GEOPONICA.

Constantini Caesaris selectarum praeceptionum de agricultura libri viginti. Iano Cornario Medico interprete.

Lyon, (Lugduni), Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1541. 8vo. 349;(15 index),(2 blank) p. 18th century calf 16 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,422; Graesse 3,53; Ebert 8337; Not in Brunet) (Details: Back gilt, and with 3 raised bands. Boards with tripple fillet borders, and gilt floral ornaments at the corners. Woodcut printer's mark of Sebastianus Gryphius 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, symbolizing Constancy, beneath which hangs a winged globe, symbolizing Fortune. The motto is 'Virtute duce / comite fortuna', 'Virtue thy leader, fortune thy comrade', is a quote from a letter of Cicero to Plancus (Epistulae ad Familiares, liber X,3). Printed completely in italics) (Condition: Binding worn at the extremes. Boards slightly and superficially damaged. The right upper corner of the first 27 and the last 12 leaves repaired. A tear in the margin of the second leaf has been repaired skilfully and almost invisibly. Stains at the upper margin in the beginning, right margin slightly waterstained throughout. Name on the title) (Note: Famine (with the plague) was a great problem in France during the first half of the 16th century. There were serious food shortages and outbreaks of disease in the early 1520th. This scourge reached its peak in the crisis of 1545/46 which was perhaps the most terrible year in the history of 16th century Paris. Many thousands died of hunger. This period is marked by a dramatic fall in living standards. The gravity of the situation began to be reflected in the medical and agricultural literature of that time: how to avoid disease and preserve health in times of dearth on a poor diet of gruel, bread, broth and beer. The French humanist schoolmaster Robert Breton, whose ideas were heavily coloured by classical influences, published in 1539 his 'Agriculturae encomium', in which he emphasized the need to combine theoretical and practical learning in agriculture. 'The food produced in the countryside, he pointed out, was absolutely essential to the existence of the towns and the state itself'. (H. Heller, Labour, science and technology in France, Cambr. 1996, p. 66) Food, especially grain, was not only scarce because of the ignorance and poverty of the peasantry, but also because of warfare. Towards the middle of this century the provision of an adequate food supply became urgent. 'Beyond assuring the subsistence of the population, it was critical to maintaining the momentum of the burgeoning manufacturing sector of the economy. Sustaining profit margins in industry depended on controlling wages. Relatively low wages were only possible if the costs of grain (.) could be contained. As a result, one notes a growing preoccupation with agriculture among humanist authors'. (H. Heller, p. 65) § The basis for the reform of European agriculture was laid by the works of three Roman gentlemen-farmers and landowners Cato, Varro and Columella, and Constantinus Caesar's Geoponica. Between 1529 and 1550 eight Latin editions of the works of Cato, Varro, Columella and Palladius were published in Paris and Lyon. Palladius (1551) and Columella (1551, 1558) were also translated into French. The first Latin translation of the Geoponica was published in Basel by Froben & Episcopius in 1538, one year before the Greek 'editio princeps'. Hoffmann records between 1538 and 1550 six issues of the Latin translation, four or more of French translations, and three of Italian translations. The first Latin translation of the Geoponica was made from the same manuscript as the Greek 'editio princeps' by the German 'medicus physicus' Janus Cornar(i)us, or 'Johann Haynpol', 'Hagenbut' or 'Hanbut', 1500-1558. In the 'Praefatio' Cornarius remarks concerning the importance of his translation that it helps to understand and restore innumerable passages in Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius, and even Pliny Maior, that are obscure or incomprehensible. (innumerabiles loci aut omnino luxati reponi possunt, aut obscurati intellegi'. (Praefatio p. 7) He also stresses that it is shameful and harmful for medicins to be ignorant of agriculture. (Idem p. 5) The study of agriculture (studium agriculturae) is most useful (utilissimum) and most necessary (necessarium). (Idem p. 3) § After completing his medical studies in Wittenberg he travelled through Europe to gain possession of the original works of the ancient Greek physicians. He stayed for a long time in Basel, where he became an intimate friend of Erasmus. In 1542 he was appointed professor of medicine in Marburg, in 1557 he followed a call to Jena, but died there the following year. He published works of several Greek medical authors, as well as Latin translations, works that contributed substantially to the spiritual enlightenment of his age. He was admired for the reliability and exactness of his translations, and his pure Latinity. These translations are now considered to be Cornarius' most valued works. (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 4 (1876), p. 481) (See for the editions of 1538 and 1539, 'Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen', no's 364 and 365) The result of this abundance of editions and translations was a flood of other publications on food and crops, and suggestions for the development of agriculture on a more rational basis. § The Geoponica or Geoponika, (agricultural pursuits), a collection of 20 books filled with agricultural information, was commissioned by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, who reigned from 913 to 959. His aim was to bring Byzantine farming on a higher level. This '10th century collection is sometimes (wrongly) ascribed to the 7th century author Cassianus Bassus, whose collection, also titled Geoponica, was integrated into the extant work. Bassus drew heavily on the work of another agricultural compiler, Vindonius Anatolius (4th century). The ultimate sources of the Geoponica include Pliny, various lost Hellenistic and Roman-period Greek agriculture and veterinary authors.(.) 1, Of the atmosphere, and of the rising and setting of the stars. 2, Of general matters appertaining to agriculture, and of the different kinds of corn. 3, Of the various agricultural duties suitable to each month. 4-5, Of the cultivation of the vine. 6-8, Of the making of wine. 9, Of the cultivation of the olive and the making of oil. 10-12, Of horticulture. 13, Of the animals and insects injurious to plants. 14, Of pigeons and other birds. 15, Of natural sympathies and antipathies, and of the management of bees. 16, Of horses, donkeys and camels. 17, Of the breeding of cattle. 18, Of the breeding of sheep. 19, Of dogs, hares, deer, pigs, and of salting meat. 20, Of fishes'. (Source for the contents of the books: Wikipedia, s.v. Geoponica) § Constantine VII was an excellent Emperor according to Norwich in his 'A Short History of Byzantium'. He calls him 'a competent, conscientious and hard-working administrator and an inspired picker of men, whose appointments to military, naval, ecclesiastical, civil and academic posts were both imaginative and successful'. Not only did he much to develop higher education, but he improved also the economic and military strength of the weakening Byzantine Empire. An important step was made, when Constantine ordered in 947 the immediate restitution, without compensation, of all peasant lands) (Provenance: On the title the name of: 'De la Croiserie Grimaudet, 1596') (Collation: a-y8, z8 (leaf z7 blank, minus leaf z8) (Photographs on request)

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GLAZER,J.

Kort begrip der Romeinsche geschiedenis in themata ten gebruike der Fransche Scholen door J. Glazer, kostschoolhouder te Kampen.

(Zutphen, H.C.A. Thieme, 1823). 172 p. Contemporary stiff wrapper. 16 cm (Condition: Cover very scuffed; name of the author on the frontcover worn away. Paper on the back partly gone. Lacking the first 2 leaves with the title and the preface)(Photographs on request)

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GRAEVIUS,J.G.

Jo. Georgii Graevii Praefationes et Epistolae CXX. In usum latinae eloquentiae studiosorum collectae & editae a Jo. Alberto Fabricio, D. & Eloqu. Prof. Adjuncta est Petri Burmanni V.Cl. oratio dicta in Graevii funere.

Hamburg (Hamburgi), Sumtu Christiani Liebezeit, Typis Spiringianis, 1707. Small 8vo. (XVI),637,(3 blank) p. Vellum 17 cm (Ref: Not yet in VD18; Sandys 2,327ff.) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved portrait of Graevius before the title, made after an engraving of G. Valck of ca. 1705, engraved in its turn after an oil painting by Gerard Hoet, painted between 1675 and 1699. Title in red & black) (Condition: Vellum somewhat spotted. Renewed endpapers; some old ink underlinings; small wormhole in the right margin of the last two blank leaves) (Note: Johann Georg Graeve, or in Latin Johannes Georgius Graevius, 1632-1703, was born in Germany, and educated at Schulpforta. He was professor of Eloquence at Duisburg, from 1657 at Deventer and at from 1662 at Utrecht, 'where he lived and worked for the last 40 years of his life'. He limited his attention mainly to writers of Latin prose, Cicero, Suetonius, Caesar, Justinus, Florus. He is remembered for his 'Inscriptiones antiquae', and famous for his three 'Thesauri', in which important works of previous scholars were collected and reprinted, the 'Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae' (1710), the 12 folio volumes of the 'Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum' (1694-99), and the 9 volume 'Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae' (1704). 'The latin style of his prefaces, his speeches and his letters is elegant'. The letters contain a treasure of information on classical authors. The German editor of this collection, the bibliographer Johannes Albertus Fabricius, 1668-1736, was a friend and a great admirer of Graevius. 'Quanta in illo Viro quamque accurata & dilucida cognitio Antiquitatis, quanta utriusque linguae peritia'. He is particularly lyrical about Graevius' eloquence and Latin style. 'Eloquentia vero tam singularis tamque exquisita, ut sermo ejus a Musis videatur ipsis & Gratiis elaboratus esse'. (Dedicatio p. ):(5 recto) ) (Provenance: On the pastedown of the lower board a small label: 'Sammlung Otto Fritz Böhme'. Elke von Radziewsky made of this Collection of the antiquarian bookseller Otto Fritz Böhme a interesting bibliography: 'Sammlung Otto Fritz Böhme, Drucke aus Offizinen im Raum der ehemaligen (Ost-)Hanse', Hamburg, Otto Fritz Böhme, 1986. It presents more than 1700 entries of publications from the 15th to the 19th century, arranged according to printing places from Altona to Zerbst) (Collation: pi1 (portrait), *8 (minus leaf *8); A-2R8 (2R7 verso blank & 2R8 blank) (Photographs on request)

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GRAEVIUS,J.G.

Johannis Georgii Graevii orationes quas Ultrajecti habuit.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Johannem du Vivie, 1717. (XXVIII),607,(1 errata) p. Vellum 19.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 226765288) (Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Title in red and black, and with a woodcut printer's mark, depicting a sun-baked landscape, in the sky the motto: 'Ab Uno Vita'. Contains 18 speeches, including at the end Petrus Burmannus' funeral speech for Graevius, held on February 18th 1703) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled, some wear to the extremes. Stamp on the verso of the title) (Note: Johann Georg Graeve, or in Latin Johannes Georgius Graevius, 1632-1703, was born in Germany, and educated at Schulpforta. He was professor of Eloquence at Duisburg, from 1657 at Deventer and from 1661 at Utrecht, 'where he lived and worked for the last 40 years of his life'. He limited his attention mainly to writers of Latin prose, Cicero, Suetonius, Caesar, Justinus, Florus. This scholar of international stature is remembered for his 'Inscriptiones antiquae', long time the standard edition; he is also famous for his three 'Thesauri', in which important works of previous leading scholars were collected and reprinted, the 'Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae' (1710), the 12 folio volumes of the 'Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum' (1694-99), and the 9 volumes 'Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae' (1704). The latin style of his prefaces, his speeches and his letters is said to be elegant. Graevius was an inspiring Latin orator. His lecture room was crowded with his pupils. His speeches were collected and published by one of those pupils, Petrus Burmannus (the Elder), 1668-1741. The collection contains 17 speeches of Graevius, and opens with his inaugural speech of 1661. There is also the speech he delivered on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University. Furthermore there are four speeches for William III, one for the stadholder of Holland Willem III on the occasion of his expedition to England (1689), an eulogy of William III King of Great Britain(1691), a funeral speech for Queen Mary II of England, the wife of William III (1695), and a funeral speech for William (1702). (Graevius was made 'Historiographer Royal' to William III) Remarkable is Graevius speech of 1665 'De Cometis, contra vulgi opinionem Cometas esse malorum nuntios', in which he contended to the chagrin of orthodox protestants that comets did not herald disaster for the earth. People should not fear comets, because these firy celestial objects belonged to the works of God which obeyed the law of nature. To eradicate this cometary superstition he devoted part of his speech to a critical analysis of historical accounts. Graevius was skeptical about the biblical foundation of the belief that comets were signs of God's displeasure. 'Graevius oration overtly questioned the 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc' argument, as well as the argument from universal consent. Moreover, his diatribe was a manifestation of a much broader tendency to put the ancient writers in their own proper context'. (E. Jorink, "Comets in Context. Some thoughts on Bayle's Pensées diverses' in 'Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam', Leiden/Boston 2008. p. 64) The great comet, or 'blazing star' of 1664 coincided with an outbreak of the plague, which took the lives of more than 24000 people in Amsterdam only) (Provenance: On the verso of the title a stamp 'E Bibliotheca Lycei Wernigerodani'. Wernigerode is a German city in Sachsen-Anhalt) (Collation: *8, **6, A-2P8) (Photographs on request)

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VOLLSTÄNDIGERE GRIECHISCHE GRAMMATIK,

nach der Lehr-Ordnung der Lateinischen Märkischen Grammatik eingerichtet, mit königlichen Preussischen und Chur-Brandenburgischen Privilegio.

Berlin, Zu finden bey Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai, privilegirten Buchhändler, 1730. Small 8°. (VIII),1244,(XXXVI index) p. Two folding plates. Contemporary half calf 17.5 cm (Ref: Not yet in VD18) (Details: Back ruled gilt. Boards marbled. Title in red and black. Two folding plates, one showing Greek MS abbreviations explained; the other shows a Greek inscription, the 'Inscriptio Sigea') (Condition: Binding scuffed. Head and foot of the spine worn and slightly damaged. Corners slightly bumped. Front endpapers with ownership inscriptions. Title with some brown stains. Paper yellowing. Internally fine) (Note: The Universität zu Berlin, or University at Berlin, was founded in 1810 by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. But higher education flourished already in the 17th century in this city, which became the capital of Prussia in 1701 under Friedrich Wilhelm I, the Soldier King, who was King of Prussia, Markgraf von Brandenburg and Kurfürst of the Holy Roman Empire till 1740. There were 5 gymnasia in the city, of which (1) the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster was founded in 1574; (2) the Friedrich-Werdersches Gymnasium existed since 1701; (3) the Cöllnisches or Köllnisches Gymasium went back to a 15th century Schola Latina, and was refounded as Gymnasium in 1766; (4) the Joachimthalsches Gymnasium was founded in 1607 as Gymnasium Electorale Brandenburgium in valle Joachimica, and was moved to Berlin in 1636; in 1707 this school was renamed by king Friedrich Wilhelm I Gymnasium Regium Joachimicum; (5) and the Französisches Gymnasium or Collège français de Berlin, founded in 1689 for the children of the Huguenot families who had settled in Brandenburg-Prussia. And then there was in Berlin also the Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften, or the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, an academy established in 1700.§ This very extensive Greek school grammar was produced by the German Polyhistor and linguist Johann Leonard Frisch, 1666-1743. The production was commissioned by a board that consisted of the Rectores and Conrectores of 4 Berlin Gymnasia, presumably excluding number 5, the French Gymnasium. (Preface p. x2 recto) The task of the board was the realization of a series of textbooks, grammars, among which of course a Latin grammar, compendia, and editions of classical authors to be used in all grammar schools of the Mark Brandenburg. Frisch himself was one of the members of the board, as he was Rector of the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster since 1727. In 1706 he had already been appointed, recommended by Leibniz, member of the newly established Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Frisch's publications show an amazing range of interests. His scientific activities are reflected in his writing on ornithology, entomology, comparative linguistics, German and Russian grammar, etc. He compiled a French and German dictionary, and was one of the pioneers of Slavic studies in Germany with his Historia linguae sclavonicae. 'His main work is the German-Latin dictionary (1741), into which he put 50 years of work'. (H. Stammerjohann, 'Lexicon Grammaticorum: A bio-bibliographical companion to the history of linguistics', 2nd edition, Tübingen, 2009, p. 492. See also 'Neue Deutsche Biographie', vol. 5 (1961), p. 616) (Provenance: The provenance is Swedish. Two names on the front pastedown: 'J. P. Jakobsson, 1873', and probably 'C. v. Rosenthal, 1801'. On the front flyleaf: 'J.P. Jakobsson, Kalman 1892', and 'Ake Ljungfors, 1930') (Collation: x4, A-4I8; 4K-4L4, x8) (Photographs on request)

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GROEN VAN PRINSTERER,G.

Platonica prosopographia, sive expositio judicii, quod Plato tulit de iis, qui in scriptis ipsius aut loquentes inducuntur, aut quavis de causa commemorantur.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud H.W. Hazenberg juniorem, 1823. 8vo. XV,(1),238,(8 theses) p. Contemporary boards 22 cm (Dissertation, University Leiden) (The Dutch politician and historian Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, 1801-1876, was a devout Christian, lifelong member of the Dutch Reformed Church, the state church of the Netherlands. He lead the evangelical renewal movement thriving at the time (the European Continental counterpart to the Second Great Awakening), known in the Netherlands as the 'Reveil'. Groen ardently opposed the liberal politician Thorbecke, whose principles he denounced as ungodly and revolutionary, i.e. inspired by the French Revolution. Groen played, as a political writer and a member of the Second Chamber of Parliament, a prominent role in Dutch home politics. As the leader of the protestant anti-revolutionary movement he gradually created the ideological basis on which after his death (in 1879) Abraham Kuyper founded the 'Anti Revolutionary Party', (Anti-Revolutionaire Partij) (Source Wikipedia))

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GRONOVIUS,J.F.

Iohannis Frederici Gronovii Observationum libri III, ad Wilhelmum A.F.P.N.W.P. Vandermaerium I.C. (Bound with:) Censorinus, De die natali. Henric. Lindenbrogius recensuit, et notis iterata hac editione passim adauctis, illustravit. (And bound with:) Iohannis Frederici Gronovii De Sestertiis commentarius.

Ad 1: Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Isaacum Commelinum (typis W. Christiani), 1639. Ad 2: Leiden (Ludgduni Batavorum), Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1642. Ad 3: Deventer (Daventriae), Typis Conradi Thomaei Typogr., 1643. 8vo. 3 volumes in 1: (XXIV),279,(21 index); (XVI),250,(38 index); (XVI),135,(5 blank) p., (folding table with an astrological diagram in the Censorinus) Overlapping vellum 16 cm Gronovius' Observationes marked a considerable advance in the study of Latin prose (Ref: Ad 1: cf. Graesse 3,161. Ad 2: Breugelmans 1642,3, p. 490; Schweiger 2,101; cf. Graesse 2,101; Ebert 3909. Ad 3: cf. Brunet 29063; cf. Ebert 8961) (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on all 3 titles, the third of which depicts a Phoenix, that holds between its wings an opened book, with on the pages an Alpha and Omega, the motto reads Renovabitur. Short title in ink on the back. § The mysterious dedicatee on the title is most probably Willem van der Meer from Delft who matriculated in 1629 at the age of twenty in Leiden. This Willem might have been the son of the Councillor of the 'Hof van Holland', the 'High Court of Holland', Abraham Pietersz. van der Meer, member of the political elite of Delft, who died in 1638. (See 'Hugo de Groot, Briefwisseling van Hugo Grotius'. Deel 17, Den Haag 2001, p. 477). The son of Abraham, Willem van der Meer, 1613-1668, became a lawyer at the 'Hof van Holland'. The connection with Delft is confirmed by the provenance of a 15th century manuscript of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares (Cod. Guelf. 85. 11. Aug. fol., Katalognr: Heinemann-Nr. 2898) held in the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, and upon which is found the name: Wilhelmus A. F. P. N. W. P. van der Meer Delfensis. Prudentia et simplicitate'. We know also that Van der Meer was a jurist (I.C.). Gronovius mentions Vandermaerius in a letter to Nicolaas Heinsius, dated 30 november 1638. He writes that he and Vandermaerius have bought books at an auction. It is obvious that Heinsius knew him too. (Sylloges Epistolarum A Viris Illustribus Scriptarum Tomus III, 1727, Ep. 62) May we suggest the following solution for the initials: Abrahami Filius Petri Nepos Wilhelmi Pronepos. If this is right, then our Wilhelmus van der Meer, son of Abraham Pieterszoon van der Meer, and great-grandson of Wilhelmus Willemsz van Alcmaer, is indeed the dedicatee. (Compare for this kind of abbreviation Paullus Merula's subscription in several Alba Amicorum, where he signed Paullus G.F.P.N. Merula, i.e. Guilielmi Filius Paulli Nepos Merula) (See for the ancestry of Van der Meer Wikipedia: Van der Meer de Walcheren) ) (Condition: Cover dust-soiled & spotted. Small oval stamp on the front flyleaf. Right upper corner of a few leaves in De Sestertiis slightly wrinkled & soiled) (Note: Ad 1: The Dutch classicist of German origin Johann Friedrich Gronov, or Gronovius, 1611-1671, became in 1658 the successor of Daniel Heinsius on the Greek chair of the University of Leiden. He was influenced by Vossius, Grotius, Heinsius and Scriverius. His editions mark an epoch in the study of Livy, of Seneca, Tacitus & Gellius. His interest in textual criticism of Latin poetry was due to the discovery of the Florentine MS of the tragedies of Seneca. In his riper years 'the acumen exhibited in his handling of prose is also exemplified in his treatment of the text of poets such as Phaedrus and Martial, Seneca and Statius'. (Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, 2,321) His collections with Observationes belong to his best works, they offer a dazzling number of erudite observations on Roman law and history, and brilliant emendations. After this Observationum libri III of 1639 Gronovius published in Deventer in 1652 his Observationum liber novus. And of the first three books of observations there appeared a second emendatior and auctior edition in 1662 (Leiden). The German philologist Fr. Platner combined the libri tres and the liber novus of Gronovius in 1755 (Leipzig). In the 19th century the German C.H. Frotscher added to these four books Gronovius' Observationum in scriptoribus ecclesiasticis monobiblos (1831), which he had published in 1651. The great classical scholar Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff argued that Gronovius surpassed without doubt Daniel Heinsius in scholarship. 'His Observationes marked a considerable advance in the study of Latin prose (.). The book is in the usual miscellany form; but his methodical treatment and his concentration on the single object of providing an introduction to the language of the period, hold the whole thing together. As recently as fifty years ago (1860th) German students were still urged to read him for themselves. At the same time he by no means neglected the subject matter of his authors and wrote successfully on the Roman coinage. (U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, History of classical scholarship, ed. H. Lloyd-Jones, London, 1982, p. 72) Ad 2: The Roman grammarian Censorinus lived in the first half of the third century A.D. Of him survives De die natali, dedicated to his patronus Q. Caerellius on his birthday in A.D. 238. The first part deals with the genetic and astrologic aspects of the date of birth, and furthermore numerical mysticism. The second with time and divisions. Its sources are Varro, Suetonius (De anno Romanorum), and several Greek authorities on procreation, embryology, botany and music. This work is valuable for its otherwise lost sources. The German scholar Heinrich Lindenbrog, 1570-1642, published in 1614 in Hamburg his first edition of Censorinus. A revised and augmented second edition was published in Leiden in 1642. Lindenbrog studied classics in Leiden under J.J. Scaliger. After his studies he made a tour which brought him and his friend Johannes van Wouweren to France, to the monastery of St. Victor. It was told that they stole there with the help of a monk 16 manuscripts. They became known as 'Les Corsaires de Hamburg'. He was arrested, but came free with the help of the French scholar Pierre Dupuy (Puteanus), the son of the humanist and bibliophile Claude Dupuy, who was a great collector of manuscripts. Little is known of the rest of Lindenbrog's life. From 1610 onward till his death, he was the librarian of Duke Johann Adolf von Holstein, who had assembled in Gottorp a great collection of books. He made his name as a philologist with this Censorinus edition. (ADB 18,693) Ad 3: Having studied at several universities and travelled in England, Holland, France and Italy, Johannes Fredericus Gronovius came in 1642 to the Dutch city Deventer, where he was appointed professor of rhetoric and history at the local Athenaeum Illustre. He didnot regret this modest step, for he married there the 22 years old Aleida Ten Nuyl, with whom he had a happy marriage and had seven children. In 1658 he left for Leiden. In 1643 he had published in Deventer his De sestertiis commentarius. Gronovius had more interests than editing, commenting and textual criticism. During his academic career he published also important works on numismatics and on money in the ancient world. In 1643 he published this De sestertiis commentarius. This small work later grew into Gronovius' famous De Sestertiis, seu subsecivorum pecuniae veteris Graecae & Romanae libri IV, which was first published in 1656. Gronovius is considered to be 'einer der Wegbereiter der Forschungen über das antike Münzwesen'. (NDB 7,127)) (Provenance: Stamp: 'Dr. A. Hinsbergs Bibliothek, Hinsberg'. In ink has been added in the stamp: 'Adolf', and 'No. 7724'. Dr. jur. Adolf Hinsberg, 1868-1933, lived at Unt. Lichtenplatzerstrasse 108 in Barmen, and was 'Rechtsanwalt' and 'Justizrat'. He must also have been a bibliophile considering the number in the stamp. He must have been a freethinker, for he was also involved in the feminist movement of the Wilhelmine period (1888-1918)) (Collation: Ad 1: *8, 2*4; A-T8 (minus blank leaves T7 & T8). Ad 2: ?8, A-S8, folding table between leaves F4 & F5). Ad 3: *8, A-H8, I6 (leaves I4 verso, I5 & I6 blank)) (Photographs on request)

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DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS.

Dionysii Halicarnassei Antiquitatum, sive Originum Romanarum libri decem, Sigismundo Gelenio interprete. Adiecimus Undecimum ex versione Lapi: ac indicem rerum notatu dignarum locupletissimum.

Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Antonium Vincentium, 1561. (Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni excudebat Symphorianus Barbierus). 16mo. 854,66 p. Calf 12.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,586; Graesse 2,400) (Details: Back gilt, and with 4 raised bands, red morocco shield in the second compartment. Endpapers marbled. Edges of the bookblock dyed red. Latin translation only.) (Condition: Binding somewhat scuffed, corners bumped. Waterstain on the title. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: The 'Antiquitates Romanae' of the Greek rhetor and historian Dionysius Halicarnassensis, who came to Rome ca. 30 B.C. to teach rhetoric, and who spent there at least 22 years or longer, are little known and little read nowadays. His work on literary criticism still is of importance, for it shows that he was an excellent critic with good taste, great knowledge and a subtle judgement. As historian however he is almost forgotten. H.J. Rose's summary of the 'Antiquitates Romanae' explains its weakness: 'He writes as might be expected, in the rhetorical tradition, and as a result his book is nearly worthless as history, devoting much space to elaborate retelling to the late and artificial mythology of Rome. For this very reason, however, it is of some service to students of Roman antiquities, for it preserves a good many interesting facts concerning the earliest civil and religious institutions. We have 11 books left, with excerpts from 9 more, carrrying the narrative down to 271 B.C.' (H.J. Rose, 'A handbook of Greek literature', London 1965, p. 399) The historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus enjoyed great authority until the 18th century. He was thought to be superior to the other Roman historians who wrote about the early history of Rome. His influence on the 'artes historicae' of the Renaissance is great. He was admired by Bodin, Vossius and Scaliger. Then the spirit of the Enlightenment made his poetic conception of history obsolete. Scholars like the Dutch ancient historian Perizonius made mincemeat of him, and burried him in the dust of oblivion. The 'Altertumswissenschaft' of the 19th century held him also in low esteem, and he was degraded to 'Graeculus', an insignificant Greek. The last decades seem to be friendlier for Dionysius. (Bowersock, Gabba). He now has simply become a witness whom scholars start to ask other questions. § The Bohemian classical scholar Sigismund Gelenius, or Zikmund Hrubý, 1497-1554, produced editions of Callimachus, Aristophanes, the Planudean Anthology, Origenes, and the 'editio princeps' of several minor Greek geographers. Circa 1524 he ended up in Basel where he worked as 'lector', translator and critic in the famous Publishing House of Frobenius. (Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), p. 173) He declined lucrative professorships. In Basel he published in 1549 his Latin translation of the 'Antiquitates Romanae' of Dionysius Halicarnassensis for the first time. It was reissued by Froben in 1555 and 1561. The Lyon printer Sebastianus Gryphus repeated the edition also in 1555, and in 1561 the Lyon printer Antonius Vincentius saw room for yet another edition) (Provenance: On the verso of the front flyleaf in ink: 'Bibliothecae Publicae S(ancti) Vincent, Bisunt, lotte 177'. Bisunt is Bisuntium, the Latin name of the French city Besançon. The French Abbé Jean-Baptiste Boisot, 1638-1694, was a historian and a bibliophile. He was appointed abbot of the Benedict abbey of Saint Vincent in Besançon by King Louis XIV. The abbot left his manuscripts and books to the abbey of Saint Vincent, on condition that the library should be open to the public. (à charge et condition qu'ils mettront le tout dans une salle qui sera ouverte deux fois la semaine à tous ceux qui voudront y entrer ; lesquels pourront y lire et étudier autant de temps qu'ils souhaiteront pendant les deux jours, sans que pourtant il leur soit permis d'en distraire aucun livre). This library forms the kernel of Municipal Library of Besançon. (See for this man, his library and the abbey his lemma in Wikipédia) § On the flyleaf also in a more recent hand: 'ex libris ecure ? Dénans, 1727'. § Still more recent a small ownership label pasted on the verso of the marbled front endpaper: 'Dr. Charles Groffier'. § On the same spot in pencil: 'Brussel 27 sept. 1963', 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) (Collation: a-z8; A-2L8, 2M4) (Photographs on request)

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HEINSIUS,D.

Dan. Heinsii De tragoediae constitutione liber, in quo inter caetera tota de hac Aristotelis sententia dilucide explicatur. Editio auctior multo, cui & Aristotelis De poëtica libellus, cum ejusdem notis & interpretatione, accedit.

Leiden (Lugd. Batav.), Ex officinâ Elsevirianâ, 1643. 12mo. (XII),368 p. 19th century calf 13.5 cm 'De tragoediae constitutione' established the reputation of Heinsius as an Aristotelian literary critic (Ref: Willems 554; Berghman 964; Rahir 548; Brunet 3,83; Graesse 3,232; Ebert 9377) (Details: Back ruled gilt, with a letterpiece. Boards with blind stamped borders & gilt dentelles on the turn-overs. Marbled endpapers. Elsevier's woodcut printer's mark on the title, featuring an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree, symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher. The motto is: 'Non solus'. The first part of the book consists of the 'De tragoediae constitutione', the pages 221-321 contain Aristotle's Poetics, edited and translated into Latin by Daniel Heinsius, the pages 322-368 are filled with Heinsius' notes on that text) (Condition: Binding used, and worn at the extremities. Head of the spine gone for 1 cm, foot of the spine chafed. Joint cracked, but strong. Small bookplate on the front pastedown. Paper yellowing) (Note: 'De tragoediae constitutione' established the reputation of the Dutch classical scholar of Flemish origin Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655, as an Aristotelian critic of reknown. He enjoyed also 'international fame as an editor of classical texts, theorist of literary criticism, historian and neolatin poet, was professor of Poetics at the University of Leiden since 1603, extraordinarius Greek since 1605. After the death of J.J. Scaliger, to whose inner circle he belonged, he held the chair of Greek, from 1609 till 1647. He is best known for his edition of Aristotle's treatise on poetry, (.) which he studied in connection with the 'Ars Poetica' of Horace. This edition is 'the only considerable contribution to the criticism and eludication of the work that was ever produced in the Netherlands. (.) In his pamphlet 'De tragoediae constitutione', (.), he deals with all the essential points in Aristotle's treatise, giving proof that he has thoroughly imbibed the author's spirit. (.) It was through this work that he became a centre of Aristotelian influence in Holland. His influence extended, in France, to Chaplain, and Balzac, to Racine and Corneille; in Germany to Opitz; and in England to Ben Jonson (.)'. (J.E. Sandys, 'A history of classical scholarship, N.Y., 1964, vol. 2, p. 314) Heinsius' edition and Latin translation of Aristotle's 'De poetica liber' was first published by Elsevier in 1610, a year later this was repeated, and expanded with 'De tragoediae constitutione' (1611). Heinsius produced of both works a second and augmented edition, published by Elzevier in 1643. Heinsius' treatise 'De tragoediae constitutione' addresses itself explicitly to the task of presenting a simple and intelligible exposition of tragedy and the tragic plot 'ex mente atque opinione Aristotelis'. Accordingly, the work is based on the Aristotelian definition of tragedy, which is incorporated verbatim in the opening of Heinsius' discussion, and Aristotle's qualitative parts of tragedy (fabula, mores, sententiae, dictio, melodia and apparatus) provide the topics around which the argument is built up. Heinsius' treatise has consequently sometimes been viewed as rendering the 'milk of the Aristotelian word' more or less unwatered'. (P.R. Selin, 'Daniel Heinsius and Stuart England', Leiden/Oxford, 1968, p. 124/25) Nevertheless, 'Heinsius moves away from the Aristotelian concern with the essence of an artistic product to the search for appropriate means of securing what are basically rhetorical effects, ultimately directed to the ethical benefit of the audience'. (Idem p. 145) The treatise did not contribute completely fresh ideas or methods to the Renaissance tradition of the poetic theory. Heinsius' importance lies in the pruning away of complex and elaborate rhetorical Renaissance approaches) (Provenance: Bookplate, probably beginning 20th century: 'Ex libris Emile Brugnon') (Collation: *6, A12-P12, Q4) (Photographs on request)

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HEINSIUS,D.

Danielis Heinsii Orationum editio nova. Tertia parte auctior, caeteris sic recensitis, ut alia videri possit.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Bonaventurae & Abrahami Elzevir, Acad. Typogr.,1627. 8vo. (XVI),661,(3) p. Overlapping vellum 15.5 cm § Oratorical fireworks (Ref: Willems 277; Berghman 770; Rahir 239 or 240) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Boards with blind double fillet borders. Elsevier's woodcut printer's mark on the title of both volumes, depicting an old man standing in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree, symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher. The motto is: 'Non solus', probably indicating the interdependency of publisher and scholar. They cannot do it alone, and need each other) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned. Waterstained in the lower margin at the beginning and at the end of the book. All 4 ties gone. Paper yellowing, some faint browning. Old ownership entry on the front pastedown) (Note: The Dutch classical scholar of Flemish origin Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655, who enjoyed an international reputation as an editor of classical texts, theorist of literary criticism, historian and neolatin poet, was professor of Poetics at the University of Leiden since 1603, extraordinarius Greek since 1605. After the death of J.J. Scaliger, to whose inner circle he belonged, he held the chair of Greek, from 1609 till 1647. His activities have been obscured to later generations by the very bulk and variety of his activities. He is still remembered for his neolatin poetry, and for his edition of Aristotle's treatise on poetry (1611), which he studied in connexion with the 'Ars Poetica' of Horace. This edition is 'the only considerable contribution to the criticism and eludication of the work that was ever produced in the Netherlands. (.) In his pamphlet 'De tragoediae Constitutione', published in the same year (1611), he deals with all the essential points in Aristotle's treatise, giving proof that he has thoroughly imbibed the author's spirit'. (J.E. Sandys, 'A history of classical scholarship, N.Y., 1964, vol. 2, p. 314) Heinsius was an inspiring teacher and a talented speaker. 'His courses in the University were so impressive that his colleagues attended his lectures, (.). As an ornament in which the University took especial pride, his eloquence graced many public functions. Heinsius composed not only the funeral orations for Philip Cluverius, and for Reinerus Bontius, Professor of Medicin, in 1623, but delivered on 19 September 1625 a 'stupenda oratio', on the death of Prince Maurice, for which he received an award of 200 guilders'. (Sellin, P.R., 'Daniel Heinsius and Stuart England', Leiden etc., 1968, p. 36) The first edition of collected orations, 12 of them, was published in 1612. The second augmented edition came in 1615. Demand for more orations arose, and 1620 saw another augmented edition, augmented further in 1627 (this edition). This edition naturally opens with this stupendous oration on the death of Prince Maurice, followed of course by that other oratorical firework, his funeral speech for his beloved master, the French scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger, a still glowing jewel of the University, who died in Leiden in 1609. At the end have been added 27 pages with letters and prefaces that Heinsius wrote for editions of others. Still more augmented editions of the 'Orationes' were published in 1642, 1652 and 1657) (Provenance: Winterthur provenance? On the front pastedown in faint ink: 'And. Bidermanni'. Googling for 'Andr? Bidermann', we found a Gymnasium teacher in Winterthur, born in 1776, appointed in 1819. There were several hits placing a Andr. Bidermann in the Canton Zürich, Winterthur. More indications in that direction, when we searched for 'Andreas Bidermann') (Collation: *8, A-2S8, 2T4; we couldnot find out whether our copy has the cancels of p. 277/8 and 419/20, which Willems mentions, or not) (Photographs on request)

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HEINSIUS,D.

Danielis Heinsii Poemata auctiora. Editore Nicolao Heinsio Dan. Fil. (And:) Danielis Heinsii Poemata graeca, et e graecis latine reddita, diverso tempore ac aetate conscripta. Quibus Adoptivorum liber accedit.

(Ad 1:) Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Francis. Hegerum, 1640. (Ad 2:) Leiden (Lugd. Bat.), Ex Officina Francisci Hegeri, 1640. 12mo. 2 volumes in 1: (XX),575,(1 blank);189,(3 errata) p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Ref: Willems 1613: 'Édition la meilleure, la plus complète et la plus belle des poésies latines et grecques de Dan. Heinsius'; Rahir 1892; Berghman 864; Brunet 3,84; Ebert 9380) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Volume 1 has an engraved title, it depicts 'Severitas', i.e. 'Seriousness', as a seated and bearded philosopher/author who's hand rests on a book; he is looking at 'Lepor', or 'Plaesantry', depicted as a young woman/Muse playing a lute, she has a laurel wreath on her head. At the feet of these two 'Severitas Leporque'. The second volume has on its title Hegener's printer's mark: a pelican feeding its young with his own blood, the motto is: 'Vivimus ex Uno'; on p. 15 of the second volume a woodcut portrait of Homer) (Condition: Vellum age-toned and somewhat soiled. First flyleaf gone. Old inscription on the front pastedown) (Note: The Dutch classical scholar of Flemish origin Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655, who enjoyed international fame as an editor of classical texts, theorist of literary criticism, historian and neolatin poet, was professor of Poetics at the University of Leiden since 1603, extraordinarius Greek since 1605. After the death of J.J. Scaliger, to whose inner circle he belonged, he held the chair of Greek, from 1609 till 1647. He is best known for his edition of Aristotle's treatise on poetry (1611), which he studied in connexion with the 'Ars Poetica' of Horace. This edition is 'the only considerable contribution to the criticism and eludication of the work that was ever produced in the Netherlands. (.) In his pamphlet 'De tragoediae Constitutione', published in the same year (1611), he deals with all the essential points in Aristotle's treatise, giving proof that he has thoroughly imbibed the author's spirit. (.) It was through this work that he became a centre of Aristotelian influence in Holland. His influence extended, in France, to Chaplain, and Balzac, to Racine and Corneille; in Germany to Opitz; and in England to Ben Jonson (.)'. (J.E. Sandys, 'A history of classical scholarship, N.Y., 1964, vol. 2, p. 314) Heinsius was a representative of the great age of Neo-Latin in the Low Countries, which encompasses the 16th century, and a good part of the 17th century. Here the Anacreontic-Petrarcan love poetry in Latin was kept alive. (J. IJsewijn, 'Companion to Neo-Latin studies', vol. 1, Leuven 1990, p. 154). The first volume of Heinsius' poetry opens with early work, the 3 books of Sylvae, followed by Hipponax, an Ode to Molinus, 3 books of Elegiae, and the Monobiblos. Then Heinsius' Epigrams and occasional poetry, including a 'cento vergilianus'. The second half of the first volume contains 'Herodes Infanticida, tragoedia', followed by Heinsius' last long Latin poem 'De contemptu mortis', a didactic poem in 4 books, wherein arguments, Platonic, Stoic and Christian, are set forth which explain why man should not fear death. At the end of volume 1: 'Elegiarum iuvenilium reliquiae'. Volume 2 contains Heinsius' literary tour de force, his Greek poems, inspired by Theocritus and the Anthologia Graeca. It opens with 'Peplus' (Gown), a series of epigrams which Heinsius composed on Greek authors and philosophers. This part is followed by occasional poetry in Greek which Heinsius wrote for his contemporaries, like e.g. Casaubon, and by a section of Greek poetry in Heinsius' Latin translation. This second volume is concluded with the 'Liber adoptivus', which contains occasional poetry addressed to Heinsius by J.J. Scaliger, J. Dousa, H. Grotius et alii. The bibliographer of the Elzeviers, A. Willems, praises this 1640 edition of their Leiden colleague Hegener of 1640 highly; it is even to be preferred above the Elzevier edition of 1621. ('elle mérite à tous égards la préférence sur celle de 1621 (no. 187), la seule que les Elzevier aient donnée de ce recueil') (Collation: *12 (minus blank leaves *11 & *12); A-2A12 (leaf 2A12 verso blank)) (Photographes on request)

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HEINSIUS,D.

Danielis Heinsii Poemata Latina et Graeca; Editio post plurimas postrema longe auctior.

Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud Joannem Janssonium, 1649. 12mo. (XII),666,(2 errata),(4 blank) p., frontispiece. Calf 13.5 cm 'Elegantly printed edition of Heinsius' collective neo-Latin & neo-Greek poetry' (Ref: STCN ppn 850068738; Cf. Willems 1613; Berghman 865; Rahir 2013; Ebert 9380; Brunet 3,84; Graesse 3,232; Ebert 9380) (Details: Back elaborately gilt, with 5 raised bands, and with a red morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. Boards with tripple fillet gilt borders, within which is another tripple fillet rectangle with cornerpieces. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, depicting a kind of altar on which rests a shield with text; the altar is flanked by an angel and a girl; the angel tramples on a skeleton; above this scene soars a winged Fama, blowing two horns) (Condition: Joints slightly rubbed. Two small wormholes in the leather at the foot of the spine, and some damage to the lower edge of lower board for ca. one cm. Small hole in the leather of rear cover. On the blank upper margin of the frontispiece an ownership entry) (Note: The Dutch classical scholar of Flemish origin Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655, who enjoyed international fame as an editor of classical texts, theorist of literary criticism, historian and neolatin poet, was professor of Poetics at the University of Leiden since 1603, extraordinarius Greek since 1605. After the death of J.J. Scaliger, to whose inner circle he belonged, he held the chair of Greek, from 1609 till 1647. He is best known for his edition of Aristotle's treatise on poetry (1611), which he studied in connection with the 'Ars Poetica' of Horace. This edition is 'the only considerable contribution to the criticism and eludication of the work that was ever produced in the Netherlands. (.) In his pamphlet 'De tragoediae Constitutione', published in the same year (1611), he deals with all the essential points in Aristotle's treatise, giving proof that he has thoroughly imbibed the author's spirit. (.) It was through this work that he became a centre of Aristotelian influence in Holland. His influence extended, in France, to Chaplain, and Balzac, to Racine and Corneille; in Germany to Opitz; and in England to Ben Jonson'. (J.E. Sandys, 'A history of classical scholarship, N.Y., 1964, vol. 2, p. 314) Heinsius was a representative of the great age of Neo-Latin in the Low Countries, which encompasses the 16th century, and a good part of the 17th century. Here the Anacreontic-Petrarcan love poetry in Latin was kept alive. (J. IJsewijn, 'Companion to Neo-Latin studies', vol. 1, Leuven 1990, p. 154) This volume of Heinsius' poetry, which was, as the text of the frontispiece tell us, edited by his son Nicolaus Heinsius, opens with early work, the three books of Sylvae, followed by Hipponax, an Ode to Molinus, 3 books of Elegiae, and the Monobiblos. Then comes the 'Herodes Infanticida, tragoedia', followed by Heinsius' last long Latin poem 'De contemptu mortis', a didactic poem in 4 books, wherein arguments, Platonic, Stoic and Christian, are set forth which explain why man should not fear death. Then Heinsius' Epigrams and occasional poetry, the 'Elegiarum iuvenilium libri'. At the end we find Heinsius' literary tour de force, his Greek poems, which were inspired by Theocritus and the Anthologia Graeca. It opens with 'Peplus' (Gown), a series of epigrams which Heinsius composed on Greek authors and philosophers. This part is followed by occasional poetry in Greek which Heinsius wrote for his contemporaries, like Casaubon, and by a section with Heinsius' Latin translations of Greek poetry. The collection closes with the 'Liber adoptivus', which contains occasional poetry addressed to Heinsius by J.J. Scaliger, J. Dousa, H. Grotius et alii. This edition of 1649 is a reissue of an edition of the collected greek and latin poetry of Heinsius, which was published by Heger in Leiden in 1640) (Provenance: 'Ex libris 'Ant. La Bout, 1660', or 'Ant. LaBout') (Collation: *6, A- D12, 2E-2F6 (leaves 2F5 & 2F6 blank)) (Photographs on request)

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HEINSIUS,D.

Laus asini. Tertia parte auctior, cum aliis festivis opusculis.

Leiden (Lugd. Batavorum), Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 24mo. (XX),438,(2 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 11.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 832854379; Willems 315; Berghman 1247; Rahir 286; Brunet 3,84; Graesse 3,233) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title, depicting 2 learned gentlemen, perhaps Ewaldus Schrevelius, to whom the book is dedicated, and Heinsius' friend Aldoph Vorstius, who doff their hats for an ass) (Condition: Vellum soiled and scratched. Front board slightly damaged at the upper edge. All four ties gone. Front flyleaf removed. Right edge of the title thumbed, very tiny and almost invisible hole in the title) (Note: The 'Laus asini (ad Senatum Populumque eorum, qui ignari omnium, scientias hoc tempore contemnunt) was published anonymously for the first time in 1623. An augmented edition appeared in 1629. The author is according to all critics the Dutch classical scholar and neolatin poet Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655. It pokes fun at people in an Erasmian spirit, and seems to have lost none of its topicality. The aim is, Heinsius tells in the 'ad lectorem', to vindicate men of letters and those who love to learn, from the contempt of ignorant people, who not only heartily ridicule (liberrime. illudunt) them, but also culture (eruditioni) and the sciences. (leaf *6 recto & verso) This eulogy is a satire on ignorance and voluntary servitude. It is hard to fathom, because of the complexity of its style, and the overabundance of erudition (or put more positively, the veritable fireworks of learned allusions), which often obscures matters. The first edition of 1623, which contained the 'Laus Asini' only, is augmented in this second edition with 6 other pieces, 1: an Menippean satire 'Cras credo, hodie nihil', 2: 'Epistola, qua agitur an, & qualis viro literato sit ducenda uxor', 3: 'Laus pediculi, ad Conscriptos Mendicorum Patres', 4: 'Epistola de poetarum ineptiis & saeculi vitio', 5: 'Argumentum Batrachomyomachiae', 6: 'Viro Nobilissimo Ioanni Milandro, Domino de Poederoeye, Principi a Secretis: de Graeculis, quos illi commendaverat'. At the end Heinsius added a short letter to H. Grotius, and a consolation poem for his friend Baudius, on the occasion of the death of his wife) (Collation: *6, 2*4, A-2N6, 2O4 (leaf 2O4 blank) (Photographs on request)

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HEINSIUS,D.

Laus asini. Tertia parte auctior, cum aliis festivis opusculis, quorum seriem pagella sequens indicat.

Leiden (Lugd. Batavorum), Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 24mo. (XX),438,(2 blank) p. Contemporary calf 10.5 cm (Ref: Willems 315; Berghman 1247; Rahir 286; Brunet 3,84; Graesse 3,233) (Details: Binding ruled blind. Engraved title, depicting 2 learned gentlemen, perhaps Ewaldus Schrevelius, to whom the book is dedicated, and Heinsius' friend Adolph Vorstius, who both doff their hats for an ass) (Condition: Binding scuffed and with a few scratches, corners bumped. Small piece of leather gone at the foot of the spine. Both pastedowns detached) (Note: The 'Laus asini' (ad Senatum Populumque eorum, qui ignari omnium, scientias hoc tempore contemnunt) was published anonymously for the first time in 1623. An augmented edition appeared in 1629. The author is according to all critics the Dutch classical scholar and neolatin poet Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655. It makes fun of people in an Erasmian spirit, and seems to have lost none of its topicality. The aim is, Heinsius tells in the 'ad lectorem', to vindicate men of letters and those who love to learn, from the contempt of ignorant people, who not only heartily ridicule (liberrime. illudunt) them, but also culture (eruditioni) and the sciences. (leaf *6 recto & verso) This eulogy is a satire on ignorance and voluntary servitude of the ass. It is hard to fathom, because of the complexity of its style, and the overabundance of erudition, (or put more positively, the veritable fireworks of learned allusions) which often obscures matters. The first edition of 1623, which contained the 'Laus Asini' only, is augmented in this second edition with 6 other pieces, 1: an Menippean satire 'Cras credo, hodie nihil', 2: 'Epistola, qua agitur an, & qualis viro literato sit ducenda uxor', 3: 'Laus pediculi, ad Conscriptos Mendicorum Patres', 4: 'Epistola de poetarum ineptiis & saeculi vitio', 5: 'Argumentum Batrachomyomachiae', 6: 'Viro Nobilissimo Ioanni Milandro, Domino de Poederoeye, Principi a Secretis: de Graeculis, quos illi commendaverat'. At the end Heinsius added a short letter to H. Grotius, and a consolation poem for his friend Baudius, on the occasion of the death of his wife) (Collation: *6, 2*4, A-2N6, 2O4 (leaf 2O4 blank) (Photographs on request)

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HEMSTERHUIS,T.- BERGMAN,J.Th.

Elogium Tiberii Hemsterhusii, auctore Davide Ruhnkenio. Accedunt duae Richardi Bentleji epistolae ad Hemsterhusium. Vita Davidis Ruhnkenii, auctore Daniele Wyttenbachio. Cum praefatione et annotatione edidit Joannes Theodorus Bergman.

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud S. & J. Luchtmans, Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud P. den Hengst et Filium, 1824. 8vo. (VIII),XLIV,(IV);532 p. Vellum 22 cm (Ref: Ebert 24055: 'Beste Ausgabe dieser beiden Meisterwerke'; Graesse 6/1,191 & 6/2,481; Spoelder p. 545, Dordrecht 2) (Details: Prize copy, but without the prize. Back and boards gilt, gilt coat of arms of Dordrecht in the centre of both boards. The last 230 pages contain the notes of Bergman) (Condition: Prize gone. Vellum age-toned, back soiled, red label in the 'second compartment' gone. Upper board slightly curved. Several marginal pencil annotations and some foxing) (Note: The honour of reviving the study of Greek in the Netherlands belongs to the Dutch classical scholar Tiberius Hemsterhuis, 1685-1766, who became professor Mathematics and Philosophy at the Athenaeum of Amsterdam at the age of 19. His great example was the English classical scholar Richard Bentley, 1662-1742, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, with whom he corresponded early in his career. In 1705 Hemsterhuis was promoted to a professorship in Harderwijk, and in 1717 he was appointed professor of Greek at the University of Franeker. In 1740 he was finally called to Leiden. He produced an edition of Pollux (1706), 'Luciani colloquia et Timon' (1708), the complete works of Lucianus (1743) and of the Plutus of Aristophanes (1744), a work which Gudeman calls 'epochemachend'. He contributed also notes to the editions of many other scholars. Sandys observes that 'the work of a Hemsterhuis was worth whole bundles of the mechanically manufactured products of a Burman'. (Sandys 2,451) Hemsterhuis was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism, the so-called 'Schola Hemsterhusiana', which had disciples in Valckenaer, Jacob van Lennep and David Ruhnken. The last one was the most famous of his pupils. 'Hemsterhuis has had the supreme felicity of being immortalised by a 'laudator eloquentissimus'. The 'Elogium' delivered in 1768 by his devoted pupil Ruhnken (.) is one of the Classics in the History of Scholarship. It presents us with the living picture of the perfect critic'. (Idem, ibidem) § The Dutch scholar of German origin David Ruhnken, or Ruhnkenius, 1723-1798, was born in Pommern, and was sent by his parents in 1737 to the Friedrichscollegium in Königsberg, where he read Latin authors together with his friend Immanuel Kant. To finish his studies he went in 1744 to Leiden, to study Greek under Tiberius Hemsterhuis, whom he admired. He later told his biographer Wyttenbach that he found in his teacher the combined gems of Leiden classical scholarship, Scaliger and Salmasius, in one person. Hemsterhuis wanted to create a worthy successor and appointed him in 1757 to assist him as Reader in Greek. In 1761 Ruhnken succeeded the Latin chair vacated by Oudendorp. He became one of the leading scholars of his days. 'Die Führerstellung der Philologie erbte (.) von Hemsterhuys der Pommer David Ruhnken, der ganz zum Holländer ward und die vornehme und behäbige Würde eines Princeps criticorum zu wahren wusste. Als solchem hat ihm Fr.A. Wolf die Prolegomena gewidmet. (.) Musterhaftes Latein galt ihm soviel wie Wissenschaft. Aber als Lehrer muss er glänzend gewesen sein. (.) Alles was Ruhnken veröffentlicht hat, ist in seinen Grenzen tadellos'. (U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Geschichte der Philologie, Lpz./Bln. 1921, p. 39/40) § Ruhnken was immortalized by Daniel Wyttenbach, 1746-1820, born at Bern in Switzerland, who came to Holland in 1770 to stay there, like Ruhnken before him. 'In the next 28 years he held professorships at Amsterdam (1771-99), and then returned to Leyden as Ruhnken's successor for 17 years (1799-1816)'. (Sandys 2,463). He published an edition of the complete Moralia of Plutarchus (with Latin translation) (1795-1806), a work of permanent value. On the death of Runken he became the most influential classical scholar in the Netherlands. 'The highest praise must be assigned to his Life of Ruhnken, a work of absorbing interest to his scholarly contemporaries, which still retains its importance as a comprehensive picture of the Scholarship of the Netherlands, and not of the Netherlands alone, in the age of Ruhnken'. (Idem 2/465)) (Provenance: in ink on front flyleaf: 'W.J.W. Kosteri ex libris'. The specialties of the Dutch scholar Willem Johan Wolff Koster, 1896-1986, were metrics and Aristophanes. In his dissertation 'De Re Metrica tractatus Graeci inediti', Leiden 1922, he argued that the current views concerning Greek metrics were founded on an unstable basis, and that it would be wise to return to the sources, the ancient tractates on metrics. Very influential was his 'Traité de métrique grecque' of 1936, 4th. edition 1966. In 1940 he was appointed professor of Greek at the University of Groningen. Linked to his interest was his work on the metrics and the scholia of Aristophanes. In 1927 he already published 'Scholia in Aristophanis Plutum et Nubes', which was only the start of his 'opus magnum', the edition of the 'Scholia in Aristophanem', a scholarly entreprise of nearly half a century, that started in 1960 under his supervision, and then of D. Holwerda, who has seen it through to completion with the appearance of the scholia to the Thesmophoriazusae and Ecclesiazusae in 2007. This enormous project offers the first new critical edition of the complete scholia to Aristophanes since Dübner's in 1842. (J.C. Kamerbeek, 'Levensbericht W.J.W. Koster', in: Jaarboek, 1988, Amsterdam, p. 140/45. See also the review of R. Tordoff: 'R.F. Regtuit (ed.), Scholia in Thesmophoriazusas; Ranas; Ecclesiazusas et Plutum. Scholia in Aristophanem, III 2/3', Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.09.24)) (Collation: pi4, *-3*8; A-2K8, 2L2) (Photographs on request)

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