Polybii Lycortae F Megalopolittani

HISTORIARUM libri qui supersunt interprete Isaaco Casaubono. Jacobbus Gronovius recensuit

Amsterdam, Johannis Janssonii a Waesberge & Johannis van Someren. 1670 Pictorial titlpage with large scene and three smaller scenes of battles to vol. I + Pictorial titlepage with two scenes . 3 Volumes in Two. Full Vellum,but not matching bindings. vol.1 with laced through spine and yapp fore-edge. Vol. 2/3 with 3 raised bands, ruled covers and traces where clasps are lost. Ink titled to spines [vol 2/3 with 1" split to top and 1/2" split to foot of upper cover and a repair to a mid-spine tear /the second volume bing somewhat marked/rubbed] vol. 1 all edges red dyed Vol. 2/3 bound in one with all edges blue dyed. Engraved pictorial title + Printed title with owernership & coat of arms to verso. + [16pp =Preface + Dedication +errata] + 908pp Vol. II engraved pictorial title with differing scenes from those the previous volume + printed title + with ownership to verso as in the previous book + [6p=Preface + half title] page 909 - 1816pp + Vol. III has a half title only of the "COMMENTARII" by Casaubon with 462pp which includes a Dedication & Preface of over 80pages and a commentary to each of the three books. The Polybius text is in parallel columns of Greek and Latin on each page and Books I & II and these are through paginated. There is an index of the text at the end of volume II . The last part is a commentary in Greek and Latin, the two languages interspersed on each page, and not divided into columns. The pastedown of both volumes have the library label of "Ludivic Zander Megalopolitani" and there is an additional round library label of Zander with his coat of arms on the verso of the printed title pages of the first two volumes. The Engraved title of vol.1 has a sl.faded inscription to lower margin, and the first 4 leaves have some marks, the 2nd volume has an dated inscription [1596] there are also damp marks to the first six leaves and more feintly to the last few leavs where last blank is missing. Pages clean and all tightly attaached. * The Histories of Polybius were written in 40 volumes but the volumes after the 5th book are only known from fragments mainly through later author's excerpts or fragments that survived. Machiavelli's writings included some of Polybius' description on the Roman constitution which was part of the 6th book and in later years would come to influence the nature of the U.S.Constitution. [Cf.Wickoedia] Aside from historical information Polybius also wrote about the influence of fate in the course of history and the years in which Rome bacame the major power but the affairs of other powerful nations at that time are also discussed.

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N° du livre: V75836

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: History power Rome Greece

Mercurialis, Hieronymus, Foroliviensis [Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606)] [edited] Guglielmus[sic] Athenius

PRAELECTIONES PATAVINAE, DE COGNOSCENDIS ET CURANDIS HUMANI CORPORIS AFFECTIBUS: In quibus praeter alia, quae partim ad Praxim in re Medica exercendam, partim ad uberiorem eruditionem comparandam plurimum conferunt, gravissimae quoque Theoriae difficultates enodantur. Olim inscio, et tanquam defuncto auctore editae, Sed postea ... recognitae, emendatae, & tertia parte auctae, Opera, ac Studio Guglielmi Athenii Bruxellensis ... Cum Privilegiis Senatus Veneti, & aliorum Principum.

Venice, Juntae (Giunta) 1627 Titlepage with red and black printer's device the Florentine red lily in a decorated frame, head- and tail-pieces and printed side notes + decorative initials. . Folio disbound [xxviii] +644pp [the last leaf in facsimile] Preliminaries include bibliographic references and index. The titlepage is counted in the preliminaries and is handsomely printed in red and black in both text and printer's device. There is also a Royal College of Surgeons Library blindstamp to titlepage and the next two leaves. Though missing the covers the book block is tight with the first two and last two gatherings glued into the spine. There are side notes throughout directing the reader to the cause of the illness, the cure and the prognosis etc. etc. Not a common book, only one on line for sale and it is missing pages, plus one sold at ABPC [in 1981].This italian author wrote several books but his most famous is the ARTE GYMNASTICA.

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N° du livre: V75407

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: medicine Medica Padua

Meteren,Emanuel van (1535-1612) with 2nd Work edited by Gaspar Ens

HISTORIA BELGICA Nostri Potissimum Temporis Belgii sub Quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis Principibus coniunctionem et gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, Bella et Mutationes tempore Regis Philippi .. ad annum usque 1598 plenius complectens conscripta .. A.E. Meterano Belga [bound with] BELLI CIVILIS IN BELGIO .. HISTORIA .. Concinnatum a Gaspare Ens L.

Antwerp] but no place given, N.P. 1598], 1610 but no date given for 1st Work Engraved title with shipping & battle scenes + folding Map of the Low Countries by by Frans Hogenberg + 22 copperplate portraits many folding + fine engraved title to 2nd Work. . 2 WORKS IN ONE VOLUME folio near contemporary calf blindstamped monogram crowned HL, spine overall gilt on raised bands (spine repaired at top compartment and lower hinge, corners & hinges worn but sound) [8]pp +623pp +[1]p blank (collates as V & A Libraries copy which catalogue attributes to 1598 from STC Dutch 1470-1600 and Antwerp place of publication: many pagination errors but collated A-Hhh in 6's except Fff in 4 with correct catchword. The first 3 pages of portraits have 2 busts each thereafter all are single full page portraits often with fore-edge folded back. All have text on the other side of the leaf. Second Work (BELLI CIVILIS IN BELGIO per quadraginta fere continuos annos gesti Historia ed. by Gaspar Ens) also without imprint but dated 1610, Titlepage +[2]pp to reader +502pp. double column text with side notes. Fine armorial bookplate Henry Edward Bunbury and another bookplate on pastedown, a few bibliographic annotations in pencil, one page has a torn piece 3x1.3" lost from the margin just affecting side-notes not text, else whole contents of the 2 Works in VG condition. *First edition of the 1st Work in Latin (preceeded by unauthorised German edition and followed by the author's own edition in Dutch).

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N° du livre: V71514

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Mots-clés: Netherlands history wars independence Dutch Latin

Meursius, Joannis

Joannis Meursi ATHENAE ATTICAE sive De praecipus Athenarum Antiquitatibus [bound with] CECROPIA sive de Athenarum Arce & ejusdem Antiquitatibus [bound with] DENARIUS PYTHAGORICUS SIVE De Nuerorum …

Lugduni Batavorum, Commelinos Fratres + Elzeviriana + Ioannis Maire 1624 1622 & 1631 Titlepage of 1st work has a nude lady holding the sun in one hand and a book & pen in the other with her foot on a globe within a wreath + 2nd book with Concordia Res Par. small quarto Vellum [slightly marked & part lifted from board, spine ink titled] All edges rouged but the top edge is darkened. First Book= [4 leaves -titlepage + dedication] + 184pp + [24pp =indeces] 2nd Book [4 leaves =titlepage + dedication + to the reader] + 93pp + [14p indeces ] 3rd Book {2 leaves =title + deication] +112pp + [12p =indeces including one in greek] Pastedowns a bit torn with 3 other preliminary pages at the beginning and end of which the last leaf at the front has 2 ink entries by different hands. The text thoughout all three books in in Greek and latin.The latin is in 2 fonts, italic and roman. The book is in very clean, tight and neat condition throughout.

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N° du livre: V76044

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Athens

Meursius, Joannis

PISISTRATUS Sive De ejus Vita & Tyrannide BOUND With [2] ARCHONTES ATHENIENSES + [3] GRAECIA + [4] ELEVSINIA + [5] PANATHENAEA

ui Athenis, ex officina Elzeviriana, Abraham Elzevirium 1623, 1622, 1619 ,1619, 1619 Woodcut printer's mark of philosopher under a tree with grape vine motto "non solis" to first 2 books Eagle with bunch of arrowns and motto"Concordia res parvae crescunt". 4to contemporary vellum laced through with small burn- hole to spine, ink lettered title on spine [neat tight copy] Titlepage + [6p=dedication] + 145pp +errata to verso of 145. +[12p =indices + [2p=colophon /verso blank. Titlepage 2 = ANCHONOTES ATHENIENSES sive de ijs qui Athenis summum istum magistratum obierunt Libri IV. [This titlepage printed in red & black] + [4p= dedication] +[2p=Encomium by Peter Scriverius] + 192pp +[28pp =index with errata] + [1p=colophon] +[1p = figural and floral tailpiece] +[2p=blank] Pages 41-57 with damp tidemark but paper entirely strong and supple. + Titlepage 3 =GRAECIA Feriata sive De Festis Graecorum Librui VI +[4p=dedication] +[2p=to Reader] +341pp includes indeces {1p=colophon Isaac Elzeviri] +[2p=blank] + ELEVSINIA sive De Cereris Eleusinae sacro as festo. Liber Singularis +[14pp=dedication + to reader + Chapters] + 104pp including index + Titlepage 5 PANATHENAEA sive Minervae illo gemino desto Liber Singularis +[6p =dedication + chapter headings] + 48pp including an author index. Final leaf repaired to margin and archival repair to tear in this index leaf. All works are in Latin with quite some greek. The last three works are often bound together. This is a clean wide margined copy with only the two mentioned faults which affect only a very small number of pages.

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N° du livre: V75521

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Meyer, Jacob + Vol.2 Barlandum, Geldenhaurium, Marchantium, Guicciardinum, Gallaeum & Candidum.

ANNALES SIVE HISTORIAE RERUM BELGICARUM + Tomus II RERUM MAXIME MEMORABILIUM IN BRABANTIA FLANDCRA HOLLANDIA SELANDIA .. [1526 to 1579]

Frankfurt, Sigismund Feyrabendt 1580 Fine title pages [2 each different both by Jost Amman] + i/3rd page-size knight on horseback by large coat of arms +large colophon with trumpeting angel in a landscape + Nice head- & tail-pieces and a few nice initials. Folio rolled pig on 5 raised spine bands lacking ties [some scrapes to one cover, spine and lower cover in very good condition] All Edges Blue dyed. [8pp =titlepage + dedication + Prefaces etc] +427pp +[1p=blank] + [18pp=index] + colophon. Vol.II 187pp which includes titlepage. Text and side notes in Latin in italics.A few gatherings with pale foxing, last 2 leaves sl.creased but all pages well bound in,no tears, no marking. Fine binding in excellent condition.

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N° du livre: V75867

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: History Belgium nobility

MILTON,John

PRO POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO contra Claudii anonymi, alias Salmasii, Defensionem Regiam ..

London, DuGardianis 1652 Commonwealth Coat of Arms on Titlepage. . Duodecimo contemporary calf blind ruled & floral corner ornaments (very worn to top edge & corners, spine in need of a reback though covers held firmly by vellum cords) 192pp (A-H8) Titlepage with signature of Amos A Laurence, Boston 1845 and by another hand "given to his son Rev. Wm. Laurence" (William Lawrence was Bishop of the Episcopal Church for Massachusetts). No other marks/writing and crisp and clean with the final blank. Although the imprint is given as London, and by the London publisher Du Gardianis, this was most probably a surreptitious imprint printed on the continent by the Elzevirs and has the typical miniscule italic type here used for the Preface. The work, commissioned by the Commonwealth Council, was aimed primarily at the continental educated classes especially those of the United Provinces in answer to "Defensio Regia pro Carolo I" by the French protestant Claude de Saumaise (or Salmasius) who was comissioned by the exiled Charles II to write a memorial to the reign of Charles I and an attack on Parliament for its execution of a King (carried out in the previous year). The Commonwealth rightly perceived the tract to be a threat to the reputation of the regime and ordered Milton to publish this rebuttal as he was the Secretary for Foreign Tongues to the Council of State. Milton spent most of 1650 on this repsonse. His energies and eyesight, what remained of it, were destroyed by this labour. See also our copy of the Defensio Regia (V70275).

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N° du livre: V69033

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Mots-clés: Milton English civil war history politics

Miltoni, Joannis & [Claudii Salmasius] No Author given on 2nd title [but written by Pierre du Moulin]

PR0 POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO contra Claudi Anonymi alias Salmasii Bound With REGII SANGUINIS CLAMOR AD COELUM Adversus Parricidas Anglicanos. Bound With DEFENSIO SECUNDA PRO POPULO ANGLICANO contra infamem Libellum anonymum…Accessit ALEXANDRI MORI Bound With ALEXANDRI MORI ECCLESIASTAE & SACRARUM ..Fides Publica contra Calumnias Joannis Miltoni

London +Hagae Comitun x3, DuGardianis + Adriani Vlacq x 3 1654, 1654 Commonwealth CoA on first Titlepage . 4 WORKS IN ONE volume 12mo Vellum yapp edge neat ink title to spine.[sl.spots to covers] All edges rouged Title with commonwealth Coat of Arms + p3-192pp +2nd Titlepage +[1p=Dedication] +[4p=to Reader +Index] + 148pp + titlepage +[verso Tp +15pp=to reader & typographer] + 128pp +titlepage +p3-129pp +[2p=typographer]. Since Milton became blind in 1651,the consensus these days is that John Phillips was deputed to write the work,Milton revised it and in particular corrected the Latin. The second title carries no author name, the third and fourth books give Milton and Alexander Mori as autors. A neat, tight crisp copy of the four important works.

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N° du livre: V75895

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: History 4 books in One binding Commonwealth

Mitchell, G.

SPEECH ON THE QUESTION, "Is the Love of Praise Productive of More Bad or Beneficial Effects?"

Edinburgh, Printed for the Booksellers 1815 . Octavo newer cloth spined boards 25pp (Lacks 11 lines of the last page) TP sl.dusty/marked else neat (not in British Library Catalogue). *Mitchell was the successful competitor for a Gold Medal at the (Edinburgh?) Forum.

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N° du livre: V64626

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: speech debate philosophy

Mollerus,Christopherus [Christopher Moller]

ADMIRANDUM PROPUGNACULUM Das ist ein Wunderbahre unuberwindliche Vestung zu welcher alle glaubige kriegshelden und getrewe kampffer in dem streitreich under dem Creutz und Blutfahnlein unsers herrn Jesus Christi in ihrer noth ihre zuflucht nehmen und darinnen ewig bewahret bleiben …

Frankfurt am Mayn, Anthoni Hummen ist edition 1655 Engraved title page with 8 scenes incl. 4 evangelists + Moses etc. + angel showing a city and another city being beleaguered by cannon and an army. . Quarto near contemporary tooled leather boards with ruled into diamond shaped fields with central foliate design and smaller surrounding stars later spine reback omtp 3 raised bands and recornered [some leather scrapes to cover/splitting to upper hinge and edges worn/head of spine quite chipped down] Pictorial title + Printed title with swan publisher;s emblem + [10p= dedication]] + [2p= priviledge to print +index of chapters +486pp + manuscript register of pages. Some foxing and paper browning throughout but black letter text clear and sharp and entirely legible. Minor underlining and annotations to text. Titlepage with amusing note it seems the one line biblical quotation ascribed to Proverbs 19 verse 14 is a mistake,there is no such verse and previous owner has written in Psal.Xci as the actual location of the quotation. Handwritten near contemporary (possibly contemporary) notes on endpage, labled as register. Quite scarce we could only find one location [German National Library]

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N° du livre: V75122

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: religion German

Monconys, Balthasar

VOYAGES DE M. DE MONCONYS,

Paris, Pierre Delaulne 1695 Copperplates in each of the four volumes [Frontis.+ 16 + 9 + 14 + 6] the plates show scientific experiments, buildings,mathematical work etc. . 4 volumes marbled dark brown leather on five raised bands with gilt spine decorations and fore-edges gilt [corners somewhat worn & sl.bumped/ partly cracked hinge to vol.3 and small nicks to head and foot of vol.3 spine, all others with strong hinges/some small rubbed patches to leather covers] All edges marbled. Vol.1 Frontis + titlepage + [4pp Printer to the reader] + [24pp to the Dedication] + Letter from Mr.de Sorbiere [8pp] + [2pp=table of contents] + 538pp. Vol.2 Titlepage +346pp. + Vol.2 part 2 Titlepage + [4pp= Dedication] + 374pp + Vol.3 titlepage + 534pp. The travels begin in April 1645 in Portugal. In summer 1646 the author is in Provence reaching Italy in October and arriving in Egypt in December of that year. He remains there until October 1647 when he crosses to Syria where he remains until January 1649. He then ceases his travels and returns to Paris where he only resumes his travels in May 1663 by going to England before crossing the channel to the Low countries in Jun 1663 and moving to Germany in September 1663 and leaving in April 1664. The next journey to italy was for private affairs where no written notes were taken so the next chapter is titled the Third voyage to Italy and lasted til July 1664. A fourth journal not present in this set dealt with travel in Spain but included various treatises on algebra, Liqueurs and furthermore letters as well as poetry. The volumes here have some offsetting of text and some browning. There are three tears all without loss and two with loss to margin and not affecting text. Neat and tight throughout.

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N° du livre: V76070

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: travels in Europe & near East

Moncrif, Francois August (1687-1770)

LES CHATS

Rotterdam, Jean Daniel Beman 1728 Full page plates [10] by Coypel + a folding chart of pedigrees + head- and tail-pieces to chapters. . Octavo (19x11cm) tan leather on 5 raised bands with red spine label gilt titled & leather corners with tan sprinkled paper covers (spine newer/ corners worn/ edges rubbed) All edges rouge. Titlepage with vignette of floral design + [iii]-viii =Preface. + 204pp + 12pp of index. Neat pencil notes on fly leaf and TP dated 1877 by Edward Aubrey. End papers browned and some light foxing to a few pages but a neat tight copy of this Cat book. Deals with the cat through the ages written in the form of letters and poems with many clarifying foot notes. *A charming book - of the 11 leaves of plates, 10 are engravings by the Dutch engraver Theodorus Otten (signed "T.O." or "T. Otten") of cat drawings by Charles-Antoine Coypel (signed "C. Coypel" or "Car. Coypel"). Pictured are a cat-goddess, cat pharaoh, marble cat statue on the mausoleum of the Duchess of Lesdiguières, costumed cat performers of an opera (the text of which is printed on p. 190-204), and a cat on the deathbed of her mistress whose lawyers at her bedside are drawing up a will in favor of the cat; also included are a cat medal and a cat genealogy. For additional description, see Edmund Gosse's Gossip in a library (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914), p. 141-147. One of the folded leaves of plates is a printed cat genealogy.

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N° du livre: V76065

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Mots-clés: Cat history

Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) music by Henry R. Bishop (1786-1855)

A SELECTION OF POPULAR NATIONAL AIRS with Symphonies and Accompaniments By Henry R. Bishop The Words by Thomas Moore, Esqr. (Second Number)

London, J. Power 1820 Half-page engraving to Title by Thos. Stothard R.A. engraved by Chas. Heath. . Quarto half green roan marbled paper covers (leather bit damaged at head & foot of spine, tips & paper edge worn & rubbed). Original ownership inscription at head of titlepage, Madeleine Connell St. Vincent Place. Engraved titlepage + dedication leaf + copperplate engraved music throughout, pages numbered 59 to 113 (as 2nd number). Some foxing mainly to endpaper and titlepage and three other openings, 1 marginal tear repaired. *Second number of 1 - 6 published 1820-1822. Contains music & songs titled Love and hope, There comes a time, My harp has one unchanging theme, Oh! no - not e'en when first we lov'd, Peace be around thee, Peace be around thee (duet), Common sense and genius, Then, fare thee well, Gaily sounds the castanet, Love is a hunter-boy, Come, chace that starting tear away, Joys of youth, how fleeting! (and same title duet), Hear me but once (and same title duet).

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N° du livre: V74377

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Mots-clés: engraved musical score songs

Morell,Charles (=James Kenneth Ridley 1736-1765)

THE TALES OF THE GENII or the delightful lessons of Horam the son of Asmar. faithfully translated from the Persian manuscript; and compared with the French and Spanish editions published at Paris and Madrid.

London, J.Wilkie (d 1785) in St.Paul's Churchyard 3rd edition 1765, 1764 copperplate engravings [14] all but 3 by A. Walker both drew & engraved + three by Isaac Taylor . Octavo [in 4's] worn leather on 5 raised bands [lacks one gilt title label/corners v. worn hinges split but held by cords/head and foot of spine chipped to below headband, binding intact however] xxix [=titlepage +dedication +to reader +Life of Horam] +354pp Volume II titlepage +406pp Vol I cover page quite stiff. Cover of Vol II disatached. Vol 1 dedication to George Prince of Wales (future George IV) aged just two when these works published. Text and illustrations clear in both copies however. *Modelled on Arabian Nights these stories are written by an Oxford cleric published shortly before his early death. Purporting to be the translator of these discovered oriental tales the pseudonymous Charles Morell was supposed to be a former Ambassador from the British Settlements in India to the Great Mughal Emperor, and working for the East India Trading Company, but actually Morell as well as the tales were purely imaginative fiction written by the young James Ridley.Vol. I is a stated 3rd edition of a book first published in 1764.

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N° du livre: V75197

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: Oriental tales arabian Nights

Morley,Henry selects & edits

SHORTER WORKS IN ENGLISH PROSE

London, Cassell Petter Galpin 1880 approx) Illustrations (95) . Small quarto decorative brown and gilt cloth (tip sl.worn) viii+440pp a few isolated spots else clean and tight. *From 12th to 19th century. Probably part of a series but complete within itself.

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N° du livre: V56524

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Mots-clés: fiction