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‎Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery‎

‎PITT TWELVE ENGLISH STATESMEN‎

‎Macmillan 1908. Hardcover. Used; Good. No dust jacket. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #1402383</p> Macmillan hardcover‎

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‎Paul Townend‎

‎Book of wonders Modern world series‎

‎S. Low Marston 1950. Hardcover. Used; Acceptable. No dust jacket. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #1246919</p> S. Low, Marston hardcover‎

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‎Berington‎

‎Different like a zoo‎

‎Palladium 1949. Hardcover. Used; Acceptable. Foxing to dust jacket. Tanning throughout. Small tears to dust jacket. Structurally sound. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #1247479</p> Palladium hardcover‎

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‎M. Pitre chevalier‎

‎BRETAGNE MODERNE‎

‎DIDIER ET CIE LIBRAIRES EDITEURS 1860. Hardcover. Used; Good. text in French Nouvelle edition refondue par L'auteur illustrations par T. Johannot A. Leleux O. Penguilly Rouargue etc. 582 pages. No dust jacket. gilt titled spine covers good foxing throughout boards good blue cloth illustrated frontispiece illustrated in black & white colour plates black & white plates ex-libris with a book plate on inside of front cover covers with minor shelf wear. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #1494011</p> DIDIER ET CIE, LIBRAIRES EDITEURS hardcover‎

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‎Richard Hardi Davis‎

‎Notes of a War Correspondent‎

‎Charles Scribners Sons Ltd 1911. Hardcover. Used; Good. No dust jacket. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #1414812</p> Charles Scribners Sons Ltd hardcover‎

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‎Marcus Rosenblum‎

‎Story of Franklin D Roosevelt‎

‎Simon And Schuster 1949. Hardcover. Used; Acceptable. No dust jacket. <p><i><strong>Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. </strong></i> <br/><br/>Bookbarn International Inventory #1355015</p> Simon And Schuster hardcover‎

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‎BEROALDUS PHILIPPUS.‎

‎Varia Philippi Beroaldi opuscula in hoc Codice contenta. Orationes: praelectiones; & Praefationes: & quaedam mithicae Historiae Philippi Beroaldi. Item Plusculae Angeli Politiani; Hermolai Barbari atque una Iasonis Maini ad serenissimum Maximilianum invictissimum Rhomanorum imperatorem Oratio. Epigrammata ac ludicra quaedam facilioris musae carmina eruditissimi viri Philippi Beroaldi ab Ascensio nuper eludicata: nunc demum coimpressa & eo ordine disposita ut maxime moralia sint omnium prima. L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani pia Nenia verbis Christi domini crucifixi sua in nos beneficia commemorantis. Item Phi. Beroaldi de septem sapientium sententiis Libellus. Eiusdem Symbola Pythagorae moraliter explicata. De optimo statu & de foelicitate. Declamatio Philosophi medici & oratoris. Declamatio ebriosi scortatoris & aleatoris. Oratio autem proverbialis caeteris apposita est.‎

‎N.pl. Basel n.d. 1513 Colophon at the end: 'Orationes & Opuscula Philippi Beroaldi Bononiensis oratoris & poetae disertissimi finiunt foeliciter Basileae exarata Anno a partu Virginis salutifero 1513 8vo. 162 leaves. Modern half pigskin over wooden boards. 21 cm Ref: VD16 B 2135; Renouard Bibliographie des impressions et des oeuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius II p. 169 Philippus Beroaldus Varia Opuscula no. 6 Details: Modern binding antique style. On the upper board has been preserved an old original strip of vellum which bears a pattern of blindstamped 5 lozenges filled with doubleheaded aegles above their heads a crown. 3 raised bands on the back. 2 clasps & catches. 2 small contemporary inscriptions of one hand on the title both references to passages in the book: 'Asinus Asinius Pollio : 90' and ' Oeconomia : 123'; most capitals at the beginning of sentences are carefully rubricated; in the margins of the first 123 pages are written many short notes mostly catchwords with the same contemporary red ink. At the end in the same hand a kind of table of content in black ink. Occasional underlinings in red ink. According to VD16 is the printer of this book Gregor Barthelomaeus a rather obscure printer Condition: title somewhat soiled; the blank verso of the last leaf has been pasted on a blank leaf probably the flyleaf of the original. On the verso of this blank leaf is written the above mentioned table of content; faint waterstain in the upper margin of the last 18 leaves Note: This edition of smaller works of Beroaldus is a reissue of an edition of his 'Varia Opuscula' published in Basel in 1509 by Gregor Bartholomaeus and Wolfgang Lachner. This supports the assumption of VD16 that Gregor Bartholomaeus is also the publisher of this 1513 edition. In 1513 the publisher added at the end to the collection an interesting letter which Beroaldus wrote in 1505 to Erasmus Vitellius Erasmus Ciolek bishop of Plozk in Poland: 'Opusculum de terraemotu & pestilentia'. Folia 146-162 In this letter Beroaldus describes the earthquake that hit his hometown Bologna on the first of January of 1505 ea nocte quam subsecutus est dies divo Silvestro dicatus its violent aftershocks and its consequences e.g. the destruction of his own house people gone mad etc. Hora circiter undecima subitarius terraemotus cum sono terrifico factus concussit urbem nostram. f. 147 verso � This editon of 1513 consists of a collection of speeches treatises and Neolatin poetry of the Italian humanist classical scholar Filippo Beroaldo Philippus Beroaldus 1453-1505. It contains for the greater part prose i.e. speeches on classical topics and examples of oratory including some pieces of Polizziano and Ermelao Barbaro. It contains also an essay on the sentences or sayings of the Seven Wise Philosophers and an important essay on the symbolism in the doctrine of Pythagoras. We find also some declamations e.g. a witty conversation of a drunk and his friends a whore-hopper and a gambler. There is also poetry e.g 'Paeanes Beatae Mariae Virginis' which is a Latin adaptation of a number of poems of Petrarca epigrams but also verse in a lighter vein facilioris musae. All poems are surrounded by commentary. � Beroaldus was professor of literature of the University of Bologna his native city from 1472 till his death. He was widely known for his erudition. His most important contribution to scholarship are his good editions of Latin Classics. He published texts and excellent commentaries of Plinius Maior Apuleius Gellius Suetonius Catullus Propertius and Plautus editions in which he proved is vast knowledge and command of Latin literature from the patristic authors to contemporary scholars. He was one of the founders a 'of new annotative miscellanistic commentary style' His latinity was rebuked because his style resembled more that of Apuleius than of Cicero. Beroaldus compiled this collection and had it printed on the request te impulsore of 'Martinus Boemus' whom he calls in the short 'praefatio' on the verso of the title his pupil. This pupil is also known as Martinus Mares Martinus Crumloviensis. He studied 6 years under Beroaldus from 1487 till 1493. Thereupon he returned home to Krumlow in Bohemia. 'Filippo Beroaldo l'Ancien' S. Fabrizio-Coast & F. La Brasca Bern Lang 2005 p. 8. The first edition of these speeches called 'varia opuscula' was published in 1491 in Bologna and was reproduced several times by the Parisian printer Badius Ascensius. The first editions produced by Ascensius from 1505 contained only the orations of Beroaldus mostly on topics of classical philology some on contemporary history. They fill the first 61 leaves of our 1513 edition. The second part of this book begins with the collection of verse. The unknown printer probably Gregor Bartholomaeus repeats on the verso of leaf 61 in the edition of 1509 leaf 62 at the beginning of this second part simply and shamelessly the title under which Ascensius had recently published nuper the poetry in Paris. The rest the last 70 leaves of the book is filled with philosophical letters declamations and treatises of Beroaldus in Latin which were likewise borrowed from previous editions of Ascensius e.g. a declamation 'an orator sit philosopho & medico anteponendus' and other usefull subjects for humanist school education. At the very end have been added 11 p. with 'Annotationes in Galenum' because so explains Beroaldus much mention was made of Galenus in the preceding chapter on 'pestilentia'. Beroaldus must have been very popular in his time. The bibliography of Renouard on Ascensius numbers 74 different editions of which 12 with the title 'varia opuscula' of his orations declamations letters and poetry in the first 20 years of the 16th century Provenance: The writer of the numerous red marginalia is unknown Collation: A-T8 V4 Y6 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎HUET PD. P. D.‎

‎Histoire du commerce et de la navigation des anciens. Par M. Huet ancien Ev�que d'Avranches sous-Pr�cepteur de feu Mr. le Dauphin & l'un des quarante de l'Acad�mie Fran�oise. Seconde �dition revue.‎

‎Paris Chez Antoine-Urbain Coustelier 1716. 8vo. XXIV44650 index p. Old marbled boards. 17 cm Ref: Sandys 2292/3 Details: Margins uncut woodcut illustration on the title Condition: Binding worn. Back faded. 2 old paper labels on the back. Library stamp on the title Note: The French cleric and scholar Pierre Daniel Huet 1630-1721 was coadjutor in the tuition of the Grand Dauphin the son of Louis XIV future king. He was also general editor and organiser of the wellknown series of Delphin Classics. Among patrologists he is best known for his edition in 1668 in Rouen of Origenes' 'Commentaria in Sacras Scripturas'. In the preface to this history of ancient commerce Huet explains that it was commissioned by 'monsieur Colbert ministre et s�cretaire d'�tat'. Il ne falloit pas Monsieur une autorit� moindre que la v�tre pour me faire quitter les autres �tudes qui m'occupent . pour en entreprendre une autre si differente & vous rapporter l'Histoire du Commerce & de la Navigation des Anciens'. Colbert did so Huet tells in his quality of 'Intendant general du Commerce & de la Navigation de ce France Royaume'. Pr�face p. 1/2 Colbert 1619-1683 who was a kind of minister of Finance improved the state of French manufacturing and brought the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy during the rule of king Louis XIV who fought many expensive wars. Colbert succeeded in creating a favourable balance of trade and in increasing France's colonial holdings. Colbert saw that if his country wanted to compete with the Dutch Republic and England he had to promote French industry and commerce. He worked 'to ensure that the French East India Company had access to foreign markets so that they could always obtain coffee cotton dyewoods fur pepper and sugar. In addition Colbert founded the French merchant marine'. Wikipedia Colbert died in 1683 and Huet's histoire was only published in 1716 33 years after his death by the Parisian publisher Fran�ois Fournier who owned according to the 'Extrait du Privilege du Roy' the right to print this title. He apparantly gave his colleague Antoine-Urbaine Coustelier permission to publish another edition. At the end of the 'Privil�ge du Roy' has been added 'Imprim� pour la seconde fois le 1. Sept. 1716'. p. b4 verso In the 'avertissement du libraire' immediately after the title the publisher confesses that monsieur Huet then 86 years old thought this work 'si peu convenable � son �ge & � la profession' that he wanted it rather to lay buried in dust on the shelves in his 'cabinet' than publish it. It was only after the prayers of his friends lovers of literature and supporters of the interest of the state that he gave permission to publish this work of his youth. p. a1 recto & verso Huet apparantly took the trouble to revise his work and prepare it for an second edition. It was a success. It was reissued in France in 1727 and 1763 translated into English 1717 German 1763 & 1775 and Italian 1737 Provenance: Stamp on the title: 'Ex bibliotheca Comit. de Krassow-Divitz'. This book probably comes from the library of Karl Reinhard Adolph Graf von Krassow 1812-1892. There may however be other members of this noble family who once owned this book Collation: a8 b4; A-2H8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SENECA.‎

‎L. Annaei Senecae Opera quae extant omnia a Iusto Lipsio emendata et scholiis illustrata. Editio quarta atque ab ultima Lipsi manu. Aucta Liberti Fromondi scholiis ad Quaestiones Naturales & Ludum de morte Claudii Caesaris quibus in hac editione accedunt eiusdem Liberti Fromondi ad Quaestiones Naturales excursus novi.‎

‎Antwerp Antverpiae Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti 1652. Folio. XVIXXXVI9111 blank p.; portrait of Lipsius; engraved title; a bust of Seneca and a plate of Seneca standing in a tub both plates by C. Galle after Rubens. Calf 41 cm. Ref: STCV: 6608951; Schweiger 2902: 'Gesuchteste Ausgabe des Lipsius aber nicht weiter als Wiederholung der von 1632'; Brunet 5276/77: '�dition estim�e. Les 3 premi�res �ditions Antverpiae ex off. Platiniana 1605 1615 et 1632 sont moins compl�tes.'; Dibdin 2397: 'excellent notes of Lipsius'; Moss 2578: 'it is certainly a very elegant publication'; Fabricius-Ernesti 2115; Ebert 20860: 'Beste und gesuchteste der von Lipsius besorgten Ausg.'; Graesse 6/1 348/49: 'tr�s recherch�e'; Spoelder 642 Middelburg 4 Details: Prize copy but lacking the prize. Gilt back with 7 raised bands red morocco shield in the second compartment. Borders of both boards gilt and with the coat of arms of Middelburg in the center. Portait of Lipsius engraved by Cornelius Galle. Engraved architectural title the text of it is flanked by the statues of Greek philosopher Zeno the founder of the Stoic school whose doctrine of suicide as a 'reasonable exit' from life in response to incurable disease or inexorable pain Seneca accepted and Zeno's pupil Cleanthes; in the upper frieze reside pictures of Hercules Pallas and Ulysses at the feet of Cleanthes and Zeno are the portraits of Seneca and Epictetus. The full page 'Seneca standing in his bath' is engraved by Cornelius Galle and made after the famous painting of Rubens 'the death of Seneca'. The full page portrait of Seneca was engraved after a drawing of Rubens. A smaller engraved portrait of Seneca 11.5x13.5 cm on page XXIV after the Italian scholar and antiquarian Fulvius Orsinus imago quae a Fulvio quidem Ursino prodita est. Woodcut initials. � The 'Officina Plantiniana' issued 2 'Opera' editions of Seneca in 1652. This is the second issue probably printed by Petrus III Bellerus for Balthasar Moretus. Bellerus printer's device is found on f. X6 verso and f. Y4 recto Condition: Binding somewhat scuffed and scratched. Front joint beginning to split. Head and tail of the spine chafed. Corners slightly bumped. The school prize has been removed. Edges of both flyleaves browning. Some leaves yellowing a few are browning. Faint waterstain in the right margin of the last 6 gatherings Note: The Roman philosopher and politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca ca. 4 BC - 65 AD has ever since antiquity been controversial. He was 'attacked for his Latin style his political compromises and his wealth. . Seneca . devoted himself to philosophy finally being charged with complicity in the conspiracy of Piso in 65. His suicide ordered by Nero is described by Tacitus . The death scene 'imago vitae suae' 'the image of his life' has been a significant element in Seneca's influence on posterity. . His style was urgent colourful and pointed appropriate for the fragmented ethical and political ambiguities of his time and it ultimately proved to be an effective vehicle for the Latin Church Fathers'. 'The classical tradition' Cambridige Mass. 2010 p. 873 By the 4th century Seneca's reputation as an author and as a philosopher had recovered. He is praised by Boethius d. ca. 524 and has through the works of Cassiodorus d. ca. 585 and Martin of Braga d. ca. 579 influenced medieval and Renaissance philosophy. From the 13th century onward he was widely read especially after the invention of printing. A Senecan Renaissance was advanced with the editions of Erasmus who did much to improve the text. Seneca's reputation was further enhanced by the magnificent edition of his 'Opera' produced by the Flemish scholar Justus Lipsius and published in 1605 by the Flemish 'Officina Plantiniana' lead by Balthasar Moretus. This edition and the later ones of 1615 1632 and 1652 were adorned with elaborate title pages and portraits engraved by T. Galle and C. Galle. The worth of Lipsius' editions lies in the preface and commentary. 'His commentary while economical by modern standards was fuller than that by Erasmus. Lipsius died before he could finish his commentary on 'Quaestiones Naturales'. The first edition of Lipsius' Seneca 1605 included a commentary by M.A. Muretus d. 1585 replaced by that of Libertus Fromond in later editions. The introductory paragraphs to each section of Seneca's prose were lucid concise and often enthusiastic. 'Legite iuvenes senesque!' is a frequent exhortation typical of Lipsius' primary goal which was to teach'. Idem p. 875 'Moretus had been Lipsius' student and he was a friend of Peter Paul Rubens whom he commissioned to design for the 1615 edition and its successors a portrait of Lipsius and two full-page engravings of Seneca one of an ancient bust believed to be of Seneca and owned by the artist and the other of Seneca entering the bath in which he died. The latter engraving was related to Rubens's 1608 painting of Seneca's death which further spread the fame of Seneca as a martyr to tyranny who died true to his philosophical principles'. Idem ibidem � Justus Lipsius the greatest Latin scholar of his time came in 1579 to the recently founded University of Leyden 1575 to teach Latin. He resided there with great distinction as honorary Professor of History from 1579 till 1591. According to J.E. Sandys his greatest strength lies in textual criticism and exegesis. J.E. Sandys History of Classical Scholarship N.Y. 1964 vol. 2 p. 303. Lipsius edited only Latin prose writers. He was not attracted to Latin verse. The 'Opera omnia' of this edition do not include Seneca's tragedies Collation: -24 A-C6 A-4G6 leaf 4G6 verso blank; leaf 1 portr. Lipsius 2 engraved title 23 Seneca in bath 24 bust of Seneca Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎POEMATA PYTHAGORAE & PHOCYLIDIS.‎

‎Poemata Pythagorae & Phocylidis. Cum duplici interpretatione Viti Amerbachii. Bound with: Theognidis Megarensis Sententiae cum versione latina ita ut verbum verbo conferri possit addita earundem explicatione a Philip. Melanth. in Schola Wuiteberggensi. And: Sibyllinorum Oraculorum libri VIII. Addita Sebastiani Castalionis interpretatione Latina quae Graeco eregione respondeat. Cum annotationib. Xysti Betuleij in Graeca Sibyllina oracula et Sebastiani Castalionis in translationem suamque annotationes numeris marginalibus signantur.‎

‎Ad 1: Strasbourg Argentorati Apud Christianum Mylium 1565. Ad 2: Leipzig Lipsiae Ioannes Rhamba excudebat 1569. Ad 3: Basel Basileae Per Ioannem Oporinum n.d. Colophon at the end: 'Basileae Ex officina Ioannis Oporini Anno Salutis humanae 1555 Mense Augusto 8vo. 3 volumes in 1: Ad 1: 16341 blank p. Ad. 2: 951 blank p. Ad 3: 33321 blank p. Vellum 17 cm Ref: Ad 1: VD16 P 5452; Hoffmann 3330 not this year 1565; Schweiger 1282 also not this year. Graesse 5516. Ad 2: VD 16 ZV 19766; Hoffmann 3510; Schweiger 1316. Ad 3: VD16 S 6278; Griechischer Geist aus Basler Presse 462 but see also 460 and 461; Hoffmann 3396; Schweiger 1287: 'Enth. Verbess. aus e. Mscr. des Marcus Antimachus zu Florenz. Andere Varr. welche nicht in den Text aufgenommen sind stehen am Rande'. Brunet 5370; Ebert 21169; Graesse 6/1398 Details: Three rare texts in an unattractive binding. Ad 1: Printer's mark on the title depicting a furious swan within a laurel wreath. Ad 2: Woodcut round portrait of Melanchthon on the title. Ad 3: Greek text with opposing Latin translation; woodcut initials Condition: Vellum dyed red soiled and very worn; endpapers gone. This was a convolute consisting of 4 volumes. One of them was once removed leaving an open space exposing the 3 broad bands of an ancient manuscript to which the book has been sewn. First title soiled and with an old manuscript note in the blank margin; its right edge of the first leaves thumbed. Occasional old ink underlinings and marginalia of the hands of 2 or 3 'adolescentes studiosi'. On the last page in old ink the first 10 lines of a poem of the Hungarian humanist Janus Pannonius 1434-1472 known all over Europe 'De paparum creandorum ritu immutato' in which he ridiculed the pope Note: Ad 1 & 2: The 'gnome' or 'sententia' the pithy expression of a general thought is probably as old as human speech. In literature it is allready found in Homer e.g. the much quoted proverb 'A multitude of masters is no good thing; let there be one master'. Ilias II204 Early Greek poets among whom Theognis and Phocylides are supposed to have summarized the ethic doctrines in short 'gnomai' sayings which according to Aristotle are more credible than certain long argumentations. Famous Greek expressions of a striking thought everyone knows are 'gn�thi seauthon' and 'm�den agan'. The 'gnome' was used occasionally in poetry or prose but as a literary form it can be traced back to the Greek poets Phocylides and Theognis. Phocylides of Milete wrote hexametric and elegiac 'gn�mai'. According to Suda he lived ca. 540 B.C. The 200 or so hexameters of his 'Poema nouth�tikon or 'poema admonitorium' were ascribed to Phocylides in the 16th century. It was first published under his name in 1495. In the 16th century this didactic ethical poem was a very popular schoolbook as it had been on Byzantine schools for centuries. This edition was probably also meant for young students or schoolboys it should be studied carefully by 'adolescentes studiosi'. A great number of editions almost one every year translations and commentaries were produced by schoolmasters in the 16th century. 'Die Richtung der Zeit ging recht ernstlich dahin die Jugenderziehung auf eine Vereinigung biblischer Glaubens- und Sittenlehre mit klassischer Reinheit der Form zu gr�nden' J. Bernays Ueber das Phokylideische Gedicht' in 'Jahresbericht des j�disch-theologischen Seminars' Breslau 1856 p. I The 'poema admonitorium' then ascribed to Phocylides was often combined with Theognis whose work was already a schoolbook in antiquity. Was Theognis purely pagan the reading of Phocylides was more in line with biblical ethics. The christian ethics found in the work of a noble pagan poet who lived in the 6th century before Christ proved the correctness of the bible it was thought. The German classical philologist Friedrich Sylburg 1536-1596 was the first to doubt the attribution of the 'poema admonitorium' to Phocylides. And in 1606 the French genius Joseph Scaliger proved on stylistic grounds and with respect to the content that the real author was perhaps a Christian. After this the interest in the poem waned and finally it sank into oblivion. Nowadays the author is called 'Pseudo-Phocylides'. Of the Greek elegiac poet Theognis also flourishing ca. 540 B.C. survive 1389 lines. As with Phocylides there is dispute about their authenticity. 'We may conjecture that it was popular if not composed in aristocratic circles in Athens in the 5th century' C.M Bowra concludes for part of the work of Theognis. OCD s.v. Theognis Theognis' songs were probably sung at symposia during the 5th and 4th century B.C. In this time the anthology of verses was formed which has come down to us. The Greek text of Theognis and its accompanying metrical Latin translation in distichs was produced by the German classical scholar and reformer Philippus Melanchthon 1497-1560 also known as the intellectual leader of Lutheranism. At the age of 21 he became professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg. This convolute contains also the Golden verses carmen aureum or carmina aurea which are attributed to the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. They were well known among educated readers in Antiquity. In the Renaissance the verses found like Phocylides and Theognis a place in schoolbooks. Nowadays the verses are relativily unknown among classicists. The 'carmen aureum' consists of 71 didactic hexameters. Every scholar who looked at these verses seems to have his own opinion about its author origin and date. Quot homines tot sententiae It is however clear 'from the testimonia that the Golden Verses was highly regarded in late antiquity as a concise formulation of principles of the philosophical life. The Neoplatonists starting with Iamblichus probably all used the poem as a propaedeutic moral instruction preparing the way for philosophy proper'. 'The Pythagorean Golden Verses'. With introduction and commentary by J.C. Thom Leiden 1995 p. 13 The testimonia indicate also that the authorship of the poem was already problematical in antiquity. p. 15 The editor and translator of the Golden Verses and Phocylides is the German humanist Veit Amerbach or in Latin Vitus Amerbachius 1503-1557 who was first a Lutheran but later converted to catholocism. He studied in Wittenberg where he met Luther and Melanchthon. Later he turned against his former friends. Ad 3: Interest in the oracles of the Sibyl was at its height in the sixteenth century. Before 1600 messages of this prophetess were 'widely diffused and her fame led to depiction by noted artists such as Van Eyk Perugino Pinturichio Michelangelo and Raphael and even to musical settings of her verses'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 884 The first female seer known as Sibyl appeared in the 6th century B.C. in connection with Erythrae a Greek city in Asia Minor. In the first century B.C. the Roman scholar Varro listed already 10 different Sibyls. The collection of Greek prophecies of the Sibyl of Cumae Sibyllini libri the Sibylline books had an official place in Roman religion and were meant to guide the Romans through political and natural crises. In 83 B.C. the collection was destroyed by a fire in the temple of Iuppiter on the Capitolium. A new collection of ficticious oracles under the prestigious name of the Sibyls was formed in late antiquity. 'The Sibylline books that became important in the later Western tradition were the product of Jews and Christians who seized on this form of revalatory literature for their own purposes'. The Classical Tradition p. 884 These Greek hexameters proclaimed the superiority first of Judaism and then of Christianity. The verses criticized pagan gods and pagan immorality and predicted their impending doom. Christians of the East and the West used the oracles as evidence that God had employed pagan female seers to announce the coming of Christ. The Sibylline oracles were widely used by many church fathers Augustinus accepted even the Sibyl as a member of the 'City of God' because of the acrostic poem that hymned Christ's return. In the late Middle Ages new Sibylline prophecies were produced to promote forms of apocalypticism. The 16th century editors of the oracles were convinced of their religious worth and their authenticity. Italian humanists and platonists considered the oracles to belong to the 'prisca theologia'. 'But the 1599 Paris edition of Joseph Koch expressed doubts about the antiquity and authority of the verses'. A 'battle of books' ensued in the 17th century as classical scholars such as Isaac Casaubon and Richard Simon mounted arguments against the authenticity of the oracles'. Nowadays they are 'studied for what they tell us about Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds'. The Classical Tradition p. 885 This is the third and most complete edition of the Oracula Sibyllina which the Basler publisher Johannes Oporinus produced. The first one of 1545 the 'editio princeps' of these prophecies contains the Greek text only. The second of 1546 offers a Latin translation only and the third of 1555 combines the Greek text and Latin translation. The Augsburger poet classical scholar and 'Schulrektor' Sixt Birk or in Latin Xystus Betuleius 1501-1554 is the editor of the 'editio princeps' ca. 4200 Greek hexameters in 8 books which he had found in a manuscript that the government of Augsburg had recently acquired in Venice. The manuscript he says 'recens est: eleganter quidem & splendide sed . parum orthographice scriptus'. p. 16/17 of the prefatory letter The verse collection consists of ancient pagan jewish and christian prophecies. In his introductory letter of 1545 which is reprinted in the 1555 edition Betuleius declares that he used the manuscript to elucidate many references to the oracles of the Sibyls in the 'De Divina Institutione' of Lactancius. He is convinced of the christian nature of the oracles in which the will of God has found an expression. 'Misit benignissimus Deus . suae voluntatis interpretes'. p. 8 Betuleius honestly declares that he lacks the time and the erudition to produce a commentary and a translation into Latin. 'Non dubito quin futuri sint qui his vaticiniis licet multis in locis truncatis & mutilis vel interpretatione vel enarratione sint lumen aliquod illaturi'. p. 8 The next year 1546 saw already the hoped for Latin translation of this difficult text. It was produced by the French humanist scholar Sebastian Castellio also known as Sebastianus Castalio or in French as S�bastien de Ch�tillon 1515-1563. He was rector of the school in Geneva but had to leave the city because he was a defender of religious tolerance and was accused of undermining the prestige of the calvinist clergy. Reduced to utter poverty he went to Basel in 1544 and began proof-reading for the publisher Oporinus and producing Greek Hebrew and Latin translations. This Latin translation the second book on the oracles which Oporinus published must have been among his first jobs for Oporinus. In 1551 Castellio published his Latin translation of the Bible. In Basel Castellio's fortunes improved and in 1553 he was appointed professor of Greek. In the dedication which precedes the translation of the oracles Castellio defends the authenticity and the divine nature of the Sibylline oracles. 'Haec igitur oracula Sibyllae' . vera sunt'. p. 18 He used for his translation the original Greek manuscript which Betuleius had sent to Oporinus and 2 other manuscripts. Castellio offers also variant readings contributed by the Italian scholar Marcantonio Antimaco or in Latin Marcus Antonius Antimachus 1473-1552 who was a prolific humanist translator of Greek texts and who was the owner of one of the two manuscripts 'qui vetus habet exemplar' p. 17. Castellio's translation of the Sibylline Oracles is 'zwar metrisch doch nicht weniger w�rtlich als eine Prosa�bersetzung. An einigen Stellen habe er den Text verbessern k�nnen an andern L�cken belassen oder Teil�bersetzungen in Prosa bieten m�ssen'. Griechischer Geist aus Basler Presse no. 461 Castellio raises in his preface the problem that the Sibylline books may be forgeries 'either relatively recent ones of from the early Christian period. Both possibilities he denies saying that it would have been too difficult for any recent forger and that Ancient references to Sibyls as well as Virgil's 4th Eclogue argue against an earlier one. . At all events the publication of these texts set in motion a slow but inexorable process of textual criticism which meant that by the 17th century scholars were prepared to say that Lactantius and even St. Augustine had been mistaken in believing these oracles to be of great antiquity'. J. Britnell 'The rise and fall of the Sibyls in Renaissance France' in 'Schooling and Society' edited by A.A. MacDonald & M.W. Twoney Leuven 2004 p. 179 Castellio added also his annotations to the text. The third Oporinus edition of the Sibylline oracles of 1555 was also edited by Castellio and contains the introductions to the editions of 1545 1546 and of 1555 the Greek text of Betuleius corrected by Castellio and his Latin translation printed parallel to the Greek text. Castellio added his own notes and those of Betuleius. At the end we find the 'iudicia' of Eusebius and Augustine concerning the Acrostiches of Sibylla Erithraea; included is also the acrostichon of the Sibylla 'IESUS CHRISTUS DEI FILIUS SERVATOR CRUCS' p. 290/91 and other Sibyllan prophecies on Christ; Castellio added also a Latin verse translation of 5 1/2 pages of the so-called 'Carmen Mosis' a long prophetic poem Deuteronomium chapter 32 which is said to have found a place in the Ark of the Convenant. Castellio erroneously refers to this 'Song of Moses' as 'Exodus chapter 32'. p. 328 Collation: Ad 1: A-K8 L4 leaf L4 verso blank Ad 2: A-F8 leaf F8 verso blank. Ad 3: a-x8 leaf x8 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎AUGUSTINUS.‎

‎De Belydenisse van S Augustyn. Nu onlanghs uyt het Latijn in het Duytsch overgeset door eenen Eerweerdigen P. der Societeyt Jesu‎

‎Antwerpen 't Antwerpen By Frederick van Metelen inde Warmoes-straet inde 4 Evangelisten 1688. 12mo. XV1 blank365 recte 36314 blank p. Calf 15 cm Ref: cf. OiN 106; Not yet in STCV Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Gilt floral motives in the 4 compartments of the back. Engraved title depicting Augustine leaning against a tree in the sky 3 angels one of them calling tolle lege tolle lege. Printed in Gothic script Condition: Back rubbed; foot of spine slightly damaged; a few small wormholes visible in the frontcover; 5 pinpoint wormholes in first gathering reduced in the second gathering to 3 and in the fouth to 2 wormholes of which one is in the inner margin/gutter sometimes nibbling at a letter. Front flyleaf removed. 3 names on the front pastedown Note: Aurelius Augustinus bishop of Hippo 354-430 A.D. was one of the most outstanding men in the whole history of Christianity and of literature. 'Of the most significant events of this great man's life we have the best possible testimony his own set forth in the very remarkable autobiography generally styled the Confessiones. H.J. Rose A handbook of Latin literature London 1967 p. 496 The Confessiones comprising 13 books was written ca. 400. In his youth Augustinus led a wicked and irregular life. 'In 386 came what is usually regarded it was certainly so regarded by him as his conversion. A child's voice bade him take up and read tolle lege and opening a copy of the Pauline epistles at random he hit upon what he regarded as an authorative and Divine message Romans 13 13-14'. H.J. Rose p. 497/98 His activity as a writer was enormous. � This Dutch translation of 1688 of the books 1-X of the Confessiones the oldest autobiography of world literature was first published in 1603. It was translated by Johannes Semmius. In 1604 followed a revised edition printed in Antwerp on the presses of Nutius. An anonymous Jesuit priest compared the translation with a Latin edition and made many corrections. door een Eerw. Priester der Societyt Jesu met het Latijn geconfereert ende tot veel plaetsen verbetert In the short preface of the 1688 edition the publisher now states that the Belydenisse were translated by a Jesuit priest. Voor-reden p. A2 recto: door eenen Eerweerdigen P. er Societeyt Jesu and that his translation is a corrected version of an edition which was previously printed by Hendrick Aertssens. This edition of Aertssens the publisher goes on was printed in small type and now he offers a edition in big type which is easier to read for the old. Idem: gedruckt by Hendrick Aertssens met kleyn letter / ende als nu gerieffelijcker voor den ouderdom met grooter letter herdruckt ende gecorrigeert zijnde; niet twijffelende oft het sal U.L. aengenaem wesen Hendrick Aertssens had published a translation of the Confessiones in 1636 in Antwerp. This edition of 1688 even repeats the approbatie of 1636. Idem: Dese thien Boecken der Belijdenisse van S. Augustinus uyt het Latijn in 't Duytsch overgeset sullen profijteljck mogen gedruckt worden. Actum Antverpiae den 17 September 1636 Provenance: In ink on the front pastedown 'M.J. Baesten' or 'M.I. Baesten'. Then an illegible name also an erased name. � Near the lower margin 'Norbardina De Greeff' Collation: A-Q12 leaf A8 verso and Q11 & Q12 blank The page numering between the gatherings L and M is irregular two page numbers have been skipped there; nothing is missing Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PLINIUS MINOR.‎

‎Caji Plinii Caecilii Secundi Panegyricus cum notis integris Francisci Jureti Joannis Livineji Justi Lipsii Petri Fabri Conradi Rittershusii Jani Gruteri Christiani Gotlibi Schwarzii et selectis aliorum curante Joanne Arntzenio qui & suas adnotationes adjecit. Accedit Joannis Masson Vita Plinii editio tertia auctior.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Janssonio Waesbergios 1738. 4to. XXIV including frontispieceXCII4 index; 46957 index p. Half vellum 25 cm Ref: STCN ppn 186699948; Schweiger 2812/3; Dibdin 2335; Moss 2495/6; Fabricius/Ernesti 2423; Graesse 5349: 'Bonne �dition'; Ebert 17374 Details: Early 20th century binding. Brown gilt morocco shield on the back. Title in red & black. Engraved printer's mark on the title depicting a mole flanked by a seating Hermes and Athena; the motto is: 'vulgo caeca vocor video sed acutius ipso' 'By the crowd I am called blind; but I see better than itself'. The frontispiece is bound after the title it is engraved by W. Jongman; on it we see on orator Plinius standing on a kind of pedestal; he is pronouncing his eulogy in the Senate in front of a statue of the emperor Trajanus; the senate is listening and someone enters with a laurel wreath for the orator in his hand Condition: paper browning and browned Note: In 100 A.D. The Roman civilian administrator Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus or Pliny the Younger 61-112 A.D was elected 'consul electus'. On the occasion of his entry on the position of consul Pliny pronounced in the Senate an eulogy to thank the emperor. This specimen of his eloquence survived and is known as the 'Panegyricus'. In his speech he elaborated on all the admirable actions and good qualities of the emperor Trajanus. Pliny published also 9 books of literary letters consisting of short essays character sketches and sensible observations. The letters paint the high society of the young Roman empire. The tenth book contains Pliny's correspondence with the emperor Trajan. Pliny is famous for his description of the eruption of the Vesuvius on the 24th of August in 79 A.D. He was a nephew of the encyclopedist Pliny the Elder who died observing the eruption from afar overcome by poisonous fumes. Pliny the Younger held under Trajanus a number of magistracies. In 111 or 112 he became governor of Bithynia. From here he was in constant correspondence with the Emperor. The Dutch scholar Johannes Arntzenius 1702 - 1759 had experience with Panegyrics and late Latin. In 1733 he already had edited the Roman eulogist Aurelius Victor. Later in life in 1753 he produced an edition of another Panegyricus that of the late antique author Pacatus Drepanius. Arntzenius was professor of Eloquentia and Historia of the University at Franeker since 1743. NNBW 1 179/80 Provenance: Name on front flyleaf: 'J.W. Tellegen' Collation: -34 first gathering: 1 4 frontispiece then 2 & 3 i.e. leaf pi1 of the STCN copy the frontispiece has been bound in our copy immediately after the title leaf 1; 2-34; a - m4; chi1 A-3V4 minus blank leaf 3V4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EPICTETUS.‎

‎Epicteti Manuale et Sententiae. Quibus accedunt Tabula Cebetis & alia affinis argumenti in linguam Latinam conversa a Marco Meibomio. Subjiciuntur eiusdem notae emendationes Claudii Salmasii in Epictetum notae illorum & alius viri docti in Dissertationes Epicteti ab Arriano digestas & varians scriptura codicum manu exaratorum cura Hadriani Relandi.‎

‎Utrecht Trajecti Batavorum Ex officina Gulielmi Broedelet bibliopolae 1711. 4to. 3 parts in 1: XX1511;124; 15259 index1 blank p. Calf. 21 cm Ref: STCN ppn 185671004; Oldfather no. 287; Hoffmann 215; Didbin 2515/6: 'The edition is a valuable and critical one'; Ebert 6775; Brunet 21012/13; Graesse 2484; P.A. Hansen 'A bibliography of Danish contributions to classical scholarship from the 16th century to 1970' Copenhagen 1977 no. 363 Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting Athena and Hermes motto: 'Suum cuique tribue'. Woodcut initials. Greek text with facing Latin translation. Last 152 pages are filled with the notes of Meiboom 1-32 the notes and emendations of the Enchiridium by Salmasius 33-48 notes and emendations by Meiboom and Salmasius 'in Arriani Epictetum' 49-98 variae lectiones 99-136 and an 'Accessio ad emendationes Meibomianas in Dissertationes Epicteteas Arriani' 137-152. The last 4 pages of the preliminary leaves are owing to a binder's error to be found in the last gathering of the book. � 'Alius' in the title is an old genitive form with a long i Condition: Cover scuffed; back rubbed; corners bumped; front joint starting to split; head & tail of the spine chafed; bookplate on front pastedown Note: There is something odd about this title. Half of the book is printed carefully with the use of beautiful Greek and Roman type and is presented in a balanced layout. The woodcut initials are sharp and elegant. The other half of the book is printed on paper of somewhat lesser quality with the use of dull and conventional Greek and Roman type. The woodcut initials are quite common and worn. This difference has its story and reflects the life and character of its main contributor Marcus Meibom. The 'fine' half was printed in Copenhagen about 40 years earlier than the other half which was printed in Utrecht in 1711. � The Danish philologist Marcus Meibom or Marcus Meibomius was born in 1630 in T�nning in Schleswig-Holstein. He was a scholar with a bad temper and a lot of ennemies. After a turbulent life he died poor in Utrecht in 1710 or 1711. He was 'one of those colourful people who despite numerous initiatives was unable to ascend in the Republic of Letters. He had achieved some fame with an edition of seven classical authors on music which he dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden and for which he received an invitation to her court in return. He himself had reconstructed instruments from antiquity with which he tried to put on a concert for the court of the Queen; unfortunately the performance generated only hilarity and ended in turmoil. Frustrated Meiboom then attacked a friend of the Queen which forced him to leave'. D. van Miert 'Humanism in an age of science: the Amsterdam Athenaeum in the Golden Age 1632-1704' Leiden 2009 p. 88 Meibom treated everyone crudely and could never restrain his arrogance. The Dutch gentleman/scholar Nicolaas Heinsius called him a 'hungry rogue' and an 'ungrateful person'. D. van Miert p. 89 In 1653 Meibom left Sweden and entered into the service of king Frederic III of Denmark. He was made royal librarian and professor at Uppsala the next year. Michaud 'Biographie Universelle' Vol. 28 Lpz. 1843 p. 520/1 In 1668 he accepted a position at the Athenaeum Illustre at Amsterdam to give public lectures and private tuition with a salary of 1200 guilders a year. One year later in 1670 he was fired. The reason was that as Burmannus reports in a letter 'Meiboom had turned up his nose at the obligation to give private tuition to the sons of the bourgomasters'. D. van Miert p. 90 'Meiboom next dedicated himself to the military shipping trade. He reviewed a book on this subject by Johan Scheffer and wrote a book himself on antique triremes with which he left for England to convince Charles II that these antique vessels would give him supremacy at sea'. D. van Miert p. 91 Of course this untertaking was not successful. He also tried to sell his project to the French but found no one interested. His next great project in England in 1674 was the publishing of the Old Testament with his remarks on the Hebrew text of which he wanted to correct numerous passages. He shocked the English and had to return to Holland poorer than ever. Nevertheless he possessed some very valubable ancient manuscripts which he did not want to sell. He died in Utrecht where his heirs found the unfinished edition of Epictetus printed ca. 40 years before which they sold to the publisher Broedelet. He asked Hadrianus Relandus to finish it. � The part of Meibom opens with the Greek text with facing Latin translation of the Enchiridion then follow the 'Epicteti Sententiae ex Joanne Stobaeo Graece & Latine' the 'Cebetis Thebani Tabula Graece & Latine' and 'Prodicus de Hercule ex Xenophontis Memorabilium libro IIdo secundo Joa. Leunclavio interprete' a allegoric story about Hercules on the crossroads where he has to choose between Virtue and Vice. Meibom finished with 'Hippocratis Epistola' to Damagetus a long letter concerning the madness of the 'laughing philosopher' Democritus. This letter is a founding text in the history of melancholy. Relandus tells the reader in the preface that while he was working on this edition he stumbled upon a traesure thesaurum an Epictetus edition dated 1595 Oldfather 15 from the library of Meibom in the margins of which the French scholar Claude de Saumaise or Claudius Salmasius 1588-1653 had jotted down corrections and emendations to the Enchiridion. General preface leaf 2 and preface to the notes of Salmasius p. 37/38 Salmasius was in Leyden the successor of Scaliger and a prolific author and textual critic. He had produced once an Enchiridium edition himself. Amsterdam 1640 � Michaud tells about Meibom's part of this Enchiridion edition that the 'roi de Danemarck fit imprimer cet ouvrage � ses frais et fit pr�sent de la totalit� de l'�dition � Meibom qui la garda plus de quarante ans dans son cabinet'. Michaud vol. 28 p. 521 The quality of the printing of Meibom's part of the book seems to affirm the story of Michaud still the question remains why Meibom had transported heavy barrels full of quality printing to Amsterdam in 1668/69 and forgot about it for the next 40 years Boter follows the suggestion of Schweighaeuser in his edition of 1798 Schweighaeuser Lpz. 1798 p. LIXV and argues that Meibom did not think his own work worthy of publication. G. Boter 'The Encheiridion of Epictetus and its three christian adaptations' Leiden 1999 p. 78 This seems hard to believe with regard to such an arrogant and headstrong character. He was very much convinced of his own genius. Graevius wrote in a letter to N. Heinsius that Meibom considered himself a better philologist than Isaac Casaubon Carlo Sigonio Gronovius and Salmasius. D. van Miert p. 91 Modesty and humility were not his strongest points. The flaws in the character of this manic man who led a tumultuous life might be the cause of the abandonment of the project. Moreover when Meibon arrived in Amsterdam and would have asked around in 1669 if someone was interested in publishing his Epictetus' Enchiridium he would have heard that in Amsterdam the publishers Boom and Ravestein were already busy producing an edition for 1670 as did the Van Gaasbeek brothers. Anyway Meibom's heirs sold part of his possessions including the barrels filled with plano sheats of a book which had never been published. The first page of the collection simply said 'Epicteti Manuale Graece & Latine'. The load of paper was bought by the publisher Broedelet who asked the Dutch scholar Hadrianus Relandus for whom he had published several titles to write an introduction and to produce some commentary and an index. 'Relandus did his best he wrote introductions to the different parts added the notes of Meibom and Salmasius which he had found among Meibom's papers and in the margins of some of his books. He added also collations of two manuscripts the 'codex Hafniensis' p. 101-119 of the second part and the 'codex Gerdesianus' p. 120-136 of the second part. That Meibom did a good job was already noted in 1711 in the periodical 'Acta Eruditorum. 'Haec editio est accurata & a mendis typographicis pura literis elegantibus & majoribus impressa'. Acta Eruditorum 1711 p. 374 Furthermore Schweighaeuser dedicates almost seven of his preliminary pages of his famous 1798 edition of the Enchiridium to this work of Meibomius/Relandus. And G. Boter deems Meibomius/Relandus worthy of incorporating them in the short list of 'Studiosi in apparatu critico laudati' of his edition of the Enchiridium published in the normative 'Bibliotheca Teubneriana' series Berlin 2007. Adrianus Reland or Hadrianus Relandus 1676-1718 was a child prodigy. At 13 he enrolled as a student at the University of Utrecht where he studied philosophy classics and oriental languages. In 1700 he was appointed professor of Oriental languages and Holy Antiquities. This 'jewel' of the university remained in Utrecht till his untimely death at the age of 41. He didnot publish much on Oriental languages but wrote some influential works on Hebrew antiquities the 'Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum' 1708 & 1712 publisher Broedelet and 'Palestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata' 1714 publisher Broedelet. His best known work seems to be 'De religione mohammedica' 1705 publisher Broedelet which was reissued several times and was translated into several languages. In this work he broke new ground with an honest and correct approach of this religion. As a consequence the Vatican placed it on the Index of forbidden books Provenance: On the front pastedown the remains of a woodcut bookplate. The lower part with the name of the owner has been removed. It shows the Royal arms of the United Kingdom as used by the Hanover dynasty between 1714 and 1800 during the reign of King George I II & III. See Wikipedia s.v. 'Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom' The shield is oval and rests on a pedestal. Around the oval a belt with the motto of the Order of the Garter 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'. The oval is surmounted with a royal crown. Before the pedestal a banner with the motto of the English monarchs 'Dieu et mon droit'. Right of the shield the Unicorn and left a crowned lion. There is no royal helm beneath the crown The bookplate is probably of a royal or of a library of a public institution and dates from before 1800 Collation: -24 A-T4 2A-2P4 2Q2. A-R4 S4-T4 S-2A4 2B4 leaf 2B2 verso blank the second and third leaf of the last gathering 2B are signed 31 and 32; these 2 leaves ought to have been cut out and bound after leaf 24; we once sold another copy of this book and it showed the same binder's error Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎EPICTETUS.‎

‎Epicteti Enchiridium una cum Cebetis Thebani tabula Graec. & Lat. Cum notis Wolfii Casauboni Caselii & aliorum; quibus accedit Graeca Enchiridii paraphrasis lacunis omnibus codicis Medicei ope a Jacobo Gronovio repletis. Recensuit & a plurimis mendis quae in priores editiones irrepserant repurgavit ac notis quibusdam & animadversionibus illustravit Joannes Casparus Schr�derus.‎

‎Delft Delphis Apud Adrianum Beman 1723. 8vo. LXIV288 p. frontispiece folding plate. Vellum 20.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 140819754; Oldfather no. 232 but see also Oldfather Supplement no. 233; Hoffmann 215; Dibdin 1515: on the 2nd edition of 1683: 'is reputed the best of the octavo Variorums'; Ebert 6777; Brunet 21013 Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved frontispiece depicting the philosopher Epictetus behind him a host of allegoric female followers. One holds a lamp another a pair of scales. In his left hand Epictetus holds a scroll with one of his motto's: 'ANECHOU KAI APECHOU' 'bear with patience and abstain' his recipe for a 'vita tranquilissima' Gellius book 17 caput 19; he is greeted by a woman Ethica who leads a reined lion that has a bridle in its mouth thus signifying reason's command over man's passions. At Epictetus' feet 5 pityful victims of their passions among who a drunk. This frontispiece was designed and etched by the Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe. The copper plate of the frontispiece is used here for the second time. It was first used for the first edition of this book which was published in 1670 by Van Gaasbeek at Leiden & Amsterdam. Romeyn de Hooghe De verbeelding van de late Gouden Eeuw no. 1670.03 and 1723.01 The title is printed in red and black. The text is printed in 2 columns with a Latin translation facing the Greek text. The commentary is on the lower half of the page. The folding plate is also the work of Romeyn de Hooghe signed and dated 1670 this is an artistic illustration of the 'Tabula Cebetis'. It shows the many ways leading to vice and the only straight and narrow path to virtue: we see a garden with 2 concentric walls filled with a host of allegorical figures. At the Entrance to life sits Seductio Temptation offering a youth a drink from a goblet. In the foreground also the philosopher Cebes explaining to a bunch of young children the dangers and temptations which lie ahead. Most people within the first wall among who kings and bishops are busy gambling fighting drinking. Within the second wall we see philosophers and scholars. In the background is a high hill with a temple on top a destination which is reached by only a few. Romeyn de Hooghe's engraving is a mirrorwise minimized and free baroque version of Goltzius' more solemn engraving of the 'Tabula' of Cebes of 1592. De Hooghe's details are more explicit narrative and passionate. Life is a sordid fight one drinks and pukes with gusto and we even see a shadowy naked couple making love Condition: Vellum slightly scratched and spotted. Both pastedowns are detached Note: The Enchiridium in English Manual or Handbook of the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus ca. 50-130 A.D. is in fact a later summary or epitome of his collected lectures also called diatribes which had been published by his pupil Arrianus. Like the Stoics Epictetus wanted to make man free and independent of the vicissitudes of fortune. 'We must not he said let our happiness depend on things which are not in our power. The only thing which is always in one's power is one's own self and one's will. This we must keep unblemished. We must be indifferent to death pain and illness and even the loss of our dearest relatives must not touch us. For all this not only belongs to the external world but also happens through Divine Providence which is always good'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 390 The practical exercises for a moral life of the pagan Epictetus found many Christian admirers and he continued to be read in Byzantine times. The Renaissance brought Epictetus new readers. In 1479 a Latin translation by Polizziano of the Manual was published. The Manual was even adapted by a 16th century Jesuit Matteo Ricci for a Chinese public for he argued Stoicism was close in spirit to Confucianism. The classical scholar and neostoic Justus Lipsius 1547-1606 thought that the Stoicism of Epictetus could profitably be combined with Christianity. A host of editions and translations was published before the 19th century. After that interest in Epictetus declined 'although Nietzsche acknowledged him as one of the great moralists of antiquity whose quiet slave nobility compared favorably with Christian slave morality. More recently Epictetus has benefited from a renewed scholarly interest in Hellenistic philosophy'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 319/20 Indeed the Stoic teachings of Epictetus still have their impact. In Wikipedia we found s.v. Epictetus English the story of the American fighter pilot James Stockdale 'who was shot down over North Vietnam became a prisoner of war . and later a vice presidential candidate. In 'Courage under Fire: testing Epictetus's doctrines in a laboratory of human behaviour' 1993 Stockdale credits Epictetus with helping him endure seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese military prison including torture and four years in solitary confinement'. This Enchiridium edition of 1723 called on the frontispiece 'editio tertia' is a reissue of the second edition of the Manual and the 'Tabula Cebetis' which appeared in Delft in 1683. It was first published in 1670 by Van Gaasbeek in Amsterdam and was produced by the Dutch scholar Abraham van Berkel or Abrahamus Berkelius 1639/40 - 1686. Though trained as a physician he renounced medicin and began to study classics under Jacobus Gronovius when he was 30 years old. He soon was appointed Rector of the Schola Latina at Delft where he produced several competent editions besides his Epictetus of 1670 the fragments of Stephanus Byzantinus 'De Urbibus' Leiden 1674 and a new edition with commentary posthumely in 1688 his opus magnum and an edition of Antoninus Liberalis also Leiden 1674. NNBW 1309/10 The third edition of 1723 was produced by one Johannes Caspar Schr�der whom the NNBW does not know. At the end of the preface dated 1722 Schr�der calls himself an 'addictus cliens' of the Mayor of Delft Theodorus Vallensis. From p. 58 the last leaf of the preliminary pages we learn that Schr�der was like Berkelius Rector of the 'Schola Latina' at Delft. Schweighaeuser reveals that Schr�der was an imposter. He simply reissued the second edition of Berkelius 'ejecto Berkelii nomine suum praeponere nomen non erubuerit'. J. Schweighaeuser 'Epicteti Manuale etc.' Leipzig 1798 p. LXI After the preface follow a short biography of Epictetus and a number of ancient testimonia and the opinions on Epictetus of Lipsius Henri Estienne Meric Casaubon and Politianus. After the Enchiridium accompanied by the notes of Wolf Casaubon and Caselius comes the text and Latin translation of a Byzantine 'paraphrasis' of the Enchiridium first published by Meric Casaubon in London 1659. The second half of the book contains the 'Tabula Cebetis'. This is a dialogue which dates from the first century A.D. It was attributed to the philosopher Cebes a student of the Athenian Socrates. In it an ancient temple painting which caught the attention of 2 visitors is explained by an old man. It is an allegorical picture on which the dangers and temptations of human life are symbolically represented. It shows that happiness can only be reached by proper education and a virtuous life. This once popular ethical work is now almost forgotten. But in the 16th 17th and 18th century it was widely read e.g. by clergymen and preachers. The famous engravings of Goltzius and Romeyn de Hooghe of this 'tabula' are discussed above. At the end of the book we find 25 pages with notes of Jacobus Gronovius from 1679 till his death in 1716 professor of Greek at Leiden on the Byzantine 'paraphrasis' of the Enchiridium. These useful notes for which he used the Codex Mediceus were first added to the second edition of 1683. Schweighaeuser praises these notes highly: 'quae Notae . emendationes utique luculentas & necessarias e codice Msto Mediceo ductas continebant'. J. Schweighaeuser 'Epicteti Manuale etc.' Leipzig 1798 p. LIX Collation: -48 A-S8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PLUTARCHUS.‎

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

‎N.pl. Paris Vaenundantur in Officina Ascensiana 1526. Colophon at the end: 'Sub prelo Ascensiano ad Nonas Febru. 1526' Small folio. XIV191 leaves. Contemporary leather. 31 cm Ref: BP16_104378; Renouard Badius Ascensius 3 p. 175 no. 9; Hoffmann 3198/99; cf Schweiger 1264 ed. Paris Asc. 1521; Graesse 5362 Graesse forgot to mention the year 1526; Pettegree/Walsby 83345 Details: Spine with 6 raised bands. Gilt floral motives in the compartments. Ascensius's woodcut printer's device with the date 1520 on the title-page surrounded by broad woodcut borders with some allegorical scenes. The short preface of Iodocus Badius Ascensius' is dated 1521. Ca. 60 big woodcut initials Condition: Cover grazed scuffed & soiled. Foot of the spine chafed. Red morocco shield in the second compartment partly gone. Gilt stamp in the centre of both boards erased and made unrecognizable probably with sandpaper. 2 old and faint ownership entries on the title. Below the printer's mark a small name has been erased resulting in a tiny hole in the paper. Lower margin slightly waterstained. Big stain on 1 leaf. Foxing near the end. Lacking the last blank leaf. Some old ink underlinings and notes Note: The Greek philosopher historian and educator Plutarchus of Chaeroneia was born before 50 A.D. and died after A.D. 120. He is our most important witness of the spiritual climate of the first and second century A.D. He wrote numerous short treatises of popular moral philosophy which go under the general name of 'Moralia'. They include debating themes works in the form of question and answer and serious discussions of philosophical topics. His warm and sympathetic personality can be traced in many treatises which contain also a great deal of antiquarian knowledge picked up by Plutarchus in the course of his wide reading. H.J. Rose A Handbook of Greek literature London 1965 p. 408 The Moralia were very influential in the Renaissance. 'It is no exaggeration to say that Renaissance and early modern Europe discovered Greece and Rome through Plutarch's eyes'. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 748. Hoffmann mentions a great number of Greek Greek/Latin editions and Latin translations of part of the Moralia which were produced during the first half of the 16th century. The French publisher of Flemish origin Badius Ascensius 1462-1535 who was himself an accomplished Greek scholar produced between 1503 and 1526 9 different editions of treatises of the Moralia with translations of Erasmus and Guillaume Bud�. The last one this edition of 1526 has Latin translations made by Erasmus Budaeus Melanchthon et alii. It copies the preceding edition of 1521 but adds at the end 8 leaves with 2 new treatises 'De cohibenda iracundia' & 'De curiositate' both translated by Erasmus. The edition contains also short introductions to several treatises written by the leading scholars of that period Provenance: 2 faint and illegible names on the title one word recognizable as 'Anthonii' Collation: �8 �6 a-z8 A8 minus A8 a blank leaf Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎COLLECTIO PISAURENSIS‎

‎omnium poematum carminum fragmentorum latinorum sive ad christianos sive ad ethnicos sive ad certos sive ad incertos poetas; a prima latinae linguae aetate ad sextum usque christianum seculum & Longobardorum in Italiam adventum pertinens ab omnium poetarum libris collectionibus lapidibus codicibus exscripta.‎

‎Pesaro Pisauri Ex Amantina Chalcographia 1766. 4to. 6 vols: XVIIILII522; IIXXXV480; IIXXIV5291 blank; IILXXIV514; IIVIII388; IIXII306 p. H.calf 27 cm Ref: Schweiger 21284; Ebert 4932; Brunet 2134; Graesse 2215 Details: Backs with 5 raised bands. Floral ornament in the compartments on the back. Edges dyed red. Engraved printer's mark on the first title it depicts a flying Fama the banner of her trumpet reads: 'Hic meret aera liber Sosiis' taken from the 'Ars Poetica' of Horace verse 345/46: 'Hic meret aera liber Sosiis hic et mare transit et longum noto scriptori prorogat aevum'. 'That is the book to make money for the Sosii; this the one to cross the sea and extend to a distant day its author's fame'. Fairglouch Loeb translation. Woodcut initials. Printed in 2 columns. 9 folding leaves of volume 4 are filled with the virtuoso 'carmina figurata' of the late antique poet Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius. The poems of a dazzling technical virtuosity are attractively printed some in red and black on folding leaves to display their ingenuous composition. See J. S. Edwards: 'The Carmina of Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius and the Creative Process' at: somegreymatter.com Condition: Backs rubbed. Head & tail of the backs somewhat chafed. Boards slightly scratched. Paper partly yellowing some gathering slightly browning. Some pinpoint and unobjectionable wormholes in a limited number of pages of volume 1 & 4 Note: The 'Collectio Pisaurensis' is dedicated to the Marquis Carlo Mosca Barzi 'protagonista della cultura Pesarese del 1700' by Paschalis Amatus Pasquali Amati teacher of the illustrious Gymnasium of Pesaro. During their talks in the last few years Amati tells us in the preface they discussed the need for a new and better edition of a corpus comprising all latin poets. The existing collections all printed outside Italy were found to be incomplete and of doubtful quality. Then the Marquis asked young Amati to produce for him a new and better corpus of all Latin poets qui Italici fere omnes & nostrates fuissent which would make Italy proud. Amati gave up his job at the Gymnasium and completed in 2 years this 'Collectio Pisaurensis' in the service of the Marquis who owned also a printing office an office which was called for this occasion after Amati the 'Amatina Chalcographia'. Amati disputes next about the faults of the previous collections of Geneva 1611 Lyon 1616 and of London 1713 which were not well organized not complete and full of typographical errors wrong readings and emendations. He then explains how he searched for new material and how he divided and classified it more logically and chronologically. He consulted important collections edited previously by Henricus en Robertus Stephanus Scriverius Scaliger Almeloveen Burmannus Gruterus and many others. Amati had the bright idea to offer the reader for each author also the biographies and bibliographical matter collected by G. Fabricius in his 'Bibliotheca Latina' 1734-1746. For the authors especially the late antique and christian ones who were not incorporated in Fabricius' bibliography Amati printed the bio- and bibliographical data that he found in the best editions of the time. Amati was not only busy in his study editing this corpus but he also supervised the printing itself. He complains about the tumultuous activity in the printing shop about the pressure of his printers and the heat of the printing type. We donot know if the publishing of the 'Collectio' was as profitable for the Marquis as for the Sosii the work of Horace but it surely extended the fame of the young editor and his noble employer because the 'Collectio' was far better and far completer that earlier editions. The first 4 volumes contain the profane latin poets up to Claudian with at the end of the 4th volume the 'Anthologia Latina'. Volume 5 & 6 contain the 'poetae christiani' with at the end of the last volume an 'Anthologia Christiana' of minor poets collected from manuscripts and inscriptions. � Pasquale Amati or Amatius 1726-1797 was a classical scholar he calls himself 'Litterarum satis expers' but also a jurist. He was professor of Roman law of the University of Ferrara. He is also known for his dissertation 'De restitutione Purpurarum' about the colour purple in antiquity Collation: the collation is sometimes irregular but consistent and complete details on request Photographs on request Heavy set may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎SA MANUEL DE.‎

‎Aphorismi confessariorum ex doctorum sententiis collecti auctore Emanuele Sa Lusitano doctore Theologo Societatis Iesu. Nunc accurate expurgati a Reverendiss. P.M. Sacri Palatii Apost. Indicatis Doct. locis annotationibusque per Andream Victorellum Bass. Theol. illustrati & aucti. Permissu Superiorum. Editio ultima prioribus correctior.‎

‎K�ln Coloniae Apud Ioannem Crithium Sub signo Galli 1612. 12mo. IV65014 indices p. Overlapping vellum 14 cm Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark of the Jesuit Order on the title Condition: Vellum age-tanned. All four ties gone. Outer edge of the first and last two leaves are slightly thumbed Note: The Portuguese Jesuit theologian and Biblical scholar Manuel de S� 1530-1596 the latinized form is Emanuel Sa has written three important works which were repeatedly published in most European countries well into the seventeenth century: 'Scholia in Quatuor Evangelia' 'Notationes in totam Scripturam Sacram' and the 'Aphorismi confessariorum'. In 1557 he was appointed professor at the Roman College at Rome where he lectured on the prophecies of Osee one of the minor prophets and the 'Summa' of Thomas Aquinas. Pope Pius V appointed De Sa as a member of the commission in charge of preparing an authentic edition of the Septuagint. His last work the 'Aphorismi confessariorum' first published in Venice in 1595 is considered to be his most important work. In it the entries are arranged as in encyclopedias in alphabetical order. The word 'aphorism' on the title has little to do with the meaning that we give it today. For instance under the heading 'Episcopus' De Sa offers 43 quotes from different authorative sources to explain the duties and power of a bishop. In 1603 the 'Aphorismi confessariorum' were censured and placed on the 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum' of the Catholic Church in English 'List of Banned Books' a list of publications deemed heretical or anti-clerical. This was done apparently because the 'Master of the Sacred Palace' Magister Sacri Palatii thought some of its maxims not in line with opinions commonly held among catholic theologians. As the title of this 1612 edition shows it was later corrected nuper accurate expurgati and removed 'permissu Superiorum' from the Roman Index. The work was for some decades very popular. Between 1595 and 1632 almost every year somewhere a new edition was printed. The Cologne printer Crithius alone published this work in 1600 1609 1612 1615 and 1621. It was even published in Tokyo in 1603 Collation: �2 A-Z12 Aa-Dd12 E8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS.‎

‎Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt libri XVIII. Ad fidem MS. & veterum Codd. recensiti & Observationibus illustrati. Ex. bibliotheca. Fr. Lindenbrogii &: Fr. Lindenbrogii Observationes in Ammianum Marcellinum; et in eundem Collectanea variarum lectionum.‎

‎Hamburg Hamburgi Ex Bibliopolio Frobeniano 1609. 4to. 2 volumes in 1: VI504 recte 50249;2761 errata p. Overlapping vellum. 21.5 cm Ref: VD17 23:230328M; Schweiger 23: 'Neue Rezension nach Mss besonders trefflichen Florentiner Codex'; Dibdin I256: 'very excellent edition the basis of many following ones'; Moss 138; Ebert 527; Graesse 1104 Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back. Woodcut printers' mark on the title it depicts a gardener planting a tree the motto is 'Posteritati'. Some woodcut initials and headpieces. Edges dyed red Condition: Binding soiled & scratched. Name on the front flyleaf. Paper age-toned. Lacks owing to a binder's error the last preliminary leaf 4 with on the recto side the last page of the 'praefatio' and a blank verso side; of this missing leaf a photocopy is added Note: Ammianus Marcellinus ca. 330-400 AD was a Greek who served as a high officer in the Roman army. He carried arms under the emperors Constantius Julian and Valens. His work 'Res Gestae' meant to continue the work of the Roman historian Tacitus describes the history of Rome from Nerva till the downfall of the emperor Valens in 378 in 31 books. In combining history and biography he follows his example. The first 13 books of the 'Res Gestae' are lost. What is left begins with book 14 the year 353. 'Ammianus' Gesammtleistung reiht ihn unter die grossen Historiker Roms ein'. Neue Pauly I col. 598 His style is not polished but rather harsh and obscure the style of a soldier and a Greek. 'Haec ut miles quondam & Graecus . exorsus' Liber 31 It should also be remembered that he wrote Latin in a period when most historical works were destitute of elegance. Still the work is valuable for its veracity. � This 1609 edition with commentary produced by the German legal and classical scholar Friedrich Lindenbrog 1573-1648 is the first edition which the Dutch scholar P. de Jonge mentions in the short list of normative Ammianus editions in the latest multi volume Groningen Ammianus edition a project that was started in 1972 and is still in progress. The first part of this edition of 1609 contains the Latin text and the second part 266 pages with the 'observationes' and a collection of 'varia lectiones'. � Sandys reports that Lindenbrog was a citizen of Hamburg and was influenced by the genius J.J. Scaliger. Sandys II364 He studied in Leiden and before this lawyer/philologist started a lucrative legal practice he produced a number of editions of Latin authors among them Statius Ammianus & Terentius works that are still to be consulted nowadays. ADB 18 692/93 There exist 2 versions of this edition the text is the same but the number of preliminary leaves differs. Ours has 3 preliminary leaves but there are also copies with 7 preliminary leaves VD17 1:687728. The latter edition shows also some small differences on the title 'I.V.L' Iuris Utriusque Licentiatus is added to the name of Lindenbrog and the impressum says 'in Bibliopolio Frobeniano' instead of 'ex Bibliopolio Frobeniano' Provenance: On the front flyleaf the ownership entry of 'A.D. van Regteren Altena Bergen' Collation: 4 minus leaf 4; leaf 2 blank; A-3Z4 A-2M4 last leaf blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎CICERO.‎

‎Manuscript of 36 pages containing lecture notes on the first 18 capita of the 'Laelius' of Cicero a dialogue on friendship.‎

‎No place no date. Boards. 20 cm Details: The handwriting which is of the first half of the 18th century is hasty but very well legible. The leaves are bound by pamphlet stitch within plain grey boards. Condition: Right lower corner somewhat dog-eared; some small damage to the right lower corner of about 12 pages with the loss of some letters Note: The notes are from the hand of a Dutchman. They explain words verbs and syntax and offer references to other works of Cicero and other writers especially Nepos. Regularly Latin expressions and phrases have been translated into DutchPhotographs on request hardcover‎

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‎CURTIUS RUFUS.‎

‎Quinti Curtii Rufi De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum libri superstites. Cum omnibus supplementis variantibus lectionibus commentariis ac notis perpetuis Fr. Modii V. Acidalii T. Popmae Joh. Freinshemii Joh. Schefferi Christoph. Cellarii Nic. Heinsii. Selectis & excerptis Ph. Rubenii J. Rutgersii C. Barthii Joh. Loccenii M. Raderi Cl. Salmasii J.F. Gronovii M. Tellierii Christoph. Aug. Heumanni itemque Jac. Perizonii vindiciis & aliorum observationibus auctioribusque indicibus curavit & digessit Henricus Snakenburg.‎

‎Delft Leiden Delphis & Lugd. Bat. Apud Adrianum Beman Samuelem Luchtmans 1724. 4to. XXXVII8242221 p. Frontispiece folding map & 17 engraved plates. Vellum 25 cm Ref: STCN ppn 141302143; Schweiger 2323; Brunet 2450: '�dition tr�s estim�e'; Moss 2549: 'This is undoubtedly a very excellent and copious edition'; Ernesti 2352/3; Dibdin 2376/7: 'a very valuable performance and deservedly held in high respect'; Ebert 5554: 'Eine der sch�tzbarst. Ausgg. dieser Art'; Graesse 2311/12; Spoelder p. 580 's-Gravenhage 5 Details: Prize copy without the prize. Back with 6 raised bands. Boards with gilt borders and the gilt coat of arms of The Hague. Title in red & black. Woodcut printer's mark of Luchtmans on the title. Folding map of the expedition of Alexander plates with archaeological object mythological scenes and portraits Condition: Prize removed. Vellum slightly soiled Note: 'This is one of the most valuable Editions of the Latin Classics I have ever read. Snakenburg has approved himself in this work to be a very able and judicious critic. Few editors have illustrated their authors so well'. With this quotation begins the review of Moss of this quarto Variorum edition. Like other Variorum editions it offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted in this case the text published by the German scholar Johannes Casper Freinsheim 1608-1660 which appeared in 1640. The text on the upper half of the pages is accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists on the lower half These are taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like this one 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of these sometimes overloaded vehicles of knowledge was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. Yet Snakenburg did also some research. In a long and well-wrought introduction Snakenburg elaborates on the books he used and the scholars who helped him. He seems to have digested anything worth knowing about Curtius Rufus. He also asked permission from the University Library of Leiden to consult a 'codex antiquissimus'. He further inspected 2 other manuscripts one 'minime negligendus' and the third of a more recent date both 'codices Vossiani'. He collected readings emendations and collations from all normative sources but also e.g. annotations which he found in the margins of a book once owned by the Dutch scholar Nicolaas Heinsius 1620-1681. � Quintus Curtius Rufus probably first cent. A.D. is the author of the only surviving monography on Alexander the Great in Latin. This work consisting of 10 books did not survive in its entirety the first 2 books are lost. The text of Curtius Rufus is preceded in this edition by a rather peculiar philological accomplishment by Freinsheim. He endeavoured to repair the loss of the 2 lost books by a composition of his own a feat which was much admired by his contemporaries. He had published this addition earlier in his edition of 1640. The only thing Hendrik Snakenburg 1674-1750 ever did for scholarship is this Variorum edition. The praise and success which he earned with this one edition makes it likely that he was a good critic with a sound judgement. Snakenburg spent his life teaching classics at the 'Schola Latina' of Leiden. In 1740 he was appointed Rector. In Leiden he was befriended with the classical scholar J. Gronovius and one of the publishers of this book Samuel Luchtmans. His portrait painted by J. Houbraken in 1715 is in the possession of the 'Lakenhal' in Leiden. For Snakenburg see Van der Aa 17-2801 and NNBW 21333/4 Provenance: In pencil on the front pastedown: 'Dr. Brinkgreve'. This is Dr. Marius Roelof Johan Brinkgreve 1888-1966 a Dutch teacher of classics at the gymnasium of Utrecht 1912-1919 later till 1937 the director of 'Koninklijke Begeer' a silver-factory in the small town of Voorschoten. He was an active fascist ca. 1933 party offical of the 'Nationale Unie' and in 1934 leader of the 'Algemeene Nederlandsche Fascisten Bond'. During WW II he sided with the German oppressor. See for Brinkgreve 'Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967'; also G. Brinkgreve 'Schrijvend in 't Aalsmeerder veerhuis opstellen van Geurt Brinkgreve' 1982 p. 93/105 with a portrait Collation: pi1 frontispiece -24 31 -74 A-6P4 6Q4 minus leaf 6Q4 6R2 leaf 6R2 blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎CURTIUS RUFUS.‎

‎Q. Curtii Rufi Historia Alexandri Magni. Cum notis selectiss. Variorum Raderi Freinshemii Loccenii Blancardi &c. Editio accuratissima. Accurante C.S.M.D.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Ex officina Elzeviriana 1664. 8vo. IV93461 blank;7511 p. folding map and folding plate. Mottled 18th century calf 19.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 094956561; Schweiger 2320; Willems 1325; Berghman 2054; Rahir 1369; Moss 548; Dibdin 375; Graesse 2311; Ebert 5549 Details: Beautiful binding. Back with 5 raised bands and panelled gilt with repeating floral motifs; in the center of the compartments gilt birds visit a bunch of flowers. Brown morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. All 3 edges of both boards gilt. Edges of the bookblock dyed red. Endpapers marbled. Engraved title which depicts a world conquering Alexander on horseback trampling his enemy Darius. He is accompanied by a flying Fama who blows her horn. The plate depicts the 'fons solis' a fountain in the Egyptian oasis of the temple of Ammon cool at midday and warm at the rising and setting of the sun. Alexander visited this famous oracle in order to obtain an answer concerning the divinity of his origin; the map shows the triumphal march of Alexander through Egypt and Asia Condition: Fine. Some slight rubbing on the upper board. Some light foxing Note: This is a typical Variorum edition. It offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of these sometimes overloaded 'dustbins' of knowledge 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. In a 'Variorum' edition of Claudianus published by the same Elzevier a year later we get a glimpse of such a division of labour. There the 'typographus' i.e. Louis and/or Daniel Elzevier tells the reader that a 'vir diligentissimus' the schoolmaster Cornelius Schrevelius excerpted from the best sources all that was necessary for a good understanding of the text. 'Quod ad praestantissimi poetae intellectum pertineret ex optimis Doctissimorum Virorum' follows a number of names of Claudianus editors and commentators 'aliorumque qui antea in eo illustrando elaborarunt notis & commentariis selectissima quaeque excerpsit'. � Quintus Curtius Rufus probably first cent. A.D. is the author of the only surviving monography on Alexander the Great in Latin. He was historian enough to use sources which drew from different traditions conscientiously. His aim was not to write great literature but his 'Historia' certainly possesses great narrative qualities acquired by a thorough knowledge of the epic and historiographic tradition and a training in Roman rhetoric. NP s.v. Curtius This work consisting of 10 books did not survive in its entirety the first 2 books are lost. Now the text of Curtius Rufus is preceded here by a rather strange philological accomplishment by the German scholar Johannes Casper Freinsheim 1608-1660. He endeavoured to repair the loss of the 2 lost books by a composition of his own a feat which was much admired by his contemporaries. He published this new text earlier in his edition of 1640. Moss declares that this supplemented text is 'scarcely descernible from that of Q. Curtius'. This 'Variorum' edition of Curtius Rufus was produced by the above mentioned Cornelis Schrevelius 1608 - 1664 who took his doctoral degree in Paris as a Doctor of Medicine in 1627. Hence C.S.M.D. on the title that is 'Cornelis Schrevelius Medicus Doctor'. He was Rector of the Schola Latina at Leiden Provenance: name in ballpoint on the front flyleaf of Lennart H�kanson professor of Latin Literature at the Univ. of Uppsala 1980-1987 Collation: pi2 a-h8 i4 k2; A-3A8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎CURTIUS RUFUS.‎

‎Q. Curtii Rufi Historia Alexandri Magni cum notis selectiss. Variorum Raderi Freinshemii Loccenii Blancardi etc. Editio novissima cui accessit locorum difficiliorum interpretatio.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Ex typographia Blauiana sumptibus Societatis 1684. 8vo. IV864481811 blank p. engraved title 1 folding map & 1 engraved plate. Vellum. 20 cm Ref: Schweiger p 321; Brunet 2.450; Graesse 2311; Spoelder p. 486 Amsterdam 4 Details: Prize copy the prize is however gone. 6 thongs laced through the joints. Back with gilt fillets. Boards with double fillet borders the gilt coat of arms of Amsterdam in the center and gilt cornerpieces. Engraved title depicting Alexander on horseback who crushes an ennemy and is accompanied by a flying Fama. The plate depicts the 'fons solis' a fountain in the Egyptian oasis of the temple of Ammon cool at midday and warm at the rising and setting of the sun. Alexander visited this famous oracle in order to obtain an answer concerning the divinity of his origin Condition: Vellum soiled. Gilt on the back faded away. Binding worn at the extremes. The right margin of the first 8 gatherings is waterstained. Both pastedowns worn. The last page of the index is loose and has thumbed and chipping edges. The slightly waterstained map is also loose and its edges are thumbed Note: This is a typical Variorum edition. It offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists taken or excerpted from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' never broke new ground. The production of these sometimes overloaded 'dustbins' of knowledge 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. In a Variorum edition of Claudianus published by Elzevier in 1665 we get a glimpse of such a division of labour. There the 'typographus' tells the reader that a 'vir diligentissimus' the schoolmaster Cornelius Schrevelius excerpted from the best sources all that was necessary for a good understanding of the text. 'Quod ad praestantissimi poetae intellectum pertineret ex optimis Doctissimorum Virorum' here follows a number of names of Claudianus editors and commentators 'aliorumque qui antea in eo illustrando elaborarunt notis & commentariis selectissima quaeque excerpsit'. As to the Curtius edition on offer here: we have compared this anonymously published edition of Blaeu with the Elzevier edition of Curtius Rufus of 1664 and found out that the text is an almost exact copy. Blaeu used for the engraved title even the plate of the previously published edition. Blaeu only erased the name of the editor Cornelius Schrevelius and instructed an engraver to replace the name by: 'Editio novissima cui accessit locorum difficiliorum interpretatio'. This was done to fool the public. The promised explanation of difficult places placed between the text which is printed at the top of the page and the 'notis variorum' at the lower half is very scant obvious and redundant. The rest is the same. The text of Curtius Rufus is preceded by a rather strange philological accomplishment a feat which was much admired by his contemporaries the endeavour to repair the loss of the first 2 books of the 'Historia Alexandri Magni'. This new Latin text was produced earlier by the German classicist Johannes Casper Freinsheim 1608-1660 in his edition of 1640. Moss declares that this supplemented text is 'scarcely descernible from that of Q. Curtius' Collation: 2 a-h8 i2 leaf i1 loose minus blank leaf i2; A-3E8 3F2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎BERONICIUS.‎

‎P.J. Beronicii Georgarchontomachia caeterorumque ejus carminum sylvula; quorum prius carmine belgico secutum. Boeren- en overheids-stryd en de overige gedichten van P.J. Beronicius welkers eerste in Nederduitsche vaarzen is nagevolgd door J.B. Waar by gevoegd is het zonderling leven des dichters; een goed aantal van Nederduitsche aanteekeningen; en een keurig zestal van fraaije koperen platen.‎

‎Te Goes & Middelburg Bij Jacobus Huysman & Jeroen van de Sande J.z. 1766. 8vo. XX178 p. Modern half vellum 22 cm Ref: Best source: C.J. Krijger 'P.J. Beronicius Boeren- en Overheidsstryd 1673'. Doctoraal scriptie 1986 Reliable: Winkler Prins 6e dr. vol. 3 p. 777; also important: Sizoo Hermeneus 8 1936 p.17/21; uncritical: Van der AA 2442/45; NNBW 888 Details: Tasteful antique style binding with a red morocco shield on the back. Frontispiece & six scenes on three plates by Simon Fokke. The frontispiece depicts the crowning with a laurel wreath by Apollo of a beggarly fellow who wears ragged clothing. In the distance we see the townscape of Middelburg in the front a pile of books and the attributes of a chimney sweep; on the plates scenes of armed and angry mobs. On the verso of the title the signature of one of the publishers J. Huysman. At the end have been added 22 pages with 'adnotationes ad Georgarchontomachiae librum 1 & 2' by Petrus Rabus followed by 20 pages filled with annotations of J.B. in Dutch Condition: A light brown stain on the lower margin of 3 leaves Note: In 1672 on the 21st of july a false rumour swept over the Dutch island of Walcheren: 'The French fleet is landing'. These were combustable times called in Dutch 'het rampjaar' i.e. the year of disasters when the Dutch Republic was besieged from all quarters. At this rumour a furious mob of armed farmers invaded Middelburg the capital of the province of Zeeland. The mob assaulted and arrested city officials considered to be traitors. In the next year a mock epic concerning this historic event was published in Amsterdam 'auctore N. Autopte' i.e. by Mr. Eyewitness. In 1676 the remonstrant minister Anthony Borremans who died in 1683 a man well versed in Greek and Latin reported in the 6th chapter of his Variae Lectiones that the author was one Petrus Johannes Beronicius. He procured also a biographic sketch of this Beronicius which seems to be the starting point of a mystification. Borremans tells that he and some gentlemen J. Antonides van der Goes Dirk Buysero Johan Frederik Gymnich once ran in Middelburg into a pityful drunk who composed Latin verse incredibly fast and on the spot. He was a man of loose morals who earned his living sweeping chimneys and grinding knives. Nevertheless this dirty little fellow 'klein roetzwart rond en dik oud en slordig gekleed' who also made strange gestures was an accomplished neolatin poet. It was said that he spoke his Latin too fast even for the classical scholar J.F. Gronovius when they met. He also spoke Greek fluently and could speak judiciously and scholarly about classical authors. This wonder of the world had witnessed the revolt of the farmers and knowing his Homer very well produced extempore a burlesque epic about the event the Georgarchontomachia. In february 1673 this colourful drunk was found dead in a ditch. The classical scholar and neolatin poet Petrus Rabus 1660-1702 published in 1691 an new edition of this satyrical follow-up of the Homeric Batrachomyomachia accompanied by a translation into Dutch and annotations. He also followed the biography by Borremans. The Latin text was published and translated once again by one J.B. in 1766. J.B. also printed the biographic sketch of Borremans and added 20 pages of notes in Dutch of his own. The biographic data of this versifying chimney sweep were reproduced indiscriminately in later biographic surveys like Van der Aa and NNBW. STCN suggests that Dirk Buysero 1644-1708 a city official of the city of Vlissingen Flushing who was one of the men who met Beronicius might be the real author. There is no evidence for this. It is even improbable. Buysero did not compose one syllable of neolatin poetry. Our guess is that it might be the scholar and soldier Joan van Broekhuizen Janus Broukhusius 1649-1707 who was an intimate friend of Buysero and Van der Goes and was himself an accomplished neolatin poet and a translator. Stylistic research is needed here. A problem is that the name of J.P. Beronicius is not an invention or concoction. There exists in the city accounts of Middelburg a record of someone bearing his name for producing some occasional verses Collation: 8 22 A-L8 M1 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎JULIANUS.‎

‎Les C�sars de l'empereur Julien traduits du grec par feu Mr. le Baron de Spanheim avec des remarques & des preuves enrichies de plus de 300 m�dailles & autres anciens monumens grav�s par Bernard Picart le Romain.‎

‎Amsterdam Chez Fran�ois l'Honor� 1728. 4to. XII including frontispieceXLII2862;196 p. portrait numerous text illustrations. Full contemporary calf. 26 cm Ref: STCN ppn 183621573; Hoffmann 2496; Brunet 3597: '�dition recherch�e'; Ebert 10997; Graesse 3497; Neue Pauly Suppl. 2 p. 338 where the edition of 1683 is mentioned Details: Gilt back with 5 raised bands. Red morocco shield in the second compartment. Title in red en black. Finely engraved frontispiece it depicts a banquet scene with dining and discussing deified Roman emperors. Engraved vignette of Julian on the title. Full page engraved portrait depicting at full length a statue of count Jean Matthias de Schoulembourg commander in chief of the Venetian army to whom the translation has been dedicated. At the beginning of the dedication an engraved headpiece with the coat of arms of Schoulembourg. Engravings of coins and medals throughout the text made by the famous French engraver Bernard Picart. Latin translation no Greek text Condition: Binding worn at extremities. Back rubbed. Joints starting to split but strong. Tail of the spine chafed. Both boards slightly scratched. Paper yellowing. Some faint foxing. Small wormhole in the blank gutter of 24 leaves far from the text Note: The Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus 331-363 is the best documented ruler of late antiquity. He was a nephew of Constantine the Great ca. 280-337 A.D. who had adopted christianity and imposed it on his empire. For dynastic reasons Constantine in between wiped out in a massacre young Julian's family. In exile Julian covertly converted to neoplatonic polytheism. Julian was later at the age of 24 appointed Caesar by the successor of Constantine the emperor Constantius II. In this capacity he proved himself a successful general in Gaule where he repeatedly drove back and crushed the invading Germanic tribes. After the death of Constantius in 361 Julian openly adopted and promoted paganism. Hence the title 'Apostata' because he was the last emperor who rejected and challenged christianity. He tried to revive the pagan state cult and to restore the traditional pagan religious practices. His reign however lasted only 18 months from 361 till 363. 'Julian's voice can be heard memorably in his surviving writings particularly in his letters in a fierce denunciation of the people of Antioch 'Misopogon' or 'Beard-Hater' and in a satire on his imperial predecessors 'Convivium sive Caesares' which ends with a vicious portrait of Christ'. The Classical Tradition Cambridge Massachusetts 2010 p. 500 Julian was both philosopher and a men of letters and far too human for his time. His work 'Against the Galileans' Christians meant to refute christian dogmas is lost but partly survives in fragments and excerpts in 'Contra Iulianum' a work full of slander by a fierce enemy of Julian Cyrillus bishop of Alexandria. � A French translation of Julian's satire 'Convivium sive Caesares' commonly called the 'Caesars' was published in 1666 by the Swiss scholar and diplomat Ezechiel Spanheim 1629-1710. It was repeated in 1683 in Paris and in 1728 in Amsterdam now with 300 engravings of medals and coins. Spanheim was a prominent name in the field of numismatics and is best known for his 'De praestantia et usu veterum numismatum' of 1664 revised and enlarged in 1706. In 1680 Spanheim entered the service of Elector of Brandenburg as minister of state. As ambassador of the Great Elector he spent nine years at the court of Paris. After the Peace of Ryswick in 1697 he returned as ambassador to France where he remained until 1702. On the very day of the coronation of Frederik I as king of Prusia 18th of January 1701 Spanheim was made Baron this to thank him for his services. In 1702 he went on his final diplomatic mission as first Prussian ambassador to England. He died in London in 1710 having eaten too much grapes Clericus tells us. Baron von Spanheim had an encyclopedic knowledge of the ancient world. In 1696 Spanheim published an edition of the 'Opera Omnia' of Julian. � This 1728 edition is the third of that translation. Spanheim had printed as is explained by the Swiss/Dutch scholar Jean Clericus beneath the text observations to help less well informed 'ordinary' men of letters. This ingenious satire is difficult reading 'being full of erudition and allusions to many facts customs and opinions of Greek and Latin authors'. At the end there are 196 pages with 'preuves des remarques sur les C�sars de l'empereur Julien' with remarks and discussions for scholars and more experienced men of letters. The translation Clericus assures us 'is written in a pure style and is very accurate; otherwise that piece of Julian would have lost its beauty. Anyone who compares it with the earlier Latin versions of Cantoclarus and Cunaeus will easily percieve that those translations wanted to be mended and that many passages were spoiled or unintelligible. Besides those translators did not write a sufficient number of remarks to make one understand the sense and design of Julian'. A sympathetic and informative obituary of Spanheim by Johannes Clericus was published in the 'Memoirs of literature containing a large account of many valuable books letters and dissertations upon several subjects' Second edition London 1722 p. 412-426 Provenance: From the Rostagni Library. 'The Rostagni private library has been built over a time of 133 years between 1880 and 2013 by 3 generations of collectors: Augusto Gabinio 1863-1939 internist his nephew Augusto Rostagni 1892-1961 classical philologist at the University of Turin and his son Luigi Rostagni 1932 Operational Director. . Augusto Rostagni taught Ancient literature in various Italian Universities. In 1928 he was appointed professor in Latin literature at the University of Turin an office he fulfilled until his death in 1961. He became one of Italy's most authorative philologists of the 20th century. He held positions of President of the Turin Institute of Classical Philology Dean of the Department of Literature and Philosophy Editor of the Rivista di Filologia Classica President of the 'Accademia delle Scienze di Torino'. He was a well-known member of many Italian and foreign academies and institutions amongst them the Accademia dei Lincei. The Department of Philology Linguistics & Classical Tradition of the University of Turin is named after him.' Burgersdijk & Niermans Auction sale 340 Leiden 2014 p.68 Collation: pi2 French title & frontispiece 4 portrait after leaf 1 -54 61; A-2N4; A-2A4; 2B2. Engraved portrait before leaf 2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PLUTARCHUS.‎

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

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

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