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 | DEMOSTHENES (DEMOSTENE); AESCHINES; ULPIANUS; WOLF, HIERONYMUS; SCHOTTUS, ANDREAS. Demosthenis et Aeschinis principum Graeciae oratorum opera: cum utriusque autoris vita & Ulpani commentariis, nouisq[ue] scholiis, ex quarta eaq[ue] postrema recognitione, Graecolatina ; sex codicum impressorum, & inter hos Parisiensis nuper editi, duorum manuscriptorum, alterius Pannonii, alterius ex Augustana bibliotheca fidelissimi collatione, a mendis repurgata, variis lectionibus adaucta, annotationibus illustrata. Francofurti [Frankfurt am Main]: Apud Claudium Marnium, & Haeredes Iohannis Aubrii, 1604. [68], lxxiiii, [6], 1464, [42] pp. Folio (38 cm). Quarterbound later morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (hardback). Second edition. Illus. with 3 engravings, head and tail pieces, and initials A 17x11 cm. section of the title page, which includes the printer's device, has been excised, the leaf neatly repaired; top edge lightly trimmed, boards and spine rubbed with scuffing to the top edges, otherwise very clean with occasional cross-references penciled in the margins, binding tight; a very nice copy.. Â ¶ Greek and Latin in parallel columns. Numerous typographical errors in pagination: nos. 1177-1178 omitted, nos. 1453-1454 duplicated. Publisher's device has been excised from the title page but is present on last page. Engraving of Hieronymus Wolf on 8th leaf. Hieronymus Wolf (1516 - 1580) was the sixteenth century German historian and humanist who coined the term Byzantium. The first printing of this edition with notes and commentaries was published in 1572; this, the second edition, varies a little in the order from the first. A third, published 1607, left off notes and is quite inferior. Institutional bookplate noting the book was a gift of Michael J. O'Farrell, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton, on the free front endpaper. Scarce. Brunet II 588. USD 1000.00 [Appr.: EURO 667.25 | £UK 601 | JP¥ 88257] Book number: 26668 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. | |
| MUSURILLO, HERBERT. Symbol and Myth in Ancient Poetry. Westport: Greenwood Press, (1977). 220 pp. 8vo. Cloth (hardback). Reprint. A very good crisp clean, apparently unused exlib copy with the usual markings. No dust jacket as issued. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 27160 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. | ||
| PETRONIUS ARBITER; MITCHELL, J. M., TRANS. Petronius: The Satyricon. London: George Routledge & Sons, (ca 1920. xii, 347 pp. Sm. 8vo. Red and tan cloth with paper labels (hardback). Second edition. A very good copy. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 26718 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. |
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