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Epistolae Apollonii Tyanei Anacharsidis Euripidis Theanus & Epistolae Hippocratis Democriti Heracliti Diogenis Cratetis; aliorumque ad eosdem nunc primum editae Graece simul ac Latine
1601Best.-Nr. 375Heidelberg: Officina Commeliniana 1601. First Edition. Very good . Small 8vo; 6 5/6 x3 7/8 in. 170 x 100 mm. Two books bound into one volume: ix 69 95 sheets with Greek text on unnumbered left pages Latin text on right; fine woodcut frames on title pages. Later tan morocco binding with gilt fillets and corner florets on boards gilt titling and leaf decorations on spine; two rows of gilt scrolling on turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt front hinge slightly worn; staining and offset throughout but pages solid and supple very small wormholes at corners on 5 leaves in the middle of the volume. In pencil on first flyleaf "First editions of several of the Epistolary writing." Book A: title page in engraved cornice with two figures and putti Epistolae Apollonii Tyanei Ancacharsidis Euripidis Theanus. Aliorúmque ad eosdem. Nunc primùm editae Graecè simul ac Latinè Per Eillhardum Lubbinum Ex Officina Commeliniana MDCI Book B: title page in engraved cornice with two figures and putti Epistolae HIppocratis Democriti Haeracliti Diogenis. Cratetis Aliorúmque ad eosdem. Nunc primùm editae Graecè simul ac Latinè Per Eillhardum Lubbinum Ex Officina Commeliniana MDCI The first volume has the letters of Hippocrates Democritus ca. 460-ca. 370 B.C. Diogenes d. ca. 323 B.C. Heraclitus of Ephesus and Crates of Thebes. The second volume includes the Greek authors Théano Apollonios de Tyane Euripide and Anacharsis. In is also of interest that copies of these two works were in Jefferson's personal library: see E.M Sowerby Catalog of the library of Thomas Jefferson no 4626 11 1 p. 12-95 i.e. 10-95 leaves. Woodcut architectural title border. Usual foxing and light browning. FIRST EDITIONS of these two Greek anthologies often found together with Greek and Latin parallel translations edited and translated by Eilhard Lubin 1565-1621. Lubin was a German Lutheran theologian philosopher social critic classical scholar linguist mathematician cartographer who was influential to the work of Comenius and Leibniz. The first volume has the letters of Théano Apollonios de Tyane Euripides and Anacharsis and the second of Hippocrates Democritus ca. 460-ca. 370 BCE Diogenes d. ca. 323 BCE Heraclitus of Ephesus and Crates of Thebes. In is also of interest that a copy of this same volume of two works were in Thomas Jefferson's personal library at Monticello which was sold to the Library of Congress in 1812. See E.M Sowerby Catalog of the library of Thomas Jefferson no. 4626. Officina Commeliniana unknown
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