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‎BUCHANANUS, GEORGIUS‎

‎Georgij Buchanani Scoti ad viros sui seculi clarissimos eorumque ad eundem Epistolae. Ex Mss. accurate descriptae nunc primum in lucem editae.‎

‎London Londini Impensis D. Brown ad Insigne Cygni Nigri extra Portam vulgo dictam Temple-Bar & G. Taylor 1711. X93 p. 20th century half brown morocco 17.5 cm Ref: J. Durkan 'Bibliography of Buchanan' Glasgow 1994 no. 271 Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting 2 black swans. Lacking the leaves A2 & A3 these leaves contain the dedication to John Duke of Roxburgh and are signed by one James Oliphant Condition: Binding slightly scuffed paper slightly foxed; the verso of the last page with an advertisement has been glued to last flyleaf; without the last blank leaf. Lacking leaves A2 & A3 with the dedication. Small etched bookplate on the front pastedown Note: George Buchanan 1506-1582 was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. 'Tutor of Mary Queen of Scots and King James VI he was a Renaissance figure of European repute. His contemporaries saw him as 'easily the premier poet of the age' and praised the quality of a critical mind that ranged over multiple concerns vital to the Europe of his day. His writing whether in the cosmopolitan Latin of his time or in a homely vernacular mirrored these wide concerns as a university man of distinction a poet and master of new styles a playwright in a modern idiom a controversial historian and popular pamphleteer at the center of contemporary religious and political storms'. Durkan p. IX Remains of Buchanan's correspondence were collected by James Oliphant member of a high Scottish clan and published by him in 1711. The collection consists of 35 letters to and from Buchanan. The last modern edition MacFarlane 1981 contains 59 letters. Not all the letters which Oliphant published were based on the poet's autographs. Much correspondence is evidently lost the dating is occasionally problematic and minor textal variations occur Collation: A8 minus leaf A8 lacking leaf A2 & A3; B-G8 minus the blank leaf G8Photographs on request unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 120214

‎HEINSIUS,D‎

‎Dan. Heinsii De tragoediae constitutione liber in quo inter caetera tota de hac Aristotelis sententia dilucide explicatur. Editio auctior multo cui & Aristotelis De poëtica libellus cum ejusdem notis & interpretatione accedit.‎

‎Leiden Lugd. Batav. Ex officinâ Elsevirianâ 1643. 12mo. XII368 p. 19th century calf 13.5 cm 'De tragoediae constitutione' established the reputation of Heinsius as an Aristotelian literary critic Ref: Willems 554; Berghman 964; Rahir 548; Brunet 383; Graesse 3232; Ebert 9377 Details: Back ruled gilt with a letterpiece. Boards with blind stamped borders & gilt dentelles on the turn-overs. Marbled endpapers. Elsevier's woodcut printer's mark on the title featuring an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher. The motto is: 'Non solus'. The first part of the book consists of the 'De tragoediae constitutione' the pages 221-321 contain Aristotle's Poetics edited and translated into Latin by Daniel Heinsius the pages 322-368 are filled with Heinsius' notes on that text Condition: Binding used and worn at the extremities. Head of the spine gone for 1 cm foot of the spine chafed. Joint cracked but strong. Small bookplate on the front pastedown. Paper yellowing Note: 'De tragoediae constitutione' established the reputation of the Dutch classical scholar of Flemish origin Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655 as an Aristotelian critic of reknown. He enjoyed also 'international fame as an editor of classical texts theorist of literary criticism historian and neolatin poet was professor of Poetics at the University of Leiden since 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. He is best known for his edition of Aristotle's treatise on poetry . which he studied in connection with the 'Ars Poetica' of Horace. This edition is 'the only considerable contribution to the criticism and eludication of the work that was ever produced in the Netherlands. . In his pamphlet 'De tragoediae constitutione' . he deals with all the essential points in Aristotle's treatise giving proof that he has thoroughly imbibed the author's spirit. . It was through this work that he became a centre of Aristotelian influence in Holland. His influence extended in France to Chaplain and Balzac to Racine and Corneille; in Germany to Opitz; and in England to Ben Jonson .'. J.E. Sandys 'A history of classical scholarship N.Y. 1964 vol. 2 p. 314 Heinsius' edition and Latin translation of Aristotle's 'De poetica liber' was first published by Elsevier in 1610 a year later this was repeated and expanded with 'De tragoediae constitutione' 1611. Heinsius produced of both works a second and augmented edition published by Elzevier in 1643. Heinsius' treatise 'De tragoediae constitutione' addresses itself explicitly to the task of presenting a simple and intelligible exposition of tragedy and the tragic plot 'ex mente atque opinione Aristotelis'. Accordingly the work is based on the Aristotelian definition of tragedy which is incorporated verbatim in the opening of Heinsius' discussion and Aristotle's qualitative parts of tragedy fabula mores sententiae dictio melodia and apparatus provide the topics around which the argument is built up. Heinsius' treatise has consequently sometimes been viewed as rendering the 'milk of the Aristotelian word' more or less unwatered'. P.R. Selin 'Daniel Heinsius and Stuart England' Leiden/Oxford 1968 p. 124/25 Nevertheless 'Heinsius moves away from the Aristotelian concern with the essence of an artistic product to the search for appropriate means of securing what are basically rhetorical effects ultimately directed to the ethical benefit of the audience'. Idem p. 145 The treatise did not contribute completely fresh ideas or methods to the Renaissance tradition of the poetic theory. Heinsius' importance lies in the pruning away of complex and elaborate rhetorical Renaissance approaches Provenance: Bookplate probably beginning 20th century: 'Ex libris Emile Brugnon' Collation: 6 A12-P12 Q4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120249

‎VARRO‎

‎M. Terentii Varronis Pars librorum quattuor et viginti de lingua latina. Ex Bibliotheca Antonii Augustini.‎

‎Rome Romae Apud Vincentium Luchinum 1557. Colophon at the end: Romae Apud Antonium Bladium impressorem Cameralem 1557 8vo. XXIV2111 blank43 index1 blank99 index1 blank p. Modern cloth 17 cm Ref: EDIT16 CNCE 35852; Schweiger 21118; Brunet 51092; Graesse 6/2 263; Ebert 23393 Details: A vellum look-a-like cloth binding from ca. 1900. See for this date the provenance below Condition: Binding somewhat soiled. Both flyleaves browning. Title and last page dust-soiled. Small piece of the right upper corner of the first 2 leaves worn away. Blank right upper corner of 88 pages somewhere in the middle of the book cut off. Some foxing. A few allmost invisible pinpoint wormholes at the right edge of the first half. Some wormholes in the margin of 50 pages of the index sometimes nibbling at a few letters Note: The Roman Encyclopaedist Marcus Terentius Varro 116-27 B.C. was a landowner on a large scale and member of the senatorial class. Though the bulk of his works are lost he is considered to be the greatest scholar ancient Rome produced. His writings cover nearly every domain of science except mathematics. 'A remarkable fact is that he was not a dry pedant but one whose works included witty and lively sketches of life side by side with long and very erudite treatises'. H.J. Rose 'A handbook of Latin Literature' London 1967 p. 220 The 'de re rustica' is his only complete work that is preserved. Of the 'de lingua latina' on the latin language Varro's principle work in 24 books on language only 6 books remain fairly complete the books 5 to 10. Book 1 was the introduction 2/4 were on etymology in general 5/7 on the etymologies of particular classes of words. 'It hardly need be said that Varro does not group them as a modern philologist would and has no idea of the immutable or nearly immutable phonetic laws which govern the development of speech'. Op. cit. p. 222 Books 8/12 are on declension declinatio including the additions of suffixes and the like. Books 12/24 were on syntax. The style is plain but with 'all its faults and its incompleteness however the work is of much importance in the history of linguistic study'. Op.cit. ibid. 'De lingua latina' is a work of great importance in the history of linguistic studies. § During the Renaissance a renewal of interest in Latin grammar occurred. Medieval vocabulary and terminology and sloppy grammar were rejected and the primary of the Latin of the classical period was reasserted. This process was stimulated by the gradual rediscovery of previously unknown texts of classical authors among which Varro's de lingua Latina was one of the most important. The printed text of de lingua latina is based on an 11th century manuscript Florentinus F and was first published in 1471. The Spanish humanist Antonio Agustín Albanell 1517 - 1586 latinized as Antonius Augustinus is now remembered as the first canon law historian and not as a classical scholar. This edition of 1557 of 'de lingua latina' of Varro is a reissue of an edition which was first published in Rome in 1554. In it Agustín followed 'the interpolated manuscripts and banished every archaism from the text a process that met with protest from Turnebus and Scaliger'. E.J. Sandys A history of Classical Scholarship N.Y. 1964 2160 This edition notwithstanding the criticism of both great scholars remained the standard text till that of Spengel of 1826. Agustín lists on p. 1 the names of the scholars who contributed 'emendationes' to his edition: Pomponius Laetus Angelus Tifernas Fran. Rolandellus Aldus Manutius Michael Bentinus Angelus Colotius Octavius Pantagathus Petrus Victorius Ant. Augustinus Gabriel Faernus Provenance: Small green booklabel pasted on the front pastedown of 'George Gregory Bookseller to H.M. Queen Alexandra Bath'. George Gregory lives on in the name of the antique prints department the George Gregory Gallery of the British antiquarian bookseller George Bayntun. Bayntun tells on his website that George Gregory established his bookshop in Bath in 1846 and proudly proclaimed it to be 'The World’s Book Store'. He held the Royal Warrant as Bookseller to Queen Alexandra and was President of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association from 1915 to 1918. George Bayntun and W.J. Crudgington bought the business in 1924 and moved into new premises in Green Street Bath. § This book was sold by Gregory so its binding must be older than 1924 or more probable 1918. § This edition must be rare the last recorded copy in 'Rare Books Hub formerly the Americana Exchange' dates from 1964 Collation: -28 A-M8 N6; O-P8 Q6 leaf Q6 verso blank; Aa-Ff8 Gg2 leaf Gg2 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120193

‎HOMERUS- LA MOTTE,A HOUDART DE‎

‎L'Iliade. Poëme avec un discours sur Homère. Par Monsieur De la Motte de l'Académie Françoise.‎

‎Paris Chez Gregoire Dupuis 1714. 8vo. Frontispiece CLXXX208168 p.; 12 full-page engravings. Contemporary calf 17 cm Ref: Hoffmann 2345; Cioranescu 36534; Graesse 3337; Ebert 100600 Details: Decorated gilt back with 5 raised bands. The frontispiece and engraved plates depict scenes from the Ilias; they were designed by Fr. Roettiers Nattier A. Dieu & F. Delamonce and executed by Edelinck & Chaufourier. Woodcut head-pieces Condition: Binding scuffed corners bumped. Leather of the turn-in of the lower board partly worn away. Flyleaves removed. A tiny strip of a few millimeters of the blank upper-margin of the title has been torn off not affecting any text. The first gathering is slightly stained in the gutter. One small wormhole in the blank right upper corner of the first half of the book. Another small wormhole near the gutter of the blank left inner corner of the last half of the book Note: The French classical scholar Anne Dacier 1645-1720 published in 1699 a French prose translation of the Ilias of Homer. She wanted to rehabilitate the poet who suffered from a bad reputation in France because of inferior translations with a translation which would restore Homer's original lustre. It was thought that Homer's poetry was bad and implausible and sometimes improper. The French author Houdar de la Motte 1672-1731 took it upon himself to prune Homer and produced a refashioned and civilized version of Madame Dacier's translation. He used her translation because he didnot know any Greek. In 1714 he published his translation of the Ilias reduced to 12 books. De la Motte condensed the Iliad by polishing away everything he thought silly dull cruel tedious or inappropiate to the taste and mind of a French gentleman. The fierce battle scenes described by Homer in books X-XV 4000 verses were summarized in 400. Many lines were replaced by meaningless verses. In the introductory 'Discours' of 180 p. De la Motte elaborated on the principles of his translation. He is convinced that he restored with his pruned version the original beauty of Homer. The translation is prededed by a short Ode 'L'Ombre d'Homère' in which the Frenchman conjures up the ghost of Homer and asks him to show him the way in his undertaking. He tells Homer 'Je veux sous un nouveau language/ rajeunir ton antique ouvrage'. Homer simply has to tell him 'Dis-moi comme il faut t'imiter'. p. CLXXVI. The ghost of Homer asks De la Motte 'Saufe-moi l'affront d'ennuyer' p. CLXXVII and orders him 'Respecte le goût de ton âge'. He commissions him to create the poetry as he would have created had he lived in France in his age. When the ghost disappears De la Motte concludes 'Homere m'a laissé sa Muse/ Et si mon orgueil n'en abuse/ Je vais faire ce qui'il eût fait'. p. CLXXX Collation: pi1 a-l8 m2; A-N8; A8 chi4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120263

‎HEINSIUS,D‎

‎Danielis Heinsii Poemata Latina et Graeca; Editio post plurimas postrema longe auctior.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Apud Joannem Janssonium 1649. 12mo. XII6662 errata4 blank p. frontispiece. Calf 13.5 cm 'Elegantly printed edition of Heinsius' collective neo-Latin & neo-Greek poetry' Ref: STCN ppn 850068738; Cf. Willems 1613; Berghman 865; Rahir 2013; Ebert 9380; Brunet 384; Graesse 3232; Ebert 9380 Details: Back elaborately gilt with 5 raised bands and with a red morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. Boards with tripple fillet gilt borders within which is another tripple fillet rectangle with cornerpieces. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece depicting a kind of altar on which rests a shield with text; the altar is flanked by an angel and a girl; the angel tramples on a skeleton; above this scene soars a winged Fama blowing two horns Condition: Joints slightly rubbed. Two small wormholes in the leather at the foot of the spine and some damage to the lower edge of lower board for ca. one cm. Small hole in the leather of rear cover. On the blank upper margin of the frontispiece an ownership entry Note: The Dutch classical scholar of Flemish origin Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655 who enjoyed international fame as an editor of classical texts theorist of literary criticism historian and neolatin poet was professor of Poetics at the University of Leiden since 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. He is best known for his edition of Aristotle's treatise on poetry 1611 which he studied in connection with the 'Ars Poetica' of Horace. This edition is 'the only considerable contribution to the criticism and eludication of the work that was ever produced in the Netherlands. . In his pamphlet 'De tragoediae Constitutione' published in the same year 1611 he deals with all the essential points in Aristotle's treatise giving proof that he has thoroughly imbibed the author's spirit. . It was through this work that he became a centre of Aristotelian influence in Holland. His influence extended in France to Chaplain and Balzac to Racine and Corneille; in Germany to Opitz; and in England to Ben Jonson'. J.E. Sandys 'A history of classical scholarship N.Y. 1964 vol. 2 p. 314 Heinsius was a representative of the great age of Neo-Latin in the Low Countries which encompasses the 16th century and a good part of the 17th century. Here the Anacreontic-Petrarcan love poetry in Latin was kept alive. J. IJsewijn 'Companion to Neo-Latin studies' vol. 1 Leuven 1990 p. 154 This volume of Heinsius' poetry which was as the text of the frontispiece tell us edited by his son Nicolaus Heinsius opens with early work the three books of Sylvae followed by Hipponax an Ode to Molinus 3 books of Elegiae and the Monobiblos. Then comes the 'Herodes Infanticida tragoedia' followed by Heinsius' last long Latin poem 'De contemptu mortis' a didactic poem in 4 books wherein arguments Platonic Stoic and Christian are set forth which explain why man should not fear death. Then Heinsius' Epigrams and occasional poetry the 'Elegiarum iuvenilium libri'. At the end we find Heinsius' literary tour de force his Greek poems which were inspired by Theocritus and the Anthologia Graeca. It opens with 'Peplus' Gown a series of epigrams which Heinsius composed on Greek authors and philosophers. This part is followed by occasional poetry in Greek which Heinsius wrote for his contemporaries like Casaubon and by a section with Heinsius' Latin translations of Greek poetry. The collection closes with the 'Liber adoptivus' which contains occasional poetry addressed to Heinsius by J.J. Scaliger J. Dousa H. Grotius et alii. This edition of 1649 is a reissue of an edition of the collected greek and latin poetry of Heinsius which was published by Heger in Leiden in 1640 Provenance: 'Ex libris 'Ant. La Bout 1660' or 'Ant. LaBout' Collation: 6 A- D12 2E-2F6 leaves 2F5 & 2F6 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120256

‎PETAVIUS,D‎

‎D. Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Iesu Rationarium Temporum in partes duas libros tredecim distributum. In quo aetatum omnium sacra profanaque historia chronologicis probationibus munita summatim traditur. Editio ultima nonnullis accessionibus auctior facta & ab Auctore recognita.‎

‎Paris Parisiis Apud Sebastianum Cramoisy Regis & Reginae Architypographum 1662 - 1663. 12mo. 2 volumes in 1: XX526 recte 51676 index2 blank; 2417 index2 blank p. Calf. 15 cm Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands; red morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. Marbled enpapers Condition: Binding worn at the extremities. Corners bumped. Owner's entry on the title. Small label on the front pastedown partly removed Note: This 'Rationarium Temporum' of the French Jesuit classical scholar historian and theologian Denis Pétau latinized as Dionysius Petavius 1583-1652 is a summary made for a greater public and for the use at schools of his great work on chronology 'De Doctrina Temporum' which he published in 1627. The summarized version 'Rationarium Temporum' first appeared in 1633 and was reissued/revised/augmented many times. It was also translated into French English and Italian. In KVK we counted till 1745 22 Latin editions of which 8 were published by Cramoisy in Paris between 1633 and 1673. Petavius devoted a large part of this 'Doctrina Temporum' to the vehement criticism of 'De Emendatione Temporum' of the great protestant French scholar J.J. Scaliger 1540-1609 who is considered to be the first serious modern student of chronology. The Jesuits however considered Scaliger who lost no opportunity to attack them an heretic and a great danger to the catholic church. Their opinion on his 'De Emendatione Temporum' 1593 was that it was worthless frivolum and a pack of lies commentitum. Especially Scaliger's denial of the authenticity of the works of Dionysius Areopagita raised their anger. The Jesuits believed that Scaliger undermined the authority of the church for in the work of Dionysius Areopagita the Jesuits found proof of the 'transsubstantiation' the belief that the substance of the bread and wine used in the sacrament in the Eucharist changed into that of the body and blood of Christ. J. Bernays 'Joseph Justus Scaliger' Berlin 1855 p. 81 Dionysius Petavius a member of the Jesuits an order called colloquially 'God's Soldiers' took up the fight against Scaliger with the publication of his 'Doctrina Temporum' of 1627. Petavius was a brilliant scholar and he succeeded in correcting and improving the chronological labours of Scaliger on many points even though his criticism directed against the protestant scholar was unfair and mean. The science of locating historical events in the ancient world in time is ultimately based on the work of Scaliger and Petavius Provenance: Name on the title of 'Hebert Le Jeune 1720' lightly crossed out. The remains of the small bookplate on the front pastedown are of a Jesuit library Collation: a8 e2; A-2A12 2B8 2C2 leaf 2C2 blank; A-K8 L2 M2 2M2 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120290

‎MARTIALIS‎

‎M. Val. Martialis. Ex museo Petri Scriverii. Sumptibus Societatis.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Typis Danielis Elzevirii 1664. 24mo. 3102 blank p. Calf 12 cm Ref: Willems 1344 & 1448; Berghman 2096 & 2092; Rahir 1392 & 1535 In october 2013 it was reported in the 'Daily Mail online' that in a book just published 'Mad about the boy' of Helen Fielding 40 pages had been swapped with another title that was printed on the same day Sir David Jason's autobiography. The Mail observes: 'The printers have had a Bridget moment. Only early editions of this new novel contain chunks of Sir David's book. A kind of error that would have left Bridget Jones herself feeling very embarrassed and resolving to try harder. Readers of the latest instalment of the hapless singleton's diary were astonished to discover Bridget's reflections on life and lover interrupted by 40 pages of Sir David Jason's memoirs' Details: Binder's error. When the binder of this Martialis of 1664 took the plano 24mo sheets in order to cut and fold the gatherings he had his 'Bridget Jones moment' and erroneously picked parts of a Lucan edition of 1671 which he was working on at the same time. Both books were published by the Amsterdam printer Daniel Elsevier and have the same format and typeface lay-out and paper. As the sheets of these small formats were cut before folding mistakes could occur. This lapse happened two times in gathering I and in M both consisting of 16 pages as they should. In these gatherings the leaves signed I1 and I8 and M1 and M8 are from the Martialis pile the remaining leaves signed I2 to I7 and M2 to M7 came from Lucanus' pile. So these gatherings begin with 2 pages Martialis followed by 12 pages Lucanus and end with 2 pages Martial. See for the cutting and folding of 24mo: Ph. Gaskell 'A new introduction to bibliography' Oxford 1974 p. 86 & 107 Owners of this Martial must have been astonished to discover that the author's saucy and witty epigrams were interrupted two times by 12 pages of Lucan's dull reflections on the Civil War. § Back with 4 raised bands and with a red shield in the second compartment. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title: in the centre a pedestal with on it a winged putto riding a dolphin a well known motiv in Renaissance art. The pedestal is flanked by 4 actors who hold a mask before their face. One of them is a naked women. The naked truth Condition: Binding scuffed. Head of the spine slightly damaged. The right margin of the frontispiece has been infilled expertly with fibered paper. Three leaves of the first gathering which once were torn out have been expertly repaired with a strip of paper in the gutter with on the tear some loss of letters at the beginning of a few words. Owing to the above mentioned binder's error this Martial edition lacks 24 pages p. 131/142 VI44-VII26 and p. 179/190 IX3-57. These leaves were swapped with part of the books VII & IX of Lucan's Civil War picked by mistake from 'M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia sive de bello civili Caesaris et Pompeii libri X. Ex emendatione V.C. Hug. Grotii cum eiusdem notis'. Amstelodami Typis Danielis Elsevirii 1671 Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'K.E. Geoges 1857'. Every classical scholar knows the German lexikographer and classical philologist Karl Ernst Georges 1806-1895. He is the compiler of a huge Latin-German lexicon: 'Ausführliches Lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch' an indispensable standard work until this day. Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 1964 p. 241 Collation: A-T8 V4 leaf V4 blank See above for the construction of the gatherings Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120276

‎HEINSIUS,D‎

‎Laus asini. Tertia parte auctior cum aliis festivis opusculis quorum seriem pagella sequens indicat.‎

‎Leiden Lugd. Batavorum Ex Officina Elzeviriana 1629. 24mo. XX4382 blank p. Contemporary calf 10.5 cm Ref: Willems 315; Berghman 1247; Rahir 286; Brunet 384; Graesse 3233 Details: Binding ruled blind. Engraved title depicting 2 learned gentlemen perhaps Ewaldus Schrevelius to whom the book is dedicated and Heinsius' friend Adolph Vorstius who both doff their hats for an ass Condition: Binding scuffed and with a few scratches corners bumped. Small piece of leather gone at the foot of the spine. Both pastedowns detached Note: The 'Laus asini' ad Senatum Populumque eorum qui ignari omnium scientias hoc tempore contemnunt was published anonymously for the first time in 1623. An augmented edition appeared in 1629. The author is according to all critics the Dutch classical scholar and neolatin poet Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655. It makes fun of people in an Erasmian spirit and seems to have lost none of its topicality. The aim is Heinsius tells in the 'ad lectorem' to vindicate men of letters and those who love to learn from the contempt of ignorant people who not only heartily ridicule liberrime. illudunt them but also culture eruditioni and the sciences. leaf 6 recto & verso This eulogy is a satire on ignorance and voluntary servitude of the ass. It is hard to fathom because of the complexity of its style and the overabundance of erudition or put more positively the veritable fireworks of learned allusions which often obscures matters. The first edition of 1623 which contained the 'Laus Asini' only is augmented in this second edition with 6 other pieces 1: an Menippean satire 'Cras credo hodie nihil' 2: 'Epistola qua agitur an & qualis viro literato sit ducenda uxor' 3: 'Laus pediculi ad Conscriptos Mendicorum Patres' 4: 'Epistola de poetarum ineptiis & saeculi vitio' 5: 'Argumentum Batrachomyomachiae' 6: 'Viro Nobilissimo Ioanni Milandro Domino de Poederoeye Principi a Secretis: de Graeculis quos illi commendaverat'. At the end Heinsius added a short letter to H. Grotius and a consolation poem for his friend Baudius on the occasion of the death of his wife Collation: 6 24 A-2N6 2O4 leaf 2O4 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120250

‎SALLUSTIUS‎

‎Quae exstant opera.‎

‎Paris Parisiis Typis J. Barbou. 1761. 12mo. XXXVI348 p. 3 plates one of which is the frontispiece. Mottled calf 16 cm Ref: Schweiger 2882; Graesse 6/1241; Ebert 20036; Brunet 587 Details: Back gilt boards with triple fillet gilt borders. Endpapers marbled. Edges of the bookblock gilt. The plates including the frontispiece are designed by N. Cochin filius and executed by E. Fessard. The frontispiece depicts the elevation to the Pantheon of the author the historian Sallustius. Woodcut printer's mark of the Barbou brothers on the title it depicts in a central round medallion two flying pelicans or storks with one feeding the other; it symbolizes mutual help and brotherly love Condition: Binding shabby and scuffed corners bumped. Inside good Note: 'One of the most widely read and influential of Roman historians along with Caesar Livy and Tacitus Sallust 86-34 BC has been studied quoted and imitated not only as a historian but also as a moral philosopher political thinker and stylist.' Until 1600 more than 200 editions of his work appeared. Sallust was used in France during the 16th and 17th century to support absolute theories of government. But 'on the other hand it was the republican Sallust ennemy of tyrants whom John Milton admired and who bolstered the cause of liberty in the Lowlands during the war with Spain and later in France and on the American continent'. The Classical tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 856 Sallust's condemnation of corruption made a deep impression on the Founding Fathers of the American Republic at the end of the 18th century. One of them John Adams urged his son John Quincy to read Sallust whom he called 'one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman historians'. The Barbou's previously published this same Sallust edition in 1754. This first Barbou is according to Schweiger and Ebert a reissue of the Sallust edition of Paris 1744 which was edited by the French historian and geographer St. Andr. Philippe or rather Étienne André Philippe de Prétot 1710-1787. He produced in the beginning of his career quite a number of editions of Latin classics. Between 1747 and 1755 he edited for the Parisian publisher Antoine-Urbain Coustelier Catullus Tibullus Propertius Sallustius Vergilius Horatius Juvenalis Persius Phaedrus Lucretius Velleius Paterculus Eutropius and Terentius. See Wikipedia 'Philippe de Prétot' Collation: a12 b6; A-O12 P6 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120312

‎HORATIUS‎

‎Q. Horatii Flacci Carmina expurgata. Accuratis notis ac appendice de Diis & Heroibus Poëticis illustravit Josephus Juvencius. Editio prioribus auctior & emendatior. Iuxta exemplar Romae. Cum privilegio Regis.‎

‎Rouen Rothomagi Ex typographia privilegio distincta 1790. XVIIIXXX40712I = index1 blank p. Half calf. 17 cm Ref: cf Schweiger 2405 for the first edition Details: Back gilt endpapers and boards marbled Condition: Some wear to the extremes of the binding. Occasional ink & pencil marginalia. A few very pinpoint wormholes almost invisible in the blank lower margin from p. 145 till the end Note: This school edition of Horace is the work of the French Jesuit scholar poet and paedagogue Joseph de Jouvancy or Jouvency in Latin Josephus Juvencius 1643-1719. Jouvancy entered the Society of Jesus when he was sixteen 'and after completing his studies he taught grammar at the college at Compiègne and rhetoric at Caen and the College of La Flèche. He made his profession in the latter place in 1677 and was afterwards appointed professor at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris. In 1699 he was called by his superiors to Rome to continue the history of the Society of Jesus begun by Niccolo Orlandini and was engaged in this work until his death. . Jouvancy edited a large number of school editions of Latin authors including Terence Horace Juvenal Persius Martial the Metamorphoses of Ovid and the philosophical writings of Cicero such as De Officiis Cato Major and Laelius'. The texts were revised and purged for school use and supplied with footnotes in Latin. 'These expurgated editions were frequently reissued well into the 19th century both in France and other countries'. Source for Jouvancy Wikipedia The first Horace edition of Jouvancy mentioned by Schweiger dates from 1697 Paris. In the stream of many hundreds of 18th century school editions of Horace we counted 13 of Jouvancy 1706 1708 1714 1717 1722 1728 1736 1737 1754 1754 1794 1790 1814. Seven of them were published in Rouen. There may of course be more editions for Schweiger does not mention our 1790 edition Collation: 6 a-c6; A-2M6 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 120266

‎PALINGENIUS‎

‎Marcelli Palingenii Stellati Poetae Zodiacus vitae id est de hominis vita studio ac moribus optime instituendis libri XII. Nunc demum ad exemplaria primaria sedulo castigati centenis aliquot mendis expurgati aliisque accessionibus aucti.‎

‎Rotterdam Rotterodami Apud Joannem Hofhout 1722. 8vo. XVI including frontispiece407;47 index2 blank p. Calf 15.5 cm Details:.Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. The frontispiece designed and executed by Jan Goeree depicts an allegorical scene which may refer to passages in the second and sixth book of the 'Zodiacus Vitae' called Taurus and Virgo. It shows a laureated woman Poetry who shakes hands with death and at the same time clings with her left arm to a bust of the virtuous goddess of wisdom Athena. Her feet rest on a bag of gold and a scepter. Next to her stands a winged putto scourge at hand who reveals gold and other treasures of the church that lay hidden below a piece of cloth. Above them on a monument the wellknown scene of Hercules on the crossroads where he meets two women personifications of Virtue and Vice. They both advice Hercules to follow the road they show him. Virtue depicted here as Athena points at a narrow rocky and steep path at the end of which he will find a reward. Vice who is stripped to the waist offers Hercules pleasure crowns and wealth; she points at the easy road. The message is clear the highest good can not be found in wealth and profane goods but in virtue combined with wisdom. At the end of the sixth book Virgo the poet concludes having considered the endless miseries of humankind that we should not fear death but that we must embrace her/him as a safe haven. The woodcut printer's mark shows the intertwined initials of the publisher Johannes Hofhout. The title is printed in red and black. Each of the 12 songs is preceded by a useful synopsis Condition: Binding scuffed. Tip at the head of the spine worn away. Gilt on the back fading. Front joint cracked still strong but showing some small damage. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Endpapers worn and yellowing. Some old ink underlinings Note: The real name of the Italian neolatin poet Marcello Palingenio Stellato or in Latin Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus was in 1725 revealed by I. Facciolati in a letter to the German bibliographer J.A. Fabricius. Marcello Palingenio is an anagram for the name of the Italian courtier Pier Angelo Manzolli born to a humble family in La Stellata near Ferrara between 1500 and 1503. He died before 1558. Recent research Bacchelli 1985 points in a completely different direction. On the basis of indications in the privilege for the printing of the Zodiacus granted in Venice in 1535 to one Marcellus Stellato Neapolitanus it is thought that Marcellus may have been born in Campania and that his real name was Marcello Stellato or Stellati a family name attested in area of Campania thus denying the attribution of the poem to Pier Angelo Manzoli. A weak point is that the appellation 'Palingenio' is here hard to explain. Anyway of the author's life little is known. It is assumed that he was a medical doctor. He was at one point suspected of heterodoxy perhaps because he was a member of the Calvinist circle of Renata d'Este. After his death his bones were dug up following a process of heresy under pope Paulus III and burned at the stake. A Vatican codex which includes documents of the Congregation of the Index of the years 1571-90 informs us that the unearthing of Marcello'nihil credens neque divinitatem Christi' took place in Cesena without however indicating the date while in November 1558 the Bolognese Jesuit Francesco Palmio informed his general G. Lainez that his body was publicly exhumed and burned because of certain heretic books Palingenius had composed. The cause of this exhumation may well have been his 'Zodiacus Vitae' a poem in 12 songs 9939 hexameters each song taking its name from one the twelve signs of the Zodiac. It was written between 1520 and 1534 and was dedicated to Ercole II d'Este. These songs do not form a coherent unity and contain a variety of didactic moralistic metaphysical astronomical and frequently satirical passages. The work was placed on the Index in 1558; and perhaps because of this in addition to its intrinsic qualities and its attacks upon the Catholic clergy it was widely read and admired in Protestant countries. In England it was even used as a school text both in Latin and English. It was imitated in and translated into several languages. The main theme is the 'highest good' and around this are woven other secondary themes. There are contradictions repetitions and none of the questions dealt with is original. Yet the Zodiacus is a characteristic and interesting work for its dealing with important philosophical questions and the author's noble intent to offer the reader a poetic code of rule how to live wisely. Its literary value lies in its ornate style and the freedom with which it treats the Latin language. Most importantly the poem shows traits of true and heartfelt poetry as found in some particularly sharp satiric attacks upon the clergy in certain similes and in outpourings of real pessimism. Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 69 2007 and Enciclopedia Italiana 1934 Provenance: On the front pastedown the armorial bookplate of 'The Right Honorable Sir John Trollope Bar-t. M.P.' Probably Sir John Trollope 1800-1874 7th Baronet of Casewick in the county of Lincoln and created Baron Kesteven in 1868. He was a conservative politician and M.P. for Lincolnshire South. See Wikipedia 'John Trollope 1st Baron Kesteven' and 'Trollope Baronets' Collation: pi1 frontispiece 8 minus leaf 1; A-2C8 2D-2G4 2H4 leaf 2H4 is a blank and located between the leaves 2H1 and 2H2 because of a binder's error Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎GROEN VAN PRINSTERER,G‎

‎Platonica prosopographia sive expositio judicii quod Plato tulit de iis qui in scriptis ipsius aut loquentes inducuntur aut quavis de causa commemorantur.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud H.W. Hazenberg juniorem 1823. 8vo. XV12388 theses p. Contemporary boards 22 cm Dissertation University Leiden The Dutch politician and historian Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer 1801-1876 was a devout Christian lifelong member of the Dutch Reformed Church the state church of the Netherlands. He lead the evangelical renewal movement thriving at the time the European Continental counterpart to the Second Great Awakening known in the Netherlands as the 'Reveil'. Groen ardently opposed the liberal politician Thorbecke whose principles he denounced as ungodly and revolutionary i.e. inspired by the French Revolution. Groen played as a political writer and a member of the Second Chamber of Parliament a prominent role in Dutch home politics. As the leader of the protestant anti-revolutionary movement he gradually created the ideological basis on which after his death in 1879 Abraham Kuyper founded the 'Anti Revolutionary Party' Anti-Revolutionaire Partij Source Wikipedia hardcover‎

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‎FABER SORANUS, BASILIUS‎

‎Basilii Fabri Sorani Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae omnium usui et disciplinis omnibus accommodatus post celeberrimorum virorum Buchneri Cellarii Graevii operas et adnotationes et multiplices A. Stübelii et Io. Mat. Gesneri curas iterum recensitus emendatus locupletatus.‎

‎Frankfurt Leipzig Francofurti Lipsiae In taberna libraria Ioh. Frid. Gleditsch 1749. Folio. 2 parts in 1: X p.; 1792;1308 columns; 198 index p. Vellum 39.5 cm Ref: Brunet 22/1146; Ebert 7243: the best edition; Graesse 2540; Spoelder p. 618/19: Kampen 2 Details: Back ruled gilt. Red morocco shield in the 'second compartment'. Board with gilt borders and the gilt coat of arms of Kampen. Woodcut of Pegasus on the title. Printed in 2 columns. At the one finds a 198 p. 'Index germanico-latinus rerum vocabulorum phrasium descriptionum & locutionum proverbialium' Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and age-toned. Folds in the half title and front flyleaf. Paper foxed and yellowing. Some faint waterstains Note: The German schoolmaster and lexicologist Basilius Faber born ca. 1520 in Sorau nowadays Polish Zary was 'einer der bedeutensten Schulmänner des 16. Jahrhunderts'. He produced a 'Thesaurus' which long survived him. He died in 1576. ADB 6 p. 489/90 The work was first published in 1571 and later revised and augmented by scholars like Cellarius and Graevius. The last and best re-edition is this edition produced by the German classical scholar Johann Matthias Gesner 1691-1761. It is a Latin dictionary/encyclopedia with German and sometimes Greek equivalents. Lemmata are arranged under the word from which they derive. The article 'eo' 'to go' for instance fills 5 pages and offers in alphabetical order all possible derivative composita from 'abeo' to 'transeo' and under each of these verbs we find again in alphabetical order numerous lemmata; e.g. under 'coëo' we find the short derivative articles 'coiens' 'coitus' 'coitio' 'coibilis' 'incoibilis' 'coetus' with the German equivalent and a number of elucidating 'loci' in ancient authors. Sometimes articles are of an encyclopedic nature e.g. a word like 'charta'. This word 'paper' receives one whole densely printed column covering all kinds of aspects of paper in ancient sources papyrus biblos etc. This really is a classical 'Fundgrube'. It is 'nicht blos ein Lexikon der lateinischen Sprache sondern recht eigentlich eine Schatzkammer die durch reiche Phraseologie sowie durch Aufnahme von Sentenzen Sprüchen Geschichten etc. zu freierer Bewegung im Gebrauche des Lateinischen anleiten und nebenbei auch sonst bildende Elemente darbieten sollte'. Op. cit. p. 489 The preliminary papers include the prefaces of earlier editions of A. Bucherus 1625 and 1655 of Cellarius 1692 of A. Stübel 1717 and of I.M. Gesner 1635 Collation: a-b4 chi2 A-5V4 chi1 A-4M4 4N4 minus blank leaf 4N4 A-2A4 2B2 2C2 leaf 2C2 blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎OROSIUS‎

‎Pauli Orosii presbyteri Hispani Adversus paganos historiarum libri septem ut et Apologeticus contra Pelagium de arbitrii libertate. Ad fidem MSS. et praesertim cod. Longob. antiquiss. Bibliothecae Florentinae Mediceae S. Laurentii adjectis integris notis Franc. Fabricii Marcodurani et Lud. Lautii recensuit suisque animadversionibus nummisque antiquis plurimis illustravit Sigebertus Havercampus.‎

‎Leiden Lugdini Batavorum Apud Gerardum Potvliet 1738. 4to. XXXVIII63430 index p. Calf 25.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 238889998; Schweiger 2622: 'Neue Recens. der Geschichtsbücher nach 11 Hdschr. u. älteren Ausgg.'; Schoenemann p. 502/3: 'quae ad Historiae illustrationem spectant docte ubique apposita sunt ut nihil ex hac parte desiderari possit'; Brunet 4237: 'Édition la meilleure que l'on ait de cet auteur elle est peu commune et très recherchée'; Ebert 12256; Graesse 552 Details: Back ruled gilt and with 5 raised bands & with a red morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. Title printed in red & black and with an engraved numismatic vignet: both sides of a coin of Caesar Augustus. Numismatic text engravings on about 100 p. Condition: Head & tail of the spine gone. Front joint cracked and hanging on 3 bands. Rear joint cracking. Boards scratched corners bumped. Paper partly somewhat browning. Endpapers foxed Note: Paulus Orosius 5th century A.D. was a priest from Portugal. Fled before the Vandals he became a pupil of Augustine. It is on his instigation that Orosius wrote his 'Historia adversus Paganos' the first Christian universal history from the creation of the world to the founding and history of Rome until A.D. 417. His pagan sources for Roman history were Livy Tacitus Suetonius Justinus and Eutropius. We see here the course of history through the eyes of his master Augustine who asked Orosius to write a historiographic 'supplement' to his 'City of God'. The work was apologetic and attacked the pagan complaint that Rome's troubles were caused by her abandonment of the pagan Gods. He proved that there were also sufferings before the rise of Christianity. 'Ego initium miseriae hominum ab initio peccati hominis docere ducere institui' he tells the reader in the first chapter and wanted to demonstrate that the sufferings of humanity diminished since Christ. The History was widely read in the Middle Ages. Neue Pauly 953/4 § An edition of this work was produced by the Dutch scholar Siegbert Havercamp 1684/174 since 1721 professor of Greek at Leiden University. Schoenemann praises Havercamp because he offered also the 'praefationes' of worthy predecessors. Havercamp included the complete commentary on the 'Historiae' of Franz Fabricius of Düren also called Marcoduranus 1527-1572. Fabricius studied in Paris under Ramus and Turnebus and published much on Cicero. His Orosius edition dates from 1561. Sandys 2268 and ADB 6507 Havercamp also incorporated the commentary of Ludovicus Lautius a Flemish priest who's commentary was published in 1615 in Mainz. Van der Aa 11214 Provenance: In the right margin of the title a small oval embossed ownership stamp of the 'Free Church College Library Glasgow'. The 'Free Church College Library' Glasgow was established in 1856 and renamed 'United Free Church College Library' after the reunion of the 'Free Church of Scotland and United Presbyterian Church' in 1900; then it was renamed 'Trinity College Library' after reunion of the 'United Free Church' and the 'Church of Scotland' in 1929. Now it is incorporated in the University of Glasgow Divinity Hall Library Collation: -24 -34 minus blank leaf 34 A-4O4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎MACROBIUS‎

‎Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii Theodosii viri consularis & illustris in Somnium Scipionis libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis codicibus recogniti & aucti. Edited by Joach. Camerarius.‎

‎Basel Basileae Ex officina Ioan. Hervagii 1535. Cum privilegio Caesaris ad quinquennium. Folio. XL3342 p. Vellum 30 cm Ref: VD16 ZV 20513; Schweiger 2586: the first mentioned copy with the privilegium and the corrections. 'Neue schätzbare Recension von Joach. Camerarius nach 2 Handschriften'. Dibdin 2220: 'under the care of the celebrated Camerarius and by the help of several important MSS. there was hardly a verse in the poets quoted but what received very considerable emendation. . A volume thus intrinsically valuable will not fail to find a purchaser at a reasonable price'; Ebert 12716; Graesse 4330 Details: Later vellum 18th century. Brown morocco shield on the back. 2 thongs laced through both joints. Large printer's mark of Hervagius Johann Herwagen the elder on the title and a different one on the verso of the last leaf both depicting a three headed Hermes on a pillar. Woodcut initials 8 woodcuts and a woodcut map of the world in the text Condition: Some small and almost invisible repairs of the vellum. Corners of the shield on the back partly gone. Title browning paper yellowing some slight foxing. Wormhole in the right uppercorner of ca. 80 p. not coming near any text. Pastedowns affected by a few small unobjectional wormholes Note: Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius a Roman senator and a classical scholar of the early 5th century A.D. 'was a notable link between the cultures of antiquity and the Middle Ages'. This edition contains his 2 most important works the 'Saturnalia' and his 'Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis' the 'Dream of Scipio' a commentary on a part of 'De Republica' of the Roman orator Cicero. The 'Saturnalia' is a learned compilation in 7 books cast in dialogue form in which the cultural life of the former generation is idealized. Macrobius' aim is to provide his son with all the necessary hard to come by scientific knowledge. He did so in the form of a banquet. Macrobius was inspired by the Ciceronian dialogues 'De Oratore' and 'De Republica'. 'Set during the Saturnalia of 383 it gathers several conspicuously non-Christian members of the aristocracy and their entourage to discuss matters ridiculous . and sublime . above all the poetry of Virgil. Quarried from mostly unnamed sources - including Gellius Seneca Plutarch and the tradition of scholastic commentary today known from Servius the discussion presents Virgil as the master of all human knowledge'. More influential in the Middle Ages and Renaissance was the commentary of Macrobius on the 'Somnium Scipionis'. Macrobius uses Cicero's text De Republica 610 ff as the starting point for a thoroughly Neoplatonic treatment of especially cosmology and the soul's ascent to the One with direct debts to Porphyry and Plotinus.' Discussed are matters of mathematics physics cosmology astronomy geography and ethics. He thus forged a kind of compendium of science and philosophy which transmitted classical knowledge to the medieval world and was to hold a central position in the intellectual development of the West during the Middle Ages. His books belong to the basic sources of the scholastic movement and of medieval science. His work left traces in the works of Dante Chaucer Vives and Spenser. Source for M. and the quotations: 'The Classical Tradition' Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 553. § Joachim Camerarius 1500-1574 holds one of the foremost places among the German classical scholars of the 16th century. Gudeman calls him even 'der bedeutendste Philologe Deutschlands im 16. Jahrh.' Grundriss der Geschichte der klassischen Philologie Lpz. 1909 p. 216 He held professorships at Nuremberg Tübingen and Leipzig. 'His numerous editions of the Classics without attaining the highest rank are characterized by acumen and good taste'. Sandys 'History of Classical Scholarship' 2 p. 266/67 Camerarius was a man of vast knowledge. He also wrote on history theology mathematics astronomy and paedagogy. He seems to have been just the man for editing the encyclopaedic works of Macrobius. Camerarius had evidently a high opinion of himself and his talents. Such we gather from the following distich on the titlepage: 'Qui tamen et nostri numerum vult scire laboris annumeret versus totius ille libri' i.e. he left his mark in every line of verse in Macrobius. This book contains furthermore an interesting Macrobian map a map which for a 1000 years formed the basis of world geography. It was first printed in 1482 showing the continents in the 'Alveus Oceani' a big Europe and a rather small Africa and Asia. The round map is typically divided in 5 climatic zones. It shows the pre-Renaissance view of the world Antipodeans and all. Our map shows the awakening of the passion for exploration and the cartographic progress in this period. Africa and Asia have grown hugely and Europe has shrunk considerably. The lines of the climatic zone on the first map of 1482 were straight suggesting a flat earth on our map the lines are convex indicating a world which is really a round ball. And the Antipodean part has gone. No sign however of America. The literature on the development of the Macrobian world view is immense Provenance: On the front flyleaf in pencil '7 januari 1961' 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: 'Turijn Bottega d'Erasmo' Collation: alpha - beta6 gamma8 a-z6 A-E6 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎HORATIUS‎

‎Quincti Horatii Flacci Venusini Poetae Lyrici elegantiss. Opera grammaticorum XL tam antiquiss. quam neotericorum partim iustis commentariis partim succinctis annotationibus singulari studio & amplissimis sumptibus in unum Corpus collectis illustrata variisque ac vetustissimis exemplaribus collata & menda in iisdem sublata quorum Authorum nomina & ordinem sequens pagina demonstrabit. Iam pridem in studiosae iuventutis gratiam et utilitatem post Herculeos labores edita cum gemino indice rerum verborum ac sententiarum locupletissimo.‎

‎Basel Basileae Per Sebastianum Henricpetri 1580. Folio. XXIVXXXVI2280 columns 12 index and printer's mark at the end p. 19th century full calf. 35 cm 'May be classed among the most excellent and rare' Ref: VD16 H 4874; Schweiger 2398; Dibdin 294; Moss 212/13; Brunet 3314/15: 'mérite certainement d'être distinguée'; Ebert 10159; Riedel Horatiana 51; USTC 689469 Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Gilt short title in second compartment. Sebastian Henripetrus' woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a rock on which a hand from heaven strikes fire with a hammer. The fire is aroused by a human head a cloud blowing from the sky. The second printer's mark on the verso of the last leaf is a simpler version of the image now with the addition of the name of the printer 'Sebastian Henric Petri'; the 2 letters 'n' in the name 'Sebastian Henric Petri' are strange enough cut backwards mirrorwise. Woodcut initials. Printed in 2 columns. The poems of Horace printed in a beautiful Roman letter are surrounded by commentary printed in italics thus more or less suggesting the layout of a medieval manuscript Condition: The foot of the spine is somewhat chafed. The front flyleaf is gone. Front inner hinge slightly cracking but strong. Title a bit soiled. Old name on the title. Occasional yellowing paper. Occasional some faint and small waterstains. One larger waterstain in a few quires at the end of the book. Small wormhole in the blank right upper corner of some 80 leaves not affecting text. A few spots on the lower board. The binder erroneously switched leaf Ee1 and Ee6 Note: The works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65-8 B.C. have enjoyed a continuous presence in European culture. His memorable phrases made him the most quoted ancient author. Till well into the 20th century he stood central in school curricula. Earlier in the Middle Ages he was next to Vergil the most important school author. Horace is transmitted in around 300 medieval manuscripts. The Renaissance saw the beginning of a flood of editions. 'For Neo-latin poetry until modern times and for all the vernacular literature of Europe from the 16th through the 18th centuries Horace provided the dominant model both for private lyrics celebrating wine and love and for public lyrics celebrating affairs of state'. Young poets used Horace to learn the trade. 'Horace's elegant rationalism and moral wisdom and also his disabused and tolerant tone made his poems favorite reading during the Enlightenment'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 454/60 § This edition of Horace is a kind of 'Variorum' edition. It offers the observations and emendations of 40 Horace scholars old and new including the commentaries of the scholiasts Helenius Acron and Porphyrius. It does not break new ground Lambinus seems not to exist but it is a real treasure chest for Horatian philology supplying all what is worth knowing of Horace and his poetry. It is a reissue of the edition of 1555 which was produced by the German classical scholar Georg Fabricius 1516-1571. 'Seine Ausgaben von Vergil Horaz und Ovid zeichnen sich nicht nur durch philologische Akribie aus sondern sind auch wegweisend für die Interpretation'. NDB 4734 § A remarkable feature of this edition is the space which is attributed to the Ars Poetica. Commentaries treatises on the AP by Landinus Luisinus Grifolus Lucinianensis Iason & Gabriel de Nores Parrhasius Amarbachius & Freigius fill almost a quarter of the book. It is a pity that Robertello's work on the Ars Poetica was not included. Still this 1580 edition is declared to be indispensable by Dr. Harwood: 'This is the great treasure of learning bestowed on Horace. My learned and worthy friend Dr. Parr one of the best classical scholars in this kingdom many years ago informed me of the distinguished merit of this edition. It contains the observations and remarks on Horace which were made by the great scholars of that illustrious age the glorious age of the revival of literature as well as the criticism of all the old commentators on Horace Acron Porphyrion &c'. E. Harwood 'A view of the various editions of the Greek & Roman classics' 4th ed. London 1790 p. 221/222 Provenance: Name on the title of 'R. Alberda'. This must be a 'Reynt Alberda' or a 'Reint' Alberda'. This christian name is the most frequently used name for men in the Alberda family of Northern Dutch gentry so it is hard to say who this might be. The handwriting seems to be 18th century Collation: -26 a-c6 A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 AA-ZZ6 AAa-ZZz6 AAaa-DDdd6 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎MONTGOMERY, JAMES‎

‎The world before the flood a poem in ten cantos; with other occasional pieces. Second edition.‎

‎London printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Paternoster-Row 1813. 12mo. III-XVI;32813 blank p. Calf. 17 cm Details: Back with 3 gilt raised bands; gilt title in second compartment; other 3 compartments with blindstamped palmette cornerpieces. Both boards with tenfold blindstamped fillet borders within blindstamped floral borders a blindstamped wave/flood pattern in the central panel Condition: Cover shows wear to the extremes. Lacking the half-title before the title with the text: 'The world before the flood with other occasional pieces' Note: James Montgomery 1771-1854 was a British poet philanthropist and campainer for humanitarian causes. He achieved some literary fame with 'The wanderer of Switzerland' in 1806 against the annexation of that country by the French. The abolishment of slavery is the theme of his 'The West Indies' published 3 years later. He created a reconstruction of the world from the creation to the Deluge in his 'The world before the flood' published in 1812. The author states in his preface that he is 'under obligation of no other authority whatever'. The work was a success and sold more than 10000 copies Collation: pi-6 A4 2A8 B4 2B8 etc.- N4 2N8 O2 2O4 P4 leaf P3 verso and leaf P4 blank Between the gatherings A till N there is a regular alternation in the signature of the gatherings each gathering signed A etc. till N numbers 4 leaves and is immediately followed by a gathering signed 2A etc. till 2N numbering 8 leaves Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎JUVENALIS & PERSIUS‎

‎D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae: cum Veteris Scholiastae & Variorum Commentariis. Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio.‎

‎Leiden Lugd. Batav. Ex officina Hackiana 1671. 8vo. XVI60442 index p. Vellum 20 cm Ref: STCN ppn 840013876; Schweiger 2511; Dibdin 2154; Moss 2158/9; Ebert 11242; Graesse 3520 Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints. Short title in ink on the back. The engraved title which is not signed is used here for the third time. It was first used for the original edition of 1648 for a repetition in 1658 and for this 1671 reissue. In 1648 the engraved title still bears the name of the engraver it is executed by the Dutch Golden Age engraver Reinier van Persijn. The title depicts a complicated allegorical scene: on the left a naked woman sitting on a crocodile holding in her hand a parrot; then a Janus-headed woman with bird feet and a tail holding up in her left hand a Momus-mask and in her right 2 flaming hearts; in the centre sits on a throne an old woman holding in her left hand a sack of money and in her right what seems a little flask; on the right in the foreground a king reaching for that sack; he is accompanied by a priest a farmer and a soldier; in a window central above the old woman we see the ascension of the poet. See for an explanation of the allegory the note below Condition: Vellum age-toned and soiled. Boards worn at the extremities. Front hinge cracking but still strong. Front flyleaf loosening. Name on the front flyleaf. Small old inscription on the rear pastedown. Occasional small ink underlinings. Small wormhole in the right lower corner of the first 14 gatherings never even coming near to the text Note: The Roman poet Juvenalis ca. 55-140 AD was the last and most influential of the Roman satirists. He 'uses names and examples from the After p. 65 has been added a plate showing a allegoric triumph scene with prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. See for this plate: rkd.nl/nl/explore/portraits/recordfiltersplaats=DenHaag&filterskunstenaar =Vinckboons%2CDavid%28I%29&query=&start=2past as protective covers for his exposés of contemporary vice and folly'. His main theme is the dissolution of the social fabric. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 501 The satires of the stoic poet Aulus Persius Flaccus form one 'libellus' of 6 satires together 650 hexameters. 'They are well described as Horatian diatribes transformed by Stoic rhetoric'. 'He wrote in a bizarre mixture of cryptic allusions brash colloquialisms and forced imagery'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 805 This edition of 1671 is a 'Variorum' edition. It offers the 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of 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. Such a plodder was the Dutch editor Cornelius Schrevelius who 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 raised at least 11 kids and fell in 1664 victim to the then raging plague. His first Juvenal edition he published in 1648 and it was reissued by Hackius in 1658 1664 and in 1671. Schrevelius' aim was to promote the studies of his young students and to instill in them a necessary fear optatam metam which would make them useful citizens and the pride of their parents. Juvenal is a suitable author for such an enterprise for he flogs wrongdoers and learns them to avoid the path of wickedness and to embrace honesty. Dedicatio p. 2 verso Especially in shameless times as ours he continues satyre is needed. Decent behaviour and faith have been replaced by deceit and swindle. In a short 'Benigno Lectori' 4 verso and 5 recto Schrevelius tells that he relies for the text on the earlier editions of Robertus Stephanus and Pithoeus and that he excerpted the notes and commentaries of Lubinus Farnabius and Casaubon. In addition he offers he says a complete and emendated edition of the old Scholiast. Schrevelius even used two excellent manuscripts which were lent to him by the Leiden professor Salmasius which he tells helped him to solve many difficult problems. § The engraved title deserves some attention. The easiest description we found was 'an engraved title with many figures'. To us it seems an allegorical scene based on the tenth satire Juvenal's famous declamation on the folly of men in desiring in their prayers from the gods vane things as honor fame wealth power beauty or a long life instead of a sane spirit in a healthy body. 'Whole households have been destroyed by the compliant gods in answer to the masters' prayers. In camp nocitura militia and city nocitura toga alike we ask for things that will be our ruin'. Vss. 7/9 in the Loeb-translation of Ramsay Juvenal offers a list of pityful examples such as the once powerful Sejanus who like the Libyan general Gadaffi many centuries later was 'being dragged along by a hook as a show and joy to all'. Vss. 66/67 translation Ramsay Victims of their lust for power were Alexander the Great Xerxes or the punic conqueror Hannibal the man who was once about to destroy Rome. We assume that the royal figure who reaches out for the sack of money or from whose hands it is being snatched is Hannibal. The clue for this assumption is the woman on the crocodile. Such a woman was in 17th century iconography the common personification of Africa for instance on maps. The fate of this scourge of Rome is treated by Juvenal in evocative language in 20 beautiful verses. It begins like this: 'Put Hannibal into the scales; how many pounds' weight will you find in that greatest of commanders This is the man for whom Africa was all too small'. vs. 147/8. Together with the old woman he is the central figure on the title. The positioning of the three woman brings in mind a Triad a triple diety such as the Graces the Moirai or Fates or the Harpies. The Erinyes the avenging spirits also sometimes form a trinity. The standing woman seems to be a mixture of an Erinye and a Harpy. She has some features of such a Harpy the personification of deamonic powers and an agent of terrible punishment. She is bare breasted and stands on huge bird claws with which she abducts the souls of the dead to their doom. In her right hands she holds instead of the usual horrifying snake a Momus mask which personifies satire and mockery the power to make a fool or ass of someone. In her left hand rest two flaming hearts catholic imagery distastful to the protestants and therefore perhaps reprensenting idolatry. Her double faced Janushead looking to the future and the past might be an image of Time. The old woman on the throne is the central figure on the title. To her all movement on the picture is directed. She has the features of Atropos the riged and inflexible one the oldest of the 3 Moirai or Fates and in iconography often depicted as an old woman. She has power over life and death and represents the fate that cannot be avoided. She holds Hannibal's fate in her hands. She withdraws the sack of money power and offers with her right hand the once mighty suppliant a little flask or small beaker with the invitation to poison himself. Juvenal on Hannibal's unglamorous bleak death: 'What then was his end Alas for glory! A conquered man he flees headlong into exile and there he sits a mighty and marvelous suppliant in the Kings's antichamber until it pleases his Bithynian Majesty to awake! No sword no stone no javelin shall end the life which once wrought havoc throughout the world: no but that which shall avenge Cannae and all those seas of blood a ring containing poison'. Vss 158/165 translation Ramsay The engraver follows for this scene the better known version of the Roman historian Livy. In chapter 51 of the 39th book of his History of Rome 'Ab Urbe Condita' Livy tells that Hannibal took his poison in an 'poculum' cup/goblet/bowl/beaker Provenance: Manuscript ownership entry of 'A.J. Enschedé' on the front flyleaf. Adriaan Justus Enschedé 1829-1896 was a member of a famous Dutch dynasty of printers. His forefather Izaak Enschedé established himself in Haarlem in 1703 and there the firm remained for more than 300 years. The firm was and still is famous for the quality of its printing of bonds and banknotes. In 1810 they printed the first Dutch banknotes. Adriaan Justus entered the firm and kept it flourishing. From 1857 onward he was also Keeper of the archives of the city of Haarlem. He wrote several books on the history of Haarlem and on the history of the Wallon Church in the Netherlands Collation: 8 A-2R8 2S4 2S4 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 130097

‎ANTHOLOGIA POETICA‎

‎In usum Gymnasii Amstellodamensis. Edidit R. Van Ommeren. Editio altera.‎

‎Amsterdam Den Hengst 1804. 12mo. VIII205 p. Vellum. 15 cm Catullus' Epith. Pelei et Thetidos Carmen nuptiale. Tibullus' Liber I Elegia 1 3 7 Liber II Elegia 1 2 5 Liber III Elegia 1235. Propertius' liber III Elegia 12357916 liber IV Elegia 3 4691011. Ovid's Heroides 151013 & 14; Amorum liber I Elegia 15; liber II Elegia 6 liber III Elegia 9; Artis Amatoriae liber II vs. 21-97 123-143 liber tertius vs. 687-747; Fastorum liber I vs. 539-583 liber II vs. 83-119 193-243 381-425 685-853 liber III vs. 179-229; Artis Amatoriae liber I vs 101-131 527-565; Fastorum liber III vs. 459-517 liber IV vs. 419-618. Consolatio ad Liviam Augustam. Juvenalis' Sat. 8. Lucretius' liber I vs. 272-330 liber II vs. 1-60 342-376 liber III vs. 1037 et seqq. liber IV vs. 548-598 vs. 958-1023 liber V vs. 930-1154 1240 ad finem liber VI vs. 1088 ad finem. Laberius' Prologus Vellum slightly soiled. Short title in ink on the upper board hardcover‎

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‎ROMANARUM INSCRIPTIONUM FASCICULUS‎

‎Cum explicatione notarum in usum juventutis. Tironibus rei lapidariae studiosis ut posthabita barbarie quam in plerisque recentibus inscriptionibus eruditi fastidiunt et nova epigrammata eleganter condere et vetera interpretari recte discant. Angelus Josephi F. Cominus hunc inscriptionum fasciculum D.D.‎

‎Padua Patavii Excudebat Josephus Cominus Superiorum permissu 1774. 8vo. XVI222 p. Contemporary limp cardboard. 18.5 cm Details: Cover still remarkably fresh; woodcut printer's device on title: a man digging for antique objects Motto: 'Quidquid sub terra est in apricum profert aetas'; the inscriptions in the text are set in all kinds of capitals to make them look like real inscriptions; fresh paper Condition: small slip of paper pasted over a name on the title Note: Why the ICCU attributes this publication to Giovanni Domenico or Giandomenico Polcastro 1710-1787 is not quite clear. Perhaps they rely on the Handbuch der klassischen Literatur by J.J. Eschenburg Berlin 1818 p. 74 where the book is attributed to Comite Polcastro. Or it is attributed to the Padovian Polcastro because the firm of Giuseppe Comino used to print scientific texts produced by professors of the University of Padova among which in 1773 Polcastro's Notizia della scoperta fatta in Padova d'un ponte antico con una romana iscrizione. Polcastro was a well known philologist born in Padua. G. Mussato began a laudatio on him like this: En Polcaster adest Patavi lux alma decusque/ qui domus et patriae nomen ad astra vehit. G. Vedova. Biografia degli scrittori padovani II p. 111/15. However it seems far more probable that the son of Giuseppe Comino Josephus Cominus Angelo produced this anthology. On page 3 we find a kind of subtitle which we have to elucidate matters put between brackets immediately after the title described above. In this 'subtitle' it is stated that Angelus F. Josephi Cominus gave this fasciculum inscriptionum to/for students tironibus studiosis who study epigraphy. He wants them to understand old inscriptions better and to be able to produce them elegantly themselves. After the death of Giuseppe in 1762 his son Angelo continued the firm more than 30 years still using the name of his father in the imprint. The inscriptions of this collection come from 31 sources among which Gruter Montfaucon & Muratori. After each inscription the source is mentioned; the collection is devided into 12 classes: 1: Diis sacra; 2: templa aedes sacrae; 3: elogia; 4: opera publica; 5: senatus consulta leges et plebescita; 6: monumenta historica; 7 militaria officia; 8: tituli sepulcrales; 9: opera figulina; 10: monumenta christianorum; 11: carmina ex lapidibus; 12: appendix miscellanea; & 22 p.of notae Collation: 8 a-e8 f-i4 k-p8 q-r4 minus blank leaf r4 Photographs on request unknown‎

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‎JUVENALIS‎

‎D. Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI. Recensuit et annotationibus instruxit Ernestus Guilielmus Weber Weissenseas Philos. Dr. et Professor Gymnasii Wimariensis.‎

‎Weimar Wimariae In novo Bibliopolio vulgo Landes-Industrie-Comptoir 1825. 8vo. X3802 corrigenda p. Half calf 22 cm Ref: Schweiger 2505: 'Neue Recognition des Textes. Ruperti's Text liegt zum Grunde. Die Interpunktion ist vereinfacht. Die schwierigen Stellen sind trefflich erläutert'; Graesse 3521; Not in Spoelder p. 554 Enkhuizen Details: Prize copy of the Gymnasium of Enkhuizen including the prize printed on thick paper. Spine divided by double gilt fillets. Gilt lettered shield in the 'second compartment' Condition: Binding worn at the extremes. Owing to a binder's error the pages in the 23rd and 24th gathering from p. 353 to 376 have been mixed up and 4 of those leaves have been bound double Note: The Roman poet Juvenalis ca. 55-140 AD was the last and most influential of the Roman satirists. He 'uses names and examples from the past as protective covers for his exposés of contemporary vice and folly'. His main theme is the dissolution of the social fabric. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 501 § This Juvenal edition of 1825 was produced by the German schoolmaster Ernst Christian Wilhelm Weber born in 1796 in Wissensee. In 1815 he went to Leipzig to study classical philology under Gottfried Hermann. In 1819 he published in Jena a dissertation 'Animadversiones in Juvenalis Satiras'. In 1820 he was appointed rector of the Gymnasium of Weimar and 3 years later he received the title of professor. In 1826 the firm of Teubner published his edition of Persius. Another contribution to classical scholarship is his edition of Demosthenes' 'Oratio in Aristocratem'. ADB 41287/89 Provenance: The folding prize 19x28 cm with the coat of arms of Enkhuizen has been printed for the greater part; names and the occasion have been added by hand; it reads: 'Ingenio Magnaeque Spei Adolescenti Christiano Cramer Hartman propter insignes in artibus humanioribus progressus praemium hoc litterarum virtutis et diligentiae testimonium Gymnasii Enchuisani Curatores donarunt cum in secundam classem transscriberetur ad diem 6 Septembris 1830'. It is signed by 'R.J. Jungius S. Muntendam Duyvensz' and by 'Me Gymnasii Rectore' A. Hirschig. Spoelder does not mention this kind of prize copy without the coat of arms on the boards but with the coat of arms on the prize. Christiaan Cramer Hartman was born in Averhorn in 1817. He died in Utrecht in 1886. See for him 'pondes.nl/detail/i_d.phpinum=14460294' This is about all that is to be found on Christiaan. His diligence and virtue brought him only a public notice of his marriage with Johanna Spruyt in Utrecht in the 'Opregte Haarlemsche Courant' of the 3rd of May 1862 in Utrecht Photographs on request hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 130452

‎NEPOS‎

‎Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum cum integris notis Jani Gebhardi Henr. Ernestii & Jo. Andreae Bosii. Et selectis Andreae Schotti Dionysii Lambini Gilberti Longolii Hieronymi Magii Jo. Savaronis aliorumque Doctorum; necnon Excerptis P. Danielis. Hisce accedit locupletissimus omnium vocabulorum index studio & opera Jo. Andr. Bosii confectus curante Augustino Van Staveren qui & suas notas addidit.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1734. XVI including frontispiece765187 p. Half calf 21.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 189887893; Schweiger 2300/1; Dibdin 2246; Moss 2320; Ernesti/Fabricius I107: 'Optima hodie et nitidissima est'; Graesse 2271; Brunet 2289 Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Black morocco shield in the second compartment. Boards marbled. Margins preserved uncut. Frontispiece executed by J. Visscher depicting Clio with a pen in her hand receiving advice from Kronos scythe at hand Fama blows her trumpet; title in red and black; printer's mark on title depicting Athena motto: 'Tuta sub Aegide Pallas'; small engravings of portraits and objects in the text on 11 pages Condition: Binding rubbed and scuffed. Head and tail of the spine damaged. Small library shelf number label on the upper board. Half of the front flyleaf cut off vertically. Flyleaf at the end gone. 12 gatherings are somewhat browning Note: This is an edition with commentary of the only surviving complete work of the Roman historian Cornelius Nepos ca. 100-24 B.C. 'De excellentibus ducibus exterrarum gentium'. He is the author of the first surviving ancient collection of biographies. 'De excellentibus etc.' contains the lives of 20 Greek generals and the Carthaginians Hamilkar and Hannibal. Nepos corresponded with Cicero and was close with Cicero's friend Atticus. The collection served probably as a model for Plutarch's Vitae Parallelae. In his own days and in late antiquity Nepos was considered to be a source of importance. The churchfather Hieronymus included him in his 'De viris illustribus' 392 A.D. in his list of great authors and historians. Already in late antiquity this collection was ascribed to the grammarian Aemilius Probus and the 'editio princeps' of 1471 bears his name. The simple style of writing of Nepos has made him a standard choice for schools. The biographies provided the pupils also models of behaviour. Schweiger mentions numerous editions. This edition is a socalled Variorum edition an edition which contained everthing a student required. Such an edition offers the 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. The Dutch schoolmaster who skillfully excerpted compared and contrasted the material of brighter minds is Augstinus van Staveren 1704-1772. He was rector of the schola latina at Leiden since 1750. He is known for this edition of Nepos which saw several later editions and his 'Auctores Mythographi Latini' which was published in 1742. The frontispiece or rather the copper plate for this frontispiece and the text engravings which belong to this edition have a long history. The same plates were used for almost 150 years by different publishing firms. The plates were first used for by Hackius edition of 1658 and then the reissue of 1675. The next users were the Blaeu brothers in 1687 thereupon probably Mortier in 1704 not seen by us then Janssonius van Waesberge in 1705 and then by Samuel Luchtmans who seems the last owner in 1728. Luchtmans used the plates in 1734 again for his new edition of Van Staveren next for the second edition of 1773 and finally for the 'editio minor' of Van Staveren which was published in 1793 Collation: - 28 A-3N8 3O4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎LIBRI DE RE RUSTICA‎

‎Scriptores Rei Rusticae Veteres Latini. E recensione Jo. Matth. Gesneri cum ejusdem praef. et lexico rustico. Praemittitur notitia literaria. Studiis Societatis Bipontinae. Editio accurata.‎

‎Zweibrücken Biponti Ex typographia Societatis 1787 - 1788. 8vo. 4 volumes: IICLVI248; II566; II510; II3691 blank p. Half vellum 22 cm Ref: Not yet in VD18. Burkard p. 181/185; Schweiger 21307; Graesse 6/1332; Ebert 20744 Details: Nice set in 19th century half vellum. Backs gilt and with red morocco shields. Marbled boards. Engraved vignet on the first 3 titles Condition: Vellum slightly soiled. Some wear to the extremes. Some foxing. Joints of the first volume beginning to split. Very small hole in title of the 4th volume the 'Lexicon Rusticum'. A bookplate on the front pastedowns Note: Vol. 1 contains Cato's 'De agri cultura' and Varro's 'De re rustica libri III'; vol. 2 Columella's 'De re rustica' and 'De arboribus'; vol. 3 Palladius' 'De re rustica libri XIV' Vegetius Renatus' 'De artis Mulomedicinae libri IV' 'Gargilii Martialis fragmentum' and 'Ausonii Popmae de instrumento fundi liber'; vol. 4 the 'Lexicon rusticum'. § The Roman gentlemen-farmers and landowners Cato Varro and Columella wrote about agriculture and were successful farmers too. Their aim was to bring Roman farming on a higher level. The conjunction of these three didactic texts can be found from the Middle Ages. They were jointly published for the first time in 1472 in Venice and form the chief texts on agriculture and rural life in antiquity. The oldest of the trio is the Roman politician Marcus Porcius Cato 234-149 B.C. the source of famous maxims for orators like 'rem tene verba sequentur'. 'He distinguished himself for fearless and ruthless attacks on those whose way of life did not agree with his own somewhat old-fashioned and puritanical morality'. H.J. Rose 'A Handbook of Latin Literature' London 1967 p. 91 In style and in character he was a typical farmer shrewd hardworking frugal honest sincere but limited. His 'De agri cultura' also known as 'De re rustica' is a kind of commonplace book. It gives us a view of the life of an oldfashioned landowner in that age and offers information on Roman cult and rustic folklore'. § The second work was written by possibly the greatest scholar Rome produced Marcus Terentius Varro 116-27 B.C. Of the mass of works he wrote only one is preserved to us completely 'De re rustica libri III' and further more there are parts and fragments of some other works. He was a landowner on a large scale who wrote 'De re rustica' in his eightieth year annus octogesimus he tells us in the beginning 'ut sarcinas colligam ante quam profiscar e vita'. It is a philosophic dialogue in 3 books in which he gives sound and practical advice for managing a farm I a stock-ranch II poultry aviary and herb-garden III. 'While giving interesting information on the state of agriculture at that time it is withal a pleasantly discursive book the work of a garrulously entertaining old scholar' Idem p. 222 § Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella was a contemporary of Seneca. He wrote his 'De re rustica' consisting of 12 books ca. 60-65 A.D. He was also a practical farmer on a large scale who was concerned over the decline of the agriculture in his days. 'Book 1 deals with general matters of buildings and labour 2 with soils and crops 3-5 with vines olives and fruittrees 6-7 with domestic animals 8 with poultry and fishponds 9 with game and bees 10 in verse with gardening 11 with the bailiff's duties and the farmer's calendar 12 with the bailiff's wife's duties'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 268 A separate book on arboriculture part of a larger work survives too. His style is straitforward and pleasant. The texts of this trio were edited by Piero Vettori or Petrus Victorius 1499-1585. With his edition of 1541 begins for the 'Scriptores de re rustica' according to the 18th century German scholar J.M. Gesner a new era the 'Aetas Victoriana'. Gesner based his own edition of the 'Scriptores rei rusticae veteres latini' of Leipzig 1735 on the work of Vettori. He slightly revised Vettori's text with the help of some manuscripts and earlier edtions. This 'Scriptores rei rusticae veteres latini' edition of 1787 is a reissue of that edition of Leipzig 1735. The 'notitia literaria' is brought up to date and added are a translation of the life of Cato by Plutarch and the 'Varro-Vita' by M. Hanke of Leipzig 1669. Gesner adopted next to the triumvirate Cato Varro and Columella in his 1735 edition the 'De re rustica' of the late antique agriculturalist with estates in Italy and Sardinia Palladius Provenance: Modern bookplate: 'Ex libris Georges Raepsaet' a Belgian ancient historian and archaeologist Collation: 1: pi1 a-i8 k4 l2; A-P8 Q4. 2: pi1 a-2M8 2N4 minus blank leaf 2N4. 3: pi1A-2H8 2I8 minus blank leaf 2I8. 4: A-2F8 2G2 minus blank leaf 2G2 leaf 2G1 verso blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎HISTORIA AUGUSTA‎

‎Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI. Aelius Spartianus Vulc. Gallicanus Julius Capitolinus Trebell. Pollio Aelius Lampridius Flavius Vopiscus. Cum notis selectis Isaaci Casauboni Cl. Salmasii & Jani Gruteri. Cum indice locupletissimo rerum ac verborum. Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex officina Francisci Hackii 1661. 8vo. VI99735 index p. engraved title. Recently repaired calf. 19 cm Ref: STCN ppn 840035284; Schweiger 2385; Fabricius/Ernesti 3102; Graesse 3304; Ebert 9831 Details: Boards with blind double fillet borders; the boards have a blind triple fillet rectangle in the center and on its corners 4 blind stamped 'fleur de lis'. Frontispiece depicting the seated goddess Roma; she looks in despair at the capture and humiliation of the Roman emperor Valerianus I the father of Gallienus by the Sassanid king Shapur after the battle of Edessa Syria in 260 A.D. Shapur who is on horseback and holds his foot on the neck of Valerianus using him as a human footstool when mounting; his horse tramples the Roman eagle; this shocking defeat is narrated by 'Trebellius Pollio' in the short biography of 'Valerianus Pater et Filius' Condition: The spine is rebacked with cloth the original backstrip has been preserved and pasted on the back. 2 bookplates and some shelf numbers on the front pastedown. 2 ownership entries on the front flyleaf. Outer margin of the title thumbed and showing 2 minute tears. Paper in the gutter of the first and last 40 p. waterstained continuing and gradually disappearing halfway Note: This is a 'Variorum' edition of the 'Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI' nowadays referred to as 'Historia Augusta'. A 'Variorum' 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 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production 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. Such a plodder was the Dutch editor Cornelius Schrevelius who 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 raised at least 11 kids and fell in 1664 victim to the then raging plague. A.M. Coebergh van den Braak Meer dan zes eeuwen Leids Gymnasium Leiden 1988 p. 47/55; includes also his portrait. § This collection of 30 biographies of Roman emperors Caesars and usurpers was published for the first time in 1475. It formed part of a bigger collection of historical texts. The surviving 30 biographies were probably written between 293 and 330 A.D. They cover the period from Hadrian to Carinus roughly 117-284/85. The collection is one of the most debated and controversial sources for the history of the Roman empire. The historic value of the 30 biographies is diverse some seem to be trustworthy and offer useful information others seem to be fiction full of wondrous tales anecdotes and short stories. Some tend to having been written in the tradition of the ancient novel. The obvious falsification of sources and documents rendered the entire collection suspect. The French classical scholar Isaac Casaubon or Isaacus Casaubonus 1559 - 1619 was the first to publish the biographies written by the otherwise unknown authors Aelianus Spartianus Iulius Capitolinus Aelius Lampridius Vulcatius Gallicanus Trebellius Pollio & Flavius Vopiscus separately in 1603 under the title 'Historiae Augustae Scriptores Sex'. The first part contained the text the second the exhaustive commentary of Casaubon. Caution about the use of the 'Historia Augusta' was already made by Casaubon. 'He revealed some of their inconsistencies and improbable statements. He used considerations of style and content to argue that the works ascribed in the manuscripts to Aelius Spartianus Aelius Lampridius and Julius Capitolinus could more plausibly be ascribed to a single author'. A. Grafton 'Defenders of the text' Cambr. Mass. 1991 p. 148. 1611 saw a new edition of the text corrected by the classical scholar Janus Gruter 1560-1627. He lectured in Heidelberg where he was appointed librarian in 1602. For this new edition he used a manuscript from his employer's library the famous 'Bibliotheca Palatina'. He chose well for recent research revealed that this 'Codex Palatinus' was the parent manuscript of a number of other manuscripts. This 'Codex Palatinus' was also consulted by the French scholar Claude de Saumaise or Claudius Salmasius 1588 - 1653. His edition of 1620 follows the groundbreaking edition of Casaubon. He found that the manuscript from the Royal Library in Paris on which Casaubon had relied was inferior to the 'Codex Palatinus'. 'Salmasius Anmerkungen sind höchst schätzbar und erläutern die Sprache besonders aber die Sachen. Vorzüglichste Ausgabe dieser Schriftsteller'. Schweiger Provenance: On the front pastedown pasted an armorial bookplate of 'Lavington'. It depicts a dolphin between 2 wings. This bookplate must be connected with 'East Lavington House' residence of the Wilberforce family in West-Sussex. In this mansion was born in 1888 Octavia Wilberforce. She wanted a career in medicine but her parents were opposed to that idea. Her father became so angry at her decision that he cut her out of his will. She was qualified as a doctor in 1920. She campaigned for women's rights and in 1927 se set up a convalescent home at Backsettown for overworked professional women. Her biography was written by Pat Jalland. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwilberforce.htm § Below this bookplate the label 'From the Wilberforce library Backsettown'. § On the front flyleaf in ink 'Jo. Conant e Coll. Pemb. Oxon. 1723'. This is the Reverend John Conant Pembroke Hall Oxford MA 1730 vicar of Elmsted in Kent from 1736 till his death in 1779. He was born in 1706. www.thepeerage.com/p24720.htm § Below the name of the Reverend in ballpoint the name 'Lennart Hakanson' 1939-1987 professor of Latin at the university of Uppsala Collation: 4 A-3S8 3T4 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 130194

‎NEPOS‎

‎Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium Imperatorum cum notis selelectis Boecleri Bosii Buchneri Ernestii Gebhardi Heidmanni Lambini Loccenii Longolii Magii Ravii Savaronis Schefferi Schotti nec non excerptis P. Danielis. Hisce accedit locupletissimus omnium vocabulorum index studio & opera J.A. Bosii. Suas notas addidit Augustinus van Staveren. Editio altera longe auctior.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Sam. et Joan. Luchtmans 1773. 8vo. XXXII including frontispiece832176 index p.; text-illustrations on 11 p. Vellum 22 cm Ref: STCN ppn 238342476; Schweiger 2302: 'vielfach verbesserte und bereicherte Ausgabe'; Dibdin 2246: 'a very elaborate edition' 'It is in great repute'; Moss 2320; cf. Ernesti/Fabricius I107; Ebert 5273; Brunet 2289; Spoelder p. 490 Amsterdam 9 Details: Prize copy including the printed prize. Back gilt. 6 thongs laced through both joints. Boards with gilt borders gilt corner pieces and the gilt coat of arms of Amsterdam. Engraved frontispiece dated 1794 executed by J. Visscher. Engraved printer's mark on the title depicting Athena motto: 'Tuta sub Aegide Pallas'. Small text engravings portraits illustrations on 11 p. Condition: Vellum soiled. All 4 ties gone. Excellent paper Note: This is an edition with commentary of the only surviving complete work of the Roman historian Cornelius Nepos ca. 100-24 B.C. 'De excellentibus ducibus exterrarum gentium'. He is the author of the first surviving ancient collection of biographies. 'De excellentibus etc.' contains the lives of 20 Greek generals and the Carthaginians Hamilkar and Hannibal. The collection served probably as a model for Plutarch's 'Vitae Parallelae'. In his own days and in late antiquity Nepos was considered to be a source of importance. The churchfather Hieronymus included him in his 'De viris illustribus' 392 A.D. in his list of great authors and historians. Already in late antiquity this collection was ascribed to the grammarian Aemilius Probus and the 'editio princeps' of 1471 bears his Probus' name. The simple style of writing of Nepos has made him a standard choice for schools. The biographies provided the pupils also models of behaviour. Schweiger mentions numerous editions. This edition is a socalled 'Variorum' edition an edition which contained everthing a student required. Such an edition offers the 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. The Dutch schoolmaster who skillfully excerpted compared and contrasted the material of brighter minds is in this case Augstinus van Staveren 1704-1772 who was rector of the 'schola latina' at Leiden since 1750. Nevertheless he proudly announces in the preface that he also has consulted in his search for 'variantes lectiones' 4 manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden and the collations of 2 English manuscripts. This second edition of Van Staveren's Nepos was published posthumously. In the short 'dedicatio' to the second edition written by Carolus Antonius Wetstenius J.C. we read that Van Staveren who was already halfway asked him short before his death to complete the second corrected and augmented edition. Van Staveren whom he calls 'vir amicissimus' was once his teacher Westein tells us. Van Staveren had already skipped 'quaedam suaque non pauca' to prevent the book from being too overloaded. Van Staveren is known for this edition of Nepos which saw several later reissues and for his 'Auctores Mythographi Latini' which was published in 1742. Not much is known of Carolus Antonius Wetstein 1742-1797. He was a Leyden lawyer and also an accomplished Neolatin poet. Van der Aa 20159 The bibliographers donot mention his involvement in the editing of his teacher's Nepos. The frontispiece or rather the copper plate for this frontispiece has a story of almost 150 years. It was first used in 1658 then 1675 1687 1704 1705 1728 1734 this book of 1773 and finally in 1793 Provenance: The prize is for Henricus Oort: 'Ingenuo optimaeque spei adolescentulo Henrico Oort. Hoc virtutis ac diligentiae praemium in classe sexta nova decreverunt Ampliss. Dd. Coss. & Scholarchae Amstelaedamenses'. It is signed by the Rector R. van Ommeren 29th of March 1793. Young Henricus Oort 1778-1849 received this book also for his diligence. That is what he was diligent. He took holy orders in the 'Nederlandsch Hervormde Kerk' and worked tirelessly for his church. He was also a diligent member of all kind of Societies. Van der Aa 14142 Collation: -28 A-3R8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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