‎Collectibles‎

‎German Collectibles Nazi Propaganda‎

‎AUS DEUTSCHLANDS VOGELWELT.‎

‎Pages 69 pp.Oblong 4to. Paper cover embossed in gold. 1st edition. Tipped in color illustrations throughout. Complete set of illustrations of birds. Minor cover soil and wear foxing throughout. Very good condition. Berlin: Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld 1932. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23583

‎Mann Thomas Tomac Mahh‎

‎BRIEFE‎

‎Mockba. Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. Written in Russian. 463 pages. Light browning. Frontispiece is a photo of Thomas Mann 1937 . Mockba hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7629

‎Ahearn Patricia and Allen‎

‎"A Lovely Mellow copy" First Editions‎

‎Rockville MD: By the Authors Unpaginated an early book guide to book collecting no date- from the famous bookdealers. Prices are fairly dated. First Ed. Paper. Near Fine. Illus. by Ronald Searle. Book Collecting. By the Authors Paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 00005422

‎Wilkinson J. John G. Gardner Ownbership Signatures And Bookplates Of Henry Edward Bunbury‎

‎Manners And Customs Of The Ancient Egyptians Including Their Private Life Government Laws Arts Manufactures Religion And Early History; Derived From A Comparison Of The Paintings Sculptures And Monuments Still Existing With The Accounts Of Ancient Authors. Illustrated By Drawings Of Those Subjects.‎

‎London: John Murray 1837. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Three Volumes First Printings Original Greenish-Brown Cloth Gilt Yellow Endpapers. Well Preserved Gilt Brilliant Hinges Tight Wear At Corners With Splits To Cloth At A Few Corners. Armorial Bookplates Of Henry Edward Bunbury With His Ownership Signatures In Each Volume. Sir Henry Edward Bunbury Kcb 7Th Baronet 1778 - 1860 Was A British Soldier And Historian. Sir Henry Son Of The Famous Caricaturist Henry William Bunbury And Catherine Horneck Was Educated At Westminster And Served On Active Service In The Army From 1795-1809 Notably In The Anglo-Russian Invasion Of Holland In 1799 The Egyptian Campaign 1801 And The Campaigns In The Mediterranean Where Bunbury Served As Quartermaster-General. He Particularly Distinguished Himself At The Battle Of Maida In 1806. He Served As Under-Secretary Of State For War And The Colonies From 1809-16. He Was Promoted To The Rank Of Major-General And Appointed A Knight Commander Of The Order Of The Bath Kcb In 1815 And In The Same Year Was Responsible For Informing Napoleon Of His Sentence Of Deportation To St Helena. He Rose To The Rank Of Lieutenant-General. Bunbury Succeeded To The Baronetcy In 1821 On The Death Of His Uncle Thomas Charles Bunbury. He Was High Sheriff Of Suffolk In 1825 And An Active Member Of Parliament For Suffolk From 1830 To 1832. Bunbury Was The Author Of Historical Works The Most Notable Being His Military Memoirs Narratives Of Some Passages In The Great War With France First Published In 1854. "Henry Bunbury's Great War With France Is Perhaps The Most Valuable Record. Which Any Soldier Has Bequeathed To Us Of The Long Struggle That Began In 1793 And Ended In 1815. And It Derives Its Value From The Fact That The Author Was Not Only A Good Soldier Well Skilled In His Profession But That He Was As A Staff Officer Thrown With The Best British Commanders. Of His Day; That He Had Opportunities Of Discussing With Them Every Point Of Military Policy And The Details Of Many Important Campaigns; And That Further He Was A Highly Educated Gentleman With A Seeing Eye A Kindly Nature A Keen Sense Of The Ridiculous And A Very Real Literary Gift." Bunbury Married Louisa Amelia Fox On 4 April 1807. They Had Five Children. He Remarried Emily Napier Daughter Of Lady Sarah Lennox On 22 September 1830. The Eldest Son Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury Inherited His Title And Was A Well Known Naturalist. His Second Son Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury Also A Member Of Parliament Was Well Known As A Geographer And Archaeologist And Author Of A History Of Ancient Geography. Another Son Henry William St Pierre Bunbury Was An Explorer In Western Australia. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 044541

‎Hillerman Tony‎

‎The Spell of New Mexico. SIGNED By Tony Hillerman‎

‎Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9� - 12" tall. 8vo. 105 pages. Soft cover bound in blue wrappers. Light to moderate wear to the binding. Some of the laminate on the front cover is bubbling up near the fore edge. A sound copy and clean within. INSCRIBED by Tony Hillerman on the half title"To Barbara may you always walk in beauty. Tony Hillerman." The book is not signed by any other other contributors. <br/> <br/> University of New Mexico Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 041305 ISBN : 0826307760 9780826307767

‎Queen Victoria Edited By Arthur Christopher Benson And Viscount Esher‎

‎The Letters Of Queen Victoria; A Selection From Her Majesty's Correspondence. 1837-1861 Three Volumes Complete‎

‎New York: Longmans Green And Co. 1907. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Plates; Excellent Genealogical Tables. Three Volumes Complete. Red Cloth Stamped In Gilt And White Top Edges Gilt. Lightly Used Spines A Little Faded And Browned Small Frays At Lower Tips. Volume I: Hinge Partly Cracked Before Frontispiece; Rear Hinge Of Volume I And Both Hinges Of Volumes Ii And Iii Cracked And Repaired With Thin Clear Tape. <br/> <br/> Longmans, Green And Co. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 044552

‎Toole Stott Raymond‎

‎A Bibliography Of Books On The Circus In English From 1773 To 1964 FINE COPY OF UPDATED SECOND EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎Derby: Harpur 1964. Fine/Fine. Updated Second Edition in d/w price clipped. Red cloth lettered gilt on spine. A well-researched and authoritative bibliography of some 1100 circus books in English from 1773 to 1964. A fine copy in a fine d/w of the updated second edition. NO inscriptions underlinings or highlighting. Updated 1964 Second Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Harpur Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 18106

‎STATIUS. MORELLUS F.‎

‎In Papinii Surculi Statii Sylvas Fed. Morelli Profess. Regii commentationes et coniectanea. In his plerique graeci et latini auctores emendati & illustrati; Libanius praesertim cuius h�c 'anekdota' multa vulgantur ex Bibliotheca Reg. Corollarium observationum Frid. Tiliobrogae G. ad easdem Sylvas. Accesserunt indices authorum rerum & verborum.‎

‎Paris Lutetiae Apud Claudium Morellum Via Iacobaea ad insigne Fontis 1602. 4to. 20816 index p. Overlapping vellum 24 cm Ref: Schweiger 2971 Details: Red morocco gilt shield on the back. Boards ruled blind. Woodcut printer's vignette on the title depicting a 2 storey fountain the fountain of wisdom with a human figure standing in the highest basin who seems to pour water. Morel sometimes used for his editions the motto: 'H� sophias p�g� en bibliois rhei'. Woodcut initials Condition: Expertly rebacked with vellum in the 19th century. Vellum soiled. Head of the spine damaged. 19th century endpapers. Front joint beginning to split at the foot of the spine Note: His fluent and highly polished verse brought the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius ca. A.D. 45-96 to the court of the Roman emperor Domitianus. He is best known for his epic the 'Thebaid' which tells the story of the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Eteocles and Polynices contesting power over the city of Thebes. Statius' 'Silvae' is a collection of 32 occasional poems addressed to his friends celebrating their marriages etc.� The 'Thebaid' enjoyed widespread medieval interest. There are more than hundred manuscripts extant. 'Survival of the 'Silvae' has been more precarious apparantly dependent at one point on a single manuscript; the collection was rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini on one of his book-hunting expeditions in 1417. Some poems in the collection have nevertheless enjoyed a vigorous afterlife - especially 1.2 an epithalamium that outdoes its Catullan precedent with a florid and floral extravagance that sets a new standard for the genre. . It provided a template for a wide tradition of wedding poems in the 16th and 17th centuries. The name of the collection also captured the early modern imagination as we see for instance with Milton's 'Sylvarum liber' 1645 a selection of his Latin poems. When Ben Jonson included in his Works 1616 a collection of 15 poems named 'The Forest' he was bringing Statius' title into English'. The Classical Tradition Cambridge Massachusetts 2010 p. 908 � This commentary on the 'Silvae' of 1602 was produced by the French scholar/printer Federicus Morellus the Younger 1558-1630. His father Federic Morel the Elder as he always called himself not Frederic 1523-1583 was of noble descent and was appointed printer to the king typographus regius in 1571. His son Federic Morel the Younger was one of the greatest Greek scholars and patrologists of his time. In addition to the management of his father's business to which he succeeded in 1581 he held from 1586 the professorship of eloquence at the Coll�ge de France. His firm was located at the 'via Jacobaea' and he sometimes distinguished his title-pages with the mark of the fountain of wisdom insigne fontis. The number of his editions accompanied with learned notes and prefaces and of his translations of and commentaries on the Fathers and classical authors is considerable Aristotle Dio Chrysostomus Strabo Plutarch Maximus Tyrius Libanius Hierocles and Theodoretus. As a commentator he distinguished himself by his very learned notes on Libanius and on the 'Sylvae' of Statius which includes corrections and illustrations of various Greek and Latin authors. Federic Morel sometimes availed himself of the subsidiary press of his brother Claude Morel who published for him this Statius commentary of 1602. After 1602 Morel concentrated his attention on his scientific work. Claude used for this edition the address of his brother and his printer's mark 'insigne Fontis'. See: Encyclopedia Britannica 11th ed. and E. Greswell 'A View of the Early Parisian Greek Press' Oxford 1833 volume 2 p. 58/62 Provenance: 'Impressive Oxford provenance'. On the front pastedown a small paper label of 'John Sparrow'. On the flyleaf in ink: 'J.S. John Sparrow emptum apud Blackwell Jan. 1958'. The English scholar and book-collector John Sparrow 1906-1992 was Fellow 1929 and Warden 1952-1977 of All Souls College Oxford. � On the front pastedown also a faint and small stamp: 'F.W. Hall of St John's College Oxford'. Frederick William Hall was the President of St John's College Oxford from 1931 until his death in 1933. He is known to all classicists for his OCT edition of Aristophanes which he edited together with W.M.Geldart. � On the front flyleaf in ink also 'FWH to HWG Nov. 1910'. John Sparrow added in pencil an explanation: FWH is the above mentioned F.W. Hall and HWG is H.W. Garrod. Heathcote William Garrod 1878-1960 was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. He attended Balliol College Oxford and was appointed tutor at Corpus Christi College Oxford. He was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1923 to 1928. He is known among classicists for his Horace OCT and Statius edition. � On the front flyleaf also in ink: 'R.E. to F.H. Feb. 1898'. If we follow in the footsteps of Sparrow the Oxford lead further then 'F.H.' might well be Frederick Arthur Hirzel 1870-1913 the editor of a long superseded OCT edition of Vergil. He studied classics at Trinity College Oxford. In 1898 he was 28 years old and from 1895 Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford. The initials 'R.E.' might well be of the Corpus Professor of Latin Robinson Ellis 1834-1913 honorary Fellow of Trinity College Oxford from 1894. Ellis may have met the young scholar Hirzel at Trinity College. Collation: A-2E4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 140115

‎Smith Lee‎

‎Oral History. SIGNED‎

‎New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1983. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 286 pages. Hardcover with a tan dust jacket now in mylar. The jacket is not price-clipped and shows light wear although the headcap of the jacket spine is bumped. Prior owner's color mass-market bookplate is on the front pastedown. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page "For Meriel & George- / Lee Smith /3/15/90. <br/> <br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 041317 ISBN : 0399127941 9780399127946

‎Smith Lee‎

‎Something in the Wind. SIGNED‎

‎New York and Evanston: Harper & Row 1971. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 244 pages. Hardcover with an orange dust jacket now in mylar. The jacket is not price-clipped and generally shows light wear although there is a small tear and crease at the top edge of the rear panel. There is also a small brown spot on the bottom edge of the jacket's front panel as well as on the edge of binding beneath. The book is otherwise fresh and clean. Signed by the author on the title page. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. <br/> <br/> Harper & Row hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 041314

‎House Of Collectibles‎

‎The Official Price Guide to Antique and Modern Firearms 1985‎

‎Random House Information Group 1985. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Random House Information Group paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : G0876374836I3N00 ISBN : 0876374836 9780876374832

‎House Of Collectibles‎

‎The Official Price Guide to Antique and Modern Firearms 1985‎

‎Random House Information Group 1985. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Random House Information Group paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : G0876374836I5N00 ISBN : 0876374836 9780876374832

‎House of Collectibles‎

‎Off Black Bk Us Paper‎

‎House of Collectibles 1984. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. House of Collectibles paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : G0876374577I3N00 ISBN : 0876374577 9780876374573

‎HALL MC. VAN. M. C.‎

‎C.C. Plinius Secundus door Mr. M.C. van Hall. Nieuwe uitgave.‎

‎Amsterdam Johannes van der Hey 1819. IIVIII2033 p. Half calf 21.5 cm Prize copy including the prize see Spoelder Elburg p. 553. Historical novel Details: Back gilt. Marbled boards. Title engraved by R. Vinkeles on it we see a bearded Greek sitting on a kind of anachronistic Vienna-Thonet chair; he points at an almost completed statue; the sculptor hammer in hand stands beside him. The goddesses Athena and Artemis are looking on; this scene probably refers to a discussion in this novel about the art of sculpture and the use and abuse of statues p. 42/53. 7 text illustrations by Vinkeles. Marbled edges Condition: Binding slightly worn at the extremes Note: Mr. Maurits Cornelis van Hall 1768-1858 was a Dutch jurist and member of the anti-royalist patriotic society 'Concordia et Libertate'. He was a friend of the authors Wolff and Deken Loots Helmers Bilderdijk and Feith. Later in life this republican turned into a conservative. In 1842 he became a member of the First Chamber Senate of the Dutch parliament. His poetry is forgotten but he is remembered for his historical novels on Plinius Secundus 1809 and Valerius Messala Corvinus 1813. The attentive reading of the letters of Plinius Minor inspired him to write about a meeting of some friends of this noble Roman in the house of Calpurnia his widow where they discuss the merits of the deceased. Among them are Tacitus and Quintilianus. In a lively and entertaining way Van Hall offers a sketch of the cultural elite of the Roman Empire at the beginning of the second century A.D. � The novel was translated into French. This edition of 1819 is a reissue of the 1809 edition which was published by Johannes Allart at Amsterdam. The 1809 edition apparantly was not a great success for the unsold remainders came into the hands of 'Johannes van der Hey' who renewed only the title and brought the book on the market as a new edition nieuwe uitgave. We compared both editions and must conclude that the only difference is the imprint on the title page the rest is exactly the same. See for a review and a summary of this novel: 'Vaderlandsche letteroefeningen' Jaargang 1809 p. 553/557 � Van Hall published also some works on Dutch history of which the biography of the admiral Van Kinsbergen 'Het leven en karakter van den admiraal Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen' 1841 is of interest for this prize book. See the provenance here after Provenance: A printed prize only the name of the prize winner and the curator J. van Hall are in manuscript: 'Eereprijs van den Tweeden Rang door de Curatoren van het Instituut van opvoeding gesticht door wijlen Z. Exc. den Luit.-Admiraal J.H. van Kinsbergen toegekend aan H.J.A. Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt ter belooning van betoonde vlijt gedurende het schooljaar 1840 zigtbaar in de door hem gemaakte vorderingen in de Latijnsche Taal en het aantal teekenen van goedkeuring door hem verworven. Deze vereerende onderscheiding moge hem tot aanmoediging strekken om op den ingeslagen weg voort te gaan en door naarstigheid en beschaafdheid zich de achting van alle weldenkenden waardig te maken ten einde alzoo eenmaal als een nuttig burger in de Maatschappij op te treden. Elburg den 13 Juny 1840. Curatoren voorn. en uit derzelver naam J. van Hall. The prize was awarded to H.J.A. Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt. In 1866 we find him as Mr. H.J.A. Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt at the Court of Justice in The Hague. His function is 'subsituut officier'. Nieuwe Bijdragen voor Regtsgeleerheid en wetgeving' Amsterdam 1867 p. 442 The prize was handed over by Jacobus van Hall 1799-1859 the son of Maurits Cornelius van Hall the author of this prize book and who was like his father a jurist. In 1848 Jacobus was appointed professor of civil and commercial law at the University of Utrecht. He was also socially involved. He was curator of the 'Kinsbergen Institute' short for 'Instituut van opvoeding gesticht door wijlen Z. Exc. den Luit.-Admiraal J.H. van Kinsbergen'. Van Kinsbergen 1735-1819 entered into the service of the navy of Russia in 1771. There he earned fame in the war against the Turcs. He defeated an Ottoman fleet in 1773 sinking the flagship which feat gave him the Order of Saint George and the honorary title of 'Hero of the Black Sea'. After his return to the Netherlands he played an important role in the Fourth English-Dutch war of 1780-1784. He was after that hired by prince William the Fifth to reform the fleet. After the death of his wife he returned in 1796 to Elburg the city of his youth where he devoted himself to charity and the foundation in 1798 of a school for young man of the elite named after him. Van Kinsbergen is honoured with a tomb in the 'Nieuwe Kerk' at Amsterdam next to his example Michiel de Ruyter. But a more enduring monument than of marble and metal was erected by his friend M.C. van Hall who wrote Van Kinsbergen's biography. The school still exists Collation: pi1 4 A-N8 minus leaf N8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 151927

‎AUGUSTINUS ANTONIUS & FULVIUS URSINUS.‎

‎De romanorum gentibus et familiis Scriptores duo praestantissimi.‎

‎Lyon Lugduni Apud Franciscum Fabrum 1592. 8vo. VIII156 p. Calf 24 cm Ref: USTC 146263; Cicognara 3588 Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting a carpenter with hook and plumb line within an elaborate oval wreath; the motto suits the name of the printer Faber and is taken from Horace Epistulae 2116: 'tractant fabrilia fabri' Condition: Binding very scuffed and scratched. Corners bumped. Paper slightly yellowing. Title leaf browned. At the verso of the title has been pasted a bookplate resulting in some wrinkling and faint stains on the recto side Note: This book contains two works on Roman nobility both of eminent scholars praestantissimi scriptores. The first work is 'De familiis Romanorum liber singularis' p. 1-119 of the Spanish humanist historian and jurist Antonio Agust�n y Albanell latinized as Antonius Augustinus 1516-1586. The second work is 'Familiae Romanae nobiliores e Fulvii Ursini Commentariis' p. 120-156 of the Italian humanist scholar Fulvio Orsini or Fulvius Ursinus 1529-1600. This combination of works was previously published in Rome in 1577 as 'Familiae romanae quae reperiuntur in antiquis numismatibus ab Urbe condita ad tempora divi Augusti ex bibliotheca Fulvii Ursini. Adjunctis familiis 30 ex libro Antonii Augustini'. It was illustrated in folio and expensive. The 1577 edition offers Agust�n's description of 30 noble Roman families and their members. In this edition of 1592 the number of Roman families has been augmented and it now describes 45 families from the 'gens Acilia' to the 'gens Valesia'. Ursinus' contribution to the 1577 edition suffered a very different fate. Franciscus Faber the publisher of this 1592 edition explains in a short 'typographus lectori' that precedes the survey of Ursinus p. 120-156 that the original edition has become rare 'inventu difficile'. And as he was not able to publish a new complete edition of this 'opus perutile' he decided to offer his learned readers an excerpt from Ursinus' 'Catalogum & recensum familiarum Romanarum'. p. 120 Faber left out the numerous engravings of coins and medals with portraits and names of members of noble families which preceded each Roman family treated and truncated the accompanying text often only offering the introduction of the original. � Augustinus who was appointed archbishop of Tarragona in 1576 pioneered in the historical research of the sources of canon law. His friend Ursinus became librarian of 3 cardinals and was a great collector of manuscripts and books. He also brought together a large collection of sculpture busts gems inscriptions and coins. Sandys says of him that he 'was the centre of classical and antiquarian interest in Rome and there was hardly any edition of a Latin author published in his time to which he did not contribute readings from his store of MSS'. Sandys 2153 Provenance: On the verso of the title an engraved bookplate it is a coat of arms with a cow on the shield and a helmet on top. The coat of arms might be of a member of the Brabant family Vander Bempe Search in Google for 'Familiewapens Vandenbempt'. The Dutch word 'beemd' is in English 'meadow' � On the front pastedown in ink the small name of 'A. Garder' Collation: 4 A-G8 H-M4 N2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 140019

‎House of Collectibles‎

‎Off Pgt Antique Clocks‎

‎House of Collectibles 1984. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. House of Collectibles paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : G0876374208I5N00 ISBN : 0876374208 9780876374207

‎Cooksey Shugart; House of Collectibles Staff; Tom Engle‎

‎The Official Price Guide to Watches‎

‎Random House Publishing Group 1989. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Random House Publishing Group paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : G0876377797I3N00 ISBN : 0876377797 9780876377796

‎LYDUS JOHANNES LAURENTIUS.‎

‎Joannis Laurentii Lydi Philadelpheni De Magistratibus reipublicae romanae libri tres nunc primum in lucem editi et versione notis indicibusque aucti a Joanne Dominico Fuss. Praefatus est Carolus Benedictus HASE codd. graec. et lat. in Bibliotheca Imperiali Parisiensi sub conservatore custos.‎

‎Paris Parisiis Ex officina J.-M. Eberharti Collegii Imperialis Franciae Typographi 1812. 4to. VIIILXXXVII1 blank 316 p. Contemporary boards. 28 cm Ref: Hoffmann 2510 Laurentius; Brunet 3880; Graesse 4122; Ebert 12557 Details: 1 of the 100 quarto copies on wove paper and with broad margins. Gilt black shield on the back. Greek text with parallel Latin translation Condition: Binding scuffed. Back chafed and discoloured and slightly damaged at the head. 2 library bookplates on the front pastedown. Some slight foxing Note: Johannes Laurentius Lydus was born in 490 AD at Philadelphia in Lydia hence the cognomen Lydus. He came to Constantinople during the reign of the Emperor Anastasius ca. 510 to make a career in the central administration. For 40 year he was 'Praefectus Praetorio' for the greater part under the Emperor Justinian. The language of the administration of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire was still Latin at this time and Lydus repeatedly emphasizes his bilingualism in his surviving works which are written in ancient Greek. Ca. 543 he was appointed to the chair of Latin-rhetoric at the 'University' of Constantinople. In 552 Lydos retired. He died between 565 and 578. Among his lost literary works is a history of Justinian's campaign against the Persian Sassanids. His 3 surviving Greek works are not great literature but they throw light on Roman history and religion. 'De Ostentis' 'On Prodigies' is a treatise on all sorts of signs and and portents e.g. thunder and lightning and earthquakes compiled from ancient astrologic works. 'De Mensibus' is a compilation of material on the Roman calender and pagan festivals. His most important work is 'De Magistratibus reipublicae Romanae' on the civil service of the Roman empire. It offers valuable information concerning Roman burocracy up to Justinian. � These works were regarded as lost until we are told in the 'Prologus' the French scholar J.B.C. d'Ansse de Villoison discovered in 1784 on a visit to Constantinople a manuscript of it. The manuscript was thereupon presented by the Greek prince Constantine Morusi to Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier the French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Choiseul then lent the manuscript to the discoverer in order to publish it. Nothing came however of an edition because of turmoils of the French revolution regni Gallici eversione et subito casu quo Europa omnis contremit nullus Lydo locus superat and because of the premature and sudden death of Villoison in 1805. p. LXIII/IV Choiseul then directed the young scholar Carl Benedikt Hase in French Charles Beno�t Hase 1780-1864 to produce an edition. In 1801 Hase had travelled on foot to Paris where he began his studies Greek under Villoison who introduced him also into his literary circle. domum ejus frenquentavi . per aliquot annos continuos sermonum auditor. p. LXVI After the request of Choiseul Hase asked his friend the young scholar Dominicus Fuss 1782-1860 also of German origin who was fluent in Latin to make a transcription and a Latin translation cura describendi vertendique of 'De magistratibus'. Fuss also amended emendavit the Greek text. Hase himself wrote the 'Prologus' a learned dissertation on the times life and writings of Lydus. The edition was welcomed by the famous German ancient historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr as a new and rich source of Roman history. Hase who was appointed professor of Palaeography at the '�cole Royale' in 1816 devoted himself to Byzantine literature and history. In 1823 he produced an edition of Lydus' 'De ostentis' which is considered a masterpiece of textual criticism Provenance: Pictorial bookplate 'Ex libris Collegii Sanctae Mariae de Oscott' pasted on the front pastedown. Saint Mary's College at New Oscott Sutton Coldfield Birmingham often called Oscott College is the Roman Catholic seminary of the Archdiocese of Birmingham in England and one of the three seminaries of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. See for this huge college which was founded in 1794 Wikipedia's 'St Mary's College Oscott' Collation: pi4 a-k4 chi4 leaf chi4 verso blank 1-39/4 40/2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 95486

‎STEPHANUS HENRICUS.‎

‎De latinitate falso suspecta expostulatio Henrici Stephani. Lectori non metuenda in lat. metuenti./ Tu�ne pudore taces quia barbarus esse vereris/ Eia metum & linguam solue Latinus eris./ Eiusdem De Plauti Latinitate Dissertatio & ad lectionem illius Progymnasma.‎

‎N.pl. Geneva Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1576. Small 8vo. XVI400 p. Modern vellum 15 cm An attack on Ciceronianism the cult of the usage of Cicero as the only correct Latin Ref: GLN-2585; Schreiber Estiennes n� 198; Brunet 21079; Graesse 2507; Ebert 6974; Renouard p. 144: 15763 Details: Printer's Olive tree device of the Stephanus family on the title motto: 'Noli altum sapere' short for 'Noli altum sapere sed time' in English 'Donot be high-minded but fear'. Epistola Beati Pauli ad Romanos 1120 Edges dyed red Condition: Title slightly foxed; Old name on the title Note: De latinitate falso suspecta a work of the French printer/scholar Henri Estienne latinized as Henri Stephanus 1528/31 - 1598 is a treatise on the Latin language written four years after the Thesaurus Graecae linguae. 'This was an attack on Ciceronianism the cult of the usage of Cicero as the only correct Latin and as such it contributed to an argument that had been going on since the second half of the 15th century. Ciceronianism had its own dictionary that of Mario Nizzoli Nizolius which had first apeared as Observationes in Ciceronem in 1535 documenting approximately 20000 words; 50 or more further editions appeared under various titles in the next hundred years. . The Ciceronians Henri argued condemn certain Latin usages which they suppose to be modern Gallicisms. So for instance they censure the use of pausa supposing it to be a modern formation from French pause - but it is to be found in the ancient fragmentary poets Ennius and Lucilius; a number of examples of its use by Plautus are given in the Latinae linguae thesaurus; Robert Estienne's edition of Plautus contains others; and so on. The cumulative effect was not only to show the weaknesses of a Ciceronianism untempered with the knowledge of other Latin texts and particularly those written before the age of Cicero but also to show the numerous parallels between Latin and French usage. 'This work' as Feug�re pointed out 'might on account of the striking analogies between the two languages which it present also be called a Trait� de la conformit� du fran�ais avec le latin'. So it might; and that suggests a reorientation of Henri's thought. No longer was he observing only the analogies between Greek and French. Now he was seeing those beween Latin and French and more specifically between non-Ciceronian Latin and French. And these analogies he realized did indicate genealogical filiation. This struck him particularly as he wrote the treatise on Plautus' Latin usage which is appended to the De latinitate falso suspecta: after commenting on his own affection for Plautus he added: 'For sure it is fitting that the French love the Latinity of Plautus more than any other people do for in many respects his speech has greater affinity with theirs than with anyone else's'. Henri was developing the theory that French may be descended from archaic Latin and may preserve archaic features that had been rejected from formal written Latin by the time of Cicero'; a similar argument was being developed at the same time by the Italian grammarian Lodovico Castelvetro. Henri's argument was like Castelvetro's a development of that of the grammarian Jacques Dubois Jacobus Sylvius that French had along with some Greek and Hebrew loan elements a Latin basis that differed to some degree from classical written Latin - though Dubois did not go so far as to indentify this explicitly as vulgar Latin. Students of French antiquity such as Fran�ois Hotman proposed in the 1570s and 1580s that French was 'a mixed language resulting from the 'corruption' of Latin mixed with the language of the Gauls and then of the Franks. Henri's argument was more dramatic than theirs: he was not thinking in terms of corruption so much as of the continuation of a variety of Latin that had been spoken and written in the age of Plautus and had lived on as a spoken variety through the Golden Age and the fall of the Roman Empire. Had he ever written De latinitate prisca in which he announced his intention of treating Plautine Latin more fully he might have been able to pursue this point to good effect'. J. Considine 'Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage' Cambridge 2008 p. 63/65 Henri Estienne was indeed way ahead of his time with his suggestion of the existence of a 'sermo cotidianus' in colloquiis familiaribus' Praefatio p. 5 verso. Most Latin scholars of his time did not have an idea of what we understand today by Vulgar Latin. Scholars were imbibed by the artificial language of Latin literature the Latin of the Vulgate and the Church Fathers which one-sidedness prevented them to relate French words to Latin words and to see in Latin the starting-point for French. Classical scholarship had to wait about 150 years before a clear recognition of Vulgar Latin emerged Provenance: Name on the title: 'Goulley' Collation: 8 a-2B8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EURIPIDES.‎

‎EURIPIDOU PHOINISSAI. Euripidis tragoedia Phoenissae. Interpretationem addidit H. Grotii; Graeca castigavit e Mstis atque adnotationibus instruxit scholia partim nunc primum evulgata subiecit Ludovicus Casp. Valckenaer.‎

‎Franeker Franequerae Typis et sumptibus Iacobi Brouwer 1755. 4to. XXIV83119 index p. Half calf 22.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 151473129; Hoffmann 276/77; Schweiger I119; Brunet 21106; Dibdin I545; Moss 1424; Graesse 2523: '�dition excellente'; Ebert 7102 Details: Back with 5 raised bands and a brown morocco lettershield; margins uncut. � Greek text with facing Latin translation commentary in two columns on the lower half of the page; p. 561-815 contain the scholia to the 'Phoenissae' accompanied by Latin commentary; at the end 14 p. 'Prolegomena' to the 'Phoenissae' by Hugo Grotius Condition: Back rubbed; head of spine slightly chafed; paper on covers somewhat scuffed Note: 'With Sophokles Greek tragedy reaches its culmination. Euripides great poet though he was represents the first symptom of the inevitable decline for in him we can recognize a certain impatience with the form he found ready to his hand'. This is how H.J. Rose started his chapter on the Greek tragedian Euripides ca. 480-406 B.C. some 80 years ago. H.J. Rose 'A history of Greek literature' 4th ed. London 1965 p. 177 first published in 1934 That opinion has now been superseded. Euripides' play 'The Bacchae' which drew little attention before 1900 'has come to seem one of the defining models of Greek tragedy and even of tragedy itself rivalling Aeschylus' Oresteia and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone'. The Classical Tradition Cambridge Mass. 2010 p. 347 For this Euripides has to thank the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The upsurge was caused by his 'Die Geburt der Trag�die aus dem Geiste der Musik' 1872 in which he drew attention to the idea of 'the Dionysiac' a key element in the Bacchae. This idea 'has had a massive influence not only on understandings of tragedy but on theories of theatrical performances itself'. Idem ibidem � Euripides' play Phoenissae 'is a complex but well-organized dramatic structure. It does not concentrate solely on the strife and death of the sons of Oedipus as the play's severest critics expected and demanded that it should. Rather it engages a whole ensemble of figures from the families of Oedipus and Creon in exploring themes of selfishness and blindness familial disaster familial loyalty political duties and loyalties divine-human interaction and the lability of human wisdom'. D.J. Mastronarde 'Phoenissae' Cambridge 1994 p. 3/4 � 'Of all the editions of the Phoenissae in reference to critical apparatus the present of 1755 is the most copious and valuable. The version is that of Grotius. MSS. have been consulted; annotations are subjoined. The scholia of which part appears for the first time added; and the whole volume is enriched by every thing which can render it most acceptable to a critical student. . a volume on all accounts deserving of strong recommendation'. Dibdin � The Frisian scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer latinized Ludovicus Casparus Valckenarius 1715-1785 was a pupil of his Tiberius Hemsterhuis a Frisian too and after him the greatest Dutch classical scholar of the 18th century. Hemsterhuis was professor of Greek at the University of Franeker from 1717 till 1740 and from 1740 till 1765 at the University of Leiden. Hemsterhuis was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism the so-called 'Schola Hemsterhusiana' which had in Valckenaer its best known disciple. Valckenaer studied Greek in Franeker under Hemsterhuis and succeeded to his chair in 1741. In 1765 he left for Leiden once again as successor of his beloved teacher. Both created a golden age of Greek studies in the Netherlands. Still a student he edited a Greek lexicon of the grammarian Ammonius 'De adfinium vocabulorum Differentia' Leiden 1739. In Franeker he produced a revised and augmented edition of Fulvio Orsini's 'Virgilius illustratus' Leeuwarden 1747. This title is important for the history of scholarship for its inclusion of the text of the 22nd book of the Iliad of Homer accompanied by an introduction 'variae lectiones' and the 'editio princeps' of scholia of Porphyrius and other hellenistic and byzantine scholars. In 1755 Valckenaer published this Phoenissae edition with his rich commentary and a Latin translation by Hugo Grotius. Among his best works are two other Euripides editions 'Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias' Leiden 1767 and 'Euripidis tragoedia Hippolytus' Leiden 1768. Valckenaer also produced editions of the Idylls of Theocritus Leiden 1773 and of the complete works of bucolic poets Theocritus Bion and Moschus Leiden & Kampen 1779. His Callimachus was published posthumously by J. Luzac in Leiden in 1799 Provenance: On the front flyleaf: 'J.P. Ott 1825'. Collation: pi2 -24; 32 A-4D4 4E2 4F-5P4 minus blank leaf 5P4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎CAESAR.‎

‎C. Julii Caesaris De Bellis Gallico et Civili Pompejano necnon A. Hirtii aliorumque de Bellis Alexandrino Africano et Hispaniensi Commentarii ad MSStorum fidem expressi cum integris notis Dionysii Vossii Joannis Davisii et Samuelis Clarkii. Cura et studio Francisci Oudendorpii qui suas animadversiones ac varias lectiones adjecit.‎

‎Leiden Lugd. Bat. Apud Samuelem Luchtmans Rotterdam Rotterodami Apud Johannem Danielem Beman 1737. 4to. 2 volumes in 1: XXVIII including a frontispiece103533 index p. portrait of Caesar 3 folding maps and 10 folding plates. Calf 25 cm. <Fundamental> Ref: STCN ppn 189161027; Neue Pauly Suppl. 2 p. 129; Schweiger 246/47; Dibdin 1363: 'An admirable and truly critical edition'; Brunet 11456/57; Moss 1236; Fabricius/Ernesti 1264; Graesse 28; Ebert 3282; Spoelder p. 642/43 Middelburg 4 Details: Prize copy without the prize. Backstrip adorned by gilt rolls. Red morocco shield in the 'second compartment'. Boards with gilt palmette borders and the gilt coat of arms of Middelburg in the center. The allegoric frontispiece is designed and executed by F. van Bleyswyck in the middle a kind of monument with the portrait of Caesar; in front of this monument sit 2 women one of them is winged; they hold between them broken shackles; right of the portrait a winged male with a flame on his head holding a roll with a floor plan and also 2 women one of them is holding a pyramide in her right arm and a crown in her right hand; this crown hovers above the head of Caesar; another woman who holds a 'cornu copiae' flings coins; above this scene Fama who blows her trumpet. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut Luchtmans's printer's mark on the title motto 'Tuta sub Aegide Pallas'. A map of the Roman empire Gallia and Hispania Condition: Binding worn at the extremities. Back scuffed boards scrathed corners bumped. Wear to the front joint which is splitting near the head and tail. New endpapers. Bookplate on the front flyleaf. Right lower corner of ca. 12 p. slightly waterstained. Paper of the same corner partly slightly warped Note: Throughout the 17th and 18th century in Europe the Roman historian Julius Caesar 100-44 B.C. remained central to the education of the sons of the elite who trained for public life. He figured as an exemplary military leader. The politician and then tyrant Caesar enjoyed popularity but was however also controversial in Europe that was torn apart by bloody religious and civil wars. His dictatorship remained problematic though some justified his usurpation of power as the only way out of turmoils of the Roman republic. � This solid and valuable edition of 1737 comprehending the commentaries of Vossius Davis and Clarke is a great step forward for the text of Caesar. It was produced by the Dutch classical scholar Franciscus Oudendorp 1696-1761 and immediately eclipsed all preceding editions. Oudendorp was according to Sandys the last of the great latinists of his age. For the last 20 years of his life he was professor of Eloquence Latin and History at the University of Leiden. He published also indispensable editions of Apuleius and Lucan. 'His 1737 edition of Caesar reveals a concern hitherto almost unknown with the collecting and sifting of large numbers of variants. He drew up a list of some forty codices that had been consulted either by him or by others at his request. . Oudendorp made a valiant attempt to cope with many manuscripts his being the first serious attempt at 'recensio'. Oudendorp's edition was so authoritative and had such an impact that for over a hundred years few scholars dared to tread in the same path'. V. Brown 'The Textual Transmission of Caesar's Civil War' Leiden 1972 p. 5 This period came to an end in 1847 with the first modern critical edition of Karl Nipperdey Provenance: Armorial bookplate of 'Van der Veen Hondius' on the front flyleaf. Janna Carla van der Veen- Hondius who died in 2010 in Oostkapelle Zeeland at the age of 81 was an honorary member of the Koninklijk Zeeuws Genootschap der Wetenschappen. She and her husband Pieter were the owners of the mansion Duinbeek at Ooskapelle Collation: pi1 frontispiece 4 minus leaf 4; 2-34 42; A-3S4 3T4 3T2 chi1 = title page volume 2 3V-4C4 4D4 plusminus 4D4 4E-4P4 4Q4 plusminus 4Q2 4R-6S4 6T2 Our copy has 2 cancels and a title to the second volume that the STCN copy does not mention Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎EURIPIDES.‎

‎Euripidou trag�di�n hosa s�zontai. Euripidis tragoediae quae extant. Cum Latina Gulielmi Canteri interpretatione. . Scholia doctorum virorum in septem Euripidis tragoedias ex antiquis exemplaribus ab Arsenio Monembasiae archiepiscopo collecta.‎

‎No place Geneva Excudebat Paulus Stephanus 1602. 4to. 2 volumes: XII7471 blank;136;215;1 blank311 blank20 index; 8462 blank p. Overlapping vellum 25 cm Ref: Renouard p. 196 no. 11; Hoffmann 269; Dibdin 1529/30: 'once a celebrated edition' 'perhaps superior to all that have preceded it'; Moss 2417; Ebert 7080; Brunet 2 1096/97 Details: Blind ruled double fillet borders on the boards. Short title in ink on the back. Printer's Olive tree device of the Stephanus family on the title motto: 'Noli altum sapere' short for 'Noli altum sapere sed time" in Greek 'm� hups�lophronei alla phobou' or in English 'Donot be high-minded but fear'. Epistola Beati Pauli ad Romanos 1120 Woodcut headpieces and initials. Edges dyed red. The edition is divided into 3 parts of which the first 2 have been bound in volume one and the third in volume two; the first part 747 pages contains the Greek text and Latin translation of the seven first plays accompanied by the scholia as collated by Arsenius. The second part a commentary part contains 136 pages commentary on the tragedies by Johannes Brodaeus Turonenis and 215 pages commentary by Casparus Stiblinus. 11 pages with notes of Willem Canter and 20 pages filled with notes of Aemilius Portus; at the end an index of 20 p. The third part 846 pages contains the remaining 12 plays and fragments of the Dana� in Greek and in Latin Condition: Vellum age-tanned and slightly soiled. 4 thongs on each of the joints worn away. Front joint of the first volume split. Rear joint of this volume partly split. The back of the first volume has apparantly been repaired with glue. Some damage at the tail of the spine of the first volume has been repaired with paper. Both ties of both volumes gone. Wee hole in the vellum overlap of volume 2. Library stamp on the title. Some pinpoint wormholes in the blank upper margin of the last third of the first volume never reaching any text. Pinpoint wormhole in the blank lower margin of the second volume also not touching text. Endpapers renewed. Paper yellowed Note: The Greek tragedian Euripides ca. 485-406 B.C. wrote 92 plays of which some 80 titles are known. In his plays one experiences the follies and sufferings of mankind. In late antiquity or early Byzantine times a selection of 9 plays was made for educational use. This school selection survived with the scholia i.e. marginal notes and comments explanations of difficult passages or words analyses of metre etc. made by Alexandrian and Byzantine critics. The 10 others plays have been transmitted without their scholia. The scholia on the 'Byzantine triad' a narrower selection of three plays out of the nine of the school selection the Orestes Hecuba and Phoenissae are the most extensive. This collection of three was probably made in the 14th century. By far the most Euripidean manuscripts contain only these three plays. Less but still substantial scholia were transmitted on the Medea Hippolytus Alcestis Andromache Rhesus and Troades. In this 1602 edition we find only 7 plays accompanied by scholia: Hecuba Orestes Phoenissae Medea Hippolytus Alcestis Andromache. In 1602 only the scholia on these 7 plays were known. These scholia were first published in Basel in 1534 by the Greek scholar Arsenius Apostolius bishop of Monemvasia ca. 1468 - 1538 as 'Scholia t�n panu dokim�n eis hepta trag�dias tou Euripidou'. The scholia on the Troades and Rhesus were first published centuries later by L. Dindorf in 1821. The second volume of this 1602 edition contains the rest of the surviving plays. The title page promises a translation into Latin of the Dutch scholar Willem Canter of Utrecht 1542-1575 who spent the major part of his short life specializing in Greek tragedy. Canter published a new ground-breaking Greek edition of Euripides in 1571 but he however never translated the tragedies. How this misunderstanding originated is explained by J.A. Gruys in 'The early printed editions 1518-1664 of Aeschylus' N.pl. 1981. '1. On the title page of the edition of P. Stephanus 1602 is printed 'Cum latina Gulielmi Canteri interpretatione'. 2. On the title page of the edition of H. Commelinus 1597 which contains the same translation are the words: 'Latinam interpretationem M. Aemilius Portus F.P.C.F. passim ita correxit et expolivit ut nova facie nitidoque cultu nunc primum in lucem prodeat' immediately followed by 'Carminum ratio ex Gul. Cantero diligenter observata'. Gruys p. 115/116 The publisher Paulus Stephanus must have misread this title. So this so-called Latin translation of Canter is in reality a translation which was revised and updated by the professor of Greek at Heidelberg the son of a Cretan Greek Aemilius Portus 1550-1640. Ebert and Dibdin report that Portus corrected the Latin translation of one Dorotheus Camillus perhaps a pseudonym which was first published in Basel in 1541. Gruys however argues that Portus used a translation of Philipp Melanchton 1497-1560. This Latin translation was published anonymously by the Basel printer Oporinus in 1558. Some among whom Gruys ascribe it to Melanchthon. The commentary part of this 1602 edition begins with 136 pages notes of the French scholar Johannes Brodaeus Turonenis ca. 1500-1565 then follow 215 pages with notes made by the German humanist Gasparus Stiblinus 1526-1562 who produced an Euripides edition with a Latin translation of his own and notes in 1562. Portus might also have used his translation. This commentary part ends with 11 pages filled with useful critical notes of Willem Canter and 20 pages filled with the notes of Aemilius Portus Collation: Volume 1: q4 2q2; A-5A4. 5B2 leaf 5B2 verso blank a-r4 A-2D4 leaf 2D4 verso blank - 44 leaf 44 verso blank; -24 3 Volume 2: a- 5o-4 leaf 5o4 blank Photographs on request Heavy set may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎ARISTOTELES.‎

‎ARISTOTELOUS PHUSIK�S AKROASE�S BIBLIA TH'. Aristotelis Stagiritae Peripateticorum Principis Naturalis auscultationis libri VIII. Jul. Pacius a Beriga cum Graecis excusis quam scriptis codicibus accurate contulit Latina interpretatione auxit & commentariis analyticis illustravit. Adiectus est geminus index: alter librorum tractatuum & capitum: alter rerum & verborum in toto opere memorabilium.‎

‎Frankfurt Francofurti Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli Claudium Marnium & Iohannem Aubrium 1596. 8vo. XXIV992 recte 984 p. Vellum. 17 cm. <Important edition of the Physics one of Aristotle's principal works> Ref: VD16 A 3554; Hoffmann 1286: 'Durch d. Vergleich v. Heidelb. Mss. hat d. Ausg. krit. Werth'; Cranz 'A bibliography of Aristotle editions 1501-1600' no. 108.745'; cf. Neue Pauly Supplementband 2 p. 73 where Pacius' edition of the complete Aristotle Geneva 1597 is mentioned Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints 2 of them are broken. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting the winged horse Pegasus gracefully arched over a caduceus and 2 intertwined cornucopiae. Edges dyed gray/blue. The Greek text and the opposing Latin translation the first 336 pages are printed in 2 columns Condition: Vellum scuffed spotted and worn to the extremes. Upper joint split for the greater part. Back somewhat damaged. Occasional contemporary ink underlinings & annotations.Note: 'The influence of Aristotle 384-322 BC on Western intellectual life is immense so much so that once one begins to track it no field of inquiry can be identified that it would be safe to overlook. Aristotle laid the foundations for not one but two sciences logic and biology an achievement unmatched by any thinker before or since'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 70 For centuries his authority was so great that it prevented the further development of some of the sciences e.g. astronomy. A.E. Taylor who thought that the qualifications of Aristotle as a man of science have been much overrated argues that Aristotle's ascendancy over thought in certain areas biology astronomy is to be regretted on account of his physical doctrines. The early 17th century English philosopher Francis Bacon found the veneration for Aristotle one of the chief hindrances to the free development of natural science. A.E. Taylor 'Aristotle' N.Y. 1955 p. 61/62 Nevertheless the Phusik�s akroase�s or Naturalis auscultatio nowadays known as the Physics or Physica is one of the most important works of Aristotle. The title Physics is misleading to a modern reader 'as a matter of fact the ancient name for it is phusik�s akr�asis' i.e. Lectures literally 'hearing' on Nature. It discusses not such laws as are generally studied by a modern physicist but rather the fundamental ideas of matter motion and so forth leading up to the famous conception of God as the ummoved mover of the whole'. H.J. Rose 'A History of Greek Literature London 1965 p. 274/75 � This 1596 edition of Aristotle's Physics was produced by the Italian Aristotelian scholar Julius Pacius a Berige or in Italian Giulio Pace de Beriga 1550-1635. He had protestant sympathies and had to flee to Geneva. He was an itinerant scholar he was professor in Geneva from 1575 to 1585. He taught law at the University of Heidelberg from 1585 to 1595. Later we find him teaching Greek and law at the Academy of Sedan the Universities of Nimes Leiden Grenoble Montpelliere Valence and finally at Padua. Pacius showed a humanist's concern for the accurate establishment of the Greek texts and their accurate translation into Latin. He was the editor translator and commentator of Aristotle's Organon 1584 1585 1591 1597 Wechel at Frankfurt 1598 1605 1617 1682 one of the most widely used editions of his time. His edition of the Phusik�s akroase�s of 1596 was repeated in 1608 and in 1629. Pacius who was a jurist too edited also the Corpus Juris which was reissued several times. J. Berriat-Saint-Prix 'Notice sur Julius Pacius a Beriga jurisconsulte et philosophe des XVIe et XVIIe si�cles' Paris 1840; easier but much shorter Pacius' lemma in Wikipedia Provenance: Two bookplates and a small inscription on the front pastedown which belong together. The first is an armorial bookplate: 'Ex libris Hans Schless'. The second bookplate: 'Ex libris D.F.' It depicts some pharmacist's paraphanalia. The inscription on the pastedown below these two bookplates explains it all: 'Skaenket Dansk Farmaceutforening Bibliotek af Hans Schlesch 8 III 1955'. This book was donated to the Library of the Danish Union of Pharmacists D.F. by Hans Schlesch in March 1955. Dr. Hans Schlesch 1891-1962 was a Danish malacologist and shell-collector of worldfame. He wrote numerous articles. � On the front flyleaf the name: 'G.L. Buhrke 1828'. � On the title the ownership inscription: 'Joannes Stille comparavi Brunsvigae anno 1644'. Not much is known about this Johannes Stille. The most substantial is perhaps the mentioning of him if it is him in a history of the University of Rindeln. Here it is told that he died in 1660 and that he was a member of 'philosophische Fakult�t welche als eine Vorschule der Theologie mit Recht betrachtet wurde'. F.K.Th. Piderit 'Geschichte der Hessisch-Schaumburgischen Universit�t Rinteln' Marburg 1842 Perhaps the same Stille produced in 1646 in Helmstedt this dissertation: 'Disputatio philosophica continens quaestiones miscellaneas quam dirigente divino numine sub prae-sidio viri clarissimi & excellentissimi Dn. M. Johannis � Felden math. P. P. examinandam proponit Johannes Stille Hannoveranus'. One Johannes Stille studied some time in Leiden; in the Album Studiosorum of that University it is recorded that he was born in 1622 Collation: 4 8 A-2P8 2Q4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎OPUSCULA MYTHOLOGICA PHYSICA ET ETHICA.‎

‎Graece et latine. Edita per Thomas Gale.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Henricum Wetstenium 1688. 8vo. XXIV including frontispiece7528 index p. Calf 21 cm. 'Prize copy' Ref: STCN 842221603; Willems p. XCIII Rahir 2861; Hoffmann 3367 & 32 & 336 & 395 & 3331 & 3345 et alibi; Brunet 4198: 'bonne �dition'; Graesse 531; Ebert 8053; this kind of prize not in Spoelder Haarlem Details: Prize copy including the printed prize. Texts printed in 2 columns Greek text with opposing Latin translation. Back ruled gilt red shield in 'second compartment'. Boards with gilt floral borders. The frontispiece by G. de Lairesse depicts a seated woman who is writing in a book; she might be Erato the Muse of epic poetry but also of philosophy. Behind her stands a half naked woman holding a palm leaf; a small radiant new moon rises just above her head; she is probably Iuno; she stands before a statue of Artemis of Ephese; in her left hand Iuno holds an oval shield with a kind of Botticelli scene of the birth of Venus; in the background at the right Helios is performing a sunrise with his chariot four in hand and at the left his sister Selene/Luna who rides in her chariot through the sky passing the crescent moon. Title printed in red and black. The publisher Wetstenius adorned the title with the Elzevier woodcut device of Minerva motto: 'Ne extra oleas'. He acquired this device after the death of Daniel Elzevier and used it in only 3 editions. Condition: Back rubbed. Red label slightly damaged. One of the four green silk fastening ties is still complete the other 3 are almost gone Note: This book contains: Palaephatus 'De incredibilibus historiis'; Heraclitus 'De incredibilibus'; 'Anonymi longe Heraclito recentioris De incredibilibus'; Eratosthenes 'Catasterismi'; Phurnutus 'De natura Deorum commentarius'; Sallustius Philosophus 'De Diis et Mundo'; 'Homeri poetae vita'; Heraclides Ponticus 'Allegoriae Homeri'; Ocellus Lucanus Philosophus 'De Universi Natura'; Timaeus Locrus 'De anima mundi en natura'; Theophrastus 'Notationes morum' Characters; Demophilus 'Similitudines seu Vitae curatio ex Pythagoreis'; Democrates Philosophus 'Aurea Sententiae'; Secundus Atheniensis 'Sophistae Sententiae'; Sextus Pythagoreus 'Sententiae'; 'Ex quorundam Pythagoreorum libris fragmenta in quibus de Philosophia Morali agitur'. � The dedication and preface are by the English classical scholar antiquarian and cleric Thomas Gale ca. 1635-1702 Regius professor of Greek in Cambrige from 1666 till 1672. This anthology of mythographical texts of 1688 is the revised en augmented edition of the edition that was first published in Cambridge in 1671. The collection reveals according to Gale the truth of religion by means of stories fables and parables and consists of reprints of earlier editions with an occasional preface and improvement by Gale. Gale was not a great scholar or a textual critic with fresh ideas. 'In his Opuscula Mythologica Ethica et Physica' 1671 he puts on record a revealing description of what might be called 'vulgate editing' at the end of his preface which for its na�vet� is worth citing. ''In printing all these texts we have closely followed editions published earlier; textual errors with some minor exceptions we have allowed to remain and we have not concealed the absurdities found in the manuscripts which you kind reader may be better able to remove" '. C.O. Brink 'English Classical Scholarship' Cambridge New York 1985 p. 18 Gale produced also editions of Herodotus and Cicero and the 'editio princeps' of 'De Mysteriis' of Iamblichus Provenance: The printed prize was awarded to 'A. de Pecker' for his industry by the 'Schola Harlemo-Batava' on the occasion of his promotion to the second class. The date of the prize is 21 Dec. 1847 and it is signed by the 4 members of the prize committee among whom the 'Gymn. Rector' Jacobus Venhuizen Peerlkamp. At the head of the prize the coat of arms of Haarlem. The name of this diligent boy Abraham de Pecker occurs on the list of 'Predikanten van de Hervormde Gemeente Gorinchem opgericht in 1566'. He was a minister of this protestant church from 1860 till his death on 20-02-1916. He was born in 1831 in Bloemendaal near Haarlem and studied theology in Leiden. He was a protestant 'modernist' which was not easy in that time. An article on Pecker's difficult time in Gorichem can be found on the website of the 'Historische Vereninging Oud-Gorcum'. A picture of him can be found on the website 'Geheugen van Nederland' 'Memory of the Netherlands' Collation: 8 24; A-3A8 3B4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EURIPIDES.‎

‎EURIPIDOU HIPPOLUTOS. Euripidis tragoedia Hippolytus quam Latino carmine conversam a Georgio Ratallero adnotationibus instruxit Ludov. Casp. Valckenaer. Bound with: Lud. Casp. Valckenari Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud Ioann. Luzac & Ioann. Le Mair 1767 - 1768. 4to. 2 volumes in 1: XXVIII322XVIII;VIII312 p. Vellum 26 cm Ref: Hoffmann 278; Moss 1425: 'A very elegant and excellent edition containing a very correct text'; Dibdin 1548/49: 'It is a perfect specimen of careful research acute emendation and copious illustration'; Brunet 21104: '�dition tr�s recherch�e'; Graesse 2522; Ebert 7107; Spoelder p. 684 Utrecht 4; Ad 1: STCN 238032841; Ad 2: STCN 23803271X; Hoffmann 297 Details: Prize copy Utrecht without the prize. Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Boards with gilt borders and the gilt coat of arms of Utrecht within a gilt rectangle Condition: Vellum very slightly soiled. The prize has been removed. All 4 decorative fastening ribbons gone. Front starting to split only at the foot of the spine for a few centimeters. Nice clean copy Note: 'With Sophokles Greek tragedy reaches its culmination. Euripides great poet though he was represents the first symptom of the inevitable decline for in him we can recognize a certain impatience with the form he found ready to his hand'. This is how H.J. Rose started his chapter on Greek the tragedian Euripides ca. 480-406 B.C. some 80 years ago. H.J. Rose 'A history of Greek literature' 4th ed. London 1965 p. 177 first published in 1934 That opinion has now been superseded. Euripides' play 'The Bacchae' which drew little attention before 1900 'has come to seem one of the defining models of Greek tragedy and even of tragedy itself rivalling Aeschylus' Oresteia and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone'. The Classical Tradition Cambridge Mass. 2010 p. 347 For this Euripides has to thank the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The upsurge was caused by his 'Die Geburt der Trag�die aus dem Geiste der Musik' 1872 in which he drew attention to the idea of 'the Dionysiac' a key element in the Bacchae. This idea 'has had a massive influence not only on understandings of tragedy but on theories of theatrical performances itself'. Idem ibidem � The Frisian scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer latinized Ludovicus Casparus Valckenarius 1715-1785 who produced this Hippolytus edition was a pupil of Tiberius Hemsterhuis a Frisian too and after him the greatest Dutch classical scholar of the 18th century. Hemsterhuis was professor of Greek at the University of Franeker from 1717 till 1740 and from 1740 till 1765 at the University of Leiden. Hemsterhuis was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism the so-called 'Schola Hemsterhusiana' which had in Valckenaer its best known disciple. Valckenaer studied Greek in Franeker under Hemsterhuis and succeeded to his chair in 1741. In 1765 he left for Leiden once again as successor of his beloved teacher. Both created a golden age of Greek studies in the Netherlands. Still a student he edited a Greek lexicon of the grammarian Ammonius 'De adfinium vocabulorum Differentia' Leiden 1739. In Franeker he produced a revised and augmented edition of Fulvio Orsini's 'Virgilius illustratus' Leeuwarden 1747. This title is important for the history of scholarship for its inclusion of the text of the 22nd book of the Iliad of Homer accompanied by an introduction 'variae lectiones' and the 'editio princeps' of scholia of Porphyrius and other hellenistic and byzantine scholars. In 1755 Valckenaer published an edition of Euripides' 'Phoenissae' with his rich commentary and a Latin translation by Hugo Grotius. Among his best works are two other Euripides editions this Hippolytus edition of 1768 and his 'Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias' of 1767. Valckenaer also produced editions of the Idylls of Theocritus Leiden 1773 and of the complete works of bucolic poets Theocritus Bion and Moschus Leiden & Kampen 1779. His Callimachus was published posthumously by J. Luzac in Leiden in 1799. � In the introduction to the Hippolytus edition Valckenaer follows the opinion of Longinus who thought that Euripides was not inferior to Sophocles and that he had been 'felicissimus' in the poetic expression of the 'mentis concitatae pertubationis furore atque amore'. Praefatio p. IX Valckenaer's notes are not printed below the text but fill the pages 159-322. Valckenaer's Hippolytus edition is usually accompanied by his 'Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias' which was published one year earlier 1767. In it Valckenaer discusses the fragments of the lost plays of Euripides. This treasure of erudition found in the Hippolytus and the Diatribe and in the Phoenissae contributed decisivily to attract the attention of scholarship to Euripides. Valckenaer is considered one of the best commentators of Euripides Collation: Ad 1: -34 42; A-T4 V-X2 Y-2V4 2X2. Ad 2: 4 A-2Q4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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