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ref. 154217Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Elseviriana, 1640.
ref. 154217Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex officina Elseviriana 1640. 12mo. 1115 index1033 blank p. Modern boards. 13.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 061216267; Willems 504; Rahir 499; Berghman 1285; Hoffmann 537/38 Details: Elsevier's woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting an old man standing in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher. The motto is: 'Non solus'. After the index at the end we find: 'Adolphi Vorstii Epistola de obitu V.Cl. Ioannis Meursii ad filium ejus Joannem iuvenem praestantissimum' followed by a short 'epitaphium' for Meursius by his friend A. Buchellius and an elegiac couplet of Nicolaus Heinsius Condition: Title page soiled and a small piece removed from the tip of its right lower corner. Small stamp on the title. 3rd leaf slightly soiled Note: The Greek scholar Theophrastus ca. 370-287 B.C. was a pupil collaborator and successor of Aristotle. He was a scientific researcher rather than a speculative philosophers. Only a small part of Theophrastus' output has been preserved or as Meursius observes at the beginning of this 'liber singularis' of 1640: 'paucis conservatis pleraque interciderunt' 'few works have been saved most have perished'. p. 5 The importance of classification runs through all his extant works including even the brochure known as the Characters' Charaktêres. This collection of 30 descriptive sketches of types of people exhibiting deviations from proper norms of behaviour is nowadays his most famous and most imitated work. § This title of 1640 is the only edition of the last work of the Dutch classicist and historian Johannes Meursius Johannes van Meurs 1579-1639. It consists of 2 parts the first of which p. 1/82 is on the lost works of Theophrastus. Meursius list here 234 works with sources and testimonia. The second part p. 83/111 contains notes and emendations by Meursius on a number of Theophrastus' extant works 'Ioannis Meursii Lectiones Theophrasteae in quibus eorum librorum qui supersunt loca aliquot emendantur'. § Meursius was professor of History and Greek in the university of Leiden from 1610 till 1620. He studied under the genius J.J. Scaliger and is best known for the 'editiones principes' of a number of Byzantine authors that he produced. Meursius' indefatigable labours concerned also the history of ancient Greece and especially Eleusis and the antiquities of Athens and Attica. Meursius laid with his works the foundations of much later learning Provenance: The stamp on the title is a crown with 7 pearls of a Dutch/German/Austrian baron Beneath the crown 2 intertwined initials 'C.C'. or 'C.D' Collation: A-E12 F6 leaf F5 verso and F6 blank Photographs on request hardcover
2004ref. x-0521839807Cambridge Univ Pr 2004. Hardcover. New. revised edition. 612 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.50 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
1714ref. 370TheophrastusThe Moral Characters of Theophrastus. Translated from the Greek By Eustace Budgell Esq; Reddere persone scit convenientia cuique. Hor. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespeare's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand 1714. engraved frontispiece by Lud. Du Guernier deli & Sculp; vi; life of Theophrastus xvi; the preface viii; 80; iv 12mo. The introduction begins the text on page 1 chapter 1 begins on page 5; erratum on page 80 advertisements for Jacob Tonson's books 4 pages. Page 79 mis-numbered as "89." Bound in blind-stamped eighteenth century calf re-backed six raised bands. Book plate and embossed stamp of the Sondley Reference Library 1879 – 1919 City of Asheville North Carolina. Ownership signature of Henry Reid above the book plate. With the bookseller's tag of Joseph McDonough Rare Books Albany New York. The fraught history of the Sondley Library its holdings its generous benefactor and its eventual piecemeal dispersal is a cautionary tale to any benefactor who might assume economic conditions and local politics will leave his/her bequest unaltered and intact in perpetuity. In the late nineteen-eighties the trustees of the Sondley Library authorized the sale of those books they deemed irrelevant to the Pack Memorial Library's purposes namely North Carolina history. Jacob Tonson the printer is mentioned in Howe's List of London Bookbinders 1648 – 1815. "From his will it appears he was a bookbinder a stationer and a printer as well as a bookseller d. 1735." Lowndes Vol. IV 2663b "Of this translation Addison in the Lover remarked 'it was the best extant of any ancient author in the English Language.' " Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespeare’s Head, over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, hardcover books
1754ref. 3721907Paris.: JEan Thomas Herissant. 1754. Hardcover. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 16 cm. 287 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal en plena piel con tejuelo y nervios decorados. Idioma francés . Cubierta deslucida. Literatura.82 82 JEan Thomas Herissant. hardcover
1883ref. 001982Poitiers Imprimerie Oudin 1883
1754ref. 118025Paris herissant 1754 A Paris, Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1754, 1 volume in-12 de 90x150 mm environ, XXIV, 287 pages. Pleine reliure racinée, dos long portant titres et fers dorés, roulette dorée sur les coupes, gardes blanches. Coiffe de tête accidentée, coiffe de queue absente, des frottements sur les coins et les mors, rares rousseurs sinon intérieur frais, bon état général.
1754ref. 128701754 Paris, Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1754, in 12 de XXIV-287 pp., rel. d'ép. plein veau brun granité, dos à nerfs orné de fers dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranche rouge, usure à la coiffe inférieure, bon ex.
1754ref. 15495Oxford: Printed; and to be had of R. Clements and J. Fletcher…et al. 1754 First edition. Contemporary calf rubbed rebacked with old spine laid down. Octavo. Main text in Greek and Latin on facing pages. Extensive notes and observations in English. Covers rubbed corners worn. Armorial bookplate of William Frere 1775-1836 master of Downing College and later vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. Later pencil notations by a later student one dated 1932. A little light foxing. A good copy. The translator/compiler is Richard Newton 1676-1753 was educated at Christ Church College Oxford becoming a doctor of divinity in 1710. In 1710 he became principal of Hart Hall in Oxford where he tried to implement educational reforms. Running into opposition he oversaw its transformation into Hertford Colege. "Its statutes were the work of Newton and embodied his ideas on education… He would oversee tutors and students with equal strictness. Regular and rigorous academic exercises were to guarantee scholastic standards. Great power reposed in the principal who doubled as bursar. The principal in a manner more appropriate to a hall than to a college selected fellows. Future principals following Newton's own example were to be chosen exclusively from alumni of Westminster and Christ Church. Newton was keen too that an economical regime should attract undergraduates from less affluent backgrounds and compete for members against other colleges within the university. As principal he watched vigilantly over the domestic economy of the house. He calculated that the annual expenses of an undergraduate could be cut to about £31. He also waged an unavailing battle against the distractions that seduced the young from their studies. His frugal regimen at Hertford of 'small-beer and apple dumplings' was easily mocked"Oxford DNB. An able translator he produced this as part of his academic work and it was published posthumously. Printed; and to be had of R. Clements and J. Fletcher…[et al.], unknown
1743ref. 6108Glasguae Glasgow: In Aedibus Academicis. Excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus 1743. 8vo. pp. ii 53 i 52. Greek text followed by Isaac Casaubons Latin translation. Contemporary calf rebacked corners renewed. Foulis was elected University Printer on March 31st 1743 and this is the first book where he styles himself Academiae Typographus. Peter Needhams excellent edition was first published in 1712. 1744 dated ownership signature E Libris Bagnall on the free endpaper with two 20th century inscriptions beneath: R.J. Mockridge St Johns Oxford in 1908; gift to D Hughes from the Rev R. Mockridge then at Harwicke Rectory August 1958. Booksellers ticket R. Saywell to pastedown. Theophrastuss moral character sketches are listed in English in a 19th century hand on the lower pastedown. Gaskell Foulis: 40; ESTC N475398. Book In Aedibus Academicis. Excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus unknown
1779ref. TK0066Frankfurt & Leipzig:: 1779 1779. 8vo. IV 246 20 pp. Engraved frontispiece title-vignette showing a bunch of grapes woodcut head & tailpieces index; title & final leaf each reinforced at hinge with white tape frontispiece is mounted on the adjoining newer free endsheet; waterstains. Later quarter vellum boards vellum tips; some staining to upper cover upper joint cracked. Good. Paracelsus' Natural Magic Magazine: containing as an extract from his writings all sorts of things for pleasure and benefit but especially economic arts and proven cures for humans and animals published for the general benefit. / This is an alchemical recipe book of concoctions for a myriad of needs some agricultural for using specific plants for medicinal cures treatments etc. each based on the writings of Paracelsus. A random sampling: p. 46 On the problem of caterpillars and how to prevent them from eating away your fruit trees. p. 36. How to catch large and small mice. p. How to fatten geese to give them large livers to make foie gras. p. 132. To remove stains from clothes. p. 150. How to give wine a sweet taste. p. 194 How to cultivate/make wine in the autumn. p. 210. Against the red aphid and fire. p. 162 The Queen's lemonade. p.---. How to make paper. p. 80. How to make beer pp. 176 more. A lot of attention is given to colors farben. / "Das Buch ist eine Sammlung von allerlei Zauberkunsten Recepten fur Menschen u. Thiere gegen Ungeziefer Hausmitteln u. s. w. auch sympathetischen Mitteln". - Spatere Ausgabe erstmals 1771 erschienen. – Erste u. letzte Bll. im Zuge der Neubindung im Falz verstarkt in den Randern gebraunt feuchtfleckig Titel starker u. zudem angestaubt insgesamt wohlerhalten. PROVENANCE: Koller auction 18 March 2015 lot 275. REFERENCES: Graesse Bibl. magica 49; Sudhoff 465. 1779 hardcover
1653ref. ABC_50270Leiden 1653. 24mo. Joannes Maire Contemporary vellum sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints with the manuscript author on the spine. With a vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments the work is partly printed in Greek type. 359 1 pp. Miniature edition of the "Moral Characters" a major work of ancient philosophy by Theophrastus ca. 371-287 BCE. The work is published with the Greek and Latin texts on opposite pages to which are added the extensive notes and comments of over 200 pages by Johannes Augustus Werdenhagen 1581-1652 for use of students. The present second Dutch edition is quite rare with only three copies recorded in institutions.Theophrastus was born on the island of Lesbos and was a student of Aristotle. He wrote numerous treatises across all areas of philosophy but the present work is his most well-known and has been imitated many times especially in the 17th century. The work which was already widely read in classical antiquity contains thirty descriptions of moral types which are both humorous and morally instructive. As the first recorded attempt of systematic character writing it paints a vivid picture of various human behaviours and offers insight into universal human weaknesses. Theophrastus' simple and direct style makes the work accessible while offering a profound reflection on the qualities and flaws of human nature.With the armorial bookplate of Edward Shipperdson mounted on the front pastedown and the manuscript initials "RK" on the first free flyleaf. The vellum is somewhat soiled and stained with a tear and small loss at the foot. The leaves are somewhat browned. Otherwise in good condition.l The children's world of learning 208; STCN 113911513 3 copies; USTC 1809102 3 copies; Welsh A bibl. of miniature books 6679; not in Dibdin. BOOK HISTORY & PRINTING HISTORY LAW PHILOSOPHY & POLITICS LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS Classical Antiquity Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics Miniature Books Philosophy & Humanism hardcover
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1944ref. 27667AB8 Bde. St. Gallen, Vlg. Zollikofer, 1944-1949. 8° Halblederbände mit Rückenschild. Rücken mit Farbabweichungen (verbleicht?).
1944ref. 27667AB1944. 8 Bde. St. Gallen Vlg. Zollikofer 1944-1949. 8° Halblederbände mit Rückenschild. Rücken mit Farbabweichungen verbleicht. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung des Herausgebers J. Strebel an Hans Sulzer unknown
1799ref. 000013139Ienae = Jena: Friederici Frommanni 1799. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 3 vi-xxx 2 1-262 pp. Contemporary artifically-grained sheep boards with gold decorations and borders gold decorations to the turn-ins spine in six compartments with gold decorations and gold lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound with a silk pink ribbon bookmark bound without the half-title. Text in Greek and Latin. Greek and Latin text and notes edited and corrected by Johannes Gottlieb Schneider. Dibdin 504. Moss 695-696. Oxford Classical Dictionary 1504-1505. Theophrastus was student of Aristotle's and an accomplished philosopher and logician. His Characters one of the surviving works from his prolific canon constitutes a list of brief outlines of negative personality types exhibited by people. Moss refers to Schneider's edition as the best one Dibdin says "the collector should not be without it." The book contains an account of the surviving manuscripts which provide modern readers with the remaining works of Theophrastus and incorporates elements of Amadutius' editing into his own. This is the first Schneider edition of Theophrastus' Characters. A touch of rubbing to the corners two ink inscriptions. Friederici Frommanni hardcover
1926ref. RO80094602KIEFFER René. 1926. In-4. Broché. Etat passable, 1er plat abîmé, Dos satisfaisant, Non coupé. 333 pages + une suite d'environ 50 / 60 planches. Exemplaire n°18 / 50, tiré sur papier Japon, contenant une suite à part des gravures tirées en sanguines, une aquarelle originale et 5 dessins originaux de Georges Bruyer. Nombreuses vignettes, dans le texte, illustrées en une couleurs. Couverture contre-pliée. Déchirure d'une quinzaine de cm sur le 1er plat de couverture. Charnières partiellement fendues.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle
1766ref. 27675Paris Imprimerie De La Gazette De France 1766 3 Volumes Petit In-4 Rare et précieuse table Alphabétique de la très Fameuse Gazette L'ancien Possesseur ( Monsieur Duvivier ? ) a établi une autre table manuscrite en signalant ( après avoir souligné discrètement à l'encre les lieux concernés dans le texte ) tous les lieux dans chaque volume qui concernent les Ardennes dans la dite Gazette. Il manque la page de titre au tome 2 . 415 pp + 418 ( sans page de titre ) 364- 16 pp Manque en coiffe pour le premier volume
1617ref. 29016Issued in Lyon in 1617 this edition of Characters by Theophrastus was translated and edited by Isaac Casaubon. The work includes 28 character types presented in Greek and Latin with Casaubon's annotations. First printed in 1592 this edition adds five character sketches not present in earlier forms. Casaubon's involvement established a lasting reputation in classical studies. The text explores fixed moral profiles as literary forms rather than continuous narratives. Known for its compact presentation the sextodecimo format facilitated access by early scholars. The publisher the widow of Antoine de Harsy issued many classical works and this volume appears in major bibliographies. Bound in full leather the book shows surface wear; the binding remains tight. The title page has been restored. Collation: 16 367 13. Format: Sextodecimo 16mo single volume. #29016 PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. viduam Ant. De Harsy hardcover
ref. 84188London Printed for the Author 1774. VIII 342 46 s. Fint priv. håndb. skinnbd. med ryggdekor i gull. Grønt skinn tittelfelt. . unknown
ref. 2658in 12 reliure plein vélin d’époque à rabats,titre manuscrit à la plume.Titre,XXIII-351 pages,43 pages index 1 ;2 ;3 1 page d’errata.1 page excudebat Guichardus Jullieron Typographus Rgius Lugduni,1599 Lugduni Antonium de Harsy 1599 cum privilegio regis Très bon état Isaac CasaubonPhilologue français(Genève 1559–Londres 1614). Calviniste, il enseigna le grec à Genève, à Montpellier, à Lyon, puis, à partir de 1600, à Paris, où Henri IV l'avait appelé. Son œuvre comprend des éditions, des traductions, des commentaires d'une vingtaine d'auteurs anciens, grecs surtout (Diogène Laërce, Théophraste, Théocrite, Perse, Polybe, Aristote, Suétone, etc.). On lui doit également des Éphémérides, chronique de sa vie quotidienne publiée en 1850, et une Correspondance, document essentiel sur les relations intellectuelles dans les milieux humanistes de la Renaissance.
1700ref. 64611London UK: Printed for John Bullord and sold by John Nicholson at the Kings Arms 1700. Two works in one vol. 8vo. 8 363 1; 4 xviii 44 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Contemporary mottled paneled calf raised bands on spine gilt lettering & stamped decoration on spine minor scuffing edgewear slight bumping to a couple corners expert repair to the spine still a VG copy. Second edition in English significantly revised updated and translation improved from the first edition in English which had been largely taken from the 7th French edition of this important work which delivered a biting and often satriical critique of the French nobility under Louis XIV. Bruyere first issued this original expansion of Theophrastus’s work of Essays on the Ethical Characters updating and refining the ancient work into a series of observations on the luxurious lifestyle of nobles in contrast to the gritty and harsh realities of everyday people working men & women and peasantry. The work proved to be wildly popular after publication and within the author’s lifetime earned the original French publisher a profit of 300000 Francs. By this final edition Bruyere’s original work had been expanded to 1120 fragments and 16 thematic sections. See: Wing L105. Printed for John Bullord, and sold by John Nicholson at the Kings Arms, hardcover
1824ref. 166494London: Josiah Taylor 1824. First Taylor edition of Theophrastus' timeless gallery of personality traits translated into English and beautifully illustrated with caricatures. The English translation is followed by the Greek text and notes. Taylor 1787-1865 was a philosophical and historical writer artist and inventor. Born into a family of engravers he initially followed this trade before turning to literature. This edition was welcomed with enthusiastic reviews the Literary Chronicle highlighting that "The sketches are bold and spirited full of character; there is scarcely an extraneous or unnecessary line in their whole engraving". This copy was bound for Sotheran's in London for Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale 1849-1912 with his gilt monogram stamp on the front cover. Dimsdale was a British banker and Conservative politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1901 to 1902. Quarto 270 x 193 mm. With 50 mounted wood-engraved illustrations. Late 19th-century green morocco over bevelled boards spine with raised bands gilt lettering in compartments monogram stamp "D" surmounted by a griffin's head and motto "quod Deus vult fiet" of Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale 1849-1912 on front cover marbled endpapers edges gilt. Spine and extremities faded to brown a few spots of wear at extremities front joint partly cracked short splits at rear joint ends and inner hinges but firm a little peripheral skinning to endpapers from adhesion margins of rear blanks toned occasional spot of foxing to contents otherwise clean. A very good wide-margined copy. hardcover
1967ref. 040653United States: University Books Inc 1967. Limited & Numbered . Hardcover. Very Good/NO Dustwrapper. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two Volumes in Slipcase. Now for the first time faithfully translated into English. Edited with a biographical preface elucidatory notes Hermetic vocabulary and index by Arthur Edward Waite. Vol I: Hermetic Chemistry. Vol II: Hermetic Medicine and Hermetic Philosophy. Complete Reprint of the 1894 Edition. Unusual Ex-Libris Plate of B.J.H. King author. Limited & Numbered Edition No 655 of 1000 sets. University Books Inc. New York USA 1967. I: xxiv 394pp; II: viii 396pp hb slipcase No Dust-wrapper slightly worn & bumped 1/4 gilt grey/black cloth red cloth maroon slip case vg University Books Inc hardcover
