Statius, Publius Papinius: Sylvarum Libri V; Thebaidos Libri XII; Achilleidos Libri II. [Bound with:] Orthographia et flexus dictrionum Graecarum omnium apud Statius cum accentib. et generib. ex variis utriusque linguae authoribus. Parisiis [Paris]: apud Simonem Colin?um, 1530 8vo., ff. [ii], 263, [i]; [36]. Woodcut printer's device to title-page. Also contains the unpaginated "Orthographia et Flexus Dictionum Graecarum" at rear, with its own title and register. Title-page foxed with small abraded area (not affecting text), some sporadic light foxing but very good. Old semi-limp vellum, very plain, edges slightly overlapped. A couple of small stains, some smudgy marks, very good indeed. To front paste-down, engraved bookplate 'Biblioth?que de Mr Beaupr?, Conseiller ? la Cour de Nancy' of Jean-Nicolas Beaupr? (c.1792-1869), a magistrate and antiquary. To ffep, ownership inscription of Henry M. (Simmons?) in a fairly old hand. Very faintly to title page, ownership inscription with the first name Paulus dated 1649, surname sadly illegible. A reprint of the 1519 Aldine edition, together with the 'Orthographia', an etymological dictionary of the Greek words in Statius. The two were first printed together in 1502 (the first Aldine edition of Statius and the first edition of the 'Orthographia') but are otherwise not found together in any of the early editions. Described by Dibdin as 'an elegant and very accurate edition, worthy of the reputation of Colinseus'. BM STC French (1470-1600), 408; Adams, S1673; Schweiger II, pt.ii, 963; Dibdin II (4th edn.), 226. Ref: 54596
[Stephen of Byzantium] Stephanus Byzantinus: (Pinedo, T. de, ed.:) (Gronovius, J.F.:) [AND] [Holstein] Holstenius, Lucas: De Urbibus quem primus Thomas de Pinedo Lusitanus Latii jure donabat, & Observationibus Scrutinio Variarum Linguarum, ac praecipue Hebraice, Phaeniciae, Graecae & Latinae detectis illustrabat, his additae praeter ejusdem Stephani fragmentum collationes Jacobi Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Typis Jacobi de Jonge; Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden] :Apud Jacobum Hackium, 1678; 1684. First edition thus. 2 works in 2 vols.. Folio, pp.[xx], 800, 84; [xvi], 497, [xxxv]. First vol.: with engraved emblem plate of a porcupine accompanying a motto on envy; engraved vignette to tile-page, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces; a little light sporadic toning, 5L2 and 5L3 a little toned with tiny hole affecting a couple of letters. Second vol.: title-page in red and black with printer's device; woodcut initials and head-pieces; half-title a little foxed and dusty; 2T slightly blotchy; 3V has been misbrand in the middle of 3X. Uniformly bound in blind tooled vellum, raised bands, embossed centrepieces, edges sprinkled red. Ties lost, some smudgy or dusty grey marks, very good indeed. Library bookplate with coat of arms to front paste down and small paper labels with shelf marks to head and tail of spines. Embossed coat of arms to head of both title-pages. The first work is the first printing of Pinedo's edition of Stephen of Byzantium, with Latin translation and commentary; the most scholarly to its date. Pinedo, a native of Portugal, dedicated his work to Don Gaspar de Mendoza. Pinedo's notes include studies of Hebrew and Phoenician as well as Greek and Latin words. Included is an edition, with new notes and commentary, of the Seguier library manuscript of Stephen, still considered the best; and the first printing of a collation made by Gronovius (1611-1671) with a manuscript from Perugia. A full index of words and matters is included at the end. This encyclopaedic etymology of the world's known places, written by the sixth century grammarian Stephen, is in fact lost in its original form, and the text that we have is an epitome possibly by a scholar called Hermolaus. Stephen dedicated his work to the Emperor Justinian, possibly Justinian I. Here uniformly bound as a made-up set with Lucas Holstein's volume of notes, which also contains: "Francisci Guieti Notae in Stephanum de urbibus, Xylandrianae editionis marginibus ab eo adscriptae" p. 365-372; "Scymni Chii Fragmenta [Periegeseos] (Romanised) hactenus non edita cum versione Latina Lucae Holstenii" p. [373]-383; "Theodori Ryckii Dissertatio de primis Italiae colonis et Aeneae adventu. Accedit ejusdem Oratio de Gigantibus" p. [393]-484. First work: Graesse VI, 1, 492; Hoffmann III, 441; Schweiger I, 300; Brunet V, 531. Ref: 55050show full image..
Strabo: (Veronese, Guarino; Tifernate, Gregorio, trans.:) [...] De Situ Orbis [?] De Situ Orbis Libri XVII. Editi quidem in eorum gratiam, qui geographi? studiosi sunt [?] Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Joannem Janssonium Juniorem, 1652. 2 vols., pp.[xii], 809, [i], 41, [I]; 670, [ii], [xxiv] + folding map. Additional engraved title-page to vol.I, title-page with small woodcut to each volume, woodcut initials and headpieces. Vol.II with intermittent light dampstaining. Contemporary vellum, later reddish-orange gilt labels to spines, fore-edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled blue. Both spines a bit marked near the head, vellum a little yellowed, vol.I label neatly repaired, very good. Early Latin translations (first printed in 1469) of Guarino, who translated the first ten books, and Trifernas, who translated the remainder, of Strabo, one of the authors least frequently printed in his own Greek during the Renaissance. Dibdin II, 432-3. Adams S 1905. Ref: 54187show full image..
Suetonius, Caius Tranquillus: [van Oudendorp, Frans, ed.:] [XII Caesares] Ad Optimorum Exemplarium Fidem Castigatus. Leyden [Leiden], S. and J. Luchtmans, 1767. 12mo., pp. [iv], 408 + additional engraved title-page. Publisher's device to title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. A few faint in lines to margins, occasional light ink smudges. Contemporary vellum prize binding, gilt spine, large gilt centrepiece of Middelburg to each board, edges sprinkled red. Vellum greyed with some smudgy marks, ties lost, very good. Scarce in UK institutions. Edited, according to Engelmann in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum, by Frans van Oudendorp (1696-1761) professor of Eloquence and History at Leiden and 'the last of the great Latinists of the third age of scholarship in the Netherlands' (Sandys). Schweiger, 980; Spoelder 5. Ref: 54730show full image..
[Suicer] Suicerus, Johann Caspar: Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus, e Patribus Graecis ordine alphabetico [...] Editio secunda, priori emendatior, elegantior & longe auctior [?] Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud J. Henricum Wetstenium & Gul. Smith, 1728. 2 vols., folio, pp. [8], cols. 1476; pp. [iv], cols. 1654, pp. [68]. Main text printed in double columns. Vol. I has engraved frontispiece ('G.F.L. Debrie inv. Cl. Duflos fecit 1728'), title-page in red and black (vol.I) with engraved printer's device with motto: 'Terar dum prosim' (both vols.). Engraved head-piece to Dedication ('G.F.L. Debrie inv. et del. F. Morellon La Care sculpsit 1728') incorporating coat of arms of Sir Richard Ellys (1688-1742), the dedicatee, with motto: 'Aperto vivere voto'. Woodcut initials. With half-titles (in vol. I, bound after the title-page). Occasional light toning, a few ink smudges to vol.II. Contemporary blind-stamped Dutch vellum, title inked to spine, sprinkled edges. Vellum a little grubby, small area of turn-in lifting inside the upper board of vol.II, very good. Ink inscription to ffep of vol.I: 'John Duke Coleridge, from his loving Father & Mother, for his birthday, Dec. 3, 1860, with their prayers for his health & happiness'. Inscription 'J.D. Coleridge' to vol. II. Small leather label with 'D.C.D.' and a cockerel crest in gilt to each front paste down, with some transfer to the ffep. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown vol. I, 'Sold by C.J. Stewart, 11 King William Street, W. Strand, London.' The second edition of this important resource for the study of Greek patristics, first printed in 1682 (and with a further edition following in 1746). Johann Kaspar Suicer (1620-84) was a Swiss reformed theologian and a philologist. John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894) English lawyer, judge and politician, was great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had owned a copy (now in the British Library) and said of it: "Unfortunately I have none of the Greek Fathers?neither have I the Septuagint?but I have found much that I want, in Suicerus's Thesaurus Patrum, which I was lucky enough to buy for it's [sic] weight at a Druggist's?" (letter to John Prior Estlin, 26 July 1802). Graesse VI (pt.I) 525; Brunet V 586. Ref: 54206show full image..
Tacitus, Caius(?) Cornelius: (Lipsius, Justus, ed.:) Historiarum et annalium libri qui exstant, Iusti Lipsii studio emendati & illustrati: [?] eiusdem Taciti liber de moribus Germanorum. Iulii Agricol? vita. Incerti scriptoris dialogus de oratoribus sui temporis. [?]. Antuerpi? [Antwerp]: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1574. First Lipsius edition. 8vo., pp. 762, [xxi]. Title-page with woodcut Plantin device, woodcut initals, rear blank Bb8 and final gathering *8 ('Index Alphabeticus in Cornelium Tacitum') both present, two colophons (one dated 1574 and the other 1575). Very faint toning, some small darker patches to title and final leaf near gutters, trimmed a little close to printed marginalia but only just touching a few letters. Much later plain paper-covered boards recently rebacked in brown calf with gilt Morocco title label, edges sprinkled red. Without free endpapers, a few scuffs and marks, corners lightly bumped, still very good. To front paste-down: modern blue ink ownership inscription of D.L. Cumming; printed booklabel (perhaps early 20th century) of William Reynolds of Streatham. 'Tacitus is the outstanding historian and the principal prose writer of the Silver Age of Latin letters? Relatively unknown during the Middle Ages, Tacitus, whose works were first printed in Venice about 1473 and several times reprinted before the end of the century, exercised great influence on Renaissance historians. Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), the Netherlands scholar, knew the whole of Tactitus by heart, and his great edition (here cited), nineteen times reprinted, is one of the monuments of sixteenth century scholarship. In a life much vexed by the violence of governments, he found much, as his notes declare, in common with Tacitus's ironic and cynical records of first-century Rome.' (PMM) Adams T31; BM STC Dutch Books S. 195; Dibdin II, 450; PMM 93; Schweiger II, pt.ii, 999; Voet 2276. Ref: 54137show full image..
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius: [...] Opera, Quae Extant. Integris J. Lipsii, Rhenani, Ursini, Mureti, Pichenae, Merceri, Gruteri, Acidalii, Grotii, Freinshemii, & selectis aliorum commentariis illustrata. Joh. Fred. Gronovius recensuit, & suas notas passim adjecit. Accedunt Jacobi Gronovii exc Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Daniel Elzevir, 1672. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. [xxxii], 1224; [ii], 899, [xi], [ccxxiii]. Additional engraved title-page to first vol., woodcut device to title-page, woodcut head & tail pieces & initials. Occasional light foxing, small loss to fore-edge margin of engraved title-page, vol. II with one front endpaper excised and a marginal scorch-hole to Y7. Late 19th-century red straight-grain morocco, spines and boards blind tooled, gilt titles, a.e.g, green endpapers. Joints, endcaps and corners a bit rubbed, a few faint spots and smudges but very good overall. To front paste-down of each volume a 20th-century bookplate of James Elwin Millard. To front paste-down of vol. I, small bookseller's ticket of Edward Rainford of 12 Red Lion Passage. To preliminary blank, MS extract from Dibdin. Described by Dibdin as more 'beautiful and valuable' than the 1685 Bleau edition, though he observes that the Bipont editors consider that 'its accuracy is not equal to its beauty'. Contains the notes of various commentators including J.F. Gronovius, who unfortunately died before the work was completed. Willems 1479; Dibdin II (4th ed.) 453 Ref: 52212show full image..
[Terence] Terentius Afer, Publius: Comoediae. Birminghamiae[Birmingham]: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First Baskerville edition. Large 4to, pp. [ii], 364. Pp. 203 and 299 misnumbered as 303 and 283 respectively, as usual. Very light foxing at front and rear, very good. Contemporary marbled calf, plainly rebacked in slightly lighter Morocco, retaining label. A little rubbed but very good. Bookplate of David Lloyd to front paste-down, with ms addition of Edmund Henning Buxton, 8th Feb. 1823. Ex libris blindstamp of Derek Bair(?) Gibson to ffep. First Baskerville edition of Terence's 'Comedies'. It was printed on the better 'Writing Royal' paper of the Baskerville press, and sold for a Guinea. (A 12mo was also produced in the same year on cheaper paper.) Terence (d. 159 B.C.) was born into slavery at Carthage and brought to Rome, where he was freed, taking his old master's name. His six comedies, which stand out for their particular naturalistic style, were admired right through the Middle Ages for their moral arguments, and were still on school curricula in the nineteenth century. "Printed in the usually beautiful style of the impressions of ancient classical authors by this printer" (Dibdin). The popular typeface Monotype Baskerville, produced in 1923, was based on Baskerville's Great Primer type as it appeared in this edition (Pardoe, 'John Baskerville', p. 167). Terence (d. 159 B.C.) was born into slavery at Carthage and brought to Rome, where he was freed, taking his old master's name. His six comedies, which stand out for their particular naturalistic style, were admired right through the Middle Ages for their moral arguments, and were still on school curricula through the nineteenth century. Gaskell, 'Baskerville', * 46 (p. 58). ESTC T137489. Dibdin (4th edn.) II 477. Schweiger III 1070. Graesse VI.2 61. Brunet V 718. Ref: 54374show full image..
[Terence] Terentius Afer, Publius: (Bernard, Richard, trans.:) Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetae Terentii omnes Anglicae factae, et hac noua forma edit Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Ex Officina Iohannis Legat, 1607. Second Edition. 4to., pp. [ii], 455, [i], with the usual mispagination pp.336-355. Lacking the translator's dedication (6 leaves) at the start. Text in Latin and English. A little MS to title. Some light staining, tiny burn to pp.145-6 affecting a couple of letters, wax mark to p.201, last leaf toned and laid down. Later straight-grain Morocco with blind-tooled boards, rebacked with red and green spine labels. Spine has faded to a lighter colour, corners worn but still good. To front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Charles Mathews, plain bookplate of John Besemeres. To ffep, bookplate of Charles Vaughan with lion crest. The second edition of Richard Bernard's translation of Terence into English, first published in 1598. Bernard (1568-1642) was primarily a clergyman and author of religious works, including 'Isle of Man' (1627), which was his most famous book, but this translation was his first publication and was popular enough to see six editions in his lifetime. ESTC S118346. Ref: 53780show full image..
[Terence] Terentius Afer, Publius: (Bernard, Richard, trans.:) Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetae Terentii omnes Anglicae factae, et hac noua forma edit London: printed by John Legatt, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, 1641. 1641. Sixth edition, corrected. 4to. in 8s, this copy heavily trimmed (17 x 13.5cm), pp. [viii], 428. Small woodcut to title-page, Latin text in a single column, with marginal notes; English translation in double columns. MS names and quotations to title and final leaf, some marginalia in an old hand. First 8 leaves and final leaf laid down on fine archival tissue, some stains and wax spots, close trimming occasionally touching pagination and signatures with half a line lost on p.169. Recent plain tan calf. A good copy. Contemporary signature of John Fossebrooke to title-page. The sixth edition of Richard Bernard's translation of Terence into English, first published in 1598. Bernard (1568-1642) was primarily a clergyman and author of religious works, including 'Isle of Man' (1627), his most famous book, but this translation was his first publication and was popular enough to see six editions in his lifetime. ESTC R1627 Ref: 54047show full image..
