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réf. SBBIH-MF4XOZWWSXNKOxford University Press 1946. hardcover. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Oxford University Press hardcover
1606réf. 183871606 Aureliae Allobrogum (Genève), Petrus (Pierre) de La Rouiere, 1606-1607, 2 forts volumes in-8 de (14)-1546-(18)-(20) d'index des auteurs-(206) pp. d'index ; 1438 pp.-1 feuillet blanc-(172) pp. d'index, texte imprimé sur 2 colonnes, l'une étant l'impression en grec et l'autre l'impression latine, belle reliure germanique en peau de truie estampée sur les plats de différents encadrements et 2 plaques représentant sur un côté le blason du grand électeur de Saxe et sur l'autre le blason du Saint Empire germanique, quelques passages anciennement soulignés à la plume, anciens cachets ex-libris partiellement effacés sur les pages de titres, sinon bel exemplaire, sans mouillures, ni rousseurs, ni inscriptions manuscrites.
1561réf. 22490Lugduni Lyon: Jacobi Juntae Jacobus Junta. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1561. Hardcover. Early previous owner's name clipped from title leaf on each volume with unfortunate loss to some text on title leaf and to the printer's emblems on the title pages. One volume also with loss of text to corresponding portion of leaf following title leaf. Boards rubbed. Spines faded and rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and worn. A couple of leather corners missing. Most other corners rubbed with abrasions to leather. Tomus quartus with some creasing to corners of leaves pages 705-760. ; 6 volumes of an 8 volume set. Volumes 1-4 6 Index volume. Printed date of 1561 in the Index volume only. Other volumes undated 1561. 19th century red half leather binding small leather corners with marbled papered boards. Page dimensions: 114 x 74mm 4 ½" x 2 7/8". Text in Latin. The titles of the six volumes are: 108.430 "Index Rerum Omnium Quae In Aristotelis Operibus Continentur Absolutissimus. In quem tota illius varia ac admirabilis doctrina quae sparsim ac diffuse suis in voluminibus tractatur contracta fuit ac ordine Alphabetico per locos communes digesta." Index volume to the first six volumes Tomus primus - Tomus sextus. 860 pages. Large piece cut from the title leaf and replaced with blank paper not recent with loss of the entire printer's emblem. This index volume contains page references to Volumes 1 - 6 but none to the eighth volume 108.430G.108.430A "Aristotelis Stagiritae Organum quod logicam appellant. Tomus Primus." 637 1 pages. Early owner's name cut away from title leaf with slight cropping to the top of the printer's emblem. Missing paper replaced not recent.108.430B "Aristotelis Stagiritae Physicorum Libri VIII. Quibus adiecimus omnia illius Opera quae ad Naturalem Philosophiam spectare videbantur. Quorum seriem versa pagella indicabit. Tomus secundus." 796 1 1 blank pages. Early owner's name cut away from title page with loss to "Tomus Secundus" and the upper part of the printer's emblem and also loss to 2 lines of the Contents on the verso of this leaf. Missing paper replaced with blank paper not recent.108.430C "Arisotelis Stagiritae Metaphysicorum Libri XIIII. Theophrasti Metaphysicorum Liber. Quorum omnium recognitionem et additamentum versa pagina ostendit. Tomus Tertius." 583 1 blank pages. Early owner's name cut away from title page with loss to "Tomus Tertius" and the upper part and left side of the printer's emblem and also loss to 2 lines of the Contents on the verso of this leaf. Missing paper replaced with blank paper not recent. 108.430D "Aristotelis Stagiritae Libri Omnes quibus Historia Partes Incessus Motus Generatioque Animalium atque etiam Plantarum naturae brevis description pertractantur. Quoniam seriem nominaque Interpretum versa pagina indicabit. Tomus Quartus." 842 1 1 blank pages. Owner's name cut away from title leaf with loss of "Tomus Quartus" and substantial part of printer's emblem and loss of 2 lines of the Contents on verso of this leaf. Also through carelessness there is loss of 3 lines of text on both recto and verso of the following leaf pages 3-4 In removing a piece from the title leaf the corresponding piece was also cut away from the following leaf. Missing paper on title leaf only replaced with blank paper not recent. This volume also with some creasing to corners of leaves pages 705-760. 108.430F "Aristotelis Stagiritae Rhetoricorum Artisque Poeticae libri atque etiam Problematum Sectiones omnes quibus Alexandri Aphrodisaei Omnia Problemaata adiuncta fuere. Quorum omnium seriem versa pagina commostrabit. Tomus sextus." 751 1 pages. Early owner's name cut away from title page with loss to left side of the printer's emblem and also loss to 6 lines of the Contents on the verso of this leaf. 15mm chip to lower blank corner of title leaf.Provenance: early-mid 20th century bookseller's ticket on front pastedown of each volume Newbold's Bookshop Dunedin New Zealand. Acquired from Scribes Bookshop Dunedin 2021.Lacking these two volumes:108.430E "Aristotelis libri omnes quibus tota moralis philosophis . . . Tomus quintus"; 104.430G "Aritotelis Stagiritae rhetoricorum artisque poeticae libri omnes". Reference: Cranz F. Edward "A Bibliography of Aristotle Editions 1501-1600" Second Edition with addenda and revisions by Charle B. Schmitt 1984: 108.430 p. 76 "Index rerum omnium"; 108.430A Addenda p. 146 "Tomus primus" - "This edition which includes 108.430B-104.430G accompanies the index volume 108.430 which is dated 1561"; 108.430B Addenda p. 146 "Tomus secundus"; 108.430C Addenda p. 146 "Tomus tertius"; 108.430D Addenda p. 146 Tomus quartus"; 108.430F Addenda p. 146 "Tomus sextus". . Jacobi Juntae [Jacobus Junta] hardcover
1797réf. 2350233London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies in the Strand 1797. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1797 first edition. Professionally recased. Edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. Bindings tight and square pages clean and unmarked. Complete in two volumes. xv 1 416; 434 pp. Leather spines and corners orange spine labels gilt titles and rules. Translated into English from the original Greek with introduction notes critical biography and analysis by Scottish historian John Gillies. Commonly called The Nicomachean Ethics or The Ethics to Nicomachus after Aristotle's son the Ethics are here simply called Ethics. Gillies argues in the preface that this and the Politics 'ought never to have been disjoined since they are considered by Aristotle himself as forming essential parts of one and the same work." This translation was denounced by Platonist Thomas Taylor for inaccuracies but it remains an important edition in the history of the work and includes significant biographical information about Aristotle and critical analysis of his work by Gillies more than 200 pages worth!. Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand hardcover
1797réf. 2350233London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies in the Strand 1797. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1797 first edition. Professionally recased. Edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. Bindings tight and square pages clean and unmarked. Complete in two volumes. xv 1 416; 434 pp. Leather spines and corners orange spine labels gilt titles and rules. Translated into English from the original Greek with introduction notes critical biography and analysis by Scottish historian John Gillies. Commonly called The Nicomachean Ethics or The Ethics to Nicomachus after Aristotle's son the Ethics are here simply called Ethics. Gillies argues in the preface that this and the Politics 'ought never to have been disjoined since they are considered by Aristotle himself as forming essential parts of one and the same work." This translation was denounced by Platonist Thomas Taylor for inaccuracies but it remains an important edition in the history of the work and includes significant biographical information about Aristotle and critical analysis of his work by Gillies more than 200 pages worth!. Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand hardcover books
1584réf. 14506Francfort, Héritiers de André Wechel, 1584 ; in-4 ; plein vélin ivoire de l'époque, titre manuscrit au dos ; 341 pp., (1) p. corrigenda, (1) f. blanc. Texte grec jusqu'à la page 258 puis Annotations en latin sur deux colonnes et Index.
1558réf. 3048Lyon, Theobald Pagan (Thibaud Payen), 1558 ; in-12 ; plein vélin ivoire, titre manuscrit (reliure ancienne) ; 359 pp., (10) pp. d’index, la dernière blanche.
1571In -4°, pp. (4), 86, (2), 14 cc. Pergamena coeva con lacci; marca editoriale al frontespizio e alla fine della prima parte. Prima edizione di questo celebre trattato sul modo migliore di governare, che ne rappresenta vari aspetti, compresi due saggi sulla ‘Politica’ di Aristotele e finisce con tre lettere dell’autore riguardo le riforme della Repubblica. Il volume è completo del trattato di Erizzo sul governo civile, anch’esso qui pubblicato per la prima volta. Adams C1178, Gamba 1308 First edition of this famous work on government, including two essays on Aristotele’s Politics, and ending with three letters of the author about Republic’s reform. The volume is complete with Erizzo’s work on civil government, itself published here for the first time.
1520réf. 20508Lyon, Jacques Myt für Jacques u. François Giunta, 1. X. 1520. 403 (falsch 195) num., 9 unn. Bll., mit Titelholzschnitt, mehrteiliger Titelbordüre, Druckermarke und vielen Initialen. 8°. Holzdeckelband der Zeit mit blindgeprägtem braunem Kalbslederbezug u. 2 Schließen.
réf. 32521AB1980. 31 Teil-Bände / 31 Volumes. Berlin / Darmstadt Akademie-Verlag / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1980-2017. Gross-Oktav 17.5 cm breit wide x 24.5 cm hoch high. Hardcover / Originalleinenbände ohne die Originalumschläge Original Hardcover black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. With library stamp of Philosopher Philipp W. Rosemann. Die hier vorliegende Reihe 'Aristoteles - Werke in deutscher Übersetzung' enthält folgende Bände: Band 1 Teil I - "Kategorien". Übersetzt und erläutert von Klaus Oehler Mit Widmung. Zweite durchgesehene Auflage.359 Seiten erschienen 1986 Band 1 Teil II - "Peri Hermeneias". Übersetzt und erläutert von Hermann Weidemann VIII 483 Seiten 1994 Band 3 Teil I - "Analytica Posteriora Buch I". Übersetzt und erläutert Theodor Ebert und Ulrich Nortmann 924 Seiten 2007 Band 3 Teil II - "Analytica Posteriora Erster Halbband". Übersetzt und erläutert von Wolfgang Detel 438 Seiten 1993 Band 3 Teil II - "Analytica Posteriora Zweiter Halbband". Übersetzt und erläutert von Wolfgang Detel" 888 Seiten 1993 Band 4/I - "Rhetorik" - Erster Halbband". Übersetzt und erläutert von Christof Rapp 505 Seiten 2002 Band 4/II - "Rhetorik" - Zweiter Halbband". Übersetzt und erläutert von Christof Rapp 1007 Seiten 2002 Band 5 - "Poetik" - Übersetzt und erläutert von Arbogast Schmitt 789 Seiten 2008 Band 6 - "Nikomachische Ethik" - Übersetzt und Kommentiert von Franz Dirlmeier. Achte gegenueber der sechsten durchgesehenen unveraenderte Auflage 606 Seiten 1983. Band 7 - "Eudemische Ethik". Übersetzt und kommentiert von Franz Dirlmeier. Vierte gegenueber der zweiten durchgesehenen unveraenderte Auflage 504 Seiten 1984 Band 8 - "Magna Moralia". Übersetzt und kommentiert von Franz Dirlmeier. Fuenfte gegenueber der dritten durchgesehenenen unveraenderte Auflage 482 Seiten 1983 Band 9 Teil I - "Politik". Buch I: Über die Hausverwaltung und die Herrschaft des Herrn über Sklaven". Übersetzt und erläutert von Eckart Schütrumpf 390 Seiten 1991 Band 9 Teil II - "Politik". Buch II: Über Verfassungen die in einigen Staaten in Kraft sind und andere Verfassungen die von gewissen Männern entworfen wurden und als vorbildlich gelten. Buch III: Über die Verfassung". Übersetzt und erläutert von Eckart Schütrumpf 590 Seiten 1991 Band 9 Teil III - "Politik". Buch IV-VI". Enthaelt u.a.: "Verfassungstheorie" / "Die Vielfalt der Verfassungstypen" / "Innenpolitische Unruhen und Verfassungssturz" etc. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Eckart Schütrumpf. Erläutert von Eckart Schütrumpf und Hans-Joachim Gehrke 670 Seiten 1996 Band 9 Teil IV - "Politik". Buch VII/VIII". "Über die beste Verfassung" Übersetzt und erläutert von Eckart Schütrumpf 685 Seiten 2005 Band 10 Teil I - "Staat der Athener". Übersetzt und erläutert von Mortimer Chambers 458 Seiten 1990 Band 11 - "Physikvorlesung". Übersetzt von Hans Wagner. Vierte unveraenderte Auflage 701 Seiten 1983 Band 12 - "Teil I - Meteorologie / Teil II - "Über die Welt". Übersetzt von Hans Strohm. Dritte gegenüber der zweiten berichtigten unveränderte Auflage 355 Seiten 1984 Band 12 - "Über den Himmel" - Übersetzt und erlaeutert von Alberto Jori. 533 Seiten 2009 Band 13 - "Über die Seele". Übersetzt von Willy Theiler. Siebte gegenueber der dritten durchgesehenen unveraenderte Auflage 156 Seiten 1986 Band 14 Teil II - "Parva Naturalia": "De Memporia et Reminiscentia". Übersetzt und erläutert von R.A.H.King 158 Seiten 2004 Band 14 Teil III - "Parva Naturalia": "De Insomniis de Divinatione per somnum". Übersetzt und erläutert von Philip J. van der Eijk 396 Seiten 1994 Band 17 Teil I - "Zoologische Schriften II: "Über die Teile der Lebewesen. Übersetzt und erläutert von Wolfgang Kullmann. 817 Seiten 2017 Band 17 Teil II/III - "Zoologische Schriften II: "Über die Bewegung der Lebewesen. Über die Fortbewegung der Lebewesen". Übersetzt und erläutert von Jutta Kollesch 144 Seiten 1985 Band 18 "Opuscula" - Teil I - "Über die Tugend". Übersetzt von Ernst A. Schmidt. 2. ueberarbeitete Auflage 152 Seiten 1980 Band 18 "Opuscula" - Teil II/III - "Mirabilia". Übersetzt von Hellmut Flashar und "De audibilibus". Übersetzt von Ulrich Klein. Zweite berichtigte Auflage 291 Seiten 1981 Band 18 "Opuscula" - Teil V - "De Coloribus". Übersetzt und erläutert von Georg Woehrle 134 Seiten 1999 Band 18 "Opuscula" - Teil VI - "Physiognomonica". Übersetzt und erläutert von Sabine Vogt. 499 Seiten 1999 Band 19 - "Problemata Physica". Übersetzt von Hellmut Flashar. Dritte gegenueber der zweiten durchgesehenen unveraenderte Auflage 766 Seiten 1983 Band 20 "Fragmente" - Teil I - "Fragmente zu Philosophie Rhetorik Poetik Dichtung". Übersetzt und erläutert von Hellmut Flashar Uwe Dubielzig und Barbara Breitenberger 448 Seiten 2006. Band 20 "Fragmente" - Teil III - "Die Historischen Fragmente". Übersetzt und erläutert von Martin Hose 307 Seiten 2002. hardcover
1979réf. 2606240072Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Like New. 40 volume Easton Press set Hardcover. Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Some volumes still in publisher's shrink wrap. For more than 30 years the Easton Press has been the standard for finely bound profusely gilt classic leather bindings. Attractive set appealing to the classics reader and decorator alike. Includes some of the most influential books of all time across poetry philosophy and literature. This is an oversized or heavy book which WILL require additional postage for Priority Mail or International delivery outside the US. Contains the following volumes: Aesop - Aesop’s Fables; Aristophanes – The Birds The Frogs; Aristotle – Politics & The Poetics; Bronte Charlotte – Jane Eyre; Bronte Emily – Wuthering Heights; Bunyan John – The Pilgrim’s Progress; Cervantes - Don Quixote; Confucius – The Analects of Confucius; Conrad Joseph – Lord Jim; Crane Stephen – Red Badge of Courage; Dante – The Divine Comedy; Dickens Charles – David Copperfield; Dickens Charles – Great Expectations; Doyle Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Dumas Alexandre – The Three Musketeers; Fielding Henry – Tom Jones; Goethe Johann Wolfgang von – Faust; Grimm – Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Hardy Thomas – Return of the Native; Homer – Odyssey; Keats John – Collected Poems; Machiavelli Niccolo – The Prince; Melville Herman – Moby-Dick; Milton John – Paradise Lost; Plato – Dialogues on Love and Friendship; Rousseau Jean-Jacques– The Confessions; Scott Walter – The Talisman; Shakespeare William – The Comedies; Shakespeare William – The Histories; Shakespeare William – The Tragedies; Sophocles – Oedipus the King; Sterne Lawrence – Tristram Shandy; Stevenson Robert Louis – Treasure Island; Swift Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels; Thoreau Henry David – Walden; Turgenev Ivan – Fathers and Sons; Twain Mark – Huckleberry Finn; Voltaire – Candide; Whitman Walt – Leaves of Grass; Yeats W.B. – Collected Poems. Easton Press hardcover
1619réf. 2011230008London: Typis Eduardi Griffini M.DC.XIX Edward Griffin 1619. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition printed in England of Aristotle's Rhetoric. Quarto 22 x 17.5 cm. Bound in modern calf. 8 239 9 p. Large woodcut title engraving coat of arms verso of title. Printed in three columns with parallel Greek and Latin texts with commentary shoulder notes on third column. Early Oxford provenance: Charles Frayer sp 1717; Thomas Bland Exeter College Oxford. Signature on title and front blank. Refs: STC 766; Brunet I 476. The translator Goulston 1572-1632 dedicated this volume to Prince Charles. After graduating from Oxford he worked as a physician in London and became a fellow of the College of Physicians. According to Dibdin Goulston's version of Aristotle's Rhetoric was the most popular 17th century version. Typis Eduardi Griffini, M.DC.XIX (Edward Griffin) hardcover
1555réf. 1805240137Paris: Parisiis: Guil. Morelius apud Adrianum Turnebum typographicus Regium 1555. Hardcover. Good. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in 10 books. Bound in 17th century morocco. 6 raised bands gilt ruled. Front hinge cracked. Gilt stamping to front board. All edges marbled. Marbled end pages. Small folio 29 cm. 4 253 1 pages. Text printed in parallel columns Greek and Latin. Pages generally unmarked. Minor toning. Some faded early marginalia. Adams A1810; BM STC French 1470-1600; p. 26. Colophon: Excudebat et cum graecis latina coniungebat Guil. Morelius M.D. LV. xii. Cal. Martias. Book plate of Leon J Agourides "Knowledge is power." Other titles: Aristotelis de moribvs ad Nicomachvm Lib. X. Aristotelis De moribus ad Nicomachum lib. XDe moribus ad Nicomachum lib. X Parisiis: Guil. Morelius, apud Adrianum Turnebum typographicus Regium hardcover
1705réf. 428651London: Dan. Brown and Will. Turner 1705. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 511pp. Later quarter goatskin with four raised banks stamped in gilt over blue cloth-covered boards. Pages evenly browned with some light wear soiling and tiny tears; very good and binding near fine. Dan. Brown and Will. Turner hardcover
1705réf. 428651London: Dan. Brown and Will. Turner 1705. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 511pp. Later quarter goatskin with four raised banks stamped in gilt over blue cloth-covered boards. Pages evenly browned with some light wear soiling and tiny tears; very good and binding near fine. Dan. Brown and Will. Turner hardcover books
1619réf. 016801London: Edward Griffon 1619. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. vi pages 1-239 pages 1 blank page i tabulae page i blank iv pages. Original full calf binding very worn with front board detached. Several pages are dirty/soiled with a stain to the title page. Previous owner's names. Approximately 8.5 inches page height. Title within fine woodcut border and full page woodcut arms on verso of title. Enclosed and protected in an attractive clothbound clamshell box with a printed paper spine label. Edited by Theodore Goulston. Goulston is styled by Ant. a Wood "an excellent Latinist and a noted Grecian" and according to Dibdin his version of Aristotle's Rhetoric was the most popular of all 17th century vreions. This is the first printing of Aristotle's Rhetoric in Britain. Edward Griffon Hardcover
réf. 14760Sans lieu Jacobus Berjon, Typographus Lugdunensis 1580 in 16 (13x8) 1 volume relié velin ivoire époque, 637 pages, figures scientifiques dans le texte. Bel exemplaire, petite galerie de vers sur l'extrémité de la marge interne, sans atteinte au texte, et visible sur 10 faux-feuillets
réf. 153420Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1591.
réf. 153420Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Franciscum Raphelengium 1591. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: XVI2977 index; 231 blank p. Modern half calf. 16 cm Ref: STCN ppn 840465076; Cranz Bibliotheca Bibliographica Aureliana 108.713; Schwab 1520; Hoffmann 1285; Schweiger 153; Brunet 1464; Graesse 1213; Ebert 1137 Details: Restored half calf antique style with some gilding on the back and a red shield. Marbled boards. Plantin's woodcut printer's mark on the title motto: 'Labore et Constantia'. The first part p. 1-297 contains 'De Mundo'; the Greek text is divided in paragraphs and each paragraph is followed by 2 Latin translations of Apuleius and of Guillaume Budé and by explanatory notes scholia of Vulcanius. The second part which is often lacking in other copies has a title page of its own; it contains the 'editio princeps' of the Greek text of Gregorius Cyprius' 'Praise of the Sea' and reissue of Paulus Silentiarius' poem on the hotsprings Therma in Bithynia Condition: Paper yellowing. 2 names on the title. Right edge of the first leaves slightly thumbed the right lower corner of the first leaves somewhat dog-eared Note: The Greek scholar/philosopher Aristotle 384-322 B.C. is one of the foremost names in the history of thought and perhaps the most influential of all who have ever written. His influence on Western science and culture is immense. His boundless industry extended to most branches of higher learning. 74 treatises genuine and spurious have come down to us under his name. § One such work that has no claim to be genuine is the once popular philosophic treatise 'De Mundo' or 'On the Universe'. Edition Bekker 391-401 In it cosmological and meterological subjects are treated. The work was once ascribed to Aristotle but ever since the German scholar Wilhelm Capelle traced most of its doctrines to the Greek Stoic philosopher Posidonius of Apameia ca. 135 - ca. 51 B.C. the author is known as Pseudo-Aristotle. Neue Jahrbücher XV 1905 p. 529/68 Capelle dates the treatise in the first half of the second century A.D. It was translated into Latin in the second century A.D. by the Roman rhetorician and platonic philosopher Apuleius Madaurensis who is best known for his famous picaresque novel 'Metamorphoses' also known as 'The Golden Ass'. In 1533 the French classical scholar Guillaume Budé Guilielmus Budaeus published in Basel an edition of 'De Mundo' with a Latin translation of his own. This translation and the one of Apuleius was adopted in this Leiden edition of 1591 edited by the Flemish scholar Bonaventura Vulcanius De Smet in Flemish 1539-1614 from 1581 professor of Greek and Latin Letters at the recently founded University of Leiden. It is Vulcanius second edition of 'De Mundo' for in 1587 he had published the first edition. § In the short preface Vulcanius observes that he has restored 'De Mundo' to its original splendor emendating the manuscript and editions he used e.g. 'vetus codex meus habet' and 'In Aldina legitur' at quite a number of places and that he has cleansed Apuleius' translation from many horrific mistakes. 'In Aristotele itaque emendavi non pauca ab Apuleio innumera mendarum portenta profligavi totamque hanc Aristotelici pariter & Apuleiani Mundi fabricam pristinae suae quoad eius fieri potuit integritati restitui' p. 3 verso Vulcanius elucidated 'illustravi' 'De Mundo' also with a load of annotations that he hoped were useful for future philologists and even philosophers. In his annotations he examined how faithful to the Greek the Latin versions of Apuleius and Budaeus were and the 'emendations Vulcanius supplied were nearly all accepted by later editors of 'De Mundo' notably Bekker 1831 and Lorimer 1938'. H. Cazes ed. 'Bonaventura Vulcanius Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614' Leiden 2010 p. 346 3 years after this edition of 'De Mundo' Vulcanius produced for the same publisher an 'Opera Omnia' edition of Apuleius. § After 'De Mundo' Vulcanius has added in this edition of 1591 a separate volume containing 2 short Greek texts the 'editio princeps' of a prose work of Gregorius Cyprius 1241-1290 Patriarch of Constantinople the 'Encomium Maris' or the 'Praise of the Sea' p. 3/12 and a iambic poem of 189 verses composed by Paulus Silentiarius during the reign of Justinian 'Eis ta en Pythois Therma' on the hotsprings in Bithynia in Asia Minor p. 13/23 including Vulcanius' notes. It was Vulcanius explains in the 1 page introduction to this poem shoddily presented in the 'Anthologia Epigrammatum Graecorum' of Henri Estienne of 1566. He therefore decided to deliver a correct and sound text with his annotations. p. 13 These 2 small works were probably added by Vulcanius because they go well with and illustrate the passages in 'De Mundo' on the element water i.e. rivers seas oceans etc. p. 44/62 Provenance: On the title the name of 'Henricus Gesselius'. This might be the Dutchman Henricus Gesselius a 'Medicinae Doctor' who published in 1640 a 'Disputationum medicarum quinta de febre hectica & malignis' and 'Disputationum medicarum de febribus septima'. § If this is correct the other name 'Ioan. Cor. Gess.' might well be Johannes Cornelius Gesselius ca. 1550-1627 who was from 1574 rector of the Gymnasium of Amersfoort. He was fired in 1619 because he refused to renounce his catholic faith. NNBW 6 p. 579/80 Collation: 8 A-T8; a8 b4 leaf b4 verso blank Photographs on request hardcover
1549réf. 6034Firenze, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1549. Petit in-4 de 420-[20]p. pour la table, demi-basane brune, dos lisse orné de filets et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre rouge (coins émoussés, quelques très rares rousseurs). Reliure XIXe ème.
1783réf. 10489Paris: Chez la Veuve DeSaint 1783. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Including half-titles approbation and privilege du Roi. Volume I with the Greek and French translations on facing pages. Contemporary tree calf some wear to joints and corners; marbled edges some light waterstains in first volume. From the library of George Milton Smith with his bookplate.`. First edition. Camus' translation of Aristotle's descriptive zoology from Greek into French is a masterpiece of scholarship. This highly esteemed translation is much sought after for its extensive erudite commentaries and profound enlightenment of comparative anatomy. Divided into two books the first volume contains Aristotle's original Greek with Camus' French translation facing. Here he documents all the various manuscripts editions and translators cited in the work. The second volume a detailed study of natural history up to the modern time contains Camus' careful observations on the commentaries of other translators. This work is of particular importance for Camus' nomenclature of those living creatures originally described in Aristotle's account. He lists all of the animals found in Aristotle works including those "fanciful and primitive" and then details the differences in terms of the modern knowledge of natural history. So great was the influence of Aristotle that his teachings and thought were accepted and enlarged upon for nearly two millennia. He was acquainted with more than five hundred species of animals and had dissected and investigated in detail at least fifty kinds ranging over the entire animal kingdom. Many of his conclusions have stood the test of time. Among them may be mentioned his descriptions of the mechanisms of locomotion of the process of digestion in ruminants of the habits of bees of the mechanism of animal reproduction; his exposition of analogous structures in living bodies; and his methods of biological classification Eimas Heirs of Hippocrates 14. Camus 1740-1804 French revolutionist was a successful advocate before the Revolution. In 1789 he was elected by the third estate of Paris to the states general and attracted attention by his speeches against social inequalities. He was named archivist to the Constituent Assembly and in that capacity he organized the national archives and classified the papers of the different assemblies of the Revolution. He was restored to the office in 1796 and became absorbed in literary work. He remained an austere republican refusing to take part in the Napoleonic regime. This scarce work was included in Thomas Jefferson's library. Chez la Veuve DeSaint unknown
1799réf. 830021799. ARISTOTLE. ALBERTUS Magnus. Kurzgefasste Weiber-Buchlein. Enthalt Aristotels and Alberti Magni Hebammen-Kunst mit den darzu gehorigen Recepten. Harrisburg PA: Benjamin Mayer 1799. 10th ed. 24mo. 64 pp. In contemporary calf-backed boards. Close trimming to the fore-edge touches some text. Wear to the board edges nevertheless a remarkably well-preserved and attractive copy. Very good or better. Arndt 1173. Bristol B10844. Austin 1109. Brendle and Unger G19. While Bristol Austin and Brendle and Unger place this in Ephrata and from the press of G. Baumann Arndt notes this is a Harrisburg imprint from the press of Benjamin Mayers based on "typographical evidence." In terms of content Arndt has compared this with the 1796 edition and finds three chapters added: "Culpepper XVI" "Culpepper XII" and "Der Kaiserliche Schnitt." Arndt hypothesizes that the chapters likely come from Nicholas Culpeper's Directory for Midwives. Despite having been issued in several editions this early Pennsylvania German book on midwifery is rare in commerce. Text in German. unknown
1783réf. 10489Paris: Chez la Veuve DeSaint 1783. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Including half-titles approbation and privilege du Roi. Volume I with the Greek and French translations on facing pages. Contemporary tree calf some wear to joints and corners; marbled edges some light waterstains in first volume. From the library of George Milton Smith with his bookplate.`. First edition. Camus' translation of Aristotle's descriptive zoology from Greek into French is a masterpiece of scholarship. This highly esteemed translation is much sought after for its extensive erudite commentaries and profound enlightenment of comparative anatomy. Divided into two books the first volume contains Aristotle's original Greek with Camus' French translation facing. Here he documents all the various manuscripts editions and translators cited in the work. The second volume a detailed study of natural history up to the modern time contains Camus' careful observations on the commentaries of other translators. This work is of particular importance for Camus' nomenclature of those living creatures originally described in Aristotle's account. He lists all of the animals found in Aristotle works including those "fanciful and primitive" and then details the differences in terms of the modern knowledge of natural history. So great was the influence of Aristotle that his teachings and thought were accepted and enlarged upon for nearly two millennia. He was acquainted with more than five hundred species of animals and had dissected and investigated in detail at least fifty kinds ranging over the entire animal kingdom. Many of his conclusions have stood the test of time. Among them may be mentioned his descriptions of the mechanisms of locomotion of the process of digestion in ruminants of the habits of bees of the mechanism of animal reproduction; his exposition of analogous structures in living bodies; and his methods of biological classification Eimas Heirs of Hippocrates 14. Camus 1740-1804 French revolutionist was a successful advocate before the Revolution. In 1789 he was elected by the third estate of Paris to the states general and attracted attention by his speeches against social inequalities. He was named archivist to the Constituent Assembly and in that capacity he organized the national archives and classified the papers of the different assemblies of the Revolution. He was restored to the office in 1796 and became absorbed in literary work. He remained an austere republican refusing to take part in the Napoleonic regime. This scarce work was included in Thomas Jefferson's library. Chez la Veuve DeSaint unknown books
1555réf. 67038Venice:: I. Gryphius 1555. contemporary limp vellum. Marginal worming to Biii - Diiiii; vellum soiled and a little worn; fragments of leather ties present. . Folio. Engraved vignette on title page and a few text illustrations. A few old marginal annotations associated with underlined text. I. Gryphius, hardcover
1995réf. 315699Easton Press 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. Twelve volumes in uniform bindings of full bright red leather stamped in gilt spine titles in black labels. No corners or spine ends bumped or pushed. All have an unused bookplate laid in. Three have no flaws whatsoever to the page edge gilt eight have very minor almost imperceptible flaws Plato has two white spots on the top edge. This set will be remarkably attractive on your shelf. Please request a shipping quote before ordering. Easton Press hardcover