FLODER,J.

Johannis Floderi, in Athenaeo Upsaliensi olim Graecar. Litterar. Professoris et Reg. Acad. Litt. Hum. Stockh. membri, Opuscula oratoria et poëtica.

Uppsala (Upsaliae), Typis viduae directoris Joh. Edman, 1791. (VIII),419,(12),(1 blank) p. Contemporary wrappers 21 cm (Note: The historian of classical philology John Edwin Sandys did not think much of Swedish philology up to 1800. Not a few of the Swedish scholars 'were in the habit of writing Greek compositions, either in prose or in elegiac or in hexameter verse, but they very rarely produced any editions of Greek authors, and such authors as they happened to edit were seldom of special importance'. They only deserve credit for continuing to tend and cultivate 'in that northern clime the exotic plant of Greek learning'. (Sandys 3,348) One of the few scholars Sandys mentions is Johannes Floderus, 1721-1789, 'who was also an able Latin orator, who took a prominent part in no less than 108 Latin disputations, and left behind him a large number of 'Opuscula oratoria et poetica', posthumously published in 1791'. Floderus was professor of Greek at the University of Uppsala from 1762. The 'Conspectus voluminis' offers the following parts: 1, Oratio Inaug. ad Prof. Gr. L. 1762; 2, Oratiuncula primae lect. publ. praemissa 1762; 3, Elogium funebre Divo Adolpho Friderico 1771; 4, Parentalia N. Rosén a Rosenstein facta 1775. 5, Officium Parent. J. Ihre praestitum 1781; 6, Oratio Parent. in memor. C. Aurivilii 1786; 7, Laudatio Funebris C.F. Mennander 1787; 8, Oratio, quum Rect. Acad. deponeret 1770; 9, Oration, quum Rect. Acad. se abdicaret 1778; 10, Oratio in Promot. Philosoph. 1785; 11, Programmata; 12 Carminum libri duo (98 p.); 13, Index (158) Dissertationum auctoris. At the end is a 11 page list of subscribers) (Collation: pi4, A-2D8 (2D8 verso blank)) (Photographs on request)

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FLORUS.

Abrégé de l'Histoire Romaine de L.A. Florus. Traduction nouvelle avec des notes par M. l'Abbé Paul, professeur d'éloquence au Collége d'Arles.

Paris, Chez les Frères Barbou, 1794 - 1795 (L'An III de la République Française) . 12mo. (IV),384 p. Modern half calf. 18.5 cm (Ref: This edition not in Schweiger and Brunet; however cf Schweiger 2,366; cf Brunet 2/2,1312; cf Ebert 7698) (Details: Latin text with facing French translation. Back with five raised bands; marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Only the upper margin has been cut) (Condition: Small bookplate on the front pastedown. Small waterstain in the right lower corner and the left inner corner of the first 30 p. Paper yellowing) (Note: This is the chief work of the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus, who lived at the beginning 2nd century AD. It is an abridgement (epitome) of Roman history with special reference to the wars waged up to the age of Augustus. Florus 'shows a certain literary gift, marred, however, by a strong tendency to rhetoric. His brevity often entails obscurity, though he sometimes produces a felicitous epigram. (.) As an historian he is often inaccurate in both chronology and geography, but the work as a whole achieves a limited success as a rapid sketch of Roman military history. It was a favourite school-book in the 17th century'. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 442) The Abbé Armand-Laurent Paul, 1740-1809, was a French jesuit and grammarian. He wrote a number of scholarly works; the first Barbou edition of his Florus, together with his notes and translation, dates from 1774 (Brunet 2,2 p. 1312). The edition of 1774 is common, the edition of 1794 is rather rare. The translations by Paul are said to be trustworthy, but dry) (Provenance: Bookplate of the Belgian ancient historian and archaeologist Marie Therèse Charlier on the front pastedown) (Collation: pi2, A-Q12) (Photographs on request)

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FLORUS.

L. Annaei Flori Rerum Romanarum libri quatuor, annotationibus, in usum studiosae juventutis, instar commentarii illustrati, auctore Johanne Min-Ellio. Quibus accedunt exerptiones chronologicae, ad Flori Historias accommodatae; additus denique L. Ampelius ex Bibliotheca Salmasii.

Rotterdam (Roterodami), Ex officina Arnoldi Leers, 1680. 12mo. (XXIV, including frontispiece), 405; (99 index),(2 blank) p. Vellum 14 cm Favourite school-book in the 17th century (Ref: Schweiger 361) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece, depicting a victorious Dea Roma on a pedastal, flanked by a statue of Romulus and of Caesar, who symbolize the beginning and the end of this historical work. At their feet the famous twins and the she-wolf. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, its motto reads: 'Labore et Vigilantia'. It depicts a woman, Vigilantia, holding an open book in her left hand, and a oil lamp in her right. At her feet a crane. The element 'labor' is represented by a ploughing farmer in the background. Leers used 8 different versions of this mark) (Condition: Vellum age-toned. Big inkstain on the lower board; a small shower of tiny inkstains on the back; two old and small paper library lables on the back. Name on the front flyleaf. Frontispiece printed with a worn plate. The outer edge of the frontispiece is thumbed. The paper is slightly yellowing) (Note: This is the chief work of the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus, who lived at the beginning 2nd century AD. It is an abridgement of Roman history with special reference to the wars waged up to the age of Augustus. Florus 'shows a certain literary gift, marred, however,by a strong tendency to rhetoric. His brevity often entails obscurity, though he sometimes produces a felicitous epigram. (.) As an historian he is often inaccurate in both chronology and geography, but the work as a whole achieves a limited success as a rapid sketch of Roman military history. It was a favourite school-book in the 17th century'. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 442) Schweiger records a host of Florus editions, among which 6 by the Dutch schoolmaster Johannes Min-Ellius, ca. 1625-1670. He produced one of the many school-editions of Florus. It was first published in Rotterdam in 1670, was a success, and was repeated there in 1680 and in 1698, in Copenhagen in 1700, in London in 1706, and in Leipzig in 1734. One seldom sees an edition of Min-Ellius in good condition. He was educated at the Erasmianum at Rotterdam, and was until his death a Praeceptor at the same school. Minellius, or Min-ellius, produced several school editions of classical authors, such as Vergil, Florus, Horace, Terentius and Ovid, with ample annotations in easy Latin. At the end of the 17th and in the 18th century his editions were widely used, not only on Dutch grammar schools, but also on German, English and Danish schools. After that they were barred from the schools because they were too unscientific, and offered too much help. They were esteemed to be 'pontes asinorum') (Provenance: 'Samuel Joannes de Hoest, 1817, 6m. 9d.' = 9 June 1817. Ds. Samuel Johannes de Hoest was a minister of the Dutch Protestant church in several small Dutch towns. He was born in Amsterdam in 1804. His father was there a pharmacist. Young Samuel visited the Athenaeum Illustre in his hometown. Thereafter he studied theology in Utrecht. He left quite a number of praeches. He died in Nijkerk in 1877, where he preached from 1831. (NNBW 8,782/84, more in J.P. de Bie & J. Loosjes, 'Biographisch woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland. Deel 4', The Hague, 1931, p./ 92/93) So Samuel Joannes got this schoolbook a week before his 13th birthday, perhaps at the beginning or the end of his first year at the Athenaeum, and most likely from his parents. He certainly didnot receive it at the Athenaeum, where this kind of easy Latin books for dummies were banned) (Collation: *12, A-X12)(Photographs on request)

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FLORUS.

L.A. Florus cum notis integris Cl. Salmasii et selectissimis Variorum, accurante S.M.D.C. Additus etiam L. Ampelius ex Bibliotheca Cl. Salmasii.

Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1674. 8vo. (XVI),588,(108 index),46,(2 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 20.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 842457577; Willems 1490; Berghman 2064; Rahir 1598; Schweiger 2,361; Ebert 7683. Spoelder p. 613, Hoorn 2) (Details: Prize copy, without the prize. 6 thongs laced through both joints. Blind stamped fleurs de lis on the back. Boards with blind double fillet borders, in the center of them the coat of arms of the city of Hoorn. Engraved title, depicting a throned goddess Roma on a pedestal, allegorical figures, representing Europe, Asia and Africa offer her their treasures; in the foreground Tibur, and little Romulus and Remus and their shewolf) (Condition: Prize gone. vellum age-toned, slightly soiled and scratched. All 4 textile fastening ties gone. Front flyleaf gone. Title slightly worn. Name on the front pastedown) (Note: 'Favourite school-book in the 17th century'. This is the chief work of the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus, who lived at the beginning 2nd century AD. It is an abridgement of Roman history with special reference to the wars waged up to the age of Augustus. Florus 'shows a certain literary gift, marred, however, by a strong tendency to rhetoric. His brevity often entails obscurity, though he sometimes produces a felicitous epigram. (.) As an historian he is often inaccurate in both chronology and geography, but the work as a whole achieves a limited success as a rapid sketch of Roman military history. It was a favourite school-book in the 17th century'. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 442) § This edition is a socalled 'Variorum edition'. It offers a 'textus receptus' which is widely accepted, accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of various specialists, taken or excerpted from earlier useful, normative or renewing editions. Editions like these, 'cum notis Variorum', were useful, but never broke new ground. The production of these sometimes overloaded editions was the specialty of Dutch scholars of the 17th and 18th century. The compilers seldom were great scholars, but often hard working schoolmasters. Their involvement in publishing a new edition was limited to the necessary, but ungrateful task of the beast of burden. § This Variorum edition was produced by, so the title says, S.M.D.C, that is by Cornelis Schrevelius, who took his doctoral degree in Paris as a Doctor of Medicine in 1627. Hence S.M.D.C., that is Schrevelius Medicus Doctor Cornelis. He taught classics at the Schola Latina at Leiden, where he had been raised himself. In 1642 he succeeded his father, Theodorus Schrevelius, as the rector (Moderator) of the school. He died in 1664, a few days after having completed an edition of Claudian. He raised at least 11 kids, and fell victim to the plague. (A.M. Coebergh van den Braak, Meer dan zes eeuwen Leids Gymnasium, Leiden, 1988, p. 47/55) § This edition of 1674 is a reissue of the Elzevier edition of 1660. The commentary of the French scholar Claude Saumaise, latinized as Claudius Salmasius, 1588-1653, was adopted from the Elzevier edition of 1638, which edition included also the 'editio princeps' of the 'Liber Memorialis' of Lucius Ampelius. Salmamius was since 1631 professor at the University of Leiden) (Provenance: On the front pastedown in ballpoint: 'Lennart Hakanson', 1939-1987, professor of Latin at the university of Uppsala) (Collation: *8, AQ-2Z8, 3A4 (leaf 3A4 blank)) (Photographs on request)

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FLORUS.

Lucii Annaei Flori Rerum Romanarum editio novissima, accurante Joanne Freinshemio. In qua quid praestitum sit, aversa pagina docet.

Strassburg (Argentorati), Apud Georg. Andr. Dolhopf & Joh.Eberh. Zetzner, 1669. 8vo. (32),452,(155, 'Variae lectiones' & index),(1 blank) p.; frontispiece. Vellum 17 cm (Ref: VD17 3:306199X; Schweiger 2,361; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,444; Graesse 2,605) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece depicts two discussing Roman warriors, at their feet the she-wolf and the twins Romulus and Remus, above their head soars a big eagle holding in its claws a crown and a scepter. Woodcut printer's mark, depicting a bust of the Greek goddess Athena) (Condition: 3 thongs of the joint of the lower board snapped. Vellum age-toned & somewhat soiled. Pastedown of the lower board detached. Old ink annotations in the first gatherings. Ten gatherings browning) (Note: Favourite school-book in the 17th century. This is the chief work of the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus, who lived at the beginning 2nd century AD. It is an abridgement of Roman history with special reference to the wars waged up to the age of Augustus. Florus 'shows a certain literary gift, marred, however, by a strong tendency to rhetoric. His brevity often entails obscurity, though he sometimes produces a felicitous epigram. (.) As an historian he is often inaccurate in both chronology and geography, but the work as a whole achieves a limited success as a rapid sketch of Roman military history. It was a favourite school-book in the 17th century'. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 442) This Florus edition was produced by the German classical scholar Johannes Casper Freinsheim, 1608-1660. He was an excellent representative of the flourishing school of Roman History at the University of Strassburg. 'The editions of the Roman historians published by this school were distinguished for the excellence'. According to Sandys he 'produced excellent editions of Florus'. (Sandys 2, p. 367) . At the end have been added 22 pages with 'Variae Lectiones' and an index of 134 pages, of which Fabricius/Ernesti record that 'In indice multa ad explicandam latinitatem pertinentia sunt'. This edition of 1669 is a reissue of the edition of 1636, also printed by Zetzner in Strassburg. It is based, according to the enumeration on the verso of the title, on earlier editions: 'Flori contextus, a Iohanne Camerte, Ioanne Stadio, Elia Vineto, Iano Grutero, Claudio Salmasio & Isacio Pontano, e manuscriptis codicibus emendatus, in versiculos distinctus'. Freinshemius added many conjectures of his own, consulting older editions. In the introduction however no mention is made of manuscripts, but 'interdum etiam ubi manifesta correctionis ratio est, ex aliorum ingenio nostroque restituimus'. (p. a8 verso)) The editio of Camertis is of 1518, Stadius of 1567, Vinetus of 1576, Gruter of 1597, Salmasius of 1609, Pontanus of 1626. The notes at the end of each caput have been selected from the just mentioned editors, '& quotquot ex aliis philologicis auctoribus, nostrove ingenio depromere licuit' (p. a2 verso)) (Collation: a-b8, A-2P8 (leaf 2P8 verso blank) (Photographs on request)

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FOURCROY, Abbé de.

Méthode pour apprendre facilement l'histoire romaine. Avec une chronologie du regne des Empereurs, & un abregé des coutumes des romains par Monsieur D***. Édition nouvelle corrigée & augmentée.

Brussels (Brusselle), Chez François Foppens, 1701. 12mo. 320,(4) p., frontispiece. Calf 14 cm A popular schoolbook (Details: On the frontispiece, made by J. Harrewijn, are a number of Roman symbols, the she-wolf and the twins, a Roman warrior with S.P.Q.R. on his shield, a lictor with his fasces, and a triumphal arch) (Condition: Binding rubbed & scuffed; head of spine chafed; front joint split for about 4 cm; small paper label near the foot of the spine) (Note: Quérard (833d) attributes this very popular schoolbook to l'Abbé de Fourcroy. It was first published in 1694, and was reissued many times, up to 1785. It was also translated into English, appearing for the first time in 1695, and many times later. A Dutch translation appeared in 1734, 1784 & 1810. The book is a specimen of the 2500 years old platonic teaching method, the 'Question and Answer Method') (Collation: A-N12, O6) (Photographs on request)

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FRIESEMAN,H.

Nieuw Nederduitsch-Latijnsch woordenboek, door H. Frieseman, lid van het Utrechtsche Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen en Rector van het Veluwsche Gymnasium te Harderwijk.

Zutphen, Bij H.C.A. Thieme, 1810. 8vo. 2 volumes: VIII,1448 p. Contemporary boards 17 cm (Details: Marbled paper on cover) (Condition: Binding worn, especially at the extremities) (Note: Hendrik Frieseman, ca. 1755-1821, was the last rector of the Schola Latina of Harderwijk from 1805 till 1814. The school had only 6 pupils when it closed down. The Schola Latina had become obsolete and lost pupils to the local French school; Frieseman published also the first complete translation into Dutch of Thucydides in 1786. (OiN p. 372) (Onderzoek naar zeventien Gelderse Latijnse scholen. Zutphen, 1985 p. 287) (Photographs on request)

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DECLARATIO ORDINUM HOLLANDIAE WEST-FRISIAEQUE,

Declaratio Ordinum Hollandiae West-Frisiaeque, ex ipsis fundamentis Regiminis Belgici desumpta, qua jus & potestas singularum Provinciarum cum externis Princibus contrahendi, & de quibuscunq: negotiis constituendi proponitur, nisi quid foedere unionis An. 1579 Ultrajecti composito, aut speciatim Foederatorum Procerum conventui delatum fuerit. Qua legitima & justa esse ostenditur concessio instrumenti seclusionis Principis Auriaci, sicut a Nobil. & Potentibus Ordin. Hollandiae West-Frisiaeque anno 1654, IV Maii decretum fuit; (...) Versum Exemplar ex Belgico, quod impressum est Hagae-comitis a Typographo Nob. & Potent. Ord. Hollandiae West-Frisiaeque, cum privilegio.

Leiden, Amsterdam, (Lugduni Batavorum, Amstelrodami), Apud Joannem Maire, et (.) apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1654. 4to. 196 (recte 192) p. 18th century boards. 19 cm (Ref: Willems 1172; Berghman 302; Not in Rahir; Breugelmans, p. 688, 1654:3) (Details: Printer's device on the title: a shoveling farmer, above his head the motto 'fac & spera') (Condition: Cover scuffed, especially on the joints. 2 small library stamps on the title) (Note: In May 1654 the Dutch Prime Minister (Raadspensionaris) of the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands Johan de Witt, 1625-1672, brought about peace with England after the First Anglo-Dutch War, a naval conflict over trade which had begun in 1652. The peace treaty, called the Treaty of Westminster, had a secret annex, the Act of Seclusion, in which the Republic promised to appoint never again as stadholder offspring of the prince of Orange, stadholder William II, who had died in 1650, the offspring being the not yet four year old infant William III, born after the death of his father. His mother was Maria Henriëtte Stuart, the oldest daughter of the English King Charles I. This annex had been attached on the instigation of the dictator (Lord Protector) Oliver Cromwell, who felt that since William III was a grandson of the executed Charles I, it was not in the interests of his own republican regime to see William or a Stuart ever gain political power. The republican Johan de Witt kept the annex secret from fear that some of the provinces where the House of Orange had much influence, wouldnot sign the peace treaty. Soon the annex got leaked out, and De Witt was blamed for excluding the House of Orange from power. With a speech, called the 'deductie, ofte declaratie van de Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt', De Witt succeeded in convincing the other provinces. The speech brought about much political turmoil. The speech 'Deductie, ofte declaratie van de Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt : behelsende een waerachtich ende grondich bericht van de fondamenten der regieringe vande vrye Vereenichde Nederlanden (.) ingestelt ende dienende tot justificatie van 't verleenen van seeckere Acte van Seclusie, raeckende 't employ vanden Heere Prince van Oraigne (.) op den vierden Mey 1654 ghepasseert' was published in The Hague the same year, 1654. Later that year the speech was translated into Latin and published by Maire and Elsevier. § William III got his revenge in the Disaster Year (Rampjaar) 1672 when the Dutch republic was attacked from all sides simultaneously by England, France, and the prince-bishops of Münster and Cologne, who quickly defeated the Dutch States Army and conquered part of the Republic. Orangists then took power by force and deposed de Witt, who recovering from an earlier Orangist attempt on his life in June, was lynched by an organized Orangist mob. William greatly rewarded the assassins of his greatest political opponent. In 1688 William III invaded England, deposed King James, and became together with his wife Mary, the daughter of his maternal uncle James, Duke of York, joint sovereigns of England, Ireland, and Scotland) (Provenance: Small stamp of the Dutch 'Koninklijke Bibliotheek' (Royal Library), and a smaller withdrawal stamp on the title) (Collation: A-E4, F2, G-2A4, 2B2)(Photographs on request)

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FRONTINUS.

S. Julii Frontini libri quatuor Strategematicon, cum notis integris Francisci Modii, Godescalci Stewechii, Petri Scriverii, & Samuelis Tennulii. His accedunt, cum P. Scriverii, tum aliorum doctorum ineditae observationes, curante Francisco Oudendorpio, qui & suas adnotationes, variasque MStorum lectiones adjecit. Editio altera multo auctior & emendatior.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Sam. et Joann. Luchtmans, 1779. 8vo. (LXXVIII),570,(132),(2 blank) p., frontispiece. Vellum. 22 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 189887621; Schweiger 2,369: 'Mit Bereicherungen in den Noten'; Brunet 2,1409; Graesse 2,639; Ebert 7963; Spoelder p. 628, Leiden 5) (Details: Prize copy, but without the prize. Boards with the gilt coat of arms of the city of Leyden. Frontispiece depicting both sides of a coin from the time of Domitianus (81-96 AD), showing a portrait of a bearded man with the name of proconsul Frontinus in Greek; on the tail-side a river goddess holding a reed; below her a text in Greek, revealing the names of the issuing magistrates Reginus and Myrton and the place of issue Smyrna. In his 'Ad Lectorem' Van Oudendorp convincingly proves that the portrayed figure on the coin is not Frontinus, but Hercules, an assumption that is accepted by later numismatics. § The upper quarter of the pages contains the Latin text, underneath that the commentary) (Condition: Without the prize. All four decorative fastening ribbons gone. Vellum soiled, back browned. Gilt on the boards a bit worn away. Small bookplate on the verso of the flyleaf, small withdrawal stamp on the verso of the title leaf) (Note: Now that the intensive study of the ancient languages and cultures is in decline, it seems hard to imagine that the ancient models once exerted a profound influence on every domain of post-classical life and thought in Europe. One such domain was the art of warfare. Between the end of the 15th and the middle of the 17th century, a period in which numerous wars were fought, the ancient works on Roman and Greek strategies and tactics were eagerly studied by humanist scholars and the military elite. One such surviving work was written by the Roman civil servant and politician Sextus Julius Frontinus, 30-104 A.D. His works 'are essentially practical, dealing with professional subjects in a straightforward style admirably suited to his purpose'. During the reign of the emperor Domitian he produced his 'Strategemata', a general manual of 'historical examples illustrating Greek and Roman strategy for the use of officers', which survives in four books (OCD 2nd ed. p. 448). In the year 86 Frontinus was created Proconsul of the province Asia (Minor). Under Nerva (97 A.D.) he was appointed 'curator aquarum', and wrote 'De aquaductu Urbis Romae', an account of the water-supply of Rome. Many inscriptions bear witness of his activities. § The Eighty Years' War or the Dutch War of Independence, which lasted from 1568 till 1648, was a revolt of the Provinces of the Netherlands against the political and religious hegemony of Philip II of Spain. In its struggle for political, religious and economic freedom the young Dutch republic was confronted with a Spanish imperial army of enormous size. 'Dutch Humanism of the period and its study of classical philology aided the technical and tactical evolution of the Dutch army'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass. 2010, p. 978) Works of the Flemish classicist Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, his 'De militia Romana' and 'Poliorcetica' 'inspired and guided Dutch military reform and organization after the pattern of the ancients and on the principles of Roman stoicism, the ancient philosophy of discipline and self-control (.)'. (Idem, ibidem) The great general Prince Maurice of Nassau was in fact a student of Lipsius in Leiden. He understood that whoever knew how to rule the troops with the help of the Roman art of war, would be able to dominate the battlefield. 'The princes of Orange studied everything available concerning the military skills practiced by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and they spared no trouble, work, or expense in transferring the tennets found there into practice. They commissioned learned philologists to carry out projects of military science'. (Idem p. 979) § Frans van Oudendorp, 1696-1761, was the last great Dutch latinist of the 18th century. He was professor of History and Eloquence at the University of Leiden. He produced a valuable and still useful edition of Lucanus (1728) and edited Caesar and Suetonius. His first edition of Frontinus was published in 1731. His son Cornelis published in 1779 at the request of the firm of Luchtmans this second revised and augmented edition) (Provenance: Bookplate of A. Pitlo, showing a radiant sun, with the motto 'Plus est en vous'. Designed by Pam Georg Rueter, signed with the letter 'R' in the left corner. The Dutch jurist Adriaan Pitlo, 1901-1987, was for 30 years professor of private and notarial law. The 'Festschrift' that was made in 1970 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his professorate also bears the title 'Plus est en vous') (Collation: +6 (minus leaf +6), *-4*8, 5*2; A-2X8 (leaf 2X8 blank)) (Photographs on request)

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GAIL,J.B.

Idylles de Bion et de Moschus, traduites en Français par J.B. Gail. professeur de Littérature grecque au Collège de France. (And 2:) Odes, inscriptions, épitaphes, épithalames et fragments d'Anacréon. Avec des notes critques et un discours préliminaire par le c(itoy)en Gail. (And 3:) Républiques de Sparte et d'Athènes. Traduites de Xénophon, par J.-B. Gail. (And 4:) Manuel d'Épictete et tableau de Cébès en grec, avec une traduction française, précédée d'un discours contre la Morale de Zénon et contre le Suicide, avec des idées d'une morale plus pure. Par Lefebvre Villebrune. Tome 1 & 2. (And 5:) Hymnes de Callimaque, nouvelle édition. Avec une version française et des notes par J.F.G. de la Porte Du Theil. 1re & 2me partie. (And 6:) Mythologie dramatique. Traduite de grec de Lucien par J.-B. Gail. Tome 1: Les dialogues des Dieux. (&) Mythologie dramatique. Tome 2: Les Dieux marins et Le coq. Tome 3: Les dialogues des morts et Les contemplateurs.

Paris, Didot Jeune, Chez J.B. Gail, An III (1794/95). 12mo. 6 parts in 10 volumes: (ad 1:) 106,(2) p., 2 engraved plates, including a portrait of Gail. (ad 2:) (IV),XX,74,(4) p., 4 plates. (ad 3:) 2,107 p. (ad 4:) 2 volumes: IV,261,(3 blank); (IV),132 p.; (ad 5:) (II),104;142,(1),(1 blank) p. (ad 6:) (IV),VIII,105,(1 blank); (IV),111,(1 blank); (IV),178 p., 5 plates. Mottled calf 13 cm (Ref: Ad 1: Hoffmann 1,426; Ebert 2429; Graesse 1,428; Brunet 1,950. Ad 2: Hoffmann 1,141; cf Ebert 568; Brunet 1,255. Ad 3: Hoffmann 3,604; Ebert 24146. Ad 4: Oldfather 278; Hoffmann 2,16; Brunet 2,1015; Ebert 6785; Graesse 2,484. Ad 5: Hoffmann 1,430; Graesse 2,18; Ebert 3356. Ad 6: cf. Hoffmann 2,561; Brunet 3,1213; cf. Graesse 4,264; Ebert 12407) (Details: Backs gilt, and with a red or brown morocco shield on the second 'compartment'. On a shield in the middle 'compartment' the gilt numbers: 1 to 10. Boards with triple fillet gilt borders. Edges of the boards and the book-block gilt. Inside dentelles gilt. Endpapers blue marbled. The portrait and plates are engraved by Barbier, Chaudet et alii. Only the 4 volumes dedicated to Epictetus and Callimachus offer a Greek text with a facing French translation, the other volumes have a French translation only. § We found in the catalogue of the library of the important Dutch statesman Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, 1761-1825, which is preserved in the mansion Nijenhuis at Diepenheim, an identical set, same title, same publisher, same duodecimo (12mo) format, published in 1794/95, with the same numbering on the back, and, as far as we can judge from the description in the catalogue, the same binding. We suppose that the publishers Didot and Gail or another bookseller composed several portable sets in a nice binding for educated and well to do gentlemen and women, who probably were not able to read the original texts) (Condition: Bindings slightly worn & scratched. Head of the spines of volume 1 & 2 slightly chafed. Some corners somewhat bumped. Excellent paper. Some faint foxing. A charming set) (Note: At the end of volume 7, the second volume of the Callimachus, there is an advertisement for a collection of 10 titles to be sold as a unit at the price of 300 livres. The publisher and editor of the 10 volumes is Monsieur J.B. Gail. The collection consists of works Gail translated himself, i.e. Bion & Moschus, Lucianus, Xenophon, Anacreon (6 volumes); the other 4 volumes were translated by others, he tells in the advertisement, the two volume sets of Callimachus and of Epictetus. The translator of Callimachus is J.F.G. de la Porte Du Theil, the translator of Epictetus is Lefebvre de Villebrune. (See for the assignment of this Epictetus to the collection of Greek authors of Gail: F. Schoell, 'Répertoire de littérature ancienne, ou choix d'auteurs classiques grecs et latins', Paris 1808, Tome I, p. 51) § Jean Baptiste Gail, 1755-1829, was a celebrated French Hellenist. 'In 1791 he was appointed deputy, and in 1792 titular professor at the 'Collège de France'. During the Revolution he quietly performed his professional duties, taking no part in politics, although he possessed the faculty of ingratiating himself with those in authority. In 1815 he was appointed by the King Keeper of Greek MSS. (.) Without being a great Greek scholar, Gail was a man of unwearied industry, whose whole life was devoted to his favourite studies, and he deserves every credit for having rescued Greek from the neglect into which it had fallen during the troublous times in which he lived'. (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911, vol. 11, p. 387) His most valuable work were his French translations and his editions of Greek authors. He published also editions of Thucydides and Herodotus) § Epictetus' Enchiridium and the 'Tabula Cebetis' in this series were produced by the French sholar and translator Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune, 1732-1809. He was professor of Hebrew at the 'Collège de France' from 1791 to 1794, and librarian of the 'Bibliothèque de la Nation' in 1794/95. He was a polyglot who translated from Latin, Spanish, Italian, English, German, Swedish, and Greek. His best known translation is that of the Greek compiler Athenaeus, 'Banquet des Savans', 1789-1791, 5 volumes. (See his French lemma in Wikipedia) In 1782 Lefebvre de Villebrune had already published a Greek text of the Enchiridium, and a year later a Greek text accompanied by a French translation, and some critical notes. His edition was completely eclipsed by the Epictetus edition of the German scholar Schweighaeuser, which was published a few year later in 1798 and which was the starting point of a new era of Epictetus scholarship. In the eyes of Schweighaeuser Lefebvre de Villebrune was an incompentent and sloppy scholar. The first volume of this Epictetus set of two contains the Greek text of the Enchiridium, with an opposing French translation, an introduction of 100 p. and 70 p. notes. The second volume contains a Greek text of the 'Tabula Cebetis', also with an opposing French translation, an introduction of 19 p., and notes on 30 pages) (Photographs on request)

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GAULLYER,D.

Regles de poëtique, tirées d'Aristote, d'Horace, de Despreaux et d'autres célébres Auteurs.

Paris, Chez G.F. Quillau Fils, Imp. Jur. Lib. de l'Université, 1728. 12mo. XVI,505,(7) p. Calf 15 cm (Details: Back with 5 raised bands) (Condition: Calf very scuffed and dry; leather at the head and the tail of the spine chafed off. Corners bumped. Old paper shelf number on the back. Name and a shelf number on the title. Stamp on the verso of the title. Lower margin partly and very slightly dampstained. Paper yellowing) (Note: Denis, or Dionysius Gaullyer, 1688-1736, was professor at the College de Plessis-Sorbonne, and specialized in grammar and rhetoric. He died insane. At the end of the book is a list with 12 other titles by Gaullyer. He published on French and Latin grammar, edited the 'Epistulae ad Familiares' of Cicero, the poems of Gregorius Nazianzenus, Florus and Nepos, produced some school anthologies, and translated epigrams of Martialis. (Michaud Tome XVI, 1816, p. 578) (Provenance: Name on the title 'ex libris P. Schols, 1784. This probably is the Dutch man of letters Petrus Egidius Schols, 1768-1847. He was a notary in Maastricht. After the occupation of the Netherlands by the French he refused to pledge allegiance, and consequently lost his position. From that time he applied himself on the study of classics, especially Cicero, Horace and Vergil. He wrote some Latin prose and poetry. (NNBW 9,992) § On the verso of the title an oval stamp of 'Bibliotheca; Domus S. Caroli, Valkenburg (L.) Holland') (Collation: à8, A-X12, Y4; (gathering Y bound in the wrong order Y1, Y3, Y4, Y2)) (Photographs on request)

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GAUTRUCHE,P.

Historia poetica ad faciliorem poetarum et veterum auctorum intelligentiam; a R. Patre P. Gautruche soc. Jesu Gallice conscripta. Post septimam editionem latine reddita ab Uno eiusdem Societatis. In gratiam Poetices Candidatorum.

Tyrnau (Tyrnaviae), Typis Academicis, 1728. 12mo. (VIII),180 (recte 179);(20 index),(1 blank) p. Vellum 13 cm (Details: Woodcut printer's mark of the Jesuit Order on the title) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and spotted. Back very slightly damaged. Old shelf number with ink on the front board. Front flyleaf removed. Wormholes in the inner margin of the endpapers at the end, and of the last 3 leaves, with some loss of letters in the index. Modern stamp & old name on the front pastedown) (Note: The contribution of the Jesuit order to the cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe was more significant than it was to the West. The small town of Trnava in Slovakia, or Tyrnau, or in Hungarian Nagyszombat, and especially its Jesuit University, founded there in 1635, was one of the catholic strongholds in Central Europe in the time of the Counter-Reformation. Its main purpose was the stemming of Protestantism, or Lutheranism in what was then called the kingdom of Upper Hungary, which was a part of the Habsburg empire. Here the order of the Jesuits trained its teachers and missionaries who spread catholicism and Habsburg culture succesfully eastward. Their most important weapons in spreading the autocratic ideology of that era were diplomacy and education. 884 members of the Jesuit order were active in Upper Hungary ca. 1750. They were leading 30 gymnasia, 6 academies and 2 universities, that of Trnava and of Kosice. For more than 150 years the Jesuit University of Trnava carried on its activity throughout Royal Hungary. Its University Press published more than 5000 titles. After the Order had been dissolved in 1777 the University was transfered to Buda. § This collection of prose narrations of mythological stories, necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latin poets and other ancient authors, was compiled to facilitate the study of young students. The collection was originally published in French as 'L’Histoire poétique pour l’intelligence des poètes et des auteurs anciens' by the French Jesuit Pierre Gautruche, 1602-1681. It was translated into Latin after the 8th French edition, and consists of 3 books, the first treats the Gods, the second the semi-gods, the third is on religious ceremonies. (p. A4 recto) The French and the Latin version saw at the end of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century many reissues. It was also translated into English) (Provenance: On the front pastedown a green stamp of 'Univ. Doz. Dr. Mag. F.F. Schwarz, Professor. A 8810 Graz, Panoramagasse 2A' with a handwritten date of acquisition '1973'. Franz Ferdinand Schwarz was from 1982 till 1996 professor of classical philology at the University of Graz, where he was born in 1934. He died in his hometown in 2001 after a long illness. (See his wikipedia lemma 'Franz Ferdinand Schwarz') In old ink on the front pastedown: 'Ex libris Francisci Caroli Wernerth, anno .' Year illegible) (Collation: A-H12, I6, K2)(In the pagination has been omitted no. 113)) (Photographs on request)

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GELLIUS.

Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae. Editio nova et prioribus omnibus docti hominis cura multo castigatior.

Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. 12mo. (XLVIII),498,(122 index) p. 19th cent. marbled boards. 13 cm (Ref: Neue Pauly, Suppl. 2, p. 261; Willems 1127: 'Édition fort jolie et qui passe pour très correcte'; Berghman 2065 ; Rahir 1145; Graesse 3,46; Ebert 8287; Dibdin 1,340/41; Fabricius/Ernesti 3,10: 'emendatissima editio'; Schweiger 2,378: 'Neue, werthvolle Recens. nach Handschr. von Jo.Frd. Gronovius'; Brunet 2,1524: 'Jolie édition') (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints; engraved title, depicting a learned writer at work under the light of an oil lamp) (Condition: Cover worn at the extremities; marbled paper on the back scuffed; lower corner of a few leaves vaguely waterstained; without the last two blank leaves. Paper somewhat yellowing) (Note: A favorite author of the Renaissance. The Latin author Aulus Gellius, ca. 125-180 AD, was never counted as a major author in antiquity, nor later. His only work 'Noctes Atticae' or 'Attic Nights', is a miscellany that 'ranges from literature to law, from wondrous tales to moral philosophy; one of his favorite topics is the Latin language'. (.) The exposition, in a mildly archaizing but never difficult Latin, often takes the form of dialogues with or between culturally eminent persons whom Gellius had known'. It derives its name from the fact of its having been written during the long nights of a winter which the author spent in Attica as a young itinerant student. The Noctes Atticae were exploited by pagans and Christians alike in late antiquity. In medieval florilegia he is much quoted for piquant tales and moral sentiments. 'From Petrarch onward Gellius became a favorite author of the Renaissance'. 'More than 100 manuscripts were copied'. He was used as a valuable source of information on the Latin language, and had preserved numerous quotations from lost authors, which were presented with grace and elegance. Gellius became a model for the 'Miscellanea' of the Italian humanist Angelo Poliziano. 'In the 18th century, however, new canons of elegance caused his style to seem less attractive, and compilation sank to minor merit' (Quotations from 'The Classical Tradition', Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 386/7) The 20 books of the Noctes Atticae were ably edited 'cura docti hominis'. This learned editor was the Dutch classicist of German origin Johann Friedrich Gronov, or Gronovius, 1611-1671, He was the successor of Heinsius at the University of Leiden, and he was influenced by Vossius, Grotius, Heinsius & Scriverius. His editions mark an epoch in the study of Livy, of Seneca, Tacitus & Gellius. (Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, 2,321) (Provenance: On the front pastedown in ink the name of 'Berend van Marle' or 'Barend van Marle', and in pencil the name of a collector of Elzeviers 'J. van Dijck') (Collation: * - 2*-12; A - 2C-12 (lacking the blanks 2C11 & 2C12) (Photographs on request)

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GELLIUS.

Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes Atticae.

Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphii, 1560. (LXIII)(I blank),533,(3 blank) p. Limp vellum 17 cm (Ref: Schweiger 378; Dibdin 1,340: 'beautiful and accurate edition, (.) deserving of the student's notice'; Moss 1,203; Graesse 3,46; Ebert 8283) (Details: Gryphius' woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a griffin, which mythological animal symbolizes courage, diligence, watchfulness, and rapidity of execution, used as a pun of his family name Gryph or Greif. From the claws of this creature hangs a big rectangular stone, beneath which is a winged orb. The motto is 'Virtute duce / comite fortuna', 'Virtue thy leader, fortune thy comrade', a quote from a letter of Cicero to Plancus (Epistulae ad Familiares, liber X,3). At the end a woodcut griffin. The text is printed completely in italics, except for the title) (Condition: Vellum shabby, wrinkled and showing some old repairs. Corners somewhat dog-eared at the end and beginning. Two old ownership inscriptions on the title, one on the front pastedown. Upper margin of the first gatherings and a number of gatherings halfway slightly waterstained. Front flyleaf removed. Paper yellowing. A few small ink stains on the edge of the bookblock) (Note: The Latin author Aulus Gellius, ca. 125-180 AD, was never counted as a major author in antiquity, nor later. His only work 'Noctes Atticae' or 'Attic Nights', is a miscellany that 'ranges from literature to law, from wondrous tales to moral philosophy; one of his favorite topics is the Latin language'. (.) The exposition, in a mildly archaizing but never difficult Latin, often takes the form of dialogues with or between culturally eminent persons whom Gellius had known'. It derives its name from the fact of its having been written during the long nights of a winter which the author spent in Attica as a young itinerant student. The Noctes Atticae were exploited by pagans and Christians alike in late antiquity. In medieval florilegia he is much quoted for piquant tales and moral sentiments. 'From Petrarch onward Gellius became a favorite author of the Renaissance'. 'More than 100 manuscripts were copied'. He was used as a valuable source of information on the Latin language, and had preserved numerous quotations from lost authors, which were presented with grace and elegance. Gellius became a model for the 'Miscellanea' of the Italian humanist Angelo Poliziano. 'In the 18th century, however, new canons of elegance caused his style to seem less attractive, and compilation sank to minor merit' (Quotations from 'The Classical Tradition', Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 386/7) According to Graesse this 1560 edition of Gellius is a reissue of the edition of Badius Ascensius of 1532. If this is correct, than it was reissued without the preliminaries and the notes. Sebastianus Gryphius was an excellent Latin scholar himself, and the printer of a host of handy and relatively cheap editions of Latin authors. Gellius was for him a moneyspinner, for he published Gellius editions in 1537, 1539, 1546, 1559, 1560 & 1566) (Provenance: Provenance the Tuscan city Gallicano. The first ownership inscription below the imprint is very legible: 'Bartholomaei Landi Gallicanensis', probably a Bartolomeo Landi from Gallicano. The second name on the title is crossed out: '. Johannis Mamanti Gallicanensis'. 'Johannis' and Gallicanensis' bear a contraction sign. The first name is illegible, it is also contracted and ends probably on '-bri' The inscription on the front pastedown is a problem: 'Di Prese (?) Gio. Mamanti da Gallicano'. Gallicano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lucca in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 70 kilometres northwest of Florence) (Collation: A-D8 (gathering C bound before B); a-z8, A-K8, L4 (leaf L3 verso printer's mark, leaf L4 blank) (Photographs on request)

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GELLIUS.

Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae, seu Vigiliae Atticae, quas nunc primum a magno mendorum numero magnus veterum exemplarium numerus repurgavit. Henrici Stephani Noctes aliquot Parisinae, Atticis A. Gellii Noctibus seu Vigiliis invigilatae. Eiusdem H. Stephani annotationes in alios Gellii locos prodibunt cum notis Lud. Carrionis (qui vet. exemplaria contulit) prelo iam traditis.

Paris (Parisiis), (H. Stephanus), 1585. Cum privilegio Caesaris, et Gallorum regis in decennium. 8vo. (VI),23,(1 blank),587,(1 blank);(74 index),(2 blank),205,(3 blank) p. Vellum 18 cm (Ref: Renouard p. 450/51, 1585,2: 'édition rare et estimable', Schweiger 2,378; Brunet 1523/24; Graesse 3,46; Ebert 8284) (Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints. Short title on the back) (Condition: Vellum soiled and spotted, big red stain on the lower board. Occasional old ink underlinings & marginalia. Small and old inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf. A small reference written on the title. On the verso of the title a round red stamp. Upper corner of the last gatherings slightly waterstained. Paper somewhat yellowing) (Note: The Roman author Aulus Gellius, ca. 125-180 AD, was never counted as a major author in antiquity, nor later. His only work 'Noctes Atticae' or 'Attic Nights', is a miscellany that 'ranges from literature to law, from wondrous tales to moral philosophy; one of his favorite topics is the Latin language'. (.) The exposition, in a mildly archaizing but never difficult Latin, often takes the form of dialogues with or between culturally eminent persons whom Gellius had known'. It derives its name from the fact of its having been written during the long nights of a winter which the author spent in Attica as a young itinerant student. The Noctes Atticae were exploited by pagans and Christians alike in late antiquity. In medieval florilegia he is much quoted for piquant tales and moral sentiments. 'From Petrarch onward Gellius became a favorite author of the Renaissance'. 'More than 100 manuscripts were copied'. He was used as a valuable source of information on the Latin language, and had preserved numerous quotations from lost authors, which were presented with grace and elegance. Gellius became a model for the 'Miscellanea' of the Italian humanist Angelo Poliziano. 'In the 18th century, however, new canons of elegance caused his style to seem less attractive, and compilation sank to minor merit' (Quotations from 'The Classical Tradition', Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 386/7) § The notes of Louis Carrion, latinized as Ludovicus Carrio (Brugensis), ca. 1547-1595, which are promised on the title page, are lacking in this edition. Carrion had promised the Parisian scholar/publisher Henri Estienne II, ca. 1530-1598, to manufacture notes for his Gellius edition. Estienne printed the text of Gellius, and waited eight months. In the meantime Carrion delivered material for only 7 leaves. Tired of waiting Estienne published his Gellius, replacing Carrion's notes with work of his own: 'Noctes aliquot Parisinae'. Ultimately Carrion sent Estienne notes concerning the first 24 chapters of the first book only, together 120 pages. These notes Estienne thereupon published separately in the same year. Most copies are like ours, in only a few copies both works have been bound together. § The 'Noctes Parisinae' are 27 in number, 7 of which are dedicated to Estienne's friend, the historian, politician and bookcollector Jacques Auguste de Thou, 1553-1617, who was in 1585 'maître des requêtes au parlement de Paris'. Estienne extols his friend 'for his erudition, and his extraordinary zeal for the collection of books: noticing the exquisite literary treasures in which his library abounds, his judgment in the selection of editions, his liberal disbursement in purchasing, and his profuse expenditure on binding and decoration'. (William Parr Greswell, 'A View of the Early Parisian Greek Press', London 1833, volume 2, p. 350) The 'Noctes Parisinae' opens with a defence of Gellius against attacks of the Spanish scholar Juan Luis Vives, who mentioned Gellius e.g. 'loquaculus sine eruditione'; and 'quae de significatu vocum disserit, sunt frivola, et plerumque imperita ac falsa'. (Opera, Basel 1555, Tom. I, p. 480/81)) (Provenance: In pencil on the front flyleaf: '15 sept. 1965', written by the Flemish linguist Walter Couvreur, 1914-1996, who was an Orientalist, and professor of Indoeuropean linguistics at the University of Gent. It indicates the date of aquisition. On the pastedown in the rear he wrote the place where he bought it: 'Leipzig, Zentralantiquariat, DDR'. § On the verso of the title a red stamp: 'Ex Biblioth. Regia Berolinensi') (Collation: A-B8 (minus blank leaf B8), a-z8, A-R8, S4 (leaf S4 blank), A-N8 (a leaf signed A2 inserted as a kind of half title between leaf C1 and C2; leaf N7 verso and N8 blank) (Photographs on request)

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