to mythographers historians of religion poets and painters. 'Hesiodic details of myth saturate European epic and mythopoeic writings perhaps most spectacular in Dante Milton Blake . who make much of Hesiod's infernal regions his Titans and primordial monsters his giant battles'. The Classical Tradition N.Y 2010 p. 435 Of Hesiod survives his 'Theogonia' or 'Theogony' which 'deals with the origin and genealogy of the gods . and the events that led to the kingship of Zeus: the castration of Uranos by Kronos and the overthrow of Kronos and the Titans by the Olympians' OCD 2nd ed. p. 510 The 'Works and Days' or 'Erga kai Hêmerai' of Hesiod which was always most read has been called a 'gospel of labour'. The poet recommends the hard and honest life of a farmer. He 'inveighs against dishonesty and idleness by turns using myth . parable allegory and threads of divine anger. . The poem as a whole is a unique source for social conditions in early archaic Greece.' OCD 2nd ed. p. 511 The third poem that has survived is the 'Shield' or 'Aspis' a short narrative poem on Heracles' fight with Cycnus a bloodthirsty son of the god Ares. It derives its name from the long description of Heracles' shield. 'Artists have never abandoned a fascination with Hesiod on the Muses. In the 19th century the artist Gustave Moreau created many visual representations of their initiation of the poet. Both Rubens and Goya painted famous and harrowing pictures of Kronos Saturn devouring one of his children a motif from the Theogony; William Blake engraved a series after drawings by his friend John Flaxman . Georges Braque chose the 'Theogony' as the subject of 20 etchings'. The Classical Tradition N.Y. 2010 p. 436 § This edition of Hesiod is a kind of 'editio minor' of the 'editio maior' that was produced by the Dutch classical scholar of Flemish origin Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655 and which was published ten years earlier in 1603. For this edition in a smaller form he left out the Byzantine scholia sine veterum interpretatione and made some corrections in the text and the translation. 'The text is not formed altogether on the preceding editions: where it differs from them the reason of such difference is given in the notes'. Dibdin 233 § Heinsius who enjoyed an international reputation as an editor of classical texts theorist of literary criticism historian and neolatin poet was professor of Poetics at the University of Leiden from 1603 extraordinarius Greek since 1605. After the death of J.J. Scaliger to whose inner circle he belonged he held the chair of Greek from 1609 till 1647. His activities have been obscured to later generations by the very bulk and variety of his activities. He is still remembered for his neolatin poetry and for his edition of Aristotle's treatise on poetry 1610 which he studied in connection with the Ars Poetica of Horace. In his pamphlet De tragoediae Constitutione published in 1611 he deals with all the essential points in Aristotle's treatise giving proof that he has thoroughly imbibed the author's spirit'. J.E. Sandys 'A history of classical scholarship N.Y. 1964 vol. 2 p. 314 Provenance: On the front pastedown in pencil: '25 maart 1958' written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur 1914-1996 who was an Orientalist and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition. The place of acquisition he wrote on the flyleaf at the end: 'Leipzig Deutsche Buch Export und Import' Collation: : - 2:8 3:4 leaf 3: blank; A-V8 leaf V8 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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