Author: Theognis and other Greek poets, compiled by Friedrich Sylberg
Title: THEOGNIDIS, PHOCYLIDIS, PYTHAGORAE, SOLONIS & aliorum POEMATA GNOMICA. Graecis ex adverso Latina interpretatio apposita .. Opera Frederici Sylbergeii [preceded by Title in Greek].
Description: Utrecht (Ultrajecti), Ex officina Johannis à Waesberge 1659 Woodcut vignette on titlepage + a few foliated initials. . 12mo 130x80mm contemporary vellum (sl. damaged) All Edges Rouge. Ownership on FEP in 19th century blue ink (Kiel), Titlepage followed by 4 sections of poems by each Greek author and a 5th by others followed by Sylberg's Notes, [8]+170pp collated complete. A few isolated brown marks, else clean & crisp throughout. Contains poems by Pythagorus et al. *First published in similar form by Waesberg, Utrecht 1651, this is 2nd of 2 1659 Utrecht editions, the 1st by Hermann Ribb in 12mo of [8], 97, [3]pp. This very rare early edition is not listed by BSB Munich.

Keywords: Greek Latin poetry Pythagoras


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