Author: TURNEBUS, Adrianus.
Title: Adversariorum libri triginta, in tres tomos divisi. Ascripti sunt in margine auctorum loci qui in his sine certa nota appellantur studio & labore Io. Furdini conquisiti.
Description: Paris, M. Juvenis, 1580 (part III: 1573). 3 parts in 1. Folio. (29, 4x19cm). [xcvi], 407 - [viii], 413[=515] - [xii], 283[=284] pp. Later polished calf with interlaced geometrical ribbons, gilt spine with morocco title-piece. (binding strengthened along the joints with linen; spine rebacked; pagination somewhat erratic; some pages lightly waterstained in margine; tiny worming (almost no text loss, 1 letter at most), from p.II.138 onward; lacking the last 8 leaves of part III) ¶ "Ex libris Jac. Navander inattiaroveriani" [?] written in old hand on title-page; as well as another, later name (illegible); armorial bookplate of Beilby Thompson (of Escrick) on paste-down. ¶ Best edition of Turnebus' most important work, in which "a large number of passages in ancient authors are judiciously explained or boldly emended." (Sandys II.185-86) ¶ "Beste Ausg."(Ebert 23161). ¶ Adams T1145 (our copy matches those in the university libraries of Cambridge and Ghent). "Turnèbe a joui parmi ces contemporains d'une réputation sans tache: il la devait aux qualités du coeur, à ses moeurs irréprochables, à la douceur de son commerce, à une modestie rare, et surtout à une éruditon immense, qui le porta de bonne heure au premier rang dans un siècle d'érudits." (NBG.45, 733)

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