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Terence. Publius Terentius Afer; BaskervilleMareMagnum

PUBLII TERENTII AFRI COMOEDIAE

1772pp. (4), 308. The edition without the cancellans at G2. 12mo. [176 x 105 mm.] Foxed. It is very unusual to find in a Baskerville that some leaves (in two gatherings of this copy) were smudged during printing, and permitted to pass. Contemporary full sprinkled calf binding. Gilt tulip roll on the boards. Spine ornamented with gold crossed arrows. Joints tender. Printed ExLibris of John Rayner. Gaskell 47. Terence (Ca. 190-159 B.C.), the great Latin comic poet, was born in Carthage. He came to Rome as the slave of a senator, Terentius Lucanus. In the house of Lucanus he was educated like a free man and soon emancipated. His successful first play, 'Andria' introduced him to Roman society, and the circle of Scipio, Philus, and Laelius. His surviving six comedies are drawn from Athenian sources, especially from lost plays by Menander. Terence has been read for over two thousand years, and his influence on European literature cannot be overestimated. He imparted to Latin the sense of artistic elegance, consistency and moderation which made it a model for all literary epochs. In him we find a meeting-point for three great civilizations - the decaying Greece; Carthage, soon to pass away into oblivion; and nascent Italy, poised to absorb the world. John Baskerville (1706-1775) was the greatest printer of his era. Born in Wolverley, Hereford - Worcester, England, he became a writing master in Birmingham. He also carried on a successful japanning (varnishing) business there. In about 1750 he began to make experiments in letter founding, and produced the wonderful series of types now named after him. His first book, the Virgil of 1757, was also the first to be printed upon wove paper (manufactured by a process that he invented). In 1758 he be came printer to Cambridge University. All of his books bear show fine craftsmanship and a refined sense of design. In the last few years before his death, Baskerville published a few Latin classics in quarto and duodecimo. "All these bear the marks of unabated genius even in his declining days: and suffice, had he printed nothing else, to distinguish him as the first typographer of his time" - T. B. Reed, in 'Old English Letter Foundries' "Quot homines tot sentensiae; suo quoiqu e mos " So many men, so many opinions; a law of his own to each -- Terence. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! W154

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Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius.MareMagnum

[DE VITA CAESARUM]. IN HOC VOLUMINE HAEC CONTINENTUR. C. Suetonij Tranquilli XII Caesares. Sexti Aurelij Victoris a d. Caesare Augusto usq; ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropij De gestis Romanorum lib. X., Pauli Diaconi libri VIII ad Eutropij historiam additi

1521ff. [60], 320 numbered leaves. Woodcut Aldine anchor and dolphin printer's device on the title page and last leaf. Latin Italic type. Some age stain, especially on first and last leaves. In several places the name of Erasmus is obliterated in ink by a censor. An early ownership on the title has been washed out, and a small marginal chip has resulted. Small 8vo. 160 mm. Edges decorated red. Early nineteenth century full vellum binding. Lacks front fly leaf. This second and improved Aldine edition is essentially a reprint of the edition of 1516, edited by Giovanni Battista Cipelli, called Egnazio (1478-1553), with the addition of annotations by Erasmus, which were first published in the Froben edition of 1518. Both Aldine editions contain the relevant texts of Aurelius Victor and Eutropius with the continuation by Paulus Diaconus. The full work was once the common manual of almost everyone who wished to study Roman history, and because of this long and hard use, it is extremely difficult to obtain a clean and perfect example - Renouard. This second edition is considered the more valuable, as containing an 'Index Memorabilium' and the notes of Erasmus and the Venetian philologist Joannes Baptista Egnatius (ca. 1473-1553). Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (ca. 69/75-after 130). Suetonius was a close friend to Senator and letter-writer Pliny the Younger. Pliny describes him as 'quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing'. Through Pliny, Suetonius came into favor with Trajan and Hadrian. Under Trajan he served as secretary of studies (precise functions are uncertain) and director of Imperial archives. Under Hadrian, he became the Emperor's secretary. In 122, Hadrian dismissed him for disrespectful behavior towards Empress Vibia Sabina. Suetonius may have later regained imperial favor under Hadrian and returned to his position. It was probably in Hadrian's time that he wrote his most important surviving work - this set of biographies on the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Entitled 'De Vita Caesarum' it deals with successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. It also includes other texts on Roman history, notably Eutropius. This collection of ancient Roman historians is dedicated to the great book collector - Jean Grolier, and is followed by a letter from Erasmus commending the edition as well as Egnatius' scholarship. Renouard 91:7; Schweiger 974-975; Adams S-2035; UCLA A4S93; Graesse VI, 521; Ahmanson-Murphy 201 (incomplete); Bibliotheca Erasmiana Bruxellensis 499 (incomplete); Dibdin II, p. 439; STC Italian p. 651. Very good. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ALDINE BOX SAFE

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Herodianus; Politan; Zosimus; Estienne.MareMagnum

HERODIAN HISTORIARUM LIBRI VIII.

1581pp. [viii], 182, [ii], 79, [i]. Woodcut Estienne device on title page. Greek and Latin in parallel columns. Text uniformly foxed. Manuscript description of the acquistion (in 1800) of this copy and other bibliographic points. 4to. 26 cm. 18th century full limp vellum binding. Herodianus, supposed to have been a Syrian Greek, flourished during the third century A.D. In 203 he was in Rome, where he held some minor posts. His great historical work was written in Greek and narrates the events of the fifty-eight years between the death of Marcus Aurelius and the proclamation of Gordianus III. (180-238). The narrative is of special value as supplementing Dion Cassius, whose history ends with Alexander Severus. Chronicling the events of his own times, gifted with ordinary powers of observation, indubitable candour and independence of view his work is of inestimable value. He gives a lively account of many events such as: the death of Commodus; the assassination of Pertinax; how Didius Julianus bought the Roman Empire at auction; etc. Extensive use has been made of Herodianus by later chroniclers, especially the 'Scriptores historiae Au gustae' and John of Antioch. Poliziano did the first translation into Latin (1493) which conferred celebrity status on Herodian for the duration of the Renaissance. This Herodian was described by Dibdin as `an elegant, rare and critical edition', with notes and textual revisions by Henri Estienne. This is the first edition of any part of Zosimus (Editio Princeps), although Estienne only printed the first two books, translated by Leunclavius. The volume was dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney. Estienne (Etienne) (Latinized as Stephanus) was a great family of Parisian and Genevan printers of the 16th and 17th century, distinguished through five generations in scholarship as well as in their craft. Henri Estienne , Jr. (1531?-1598), was the greatest scholar of the family. He inherited his father's (Robert) press on the express condition that it should not be moved from Geneva. He was a well-trained scholar and devoted years to searching for manuscripts. Although humanism was far advanced, he, nevertheless, discovered numerous works of classical authors of which he issued first editions. His editions of Greek and Latin works are remarkable for their accuracy and textual criticism. Renouard 149/7; Schreiber 209; Dibdin II, 15; Adams H388, S1738. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Small Box OST 1

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EUSTATHIUS, Thessalonicensis.MareMagnum

Commentarii in Homeri Iliadem et Odysseam (Graece).

15424 volumi in-folio (346x237), pp. (4), 620; 621-1376 (manca l'ultimo bianco); (2), 1379-1970; ff. n. n. 6, 204; stupenda legatura di inizio XX secolo di J. Clarke in marocchino blu, titolo in oro ai dorsi e armi con monogramma di Theodore Williams sui piatti, larga dentelle interna. Impresa tipogr. del Blado ai tre titoli (il volume secondo non ha titolo separato); 3 stemmi silogr. ai ff. preliminari del vol. IV. Unica edizione impressa con lo splendido corsivo greco intagliato da Joannes Honorius per volere del Cardinale Marcello Cervini. Se ne stamparono 1275 esemplari su carta e 2 su pergamena (cfr. L. Dorez, Le Cardinal Cervini et l' imprimerie à Rome). Il volume I contiene il commento dell'Iliade, i vol. II e III, rispettivamente, il testo dell'Iliade e dell'Odissea, mentre il vol. IV, termina il commento ed ha copiosi e dettagliati indici, compilati da Matteo Devarius, impressi su tre colonne in corpo più piccolo. Prima edizione del Commento ai poemi omerici, di Eustazio di Tessalonica, dotto bizantino vissuto nel XII secolo. All'epoca fu il più vasto e stimato, tra i commentari conosciuti, resta ancor oggi assai prezioso per l' immensa ricchezza del materiale che vi è raccolto e per la grande quantità di citazioni di opere andate perdute; i testi sono assai corretti. Splendido, monumentale capolavoro della tipografia greca, che richiese al Blado nove anni di lavoro in collaborazione con altri tipografi, in particolare con Bernardo Giunta. Superbo esemplare a pieni margini, freschissimo. ''Trésor d'érudition grècque...'' (Renouard). . Cfr. A. Tinto, 'The history of a sixteenth-century Greek type, The Library, 5th series, 1970, pp.285-93). Mortimer, Harvard Italian 176. Ediz. romane del Blado 107 e 1202. Stimatissima dal Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, II, p. 48-49: ''among the most splendid monuments in the world of greek erudition and greek printing. Heyne has emphatically distinguished these Commentaries of Eustathius as among the most admirable eztant of the text of the poet.. They are the fountain-head from which almost inexhaustible supplies may be drawn for the illustration of the great poet. Of the above editions, that of Rome is not only the first, but the most splendidly executed performance..''. Renouard, Bibl. d' un amateur, II, p. 138: ''Trésor d'érudition grècque, espèce de sanctuaire dans lequel n'ont accés que ceux qui déjà n' ont fait des progrés dans l' étude des anciens classiques.''.

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