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‎LONGINUS.‎

‎Dionysii Longini quae supersunt. Graece et Latine. Denuo recensuit animadversionibus Toupii Ruhnkenii aliisque subsidiis instruxit Benjamin Weiske.‎

‎Oxford Oxonii E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1820. 8vo. XCV1 blank4751 blank p. Contemporary boards. 23 cm 'An admirable performance' Ref: St. Marin no. 63; Hoffmann 2528; cf. Moss 2228/29; cf. Dibdin 2181/82; Brunet 31153; Graesse 4253: 'excellente �dition'; cf. Ebert 12217 Condition: Cover worn & chafed especially at the extremes. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Interior good Note: This Longinus edition of 1820 is a reissue of the Leipzig edition of 1809 produced by the German scholar Benjamin Weiske 1748-1809. Dibdin calls his edition the best of all Longinus editions. It offers collations of all then known and obtainable manuscripts and the notes from the ealier editions of Toup Ruhnken 'et alii' and the editor's own Provenance: Armorial bookplate of 'Edward Howes Morningthorpe Manor'. Howes 1813-1871 was from 1859 MP for the Conservatives for Norfolk. He entered Trinity College Cambridge and was the Porson prize best translation into Greek verse winner of 1834. He translated into Greek Shakespeare's King Richard II Act 3 sc. 2. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1836 and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1839. Morningthorpe in Norfolk was his residence from april 1861. See his Wikipedia article Collation: a-f8 leaf f8 verso blank; 2b-z8 Aa0Ff8 Hh6 leaf Hh6 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎SALLUSTIUS.‎

‎C. Sallustii Crispi Opera quae extant omnia: cum selectissimis Variorum Observationibus et accurata recensione Antonii Thysii ICti.‎

‎Leiden Lugd. Batavorum Apud Franciscum Hackium 1649. 8vo. XXXII556;LII p. Overlapping vellum 19 cm Ref: STCN ppn 840028938; Schweiger 2878; Dibdin 2385; Ebert 20018; Fabricius/Ernesti Bibliotheca Latina 1243 Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title executed by R. a Persyn Reinier van Persyn depicting in the foreground the arrest of King Jugurtha in front of a triumph chariot; in the background battle scenes; on the upper part is depicted a seated Janus Bifrons giving a throne to a king and a sceptre to a soldier Condition: Vellum slightly spotted. Both pastedowns detached Note: 'One of the most widely read and influential of Roman historians along with Caesar Livy and Tacitus Sallust 86-34 BC has been studied quoted and imitated not only as a historian but also as a moral philosopher political thinker and stylist.' Until 1600 more than 200 editions of his work appeared. Sallust was used in the 16th and 17th century to support absolute theories of government. But 'on the other hand it was the republican Sallust ennemy of tyrants whom John Milton admired and who bolstered the cause of liberty in the Lowlands during the war with Spain and later in France and on the American continent'. The Classical tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 856 Sallustius furnished indeed weapons to the supporters and opponents during the rebellion of the Netherlands against the Spaniards a war of independence that lasted 80 years from 1568 till 1648. Numberless pamphlets appeared during this war and many are full of reminiscences and quotations of classical authors. Sallust also was widely used everyone chose his favourite argument. This was possible because Sallustius preached party politics under a cloak of grave and philosophic impartiality. � The editor of this Sallustius edition Antonius Thysius emphasizes another aspect of the author's world view the corrupting power of wealth. Sallustius is disgusted by the corruption he sees around him decay which was caused by the power and wealth Rome had acquired. Thysius argues in his preface that the Republic of the Netherlands is in the same situation as the Roman republic. Wealth has brought glory and strength for republic and its civilians but it created also the loss of the honest and patriotic frugality of old which made the country great. Thysius warns that Rome having conquered the world was conquered by itself by discord dissensio by the rage for wealth divitiarum nimio studio and poverty amidst astonishing wealth. p. 2 verso The implicite warning of Thysius is that the Netherlands having at last obtained their independence in 1648 must remain frugal and not lose itself in religious dissention. The Dutch jurist and classical scholar Anthony Thys or in Latin Antonius Thysius 1603-1665 was since 1637 professor of po�sis of the University at Leiden where he also lectured on 'jus publicum' after 1663 as professor. He delivered several speeches on patriotic topics at the end of the Eighty Years' War. In 1655 he succeeded Daniel Heinsius as librarian of the University. His Sallustius was a success it was repeated in 1654 1659 1665 ex recensione J.F. Gronovii 1677 and 1689. He also produced an edition of Justinus 1650 of the tragedies of Seneca 1651 Valerius Maximus 1651 Lactantius 1652 Velleius Paterculus 1653 and Gellius 1666. NNBW 5 924/26 Thysius was not a great scholar. He produced 'Variorum' editions in which he skillfully compared and contrasted the excerpted material of brighter minds. Such editions were very popular and contained everthing a student required. It offered the 'textus receptus' which was widely accepted and was accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. Thysius who calls Sallustius 'primum nomen inter Historicos Latinos' declares in the preface that he produced the edition on the request of the publisher. He compiled several editions even consulted manuscripts and also used his own judgement. 'Itaque quicquid ex variarum editionum collatione ex manuscriptis quorum nobis itidem copia fuit vel ex praestantissimorum virorum scriniis vel nostro quoque ingenio ad illustrandum autorem conferre potuimus in hunc florentissimum autorem maximo studio atque industria congessimus'. p. 3 recto Provenance: On the front flyleaf the name of 'H.L. Oort'. This is probably Henricus Lucas Oort 1864-1925. See for him: 'Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme' 1231 Collation: -28 A-2Z8 2P8 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎LUCIANUS.‎

‎LOUKIANOU SAMOSATE�S HAPANTA. Luciani Samosatenis Opera. Ex versione Ioannis Benedicti. Cum notis integris Ioannis Bourdelotii Iacobi Palmerii a Grentemesnil Tanaquilli Fabri Aegidii Menagii Francisci Guieti Ioannis Georgii Graevii Iacobi Gronovii Lamberti Barlaei Iacobi Tollii & selectis aliorum. Accedunt inedita scholia in Lucianum ex Bibliotheca Isaaci Vossii. At the end: Scholia in volumen primum & secundum Luciani. Nunquam hactenus edita. Recensuit & notulas adjecit Johannes Clericus‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Ex Typographia P. &. I. Blaeu Prostant apud Wolfgang Ianssonio-Waesbergios Boom a Someren & Goethals 1687. 8vo. 2 volumes: XXIV106018 index2 blank; IV92226 index; VIII462 blank;551 blank p. engraved frontispiece. Vellum 20 cm Ref: STCN ppn 853061254; Hoffmann 2537; Dibdin 2193; Moss 2262/3; Brunet 31207; Graesse 4278; Ebert 12384 Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Engraved frontispiece: Lucian seated at his desk surrounded by scenes from his writings. Woodcut printer's mark on both titles depicting a celestial sphere flanked by Hermes and Chronus the motto is 'Indefessus agendo'. Woodcut initials. 1 woodcut engraving. Greek text with facing Latin translation Condition: vellum slightly soiled. Old paper shelf number at the foot of the spines Note: This is a typical Variorum edition. It offers a 'textus receptus' which was 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. This edition was produced by Johann George Greffe or Graeve better known as Johannes Georgius Graevius 1632-1703 who was of German origin. He went to the Dutch republic to study classics. He later was appointed professor at Duisburg then at Deventer and finally at Utrecht where he was the last 42 years of his life a star of the first order which adorned its University. He limited his attention almost mainly to Latin prose. This 'Variorum' edition of Lucianus edited by Graevius seems to have escaped the attention of Sandys. Hoffmann & Brunet erroneously state that Johannes Clericus is the editor. Johannes Georgius Graevius himself however tells the reader in a 'Lectori' on p. XVII of vol. 1 about his 'modus operandi' in the production of this edition. He tells his readers that he produced this new edition of Lucian on request of the publishing firm of Blaeu. Graevius consulted the work of the best preceding editors and commentators like Bourdelotius Palmerius Faber and others including the not yet published notes of scholars like Menagius and Jacob Gronovius which they had sent to him. Graevius says he also used the editio princeps of 1496 the Aldus edition of 1503 and the Basel editions of 1555 & 1563 etc. For the Greek text and Latin translation Graevius follows the edition of Johannes Benedictus of 1619. At the end of the second volume have been added 46 and 55 p. with not yet published scholia. Graevius tells the reader that these scholia which were part of the manuscript collection of the Dutch classical scholar Isaac Vossius arrived just after the printing had been completed. These scholia have been edited by the Dutch scholar of Swiss origin Johannes Clericus 1657-1736. Clericus himself explains in his 'Biblioth�que Choisie' vol. 16 p. 400/1 that he certainly didnot produce this edition of Lucianus but that he only edited the scholia. There he also sneers at Graevius and complains about the mediocre quality of the scholia and tells that Vossius sold the printer a bad copy of the scholia for too high a price. See Moss 1263 Dibdin: 'Dr. Harwood calls it this edition of 1687 'a tolerably correct edition and greatly superior to all that preceded it' Provenance: From the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun 1653-1716 a Scottish author and politician. He was leading the opposition against the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England. He also was an passionate book collector. A very fine set with the manuscript entry of Fletcher on the pastedown of both lower boards Collation: 8 24 A-3X8 3Y4 leaf 3Y4 blank; 2 A-3N8 3O2; 24 a-f4 leaf f4 blank; a-g4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎JUVENALIS & PERSIUS.‎

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

‎Leiden Lugd. Bat. Apud Franciscum Hackium 1658. 8vo. XVI63842 index p. Overlapping vellum 20 cm Ref: STCN ppn 840202245; Schweiger 2511; Dibdin 2154; Moss 2158/9; Ebert 11242; Graesse 3520 Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Shorttitle in ink on the back. The engraved title which is not signed is used here for the second time. It was first used for the original edition of 1648 of which this 1658 edition is a reissue; The engraved title of 1648 still bears the name of the engraver it is executed by the Dutch Golden Age engraver Reinier van Persijn; for this edition of 1658 the X before LVIII was simply filed away from the copper plate and at the same time the name of Persijn just beneath the X. The title depicts allegorical scenes: on the left a naked woman sitting on a crocodile holding in her hand a parrot; then a Janus-headed woman with bird feet and a tail holding up in her left hand a Momus-mask and in her right 2 flaming hearts; in the centre sits on a throne an old woman holding in her left hand a sack of money and in her right what seems a little flask; on the right in the foreground a king reaching for that sack; he is accompanied by a priest a farmer and a soldier; in a window central above the old woman we see the ascension of the poet Condition: Vellum age-toned and slightly worn. Oddly enough a previous owner has replaced the vanished X in the impressum for a new one in ink. Outer margin of the first 2 leaves sligthly thumbed Note: The Roman poet Juvenalis ca. 55-140 AD was the last and most influential of the Roman satirists. He 'uses names and examples from the past as protective covers for his expos�s of contemporary vice and folly'. His main theme is the dissolution of the social fabric. The Classical Tradition Cambr. Mass. 2010 p. 501 The satires of the stoic poet Aulus Persius Flaccus form one 'libellus' of 6 satires together 650 hexameters. 'They are well described as Horatian diatribes transformed by Stoic rhetoric'. 'He wrote in a bizarre mixture of cryptic allusions brash colloquialisms and forced imagery. OCD 2nd ed. p. 805 This edition of 1658 is a 'Variorum' edition. It offers the 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. Their involvement in publishing a new edition was limited to the necessary but ungrateful task of the beast of burden. Such a plodder was the Dutch editor Cornelius Schrevelius who taught classics at the Schola Latina at Leiden where he had been raised himself. In 1642 he succeeded his father Theodorus Schrevelius as the rector Moderator of the school. He raised at least 11 kids and fell in 1664 victim to the then raging plague. His first Juvenal edition he published in 1648 and it was reissued by Hackius in 1658 1664 and in 1671. Schrevelius' aim was to promote the studies of his young students and to instill in them a necessary fear optatam metam which will make them useful citizens and the pride of their parents. Juvenal is a suitable author for such an enterprise for he flogs wrongdoers and learns them to avoid the path of wickedness and to embrace honesty. Dedicatio p. 2 verso. Especially in shameless times as ours he continues satyre is needed. Decent behaviour and faith have been replaced by deceit and swindle. In a short 'Benigno Lectori' 4 verso and 5 recto Schrevelius tells that he relies for the text on the earlier editions of Robertus Stephanus and Pithoeus and that he excerpted the notes and commentaries of Lubinus Farnabius and Casaubon. In addition he offers he says a complete and emendated edition of the old Scholiast. Schrevelius even used two excellent manuscripts which were lent to him by the Leiden professor Salmasius which helped him to solve many difficult problems. The engraved title deserves some attention. The easiest description we found was 'an engraved title with many figures'. To us it seems an allegorical scene based on the tenth satire Juvenal's famous declamation on the folly of men in desiring in their prayers from the gods vane things as honor fame wealth power beauty or a long life instead of a sane spirit in a healthy body. 'Whole households have been destroyed by the compliant gods in answer to the masters' prayers. In camp nocitura militia and city nocitura toga alike we ask for things that will be our ruin'. Vss. 7/9 in the Loeb-translation of Ramsay Juvenal offers a list of pityful examples such as the once powerful Sejanus who like Libyan general Gadaffi many centuries later was 'being dragged along by a hook as a show and joy to all'. Vss. 66/67 translation Ramsay Victims of their lust for power were Alexander the Great Xerxes or the Punic conqueror Hannibal the man who was once about to destroy Rome. We assume that the royal figure who reaches out for the sack of money or from whose hands it is being snatched is Hannibal. The clue for this assumption is the woman on the crocodile. Such a woman was in 17th century iconography the common personification of Africa for instance on maps. The fate of this scourge of Rome is treated by Juvenal in evocative language in 20 beautiful verses. It begins like this: 'Put Hannibal into the scales; how many pounds' weight will you find in that greatest of commanders This is the man for whom Africa was all too small'. Vss. 147/8 Together with the old woman he is the central figure on the title. The positioning of the three woman brings in mind a Triad a triple diety such as the Graces the Moirai or Fates or the Harpies. The Erinyes the avenging spirits sometimes form a trinity too. The standing woman seems to be a mixture of an Erinye and a Harpy. She has some features of such a Harpy the personification of deamonic powers and an agent of terrible punishment. She is bare breasted and stands on huge bird claws with which she abducts the souls of the dead to their doom. In her right hands she holds instead of the usual horrifying snake a Momus mask which personifies satire and mockery the power to make a fool or ass of someone. In her left hand rest two flaming hearts catholic imagery distastful to the protestants and therefore perhaps reprensenting idolatry. Her double faced Janushead looking to the future and the past might be an image of Time. The old woman on the throne is the central figure on the title. To her all movement on the picture is directed. She has the features of Atropos the riged and inflexible one the oldest of the 3 Moirai or Fates and in iconography often depicted as an old woman. She has power over life and death and represents the fate that cannot be avoided. She holds Hannibal's fate in her hands. She withdraws the sack of money power and offers with her right hand the once mighty suppliant a little flask or a small beaker with the invitation to poison himself. Juvenal on Hannibal's unglamorous bleak death: 'What then was his end Alas for glory! A conquered man he flees headlong into exile and there he sits a mighty and marvellous suppliant in the Kings's antichamber until it pleases his Bithynian Majesty to awake! No sword no stone no javelin shall end the life which once wrought havoc throughout the world: no but that which shall avenge Cannae and all those seas of blood a ring containing poison'. Vss. 158/165 translation Ramsay The engraver follows for this scene the better known version of the Roman historian Livy. In chapter 51 of the 39th book of his History of Rome 'Ab Urbe Condita' Livy tells that Hannibal took his poison in an 'poculum' a cup/ goblet/ bowl/ beaker Provenance: The last owner was Lennart H�kanson professor of Latin Literature of the University at Uppsala 1980-1987 Collation: 8 A-Z8 Aa-Tt8 Vv4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎BULWER LYTTON E.‎

‎De laatste dagen van Pompeji. Naar het Engelsch van E. Lytton Bulwer schrijver van Eugenius Aram. Pelham enz.‎

‎Amsterdam G.J.A. Beijerinck 1835. 3 volumes: 289; 248; 249 p. Contemporary half cloth. 23 cm Historical novel Details: All 3 title pages have the same engraving designed by the Dutch artist Hendrik Breukelaar and executed by the engraver Philippus Velijn who often worked together; depicted is a scene from the 9th chapter of the 3rd book 'De spelonk der tooverheks' the meeting of Glaukus Jone and a female slave with the witch in her cave; at her feet rest a fox and a viper Condition: Bindings slightly scuffed. Interior fine Note: The famous historical novel 'The Last Days of Pompeii' was first published in 1834. A Dutch translation followed soon. The name of the translator of the novel is however not known for the time being. The reviewer of this novel in the leading literary periodical of the time in the Netherlands 'Vaderlandsche letteroefeningen' of 1836 does not mention his or her name. He recommends the novel to the educated reader and shows admiration for the very successful translation. The fine style of it equals the original in his opinion. Vaderlandsche letteroefeningen' Amsterdam 1836 p. 83/90 hardcover‎

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‎IAMBLICHUS.‎

‎Jamblichi Chalcidensis ex Coele-Syria De vita Pythagorica liber Graece & Latine; ex codice MS a quamplurimis mendis quibus Editio Arceriana scatebat purgatus notisque perpetuis illustratus a Ludolpho Kustero. Versionem Latinam Graeco textui adjunctam confecit Vir Illustiris Ulricus Obrechtus. Accedit Malchus sive Porphyrius De vita Pythagorae cum notis Lucae Holstenii & Conradi Rittershusii itemque Anonymus apud Photium De vita Pythagorae.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelodami Apud Viduam Sebastiani Petzoldi; & filium ejus Christianum Petzoldum 1707. 4to. XVI including a portrait of Pythagoras219161 blank671 blank;93; 7 index p. Vellum 21 cm Ref: STCN ppn 188305637; Hoffmann 2388; Brunet 3493; Ebert 10711; Graesse 3447; Fabricius/Harles. Bibliotheca Graeca 1790 p. 763 Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Frontispiece engraved by J. Mulder of 'Pythagor�s Sami�n' with a portrait of a seated Pythagoras after a coin of Fulvius Ursinus. Title in red & black. Small woodcut floral ornament on the title. Text in 2 colums Greek and Latin iuxtaposed at the bottom of the page the notes. At the end the notes of Ritterhusius in Porphyry. A previous owner has bound at the very end 3 leaves which originate from another book i.e page 177/181 of 'Jamblichus Chalcidensis ex Coele-Syria In Nicomachi Geraseni Arithmeticam introductionem et De Fato. Nunc primum editus in Latinum sermonem conversus notis perpetuis illustratus a Samuele Tennulio' Arnhem 1668. These leaves contain a short chapter called 'Descriptum ex duobus Regiis codicibus fragmentum Iamblichi De fato opera & versione Samuelis Tennulii'. This fragmentum is in fact a fragment of 'De Mysteriis' Condition: Vellum somewhat soiled. 3 small ink stains on the front pastedown. Front flyleaf inscribed with inscriptions from Roman Xanthen. 2 ownership entries on the flyleaf. 1 gathering of the preliminary leaves waterstained Note: The life of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras born ca. 570 B.C. on the island of Samos is enshrouded in legend. 'He wrote probably nothing though works were later fathered on him and already in Aristotle's day his life was obscured by legend'. OCD 2nd ed. 903 We know of him through Iamblichus Porphyrius Diogenes Laertius Plato Plutarch and others. He is said to have taught that the soul is a fallen divinity 'confined within the body as a tomb and condemned to a cycle of reincarnation as man animal or plant from which however it may win release by cultivation of an Apolline purity'. OCD 2nd ed. p. 904 He is the founder of a sect the followers of which obeyed to strict ascetic rules e.g. not eating flesh of killed animals. Pythagoras' speculations concerning the philosophy of nature were important for the development of mathematics and music theory. He is said to have called the universe 'kosmos' because of its inherent ordered structure. Pythagoras would have interpreted the world as a whole through numbers the arithmetic study of which he was believed to have originated. His teachings were probably tranfered in the archaic form of often aenigmatic sayings. The study of the life and work of Pythagoras is obscured by the fact that already the oldest Pythagoreans ascribed their own utterances to the Master of the sect. The proverbial 'autos epha' Pythagoras himself said so was considered as an ultimate proof of identity. His body of thought was incorporated in Platonism and found followers well into late antiquity. In modern times Pythagoras played an important role in the devolopment of the study of natural sciences. Gallilei Copernicus and Kepler appealed to him. � This edition of 1707 contains 2 biographical sketches of Pythagoras by late antique admirers Iamblichus and Porphyry. The Neoplatonic philosophers Porphyrius born ca. 234 AD in Phoenician Tyros is the oldest. He probably wrote the 'Live of Pythagoras' with the design of exhibiting Pythagoras as equal to Jesus Christ in his miracles and precepts. Porphyry a defender of paganism against chrisitanity was more a encyclopedic polymath than an original thinker. In his surviving treatises on mathematics astronomy music grammar rhetorics and history logic and in his commentaries he has the good habit of quoting his sources by name. He thus presevered many fragments of older learnings. OCD 2nd ed. p. 864/65 Porphyry was a student of Plotinus whose Enneads he edited somewhere after 300. Most of his work is written from a Plotinian point of view. He produced also numerous philosophical commentaries on Plato Aristotle Theophrastus and Plotinus. The aim of philosphy is according to Porphyry the union with God which one might reach through an ascetic life. Porphyri is beside Pythagoras the most famous vegitarian of antiquity. He even wrote a monography on vegetarianism 'De Abstinentia'. � Porphyry's pupil Iamblichus also wrote a biography of Pythagoras. His biography forms part of a much more ambitious project a 10 volume encyclopedia on Pythagorism of which 4 books have survived. This biography is the first book of the surviving 4. � The 2 biographies in this edition were edited with commentary and a Latin translation by the Westphalian classical scholar Ludolph K�ster 1670-1716 who spent most of live in the Dutch Republic. He is best known for his 3-volume edition of Suidas Cambridge 1705. In 1710 he produced a much revised edition of John Mill's 'Novum Testamentum' of 1707. K�ster who was an excellent textual critic and palaeographer revised also completely the text of the 'De vita Pythagorica liber' which had been plubished previously by the Frisian professor Johannes Arcerius Theodoretus son of Theodor in 1598. Arcerius was professor of Greek at the universtiy of Franeker from 1589. He published the 'vita' with the help of a manuscript of Iamblichus he possessed but it was of no avail. His edition and its translation are considered to be rubbish. See for him and his edition Hoffmann 2387/88 and NNBW 458/59 K�ster collated for this edition manuscripts of the Royal Library at Paris the Bodleian Library and a manuscript from the library of Spanhemius. Ad Lectorum 4 verso 'Quod ad versionem Latinam Arcerii quam prior Edit. habet attinet adeo vitiosa est ut tota pene lituram mereatur'. 2 verso Instead K�ster chose for his edition the exellent translation of Ulricus Obrecht Professor of History at Strasburg which had been published anonymously there in 1700. In his commentary on the live written by Porphyry K�ster incorporated the notes of the German scholars Conrad Ritterhusius and Lucas Holstenius published in 1610 in Altorf and in Rome in 1630 Provenance: name on front flyleaf: 'J.B. van de Mortel 1800'. On titven.nl/index.phptitle=Aen_den_Honscamp we found that one J.B. van Mortel was burgomaster of Grubbenvorst from 1808 till 1815. Later he was a member of 'Provinicale en Gedeputeerde Staten' of the province of Noord Brabant for the rural communities. On the verso of this flyleaf has been written: 'Kt�ma Joh. Hildebrandi Withofii. Anno 1718 Trajecti Batav. Symbolum: Mundus regitur opinionibus'. This is the handwriting of Johann Hildebrand Withof 1694-1769. After having studied in Germany he went to Utrecht where he probably bought this book to finish is studies on the University at Utrecht under Burman and Duker. In 1718 he was appointed rector of the Schola Latina at the Dutch city of Zaltbommel. 2 year later in 1720 he became professor of rhetoric Greek and history on the University at Duisburg. His rich library numbered 12000 volumes. ADB 43558/59 Withof has also a short lemma in Wikipedia Collation: -24 A-3D4 3E2 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎BUTTMANN Ph.‎

‎Lexilogus or critical examination of the meaning and etymology of numerous Greek words and passages intended principally for Homer and Hesiod. By Philip Buttmann LL.D late professor in the University of Berlin and librarian of the Royal Library. Translated and edited with explanatory notes and copious indexes by J.R. Fishlake late fellow of Wadham College Oxford. Second edition revised.‎

‎London John Murray 1840. 8vo. XVI597 p. Calf 22 cm Details: Nice binding: Back with 5 raised bands and with gilt floral motives in the compartments.n Orange lettering label in the second compartment of the back. Boards with double fillet gilt borders; marbled endpapers; edges of the boards gilt book block has marbled edges Condition: Some slight wear to the extremities; boards slightly scratched; blind stamp of 'W.J. Richards Bookseller High St. 104 Oxford' in the front flyleaf Note: Philipp Karl Buttmann 1764-1829 was elected in 1806 a member of the Academy at Berlin and was made in 1811 keeper of the Royal Library. His best-known work was his Griechische Grammatik Greek grammar first published in 1792 which saw a dozen or two expanded and revised editions. It was also translated into English e.g. as a 'Greek grammar for the use of high schools and universities'. 'The introduction of this grammar led to a marked improvement in the Greek scholarship of the schools of Germany. In his Lexilogus he proves himself an acute investigator of the meanings of Homeric words and displays a keen sense of the historic development of language but is obvously unconscious of the importance of the principles of comparative philology'. . But his main strength lay in Greek grammar and Homeric lexicography'. Sandys 384/85 The editor/translator reverend Fishlake tells us in his preface to the Lexilogus that he improved the consultation of the work. 'I have made another minor alteration by a fresh arrangment of the Articles. Buttmann wrote and published as he met with a difficult or doubtful word in the course of his readings. I have arranged the Articles alphabetically'. Preface p. IV He calls his own additions 'very trifling' inserting them between brackets. Here and there he has added the opinions of the German lexicographers Schneider and Passow where they happen to differ from Buttmann Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎BONAMICUS CASTRUCCIUS.‎

‎Castruccii Bonamici De rebus ad Velitras gestis commentarius. Ad Trojanum Aquavivam Aragonium S.R.E. Principem Cardinalem Montis Regalis Archiepiscopum et potentissimorum Hispaniarum atque utriusque Siciliae Regum ad Pontificem Maximum Sedemque apostolicam Legatum. Editio nova auctior. Curante Cornelio Valerio Vonck.‎

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Marcum Michaelem Rey 1748. 8vo. XXIV64 p. Vellum 21 cm Ref: IJsewijn Companion 2nd ed. 166; Michaud Biographie Universelle 1854 p. 147 Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Green morocco label on the back. Marbled endpapers. Title in red and black. Engraved printer's mark of the French refugee printer/publisher Marc Michel Rey on the title depicting a beehive: motto 'ingeniosa assiduitate' Condition: Binding slightly curved and age-toned. Tail of the spine chafed. Back and morocco shield somewhat rubbed. A few tiny pinpoint spots of insect damage to the joints. A small and old ink annotation on the front flyleaf Note: This book is the first big success of the Italian soldier historian and neolatin author Castruccio Buonamici 1710-1761. He is considered te be one of the most elegant of the neolatin authors of the 18th century. After a short ecclesiastical career he enlisted in the army of the King of the Two Sicilies and Spain Charles de Bourbon. In the war against the Austrians he distinguished himself in 1744 in the battle of Vellitri Roman Velitrae. The Latin report of this battle by the cultivated warrior 'De rebus ad Velitras etc.' was first published in 4to in 1746. A few years later he produced his 'Commentarii de Bello Italico' Leiden 1750/51 a work which met with even greater success. Both works were reissued several times and translated into French and English. Buonamici is praised for his elegant style the power and depth of his ideas and his reliability. Both works of Buonamici were published also by the Dutch scholar Cornelius Valerius Vonck 1725-1769 a man known as a judicious corrector of Latin authors. For 2 years he was professor at the university of Mannheim. This editionof 1748 is a new and augmented edition of 'De rebus ad Velitras etc.'. According to the impressum of the 1746 edition 'Lugduni Batavorum' it was first printed in Leiden. Vonck explains however in the prolegomena that the first edition of this book could not possibly have been printed in Leiden because of the quality of the paper and the printing type. And we know he continues that in some countries people have good reasons to conceal the 'genuinum typographi atque editionis locum'. Praefatio p. VII. Vonck seems to be well informed he calls himself 'non omnino harum rerum ignarus'. The first edition of 1746 must have been printed in the region where the author was born Lucca he concludes. Why he does not say. The book is dedicated to the cardinal Trojano Acquaviva 1696-1747 bishop of Monreale. He represented in the Curia of the Vatican the interests of the King of Spain and the Sicilies Charles III On Vonck see Van der Aa 19 327/8 Collation: 8 24; A-D8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PLINIUS MINOR.‎

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

‎Amsterdam Amstelaedami Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1734. 4to. Frontispiece LII924;8461191 blank p. Vellum 26.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 186700156; Schweiger 2809/10; Brunet 4722: 'bonne �dition'; Dibdin 2332; Graesse 5343; Fabricius/Ernesti 2416: 'optima editio' Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Short title in the second compartment. Blind tooled boards. The engraved frontispiece depicts a pensive Pliny busy writing a letter. Title printed in red & black. The engraved printer's mark on the title shows a mole flanked by Athena and Hermes; the motto reads: 'Vulgo caeca vocor. Video sed acutius ipso' Condition: Nice copy. Vellum very slightly soiled. Vellum at the outer edge of the upper board very slightly damaged Note: The Roman civilian administrator Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus 61-112 A.D published 9 books of literary letters consisting of short essays character sketches and sensible observations. The letters paint the high society of the young Roman empire. The tenth book contains Pliny's correspondence with the emperor Trajan. Pliny is famous for his description of the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The German classical scholar Gotlieb Cortius or Kortte 1698-1731 made his name producing editions of Latin authors whose works were provided with very extensive commentaries 'cum notis Variorum' in the manner of the Dutch scholar Petrus Burmannus to whom this edition is actually dedicated. Such commentaries are 'Fundgruben' for the classical scholar. The students should bear in mind that the outdated commentaries were the work of scholars who knew their latin far beter than they do. Dibdin shows admiration for the work of Cortius. 'This' he says 'is a very critical and elaborate edition calculated for those who wish to enter minutely into all the niceties of grammatical construction and historical illustration'. Ernesti says that this is a work 'quae est sane luculenta et ut nunc est optima editio'. Cortius died before he could finish the job. Most work was done by a pupil of Cortius the young German philologist Paul Daniel Longolius 1704-1779 from 1735 Rector of the Gymnasium in Hof Saale. He published 3 ancient authors in an exemplary manner the Letters of Pliny the Younger Diogenes Laertius 1739 and Gellius 1741. ADB 19156/7 The edition of the letters and its commentary is preceded by a 70 pages long biography of Pliny by J. Masson which was first published in Amsterdam in 1709. Schweiger 2818 Collation: pi1 4 minus leaf 4 2-74 leaf 74 blank; a-m4; A-5O4 a-p4 leaf p4 verso blank Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎LABBAEUS C. Ed.‎

‎Cyrilli Philoxeni aliorumque veterum Glossaria latino-graeca & graeco-latina a Carolo Labbaeo collecta & in duplicem alphabeticum ordinem redacta. Cum variis emendationibus ex MSS. Codd. petitis virorumque doctorum castigationibus ac conjectaneis his accedunt Glossae aliquot aliae latino-graecae ex iisdem Codd. MSS. quae nunc primum prodeunt. Praeterea veteres glossae verborum juris quae passim in Basilicis reperiuntur ex variis perinde Codd. MSS. Bibliothecae Regiae erutae digestae & notis illustratae ab eodem Carolo Labbaeo. Edidit et praefationem adjecit Car. Du Fresne du Cange Bound with: Aegidius Bucherius Aegidii Bucherii Atrebatis e Societate Iesu De doctrina temporum commentarius in Victorium Aquitanum nunc primum post 1177 annos in lucem editum aliosque antiquos Canonum Paschalium Scriptores chronologiae Ecclesiasticae illustrandae ac stabiliendae utilissimos.‎

‎Ad 1: Paris Lutetiae Parisiorum Cura & impensis Ludovici Billaine 1679. Ad 2: Antwerp Antverpiae Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti 1634. Colophon at the end: 'Antverpiae Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti 1633' Folio. 2 volumes in 1: II2082246 recte 244;40 p.; XXXII5002 colophon & printer's mark p. Contemporary calf. 33 cm Ref: Ad 1: Hoffmann 1497; Brunet 2464; Ebert 5608; Graesse 2317. Ad 2: STCV:6667622; Beledimar 1921: Ebert 2098b who gives as date 1633; Backer-Sommervogel I 1867 2 who mentions the date 1636 Details: Back with 6 raised bands. Ad 1: This collection of 'glossaria' consists of 3 parts the first two of which have their own title page each showing a woodcut ornament. The first part contains the Greek-Latin 'glossaria' the second part the Latin-Greek 'glossaria'. The third part the last 40 p. contain the 'Veteres Glossae verborum juris'. Ad 2: Title in red & black. An engraving of angels around the Jesuit IHS-device on the title. Plantin's printers' mark on the verso of the last leaf Condition: Binding very worn & very shabby. Leather on the boards abraded. Head & tail of the back chafed. Shield on the back half gone. Corners bumped. Front hinge cracking but strong. Fold in the front flyleaf. Margins of the first title are thumbed and browning. A few not objectional wormholes in the upper & lower margin keeping far away from any text Note: Ad 1: Philoxenus Alexandrinus was a grammarian who lived in the first century BC. Traces of his work are to be found in later grammarians and lexicographers. Neue Pauly Philoxenus 8 � Cyrillus 5th century AD. His Glosses were used by Hesychius Photius and in the Suda. Neue Pauly Kyrillos 5 and 6. � Charles Labb� 1582-1657 was a parliamentary barrister at Paris who published with the help of J.J. Scaliger Glosses on Greek law 1607 and prepared an edition this edition of the Glossaries of Cyril and Philoxenus which was published after his death by the French philologist lexicographer and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium Charles du Fresne sieur du Cange in short Du Cange 1679. Sandys 2287 The first part of this work contains Greek-Latin glosses the second Latin-Greek glosses followed by emendations. This work was reprinted in London 1817 etc. as an appendage to the new edition of Stephanus' Greek Thesaurus. Ad 2: Aegidius Bucherius Gilles Boucher 1576-1665 was a French Jesuit and chronological scholar. His 'De Doctrina Temporum commentarius in Victorium Aquitanum' of 1633/34 published for the first time a number of important medieval chronological documents and other works on the computation of the date of Easter the so-called cycle of Victorius of Aquitaine. First comes the 'Canon Paschalis' of Victorius Aquitanus himself followed by Bucherius' commentary p. 1-288 then comes bishop Hippolytus Portuensis' of Portus also known as Hippolytus of Rome 'Canon Paschalis priscorum Latinorum rationibus confirmis' also with the commentary of Bucherius p. 289-312 then Bucherius' treatise 'Tractatus de antiquo Paschali Iudaeorum cyclo latinorum item conformi maxime ex Epiphanio' p.313-432 and the 'editio princeps' of Anatolius Alexandrinus' 'Canon Paschalis' 433-466 and finally the 'Epistolae patrum antiquorum de festi Paschalis ratione' p. 467-493. � Victorius Aquitanus had written ca. 450 the 'Cursus Paschalis' called 'Canon Paschalis' in this edition in which he introduced a more precise computation of Easter. During the Synode of Orl�ans of 541 Victorius' computations were accepted by the church. LMA 81629/30. Bucherius tells us in the 'praefatio' that he got the MS with the 'Cursus Paschalis' from his fellow Jesuit Jacobus Sirmundus during a visit to Paris in 1615. The 'editio princeps' of and the commentary on the 'Cursus Paschalis' and of the other late antique and early medieval computistical texts laid together with the work of Joseph Justus Scaliger 1579 and 1606 and that of Dionysius Petavius 1627 the foundations of the science of 'Computus' the science of time-reckoning and of 'Computus ecclesiasticus' the method to regulate the calender of the church especially the date of Easter Collation: Ad 1: pi1; A-2C4; chi1 A-2A4 2B2 2C-2H4; a-e4. Ad 2: - 44 A-3R4 minus blank leaf 3R4 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎LYCOPHRON.‎

‎First title: LUKOPHRONOS TOU CHALKIDE�S ALEXANDRA to skoteinon poi�ma kai eis auto touto ISAAKIOU mallon de I�ANNOU tou TZETZOU EX�G�MA. Second title: Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra obscurum poema. Cum graeco Isaacii seu potius Johannis Tzetzae commentario. Versiones variantes lectiones emendationes adnotationes & indices necessarios adjecit Johannes Potterus A.M. & Collegii Lincolniensis Socius. Editio secunda priori auctior.‎

‎Oxford Oxonii E Theatro Sheldoniano impensis Joannis Oweni 1702. Folio. XVIII including a frontispiece & a title in Greek:1831 blank28 index2417417 index1 blank p. Vellum 33 cm Ref: ESTC Citation No. T107442; Hoffmann 2569; Dibdin 2209/210; Brunet 31248; Sandys 2356; Graesse 4309; Ebert 12546: 'This 2nd edition is particularly scarce' Details: 8 thongs laced through the joints. Red morocco shield on the back. The frontispiece an engraving of 'M. Burghers' depicts Alexandra she points at Troy in fire in the background. Burghers was one of the leading engravers of England during that period. The book has 2 titles the first one is in Greek and is adorned with an big engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre also made by Burghers. The second title is in Latin and has a woodcut printer's mark which shows the wellknown coat of arms of the University of Oxford Condition: Vellum soiled. Boards somewhat outstanding Note: Lycophron 3rd cent. BC was called to Alexandria by King Ptolemaeus Philadelphos. There he wrote his Alexandra or Cassandra ca. 1474 iambic trimeters in which Kassandra =Alexandra tells about the fall of Troy and the fates of the Greek and Trojan Heroes. Dibdin calls this edition 'beautiful' and the 'editio optima'. He cites Harwood who declares this work to be 'an everlasting monument of the learning of the illustrious editor'. The illustrious editor was the learned cleric John Potter 1674-1747 who later in life in 1737 was appointed bishop of Canterbury. Young Potter corrected in this edition the commentaries of Tzetzes using 3 new manuscripts; he added indices and annotations of himself. At the age of 14 Potter was sent to Oxford University College. There he distinguished himself by his knowledge of Greek. Still a young man in 1697 he produced his first edition of Lycophron. In 1698 Potter published his greatest success the 'Archaeologia Graeca' which long remained a standard book for Greek students in Britain. In 1715 Potter produced his splendid edition of Clemens Alexandrinus. Chalmers' Biography 25231 The first 146 p. of this 1702 edition contain the Greek text with iuxtaposed the Latin prose translation of the Dutch classical scholar Willlem Canter 1545-1572 dating from 1566. The scholia are printed on the lower half of the page together with the 'variantes lectiones' and the 'emendationes'. After the Greek text follows the metrical iambico carmine translation into smooth Latin made by J.J. Scaliger 1540-1609 which was published toghether with Canter's translation in 1566 in Basel. The second half of the book contains the notes annotationes of Canter and a specimen of Canter's versatility in Greek and Latin verse the 'Epitome Cassandrae graeco-Latina versibus Anacreontiis conscripta'. Added is also the commentary of the Dutch classical scholar Johannes Meursius 1579-1639 published in 1597 & 1599. At the end we find the commentary of John Potter himself Provenance: Small bookplate of the Swiss politician Karl Zeerleder 1780-1851 on the front pastedown. Small blind stamped owner's mark of Mark Pattison 1813-1884 in the right margin of the title. Pattison was like Potter a tutor at Lincoln College. In 1861 Pattison was elected rector. He is best known for his biography of the French classical scholar Isaac Casaubon and for being Mr. Casaubon a chief character in Middlemarch the famous novel of George Eliot Collation: Frontispiece pi2 a-b2 A-D2 E-2C4 2D-2I2 chi1; A-Z4 Aa4 Bb2 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎NEPOS.‎

‎Cornelii Nepotis vitae excellentium imperatorum quorumdam iconibus ornatae et nonnullis animadversionibus partim criticis partim historicis inlustratae ab Augustino van Staveren. Editio altera.‎

‎Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Apud S. et J. Luchtmans 1793. 12mo. XIV including frontispiece434 72 p.; 7 small engraved portraits in the text. Later half calf 12.5 cm Ref: cf. Schweiger 2302; cf Brunet 2289 Details: Back ruled blind and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece depicting Clio with a pen in her hand she receives advice from Kronos who holds a scythe a winged Fama blows her trumpet. Seven small engraved portraits in the text Condition: Binding scuffed. Some pencil notes. Lower margin of the title cut short with loss of part of the impressum Note: This is an edition with commentary of the only surviving complete work of the Roman historian Cornelius Nepos ca. 100-24 B.C. 'De excellentibus ducibus exterrarum gentium' the first surviving ancient collection of biographies. 'De excellentibus etc.' contains the lives of 20 Greek generals and the Carthaginians Hamilkar and Hannibal. Nepos corresponded with Cicero and was close with Cicero's friend Atticus. The collection served probably as a model for Plutarch's Vitae Parallelae. In his own days and in late antiquity Nepos was considered to be a source of importance. The churchfather Hieronymus included him as great historian in his 'De viris illustribus' 392 A.D. The simple style of writing of Nepos has made him a standard choice for schools. The biographies provided the pupils also models of behaviour. Schweiger mentions numerous editions. This edition was compiled by the Dutch schoolmaster Augustinus van Staveren 1704-1772 who was appointed in 1750 Rector of the Schola Latina at Leyden. He produced during his career two editions of Nepos a learned 'editio maior' a stout octavo of 765 p. 'cum notis Variorum suisque' which was first published in 1734 second edition 1773. In 1755 he produced at the request of the publishing firm Luchtmans an 'editio minor' a small but thick duodecimo 'cum notis A. van Staveren'. The first one of 1734 is a socalled 'Variorum' edition. Such editions' offer usually the 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists taken from earlier useful normative or renewing editions. Editions like these 'cum notis Variorum' were useful but never broke new ground. The production of this kind of editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars but often hard working schoolmasters. Van Staveren's 'editio minor' of 1755 was repeated in 1793. The minor edition left out the learned commentaries but offered a revised text accompanied by critical and historical notes of Van Staveren which often contain material found by him in Greek sources. Van der Aa 172 p. 966/67 The frontispiece and the engravings in the text have a long history. The copper plates for them were first used in 1658. They were used again in editions of 1675 1687 1704 1705 1728 1734 1773 and finally here in 1793 Provenance: in pencil on the verso of the front flyleaf: 'A. Roozendaal 1944'. We found one 'A. Roozendaal Amersfoort' in the tabula gratulatoria of the Festschrift 'Studia varia Carolo Guilielmo Vollgraff a discipulis oblata' Amsterdam 1948 p. 194. After we had found this a small receipt ticket of a restaurant in Amersfoort dated 20/3/55 fell out of this book; at the back a note on Van Staveren apparantly made the same Roozendaal now an elderly person; A. Roozendaal was probably a student of C.W. Vollgraff professor of Greek and Archaeology of the University at Utrecht. Vollgraff died in 1967 91 years old Collation: 8 minus 8including frontispiece A-X12 Y1 Photographs on request unknown‎

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‎FABRICIUS JA. J. A.‎

‎Jo. Alberti Fabricii SS. Theol. D. & Prof. Publ. Bibliographia Antiquaria sive introductio in notitiam scriptorum qui antiquitates Hebraicas Graecas Romanas et Christianas scriptis illustraverunt. Editio secunda auctior & indice duplici rerum scriptorumque locupleta.‎

‎Hamburg Leipzig Hamburgi et Lipsiae Impensis Christiani Liebezeit 1716. 4to. XIV66464 index p. 1 engraved plate. Vellum 21.5 cm Ref: VD18 15351424; Brunet 21154; cf. Ebert 7274; C. Bursian 'Geschichte der classischen Philologie' Munchen/Leipzig 1883 vol. 1 p. 360/61: 'eine Sammlung von B�chertiteln und sonstigen Notizen �ber hebr�rische griechische r�mische und christliche Alterth�mer' Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Title printed in red and black. Good quality paper. The edges are dyed red. This book contains a plate engraved by 'Kraus'. This must be the German engraver Johann Ulrich Kraus 1655-1719 or his wife Johanna Sibylla ca. 1650-1717. 'Kraus Stil is ganz im Zeitgeschmack des Hochbarock an franz�sischen Vorbilder orientiert'. NDB 12 689/90 This heavily ornamented plate illustrates a chapter in the book on the Roman Apotheosis funeral rite which led to the deification of Roman rulers and their wives. It depicts a smoking funeral pyre in the shape of an enormous modern wedding cake; the pyre is surrounded by Roman soldiers priests etc. In most copies we know of this book this plate is bound before the title and functions there as a kind of frontispiece Condition: Vellum soiled. Right margin of the title is thumbed. The turn-in strip at the outer margin of the inside of the lower board is loosening Note: The late 17th century was for classical scholarship the age of epigones men who were more compilators than great scholars. Classical scholars started to produce often voluminous editions of Greek and Latin authors packed 'cum notis Variorum' others produced enormous surveys and summaries for instance classicists like Jacobus Gronovius who published his huge 13 volume 'Thesaurus Antiquitatum Graecarum' 1697/1703 and Johannes Georgius Graevius who compiled a 'Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum' 1694-1699 in 12 huge volumes. Such processing of knowledge was only useful because 'sie literarische Zeugnisse f�r zahllose Einzelerscheinungen des antiken Lebens grosse und ganz geringe mit saurem Schweisse sammelte und nach Kr�ften ordnete'. U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff 'Geschichte der Philologie' Lpz./Bln. 1921 p. 33 Wilamowitz perhaps the greatest classical scholar ever strongly disapproved of this kind of scholarship because 'Vielwisserei' hampered progress. 'Wo das K�nnen immer schwacher ward galt das Wissen immer mehr Polyhistorie war das H�chste was man anstrebte. . Polymathie schafft keinen Verstand hat schon Herakleitos gesagt'. Idem p. 34. A Polymath in the flesh was the German classical scholar and bibliographer Johann Albert Fabricius 1668-1736 a man 'von staunenswerthem Fleiss und unermesslicher Belesenheit'. Bursian p. 360 He was a celebrated bibliographer and among the foremost among the German classical scholars of his time. His chef-d'oeuvre is the 'Bibliotheca Graeca' a bibliographic survey of Greek literature 1705-1728. The last edition of this work numbers 14 volumes. It displays an immense learning and supplied the basis for all subsequent histories of Greek literature. It's bibliographic data are still useful for classical scholars. His 3 volume 'Bibliotheca Latina' 1708-1721 is on a more modest scale. Nevertheless it still is a useful work of reference. Its last edition of 1773-1774 is still consulted by scholars librarians and antiquarian booksellers and it is more than once repeated or excerpted by later bibliographers like Schweiger Dibdin or Moss. Fabricius also produced a 'Bibliotheca Latina Ecclesiastica' 1718 and a 5 volume 'Bibliotheca Latina Mediae et Infimae Aetatis' 1734-1736. � Johann Albert Fabricius began to teach on the Gymnasium at Hamburg in 1699 and remained there until his death. There he collected 'in stiller m�hsamer Einzelarbeit' his bibliographic material for Greek Latin Byzantine and Medieval Latin literature. The NDB does not speak of the suffocation caused by the compiling 'epigones' but is full of praise. 'Diese zuverl�ssige wohlgeordnete Sammelarbeit war unsch�tzbar nicht nur als Grundlage f�r die historische und kritische Arbeit der folgenden Generationen von Gelehrten sodern auch als Arsenal f�r unsere Klassiker'. NDB 4732/33 NDB concludes with the statement that Fabricius equals 'doch als Polyhistor von unwahrscheinlicher Fruchtbarkeit' the great Leibniz. steht in der N�he des grossen Leibniz The pupils on Fabricius' Gymnasium must have been diligent and brilliant because he tells in the preface to this 'Bibliotheca Antiquaria' that it is a collection of private lectures held for youngster who visited his school. It is a kind of encyclopedia the approach of which is thematic. It consists of notices of the authors who had published on Jewish Greek Roman and ecclesiastical antiquities. For instance on 'antiquitates graecae' he refers to the general survey works of importance including a 19 page table of contents of the 'Thesaurus Antiquitatum Graecarum' of Gronovius. The first 4 chapters discuss general works of writers on Jewish Greek Roman and christian antiquities. Chapter 5 is on geography 6 on works describing ancient Rome 7 on chronology 8 on gods and saints 9 on altars temples sacred places 10 on 'Festus' 11 on sacrifices and rituals 12 on divination miracles and magic 13 on priests and clerics 14 on 'De re publica' 15 on law 16 on taxes measures and weights 17 on militaria and nautica 18 on clothes 19 on food and convivia 20 on marriage and family 21 on school and education 22 on Games monuments and buildings 23 is on death. The elaborate 'index rerum' and 'index scriptorum' are useful tools to find one's way in this farrago of names titles and other interesting data Collation: 4 minus leaf 4 24; A-Z4 Aa-Zz4; Aaa-Zzz4 Aaaa-Yyyy4 after Ll2 page 267/8 has been bound a plate which other copies have before the title as a kind of frontispiece Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎THUCYDIDES. PAULINUS F.‎

‎Praelectiones Marciae sive Commentaria in Thucydidis Historiam seu Narrationem de Peste Atheniensium. Ex ore Fabii Paulini Utinensis philosophi et medici in Veneto Gymnasio ad D. Marci Bibliothecam excepta et edita. Ad Excellentiss. III. Viros Veneti Patavinique Gymnasii. Cum triplici indice; uno Quaestionum altero Auctorum tertio rerum memorab. Cum privilegiis.‎

‎Venice Venetiis Apud Juntas 1603. 4to. XLIV600 p. Overlapping vellum 23 cm Ref: Hoffmann 3563; Schweiger 1331; Ebert 22957 Details: Two thongs laced through the joints. Gilt red morocco letterpiece on the back. Printer's mark of the Giunta family on the title: a fleur-de-lys. Woodcut initials good paper fine printing Condition: old and small inscription on front pastedown; a bigger one on the front flyleaf. Name and a faint small inkstain on the title. Some very small wormholes near the lower edge keeping far away from any text; holes have occasionally been mended with a layer of thin paper Note: This volume contains the exhaustive and learned lecture notes of Fabio Paolino da Udine or Fabius Paulinus Utinensis on the description of the plague epidemy by the Greek historian Thucydides Thuc. Hist. 2.47-58. This epidemy reached the war-stricken city of Athens in 430 B.C. at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war which lasted from 431 till 404 B.C. Thucydides is the first to describe the social upheaval of a pandemy and its consequences. The identification of what was the cause of this pandemy is until this day a matter of controversy. Fabius Paulinus Utinensis born at Udine ca. 1535 was the very man for a commentary on this subject. 'His first training in Greek and Latin was at Venice with Bernardino Partenio. Later he went to Padua where he graduated in philosophy and medicine but studied rhetoric and Arabic as well. He practiced medicin for a time before he became public professor at Venice where he taught Greek in the School of San Marco and Latin in the Collegio de'Notai. Both chairs he obtained in 1588 as the successor of Bernardino Partenio'. 'Medieval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries vol. 8' Washington 2003 p. 180. Paulinus held his lectures in the library of the San Marco Gymnasium. The work starts with a list of 232 questions concerning the possible causes of the pest. Each chapter is preceded by the relevant Greek text and a Latin translation. � On the flyleaf a former owner has written a quotation from Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' chapter XLIII note 90: 'I was indebted to Dr. Hunter for an elaborate commentary on this part of Thucydides the plague of Athens a quarto of 600 pages Ven. 1603 apud Juntas which was pronounced in St. Marks Library by Fabius Paullinus sic Utinensis a physician and philosopher'. These passages of Thucydides helped Gibbon to understand the impact of the pest epidemy which ravaged Konstantinople in 542 under the emperor Iustinian Provenance: Name on the title of 'Joannis Molini'. This must be a relative of one of the 3 senators of the Gymnasium to whom Paulinus dedicates his work. The book is dedicated to 'M. Anto. Memmo' and the noblemen 'Francisco Molino' & 'Antonio Priolo' Collation: a-d4 e6; A-4F4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎STRABO.‎

‎Strabonis Geographicorum lib. XVII. Olim ut putatur a Guarino Veronensi ac Gregorio Trifernate latinitate donati iam denuo a Conrado Heresbachio LL. doctore Principisque Iuliacensis consiliario ad fidem Graeci exemplaris authorumque qui huc facere videbantur recogniti ac plerisque locis deintegro versi. Item Epitomae eorundem decem & septem de Geographia librorum nunc primum de Graeco sermone in Latinum conversae Hieronymo Gemusaeo D. medico & philosopho interprete.‎

‎Basel Basileae Apud Ioan. Vualder 1539. Folio. LXXXVIII5491 blank26 index p. Calf 33 cm Ref: VD16 S9347; Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen 288; USTC 694729; Hoffmann 3457/58; Ebert 21826; Adams S-1904; Graesse 6/1506; Schweiger 1304 Details: Recently and expertly rebacked antique style: back with 6 raised bands & a morocco shield. Title with engraved architectural borders. Johann Walder's printer's mark on the title it depicts a parrot sitting on an olive branch. On the verso of the last leaf a second version of this printer's mark but bigger. Big woodcut initials at the beginning of the books Condition: Boards scratched and showing some small inkspots. Corners bumped & abraded. A few small wormholes in the leather of the upper board. A small stain on the title. Small wormhole in the blank outer margin of the first 24 leaves. 3 very small ink annotations. First & last leaves with a slight fold lengthwise. Woodcut bookplate the front pastedown. Old inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf Note: The Greek historian and geographer Strabo of Amaseia 63 BC - ca. 20 AD was like his example Polybius an admirer of the Romans and their empire. He lived for some time in Rome and travelled over a great part of the known world. His historical work is lost. The greater part of his 17 books on geography however survived. He showed little interest in purely scientific matters and more in moral lessons. The following table of content is borrowed from the OCD 2nd ed. p. 1017: 'Books 1-2: introductory. 1. Homer; Eratosthenes criticized. 2. Mathematical geography; criticism of Eratosthenes and Polybius examination of Posidonius especially zones; Eudoxus' voyages. Strabo's opinions on the earth; cartography on sphere and plane. 3. Spain Isles of Sicily. 4. Gaul Britain etc. 5-6. Italy Sicily; the Roman empire. 7. North and East Europe north Balkans some is lost. 8-10. Greece very antiquarian and mythological. 11. Euxine-Caspian etc. Taurus Armenia. 12-14. Asia Minor some mythology and history. 15. India Persia. 16. Mesopotamia Palestine Ethiopian coasts Arabia 17. Egypt Ethiopia north Africa'. � The 'editio princeps' of the Greek text was published in 1516 by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius. The first Latin translation from the press of Schweynheym and Pannartz dates from much earlier from 1469. There was apparantly much demand for a Latin translation in the Renaissance. 'Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen' records 12 editions of Latin translations till 1539. 1523 saw a new Latin translation made by the German humanist and politician Konrad Heresbach which was published in Basel. Konrad Heresbach 1496-1576 was for a short time 1521 thanks to the mediation of his friend Erasmus professor of Greek of the University at Freiburg. Erasmus declared that he had never met a young man with such perfect knowledge of both Greek and Latin. Basler Geist p. 55 From 1523 onward Heresbach was involved in the politics of the Duchy of Cleve and Westphalia. From the title we learn that Heresbach was the 'Geheimrat' of the 'princeps' of the Duchy of 'Juliacensis' and we should add 'Clivensis et Montensis' J�lich Kleve Berg. In politics he tried like Erasmus to avoid a schism between the catholics and the protestants and to reconcile the opposing parties. In his younger years Heresbach produced editions of several Greek authors among them this translation of Strabo. In the preface of 1523 repeated in the edition of 1539 Heresbach declares that the translators of the earlier published translations were not Guarino Veronensis and Gregorio Trifernate but that that translation tasted of resipiscere the Byzantine refugee scholar Theodorus Gazaeus. The reissue of the Latin translation of Heresbach of 1539 is preceded by a Latin translation of a not yet published summary of the 17 books of Strabo the 'Strabonis Geographicorum Epitomae'. These 'epitomae' were translated by a scholar/medic medicus et philosophus from Basel Hieronymus Gemusaeus 1505-1543. He was well versed in Greek. In 1534 he was appointed professor of physics of the University at Basel and from 1537 he was professor of Aristotelian logic. He translated several works of Aristotle and produced also a commentary on his 'Analytica Posteriora'. NDB 8606 Provenance: This book has an interesting provenance the keyword is 'Ducatus Juliacensis' or Duchy of J�lich a city halfway Cologne and Maastricht. Heresbach the translator of Strabo is advertised on the title as being the 'consiliarius' of the 'princeps Juliacensis' that is 'Geheimer Rat' of the Duke of J�lich. He held this office of Councillor from 1535. It is possible that Heresbach gave a copy this copy of his Strabo to the Duke Now we find on the verso of the front flyleaf the following inscription: 'Ihro Excellence U. Hofcanzler Franz Melchior Herr von Wisser 1703'. The noble family Von Wiser entered into the service of the Duke Palatine of the Pfalz Neuburg in the 17th century. Franz Melchior born ca. 1645 who was elevated to Imperial Count Reichsgraf in 1702 was 'Excellence U. Hofcanzler' i.e. 'Geheimrat und Pr�sident' of Johann Wilhelm the Duke Palatine of the Pfalz Neuburg. During the 'J�lich-Klevischen Erbfolgestreit' at the beginning of the 17th century the region J�lich Kleve Berg came into the possession of the Duke Palatine Pfalzgraf of Neuburg. Not only the region but of course also the court library of the princes/dukes of J�lich. Thus this book written by Heresbach the 'Geheimrat' of the duke of J�lich may have become the property of the 'Geheimrat' Franz Melchior von Wiser chancelor of the Duke Palatine of Neuburg who was also the ruler of J�lich. � On the front pastedown the oval woodcut armorial bookplate of the next owner the son of Franz Melchior: 'Ferdinand Andreas Sacri Romani Imperii Comes de Wiser'. Ferdinand Andreas 1677-1755 inherited this book but also the title of 'Reichsgraf' and was like his father an influential diplomat. This book must once have been in the library of the big mansion of the counts of Wiser at Leuterhausen which was built by Ferdinand Andreas. The sources for 'Von Wiser' are the informative lemmata 'Ferdinand von Wiser' and 'Pfalz Neuburg' in Wikipedia and also Zedler Band 57 p. 650 � There is however something strange with the entry concerning Franz Melchior von Wiser. It is dated 1703. Franz Melchior died however according to Zedler the earliest source we could find on the 23rd of November 1702 at 7 o'clock in the evening. It is possible that the person who wrote this inscription in this book made a mistake. It is also possible that Zedler made a mistake which all later historians seem to repeat. We found on the internet a source the only one which seems to indicate that Franz Melchior was still alive in 1704. The source is a manuscript of the 'Sammlung Ludwig' on the front pastedown of which has been pasted the printed bookplate of Ferdinand Andreas below which has been written: 'Ihro Exellence fl. Hofkanzler Franz Melchior von Wiser 1704'. In the accompanying note it is explained that Franz Melchior died in 1707. Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig Band 2 272 K�ln 1982 More research is needed here. � In the front flyleaf has been blindstamped: 'Library of Ruth and Walter Middelmann'. On the internet we found only one 'Ruth Middlemann' living in Capetown South Africa an expert on the national plant 'Protea' better known as 'suikerbos' or 'suikerbossie'. Since we bought this book in South Africa this woman must have been the previous owner Collation: a4 b-g6 a-z6 A-Z6 Aa-Bb6 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎LUCANUS.‎

‎M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia cum commentario Petri Burmanni.‎

‎Leiden Leidae Apud Conradum Wishoff Danielem Goetval et Georg. Jacob. Wishoff fil.Conrad. 1740. 4to. LII7351 blank 160 indices p. Marbled calf. 26 cm Ref: STCN ppn 239852117; Schweiger 2565; Dibdin 2186; Brunet 31200; Moss 2242: 'A very excellent and critical edition and by far the best which has yet been published'; Fabricius/Ernesti 2147/48: 'ceteris praeferenda'; Ebert 12350; Graesse 4273/74; Spoelder p. 642/3 Middelburg 4 Details: Prize copy. Backstrip ruled in gilt. Red morocco shield on the back. Gilt coat of arms of Middelburg on both boards. Gilt palmette motifs along the borders of the boards. Title in red and black. On the title also a large engraving of a battle scene the battle of Actium designed by J. de Groot and engraved by J. v.d. Spyk Condition: The back has been repaired expertly. The front flyleaf with on it the prize was removed and replaced by a flyleaf of a lesser quality paper and has chipping edges. Some foxing Note: This edition of Petrus Burmannus 1668-1741 professor of Latin at the University of Utrecht from 1696 and at Leiden from 1715 is highly praised by Dibdin. He remarks that this is a valuable edition. It is sometimes preferred to the edition of Oudendorp of 1728 he says. The text of Burman's edition is founded on that of Cortius. This edition is important because Burmannus prints and discusses in the commentary for the first time the many variant readings from more than 25 manuscripts that were collated by the great Dutch scholar Nicolaas Heinsius 1620-1681 and were jotted down in the margins of a Lucan edition of 1542 that he Heinsius once owned. Praefatio p. 2 verso � As an editor Burman was an industrious manufacturer of Variorum Editions. He confined himself to the Latin classics and edited Phaedrus Horace Claudian Ovid Lucan and the Poetae Latini Minores Petronius Quintilian and Suetonius. Sandys 2 p. 343/5 The genius Housman is more critical in the praefatio of his edition of Lucan. 'An edition of much less value than either of the foregoing Oudendorp of 1728 Cortius of 1726 was put forth in 1740 near the end of his long life by the elder Burman. The notes are desultory diffuse and often trivial . But his familiarity with Latin poets was great . so that he resolved some difficulties which had baffled others and achieved at v 137 one most admirable emendation'. Housman Lucanus 1926 p. XXXII Provenance: Bookplate of Helena Heyse: 'Ex libris Helenae Heyse'. Helena Elizabeth Zoraide Heyse was born on the 12th of June 1907 in the Dutch town of Middelburg. In 1931 she married P.E. Scholtz professor of Afrikaans & Netherlands at the University of Cape Town. She died in 1996. The bookplate was designed in 1930 by the Dutch artist Roline Maria Wichers Wierdsma. See catalogus.meermanno.nl/detail.aspxparentpriref= Collation: -64 72 A-5V4 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎RATRAMNUS.‎

‎Ratramne ou Bertram pretre. Du Corps et du Sang du Seigneur. Avec une dissertation preliminaire sur Ratramne & une autre dissertation historique sur la vie & les ouvrages de cet auteur. Traduite de l'Anglois.‎

‎Amsterdam 1717. 12mo. 2871 blank p. Mottled calf. 16.5 cm Ref: Brunet 1822; 3 copies in STCN; cf. Ebert 18665 Details: Gilt back with a red morocco letterpiece. Marbled endpapers. Edges dyed red. Ttitle in red & black. The first 184 pages contain the two dissertations on Ratramnus p. 185-287 contain the Latin text with an opposing French translation Condition: Corners slightly bumped Note: Ratramnus was a Benedictine monk of Corbie 870. In 843/44 he wrote this work on request of Charles the Bald in which he emphasises the figurative nature of the sacraments and contradicted the doctrine of the transsubstantiation. He also goes under the name Bertram or Intramn. The book was considered to be heretic and forbidden in 1050. During the Reformation the book was rediscovered by protestants. The author of the two dissertations is the English clergyman Canon of Worcester and antiquary William Hopkins 1647-1700. The translator is the Huguenot refugee J.-F. Bernard. See Bakhuizen p. 120/1 & 128/9 Hopkins' dissertation accompanied by a Latin text and an English translation of Ratramnus was first published in 1686 and reissued in 1688. See Wikisource 'William Hopkins' Collation: A - M-12 M12 verso blankPhotographs on request unknown‎

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‎TERENTIUS.‎

‎P. Terentii Afri Comoediae sex. Belgica interpretatione ac notis ad loca difficiliora illustratae. Opera ac studio Henrici Zwaerdecroon.‎

‎Rotterdam Rotterdami Apud Petrum Waesbergium 1648. Met Privilege voor 15 Iaren. Small 8vo. VIII including frontispiece 6071 errata p. Overlapping vellum 16 cm Ref: Geerebaert 138211; OiN 362; Schweiger 1082; Cupaiuolo 1312 Details: Latin text with facing Dutch prose translation. At the end 50 pages with notes in Latin. Engraved frontispiece executed by M.V.S. This is the Dutch engraver Mathias van Somer also known Mathias van Someren or Sommeren. See for him: Chr. Kramm De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders . p. 1542 Depicted are 3 female allegoric figures round a pedestal Veritas armed with a flaming sword masked Simulatio and Prudentia who holds a mirror. In the background a portrait of Terentius within an oval laurel wreath. Zwaerdecroon is spelled on the frontispiece as Swaerdekroon. Woodcut coat of arms of the city of Rotterdam on the title. Condition: Vellum somewhat soiled; small bookplate on front pastedown Note: The late antique grammarian Aelius Donatus 4th century A.D wrote not only a commentary on the plays of the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer ca. 190-159 B.C. but also a short biography in which he tells that Terentius was born in the Roman province Africa and that he came as a slave in the houshold of the senator Terentius Lucanus. He adopted his name when he was manumitted. Terentius is the author of 'fabulae palliatae' which means 'plays in Greek cloths'. He adapted Greek plays especially those of the Greek playwright Menander to the taste of the Romans. Six of his comedies have survived. For later generations he became a model for elegant Latin. His style was closer to everyday conversation than Plautus' an earlier contemporary comic playwright whose style was more extravagant. He was quoted by Cicero Horace Persius and the Church Fathers. � Ever since antiquity he lived also a long and influential life in schools as a model for Latin language and rhetoric. In the Middle Ages he was read for his moral sentences. He was imitated by the German abbess Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim ca. 935 - ca. 973 in her 'Dramenbuch' with which she wanted to create a Christian alternative for the pagan comedies. With the coming of humanism Terentius enjoyed a renaissance in the classroom and on stage. Scholars rejected the 'barbaries' of Medieval Latin and chose the elegance of Cicero and Terentius as their model. In his 'De ratione studii' 1511 the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536 encouraged the study of Terentius for his language and moral utility. 'Among Latin writers who is more valuable as a standard of language than Terence He is pure concise and closer to everyday speech and by the very nature of his subject matter is also congenial to youth'. The Classical Tradition 2010 p. 930 Erasmus published later in life in 1532 an edition of Terentius' plays. Erasmus seems to have learned the whole of Terentius by heart in his youth. He admired the author for his 'latinitas' and his civilized humor. His ideal as a humanist and pedagogue was the creation of better men with the help of the classics. He held the opinion that schoolboys should read Terentius over and over again. Thus they could master a pure Latin style and learn at the same time good morals. Several Dutch humanists wrote 'Dialogi pueriles' fictitious dialogues to train schoolboys to converse in Latin; conversations which much Terentius in it. � The first Dutch translation of Terentius appeared in 1555 in Antwerp. Almost one century later 2 other new translation followed. In 1646 the remonstrant reverent Henricus Oosterhaern published a prose translation in Rotterdam. His translation is as literal as possible. His aim in didactic. He hopes that his readers will polish their speech and style when reading Terentius. He hopes that they will learn from Terentius a 'suyvere en cierlijke manier van spreken en schryven'. P.J.M. van Alphen Nederlandse Terentius-vertalingen in de 16e en 17e eeuw Tilburg 1954 p. 95 His choice to translate literally leads often to awkward 'latinisms' in the Dutch text. Van Alphen p. 96. Two years later in 1648 Rotterdam saw the next and more elegant prose translation now by another remonstrant the schoolmaster Henricus Zwaerdecroon since 1634 Rector of the 'Schola Latina Erasmiana'. NNBW 5.1182/83 In the dedication to his 'alumnus' Adrianus de Matenesse Zwaerdecroon dwells on the diligence and enthousiasm he and other old schoolboys displayed while reading Terentius be it not 'pede prorsus inoffenso'. p. pi4 recto On their request Zwaerdecroon tells us and because they are leaving for the university ad graviora studia mox decessuri he made this translation. Sometimes we find in the Dutch translation words or passages printed in italics. Those words and passages have been added to improve the Dutch and to explain matters. Van Alphen p. 97 Van Alphen gives the next example: Adelphoe verse 495: 'una semper militiae et domi / fuimus'. Translation: 'ende zijn binnens lants in tijt van vreede ende buyten s'lants in den oorlog altijt by een geweest'. We have placed the passages in italics between brackets The edifying comedies of Terence were not only read by schoolboys. The Dutch philosopher Spinoza must also have studied his Terentius very thoroughly. In his work hundreds of quotations and borrowings from Terence can be traced. Spinoza used them to define and illustrate human feelings weaknesses and passions. F. Akkerman Spinoza's tekort aan woorden Leiden 1977 p. 3 In the same year as this edition 1648 the Rotterdam printer Naeranus brought a translation only edition on the market. This translation was published again in 1668. Remains the question concerning the title page why the coat of arms of the city of Rotterdam was used by Pieter Waesberge Petrus Waesbergius as a kind of printer's mark. Pieter Waesberghe was the official printer to the City's Council of Rotterdam. This book was very probably printed on the expense of the City and for the City. Perhaps it was made especially for the local gymnasium. In the impressum on the title of this book we read 'Apud Petrum Waesbergium'. There exist copies of this book same year same place everything the same except for the impressum which reads 'Ex Officina Waesbergii' Provenance: On the front pastedown an oblong paper label 'Ex Bibliotheca P.P.C. Lammens'. Pierre Philippe Constant Lammens 1762-1836 was librarian of the Unversity of Gent. He was also a bibliophile and owned a huge library. The auction catalogue 1839/40 of his library consists of 4 volumes. In 1815 the Dutch government sent him to Paris to retrieve manuscripts and documents which had been stolen by the French during the occupation of the Low Countries. After 9 months he came back with two four horse carts laden with manuscripts. Catalogue des livres rares et pr�cieux de la Biblioth�que de feu Mr. Pierre-Philippe-Constant Lammens Gent 1839 1�re partie p. 3 Collation: pi4 A- 2P8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎AURELIUS VICTOR SEXTUS.‎

‎S. Aurelius Victor ex recensione J. Arntzenii.‎

‎Rotterdam Rotterodami Apud Looy et Van Spaan 1804. 12mo. 1653 blank p. Half calf 13 cm Ref: Schweiger 21137 Details: Back gilt; orange shield on the back boards marbled Condition: Binding worn at the extremes. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Small name on the front flyleaf. Faint and small waterstain at the right lower corner Note: Sextus Aurelius Victor ca. 320-ca. 390 A.D. historian of the Roman Empire. He published his work ca. 361 A.D. the year of the death of the emperor Julian Apostata who admired Victor and appointed him praefectus of Pannonia Secunda. In late antiquity his work was combined by an unknown redactor with two other histories to make a continuous history the so-called Historia Romana from Augustus to 360. This combined work passed down through the ages under the name of Sextus Aurelius Victor. Aurelius Victor's approach is biographic and his stylistic example is the Roman historian Sallustius. His contemporary Ammianus Marcellinus praises his sobre mindedness his sobrietas. � The Dutch classical scholar Jan or Johannes Arntzenius was born in 1702 and died in 1759 in Franeker where he was professor of Eloquentia and Historia since 1743. His first edition of Sextus Aurelius Victor with commentary appeared in 1733 in Amsterdam. He also edited the Panegyricus of Pliny the Younger Amsterdam 1738 the Disticha Catonis Utrecht 1735 Pacatus Drepanius Amsterdam 1753 and Sedulius Leeuwarden 1761. Van der Aa 1393/4 Provenance: Bookplate of Leo Polak name of R. ten Kate Collation: pi1 A-G12 leaf G11 verso and G12 blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎LYCOPHRON.‎

‎LUKOPHRONOS TOU CHALKIDE�S KASSANDRA. To skoteinon Poi�ma; Kai eis auto touto ISAAKOU mallon de I�ANNOU TOU TZETZOU EX�G�MA. Lycophrois Chalcidensis Cassandra obscurum poema ope XVI. codicum MSS. sanioribus subinde lectionibus restitutum fideliori interpretatione exornatum et accurata paraphrasi explicatum; cum Isaaci vel potius Johannis Tzetzae commentario. Ex postrema Oxoniensi editione ad fidem XIII. exemplarium bis mille ferme in locis emendato notabiliter aucto latine reddito et illustrato. Accedunt fragmenta undique collecta variantes lectiones emendationes et indices necessarii studio et impensis Leopoldi Sebastiani.‎

‎Roma Apud Antonium Fulgonium 1803. 4to. IVXL416210 p. frontispiece 1 plate. Calf 29.5 cm Ref: Hoffmann 2569: 'Im Text des Lykophron liess der Herausgeber vieles unverbessert obwohl er einiges trefflich verbesserte. Mehr leistete er in dem Commentar des Tzetzes den er auch latein. �bersetzte'; Brunet 31248: Cette �dition peu commune en France'; Ebert 12548; Graesse 4309 Details: Brown morocco first half 19th century at any rate before 1857 the work of the English bookbinder 'C. Smith' according to a very tiny stamp on the verso of the first flyleaf. In the 'Database of Bookbindings' of the British Library one can find images of 3 other beautiful specimens of this master-binder c155b17 c151k16 & Davis259. The back has 5 raised bands and is gilt with palmette motifs; gilt lettering in second compartment; other compartments of the back strip gilt with repeated volut�'s and triangles; boards with double fillet gilt borders; gilt corner pieces with floral motifs; thrice gilt fillet borders on the sides and on inside of the boards; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Frontispiece of Cassandra as a prophetes engraved by Aloysius Agricola with at the foot the text of Aeneis 2 vss. 246/74. Engraving of the 'Gemma Maffei' by G. Petrini on the title at the foot another Cassandra quote from the second book of the Aeneis vss. 403/4. 1 engraved plate showing two Cassandra gemmae by Dom Campiglia & Vin. Francescini Condition: A fine copy. A touch of rubbing to the joints; 1 small scratch on the 3rd compartment. Some surface wear to the upper corner of the lower board. The binder has bound by mistake the 'commentarius' of 210 pages before the Greek text Note: Leopoldo Sebastiani Italian classical scholar priest and missionary. His exact dates are sofar unknown. At the end of the 18th century he was still a young man for in the 'Bibliothecae Josephi Garampii cardinalis catalogus' Rome 1796 p. 40 he is called 'Juvenis in recondita Graecorum eruditione valde versatus'. In this catalogue a future edition of the scholia to Homer of Eustathius is announced a project that was apparantly aborted. The young man then turned to the Greek poet Lycophron 3rd. century A.D. for an edition of his Cassandra also known as Alexandra. The poem of 1500 iambic trimeters tells the profecies of the Trojan princes Kassandra the fall of Troy and the fate of the Greek heroes. At the end are the profecies of the future supremacy of Rome. Sebastiani's edition is an ambitious one. After an introduction we find the Greek text with a facing translation into Latin made by the Dutch classicist Canter Basel 1566. Below the translation comes a Latin paraphrasis produced by Sebastiani. Added are the 'variantes lectiones' the extensive scholia and the emendations to the Scholia. At the end a 'Selecta discrepantium lectionum silva'. Then an index to the Cassandra and the scholia; then follow 210 p. with the Latin translation of 'Isaaci sive Johannis Tzetzae Commentarius' and notes to the commentary. The byzantine scholars Isaac and Johannes Tzetzes who were brothers lived in the 12th century Three indices disclose this commentary. The contemporary reviewer of the GGA G�ttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen calls the translation of the commentarius 'unendlich besser' than the translation of Basel 1558. GGA praises Sebastiani's search for manuscripts of the Cassandra the oldest of which dates from the 9th or 10th century and which was once the property of Fulvius Ursinus. GGA: 'Alle Codices habe er mit der gr�ssten Genauigkeit vergliche; das gr�sste Verdienst eignet er sich um die Scholien zu worin er an 2000 Fehler verbessert habe'. . 'Diese i.e. Gelehrten wirden finden dass ihnen ihre Forschungen durch das was S. geleistet hat sehr erleichtert sind'. The German reviewer is impressed because Sebastiani produced this edition in the turmoil of an adventurous life as a missionary and a diplomat. He records 2 long travels to the Orient up to Ispahan in Persia. Back in Constantinople Sebastiani was an honoured guest of Lord Elgin because he had saved two Englishman. From another source we learn that the English held Sebastiani in high esteem 'for the losses he sustained and misfortunes he suffered in consequence of important services which he gratuitously rendered to the British government while resident in Persia as president of the missionaries sent by the Church of Rome'. Th.H. Horne 'An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures' London 1818 vol. 2 p. 189. The reviewer of GGA rebukes the Latin of Sebastiani he calls it 'oft sehr Orientalisch'. G�ttingische gelehrte Anzeigen G�ttingen 1804 p. 340/4. A later French reviewer exclaimed: 'Mais quel latin!' Sebastiani is probably best known for his excellent translation of the New Testament published in London in 1817. Th.H. Horne places this translation alongside those of the giants Erasmus and Beza 'those of Erasmus Beza and Sebastiani are particularly worth of notice'. 'In all doctrinal points this version is made conformable to the tenets inculcated by the church of Rome'. Horne p. vol. 2 p. 226. Sebastiani is also known for his 'Storia dell'Indostan' a history of India published in 1820. He also translated parts of the Bible into Persian Provenance: bookplate with the coat of arms of 'Joseph Neeld' with a banner reading: 'Nomen extendere factis'. Neeld 1789-1856 was a wealthy English philanthropist who had a good library and art collection. He was in 1830 Member of Parliament for Gatton a rotten borough with six houses and one elector but sending 2 members which was abolished by the Reform Act of 1832. Source Wikipedia Collation: a6 b-e4 A-3F4 Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra postage hardcover‎

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‎WESSELING P.‎

‎Petri Wesselingii Dissertatio Herodotea ad Ti. Hemsterhusium V. C. Bound with: Petri Wesseling Probabilium liber singularis in quo praeter alia insunt vindiciae verborum Joannis 'Et Deus erat verbum'.‎

‎Ad 1: Utrecht Trajecti ad Rhenum Apud Gisb. Tim. & Abrahamum a Paddenburg 1758. Ad 2: Franeker Franequerae Ex Officina Wibii Bleck Bibliopolae 1731. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: IV2155 index; VIII3985 index1 blank p. Vellum 20 cm Ref: Ad 1: Hoffmann 2247; Ebert 9549 ; ad 2 Ebert 23969 Details: Two thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back. ad 2: woodcut printer's mark on title depicting Athena and her owl under an olive tree the motto is: 'Ne extra oleas' to be understood as 'Stay within the bounds of wisdom' Condition: Vellum somewhat soiled. Front hinge cracked but still hanging on one chord. Front pastedown detached. Upper margin of 1/3 slightly waterstained. Ad 2: 8 gatherings i.e 64 pages of the 'Probabilium liber' have browned paper Note: Ad 1: The Dutch philologist of Westphalian descent Peter Wesseling or Petrus Wesselingius 1692-1764 published in 1758 the first monograph of importance on the Greek historian Herodotus. He studied in Leiden under Gronovius but after his switch to the university of Franeker in 1714 he came under the influence of Lambertus Bos 1670-1717 and more important Tiberius Hemsterhuis 1685-1766 and developed himself into a many-sided allround and critical philologist. He is said to be one of the 'Masterpieces' of Hemsterhuis the leading Greek scholar in the Low Countries. Wesseling was not a genius. Bernays writes about him: 'Seine Art ist ganz dauerhaft in einzeln Partien doch ohne grosse Geistesblitze. Ihn zeichnet Sorgfalt Klarheit und grosser Fleiss aus'. Wesseling was professor of Greek and History at the University of Utrecht since 1735. There he produced 3 masterpieces that made his name. First he published in 1746 a still indispensable edition of Diodorus. Thereafter in 1758 the 'Dissertatio Herodotea' was published. He had his Herodotus-edition ready in 1756 before the 'dissertatio' but owing to difficulties with the publisher Luchtmans Wesseling had to wait until 1763 before his third masterpiece was published. Ad 2: Wesseling's original interest before studying classical philology was theology. His 'Probabilium liber' is a product of this interest. The work is partly an attack on the socian exegesis of Johannes 1 verse 1. See wikipedia s.v. Socianism. It is further filled with philological corrections and discussions on profane and ecclesiastical authors. An elaborate discussion of the contents of this book can be found in the 'Biblioth�que raisonn�e des ouvrages des savans de l'Europe 1732 premi�re partie' Amsterdam 1732 p. 11/110. For Wesseling see best: Gerretzen 'Schola Hemsterhusiana' p. 162/81 also Sandys 2453; Bernays 'Geschichte der klassischen Philologie' p. 143/4; Van der Aa 20123/26 Collation: Ad 1: 2 A-N8 O6; ad 2: 4 leaf 4 blank A-3D4 3E2 leaf 3E2 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎MAUNDRELL H.‎

‎A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697. The sixth edtion to which is now added an account of the author's journey to the banks of Euphrates at Beer and to the country of Mesopotamia. With an index to the whole work not in any former edition. By Hen. Maundrell M.A. late fellow of Exeter Coll. and Chaplain to the factory of Aleppo.‎

‎Oxford Printed at the Theatre for A. Peisley bookseller in Oxford and W. Meadows bookseller in Cornhill 1740. 8vo. XII1711 blank p. 9 folding plates 6 full page plates 3 text illustrations. Modern cloth 22 cm Ref: ESTC Citation No. T100587; 'The library of Henry M. Blackmer II' London 1989 no 214; Brunet 31542 Details: Tasteful and simple modern binding with an gilt red morocco shield on the back. Engraving of the Sheldonian Theater on the title executed by M. Cole. The first plate is a view on Aleppo. There are engravings of Mount Carmel and Tabor; 7 folding plates with the monuments of Baalbeck. 2 texts engravings of an inscription Condition: 2 small letters stamped on the title; paper very slightly yellowing; some foxing Note: The Holy Land has been a site for Christian pilgrimage since the 3rd century A.D. Throughout the Middle Ages christians visited Palestine and during the Crusades even tried to conquer it. A great number of travelogues were written by pilgrims about the marvels of well known and venerated cities as Jerusalem Bethlehem Nazareth etc. Ever since medieval times also English travellers have recorded their impressions of their visits to the Orient. One of the earliest was the 'Voiage' of the Anglo-Frenchman Sir John Mandeville. An outstanding and interesting travel story is Henry Maundrell's. It illustrates the emergence of a new genry of travel writing and the shift in European minds concerning its relationship with the Holy Land. 'Where medieval pilgrims had often wept or gone into trances upon their arrival in Jerusalem modern European visitors observed with curiosity what was before their eyes. They are travelling for pleasure and for cultural experiences; tourism was gradually replacing pilgrimage as a motive for visiting Palestine. By the end of the 17th century quite a few European tourists had already been to Jerusalem. The most famous among them was Henry Maundrell the author of the book 'A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem'. It was first published in 1703 in Oxford and it would prove to be one of the most popular books about the East for years to come. The 18th century saw 8 English editions and by 1749 seven editions in different languages had appeared and sections of the book continued to appear in collections of travel writings published in the 18th and 19th centuries' 'Maundrell in Jerusalem Reflections on the writing of an early European tourist' by I. Nassar in 'Jerusalem Quarterly' 20009; Maundrell's record is not a guide to the holy sites or an anthropological study but it is a diary in which he reflects upon the sights worth seeing and things worth doing. It is organized chronologically. Henry Maundrell an Oxford academic and clergyman born in 1655 made the trip shortly after his arrival in Aleppo in 1696 where he was elected to the post of chaplaincy of the British Levant Company. It paid him �100 per year. He travelled 'in Company with 14 others of our Factory. We went by the coast; and having visited the several places consecrated by the Life and Death of our Blessed Lord we returned by the way of Damascus'. p. VII. The fellowhip started on the 26th of february and returned on the 11th of May. On Eastern they were in Jerusalem where they were bewildered by the behaviour of the local fellow christians in the Holy Sepulcher Church. Maundrell describes them as hystical rabble who 'very much discredited the Miracle. . a scandal to the Christian Religion'. p. 97 Maundrell's account of biblical sites reflects his fascination with science and biblical history at the same time. He shows little interest in the indigenous Christians Arabs and Jews and he loathes the Turkish administration and the Turks. Maundrell died in Aleppo in 1701. His record is important for historians of Palestine the Near East and of the Ottoman empire Provenance: On the title a stamp of 2 letters: 'G.U.' Collation: a2 b4 A-U4 X2 Y4 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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‎PLINIUS MINOR.‎

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

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

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‎TACITUS.‎

‎Alle de werken van C. Corn. Tacitus. In 't Hollandtsch vertaalt door den heer P.C. Hooft Ridder van S. Michiel Drossaardt van Muiden en Baljuw van Goylandt.‎

‎Amsterdam By Henrik Wetstein & Pieter Sceperus; Leiden Tot Leyden By Daniel van den Dalen Utrecht Tot Utrecht By Willem van de Water 1704. Folio. XXXII52884 p. 14 fullpage engraved portraits 8 folding plates. Vellum 38 cm Ref: STCN ppn 189201355; Geerebaert CXXXVIIIIb; OiN 359; Schweiger 21028 Details: Nice copy. Back with 5 raised bands. Faded & chafed red morocco shield in second compartment. Boards with blind ruled borders and central ornament. Title in red & black. A big engraved printer's mark on the title depicting a bucolic scene with 2 putti busy on a wetstone Wetstein and a shepherd with his flock in the background; the motto reads: 'Nutt en Vermaekelyk'. 14 magnificent full-page portraits of Roman emperors engraved by A. Vaillandt and 8 double-page battle and rural scenes engraved by I. Mulder. Big woodcut initials. Wide margins. Paper of excellent quality Condition: Vellum soiled. 3 small and long inkstains on the lower board. A few gatherings slightly waterstained near the upper edge. Tip of the right lower corner of the front endpapers waterstained Note: The Dutch Renaissancist poet playwright and historian Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft 1581-1647 may be considered the founder of the literature of Holland's Golden Age. His style is not easily accessible and often shows a sentence structure derived from Latin. Ca. 1630 he started with his translation into Dutch of works of the Roman historian Tacitus 56-117 A.D. These translations of the 'Annales' 'Historiae' 'Germania' and the 'Agricola' were posthumely published in 1684 by his able biographer Geeraert Brandt 1626-1685. Hooft in who according to Brandt the genius of Tacitus had arisen was not satisfied with the earlier published translations and decided to make a translation of his own which suited the style of the Roman historian better. Hooft however never found time to publish his translation. In the preface Brandt tells that the manuscript with the translations came into his hands by chance long after the death of Hooft. He then decided to rescue them from oblivion and to publish them ca. 50 years after Hoooft had begun to translate Tacitus. The 'Dialogus de oratoribus' commonly attributed to Tacitus was never translated by Hooft perhaps because he thought that it's style was not worthy enough for his admired Roman historian. � Hooft's translation of Tacitus was also issued as volume 4 in: P.C. Hooft's 'Alle de Werken' 1703-1704 Provenance: On the front pastedown a small rectangular and simple bookplate 'Ex bibliotheca J.W. Six'. The nobleman Jan Willem Six van Vromade 1872-1936 was a well known Dutch bookcollector. P.J. Buijnsters 'Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Bibliofilie' Nijmegen 2010 p.301/04 Collation: a-d4; A-3N4 3O6 3P-3S4 3T6 3V-4E4 4F6. On the last page a index of the engraved plates Photographs on request Heavy book may require extra shipping costs hardcover‎

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‎FESTUS & M. VERRIUS FLACCUS.‎

‎Sexti Pompei Festi De verborum significatione fragmentum. Ex vetustissimo exemplari Bibliothecae Farnesianae descriptum. Schedae quae Festi fragmento detractae apud Pomponium Laetum extabant. Ex bibliotheca Fulvi Ursini. Notae in Sex. Pompei Festi fragmentum schedas & epitomam.‎

‎Gen�ve apud Petrum Santandreanum 1583. 8vo. 11961862 p. Vellum 17 cm Ref: 1 GLN 3005; Schweiger 2354 Smitskamp 60 Details: Six thongs laced through the joints. Veritas printer's device on the title: a woman the naked truth seated on a cubus holding a radiant sun in her right hand; in her left hand she holds an opened book and a palm leaf; her feet rest on the globe; the garland of fruit which surrounds her shows a ribbon with the text in Greek: 'Al�theia Pandamat�r' i.e. 'Allmighty Truth'. Condition: Vellum partly soiled. Right margin of title slightly thumbed; title slightly browning Note: Festus is a 2nd century grammarian who produced an abbreviation of a lexicographic work by Marcus Verrius Flaccus a wellknown antiquarian and grammarian living in Augustan Rome. Verrius compiled an enormous lexicon in 80 books full of unusual difficult and archaic words with discussions about customs political institutions belief and Roman law. Remains of his work survive in the epitome of 20 books made by Sextus Pompeius Festus. Festus also added examples found in other sources; the original work of Verrius is completely lost and only 1 manuscript of Festus survived the Middle Ages in an heavily mutilated form. The first reliable text which was a great improvement compared to earlier editions was published in 1559 by Antonio Agustin 1517-1586 who made good use of the Farnese manuscript at Naples and aimed at reconstructing the text in a strict alphabetical order from A to V with the help of other Medieval epitomes of Festus. GLN 15-16 states that this edition is a reissue of an edition published in 1581 in Rome. According to Smitskamp 60 Fulvius Ursinus simply reproduces Scaliger's edition without mentioning his name. In the praefatio to the 62 pages with learned notes the reader is assured that this edition of 1583 is a faithful transcription of the sole surviving MS of Festus Collation: A-N8 O4; A-C8 D8 minus leaf D8 Photographs on request hardcover‎

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