Florus, Lucius Annaeus: L. Annaeus Florus. CL. Salmasius, addidit Lucium Ampelium, & cod. M.S. nunquam antehac editum. Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: Apud Elzeviros, 1638. 12mo., pp. [viii], 336, [xvi]. Engraved title-page, woodcut head-pieces and initials. Occasional pencilled underlining, very tiny scorch hole through pp.261-266 affecting a couple of letters in total. Lovely 19th-century full red morocco binding by J Canap? with raised bands and gilt titles, a.e.g, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and ribbon bookmark. Bands and upper joint a little rubbed, very good indeed. Monogrammed bookplate to front pastedown, 'Biblioth?que du Docteur Ant. Danyau'. Handsomely-bound copy of the better edition of the two printed by the Elzevirs in 1638. 'The preference is given to those copies where the two vignettes (one at the head of the dedicatory epistle, the other at that of the text of Florus) are different' (Dibdin II, 10). 'La plus jolie' (Willems 467), with the first headpiece in the shape of a mermaid. Dibdin II, 10; Willems 467. Ref: 54724show full image..
Frontinus, Sextus Julius: (Oudendorp, Frans van, ed.:) 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 lec Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Sam. et Joann. Luchtmans, 1779. 8vo. pp. [lxxviii], 570, [cxxxiv]. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials and end-pieces. Sporadic very light spotting, very light toning, closed tear to bottom corner 2L6 not affecting text. Contemporary prize binding with certificate bound in, spine gilt, blind-tooled borders and frame with gilt corner-tools and gilt centrepiece with the arms of Leiden to each board, edges sprinkled red. Spine a bit lifted and creased at tail-end, boards a little bowed and very slightly greyed with a few smudgy marks, ties lost, front paste-down lifting a little at fore-edge. Handwritten prize certificate with four signatures awarded to Daniel van Haltern by the 'Quatuorviri' (Board of Trustees) of the Latin School on 4 March 1782. To front paste-down, 20th-century bookplate with coat of arms of Marie Gr?fin von Der Goltz (1873-1941), wife of Count R?diger von der Goltz (1865-1946), army general during WWI, commander of the German Baltic Sea Division' during the civil war in Finland and prominent coordinator of right-wing veterans' organizations in the Weimar Republic. Her son, Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim R?diger Graf[a] von der Goltz (1894-1976) was a lawyer and Nazi Party member who defended many prominent Nazis in the years before they took power, including Joseph Goebbels in 1931-2. He was a member of the Reichstag until his resignation in 1943, when he defended his cousin Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and Hans von Dohnanyi (1902-1945) before the Reichskriegsgericht. After 1945 he worked as a lawyer at the D?sseldorf Higher Regional Court. Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 ? 103 AD) was a prominent Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD. He was a successful general under Domitian, commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the Rhine and Danube frontiers. This collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history edited by Frans van Oudendorp (1696-1761), professor of Eloquence and History at Leiden University from 1740 to 1761. Spoelder 5; Graesse II, 639; Schweiger II, 369; Brunet II, 1409 on the ed. Leyden, 1731: "Cette ?dition est bonne, mais elle a ?t? effac?e par la r?impression faite par les soins de Corn. Oudendorp, qui y a ajout? de nouvelles notes, Lugd.-Batavor., 1779" Ref: 54553show full image..
Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades: Opera, quae sunt publici juris omnia. Ad manuscriptos codices plures, nec-non ad editiones antiquores & castigatiores emendata, aucta, & in unum omnia volumen nunc primum collecta. Accessere praeterea in hac nostra editione D. Amedei Episcopi Lausanensis Ho Venetiis [Venice]: apud Augustinum Savioli, 1742. Folio, pp.[iv], XXXVI, 414. Half-tltle, title-page in red and black with engraved device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. A little sporadic foxing including half-title and title, title creased at gutter, towards beginning of text block leaves a little creased horizontally but not affecting legibility, very good. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, small paper library label at head. Some tiny marks and holes to spine, small tear to head cap, a few smudges, corners bumped, paste-downs toned, rear free endpaper with small loss at fore-edge, very good. To title-page, green oval ink stamp Bibliotheek de Vereen. Doopsg. Gemeente, Amsterdam. Works of the (probably) North African Christian writer Fabius Planciades Fulgentius (late 5th ? early 6th century), also containing (p.367-388) 'D. Amedei episcopi Lausanensis De laudibus gloriosae Virginis Mariae. Perelegantes homiliae.'. Debate continues as to whether or not Fabius Planciades Fulgentius and his contemporary, Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe (a Christian bishop) were the same person. Ref: 54565show full image..
Gellius, Aulus: Noctes Atticae. Editio nova et prioribus omnibus doctis hominis cura multo castigatior. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. Editio Nova. 12mo. [48], 498, [124]. Small clean tear to lower blank margin of F10, another three on K12, V3-4 touching text. Contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges, title inked to spine (modern), all edges sprinkled blue. Spine little rubbed. Ex-libris of Rudolph Apfelbeck 1883 to ffep. 'The first two editions from the Elzevir press [of which this is the first] were carefully published by J.F. Gronovius.' (Dibdin) 'Fort jolie et qui passe pour tres correcte' (Willems) Dibdin I, 340; Pokel, 101; Schweiger II, 378; Willems, 1127. Ref: 53177show full image..
Gratius (or Grattius) Faliscus: (Wase, Christopher, trans.:) Cynegeticon. Or, A Poem of Hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase Gent [...]. (London:) Charles Adams, 1654. 12mo., pp. [xciv], 86. Latin text and English translation on facing pages, the latter verso. Some light dust soiling, heavier on title and verso of last leaf, browning mostly to margins and occasional spots. 19th century half calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco label. Joints and extremities rubbed, small repair at head and foot. 20th century inscription to front pastedown, later monogram RC inked to title. The first edition in English of this poem on hunting by a contemporary of Virgil and Ovid. The translator's commentary includes chapters on "the styles of hunting different from the English, both antique and forreigne" and "the modern authors who have written upon this subject." The first edition in Latin had been published in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphius in 1537. For an account of Wase's translation (which remained the only English-language translation of Gratius' poem for 280 years until the Loeb Library edition, with translation by J. W. Duff and A. M. Duff, in 1934,)see the chapter 'Hunting and the seventeenth-century English gentleman' by Michael Waters in Steven J. Green (ed.), Gratius. Hunting an Augustan Poet (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 235-256. Wing G1581; ESTC R1966; Schwerdt I, p.217. Ref: 53093show full image..
[Gregorius (Gregory) XIII] Corpus iuris canonici emendatum et notis illustratum. Gregorii XIII. pont. max. jussu editum indicibus variis et novis, et appendice Pauli Lancellotti, Perusini adauctum [...] His postrema hac editione accesserunt constitutiones nou? PP. SS. qu? VII. Decretalium loco iure merit? esse possint: illustrati Lugduni [Leiden]: [s.n.], 1622. 6 vols. bound as 1. 4to., pp.[lxiv], cols.1272, pp.[xx], cols.754, pp.[xiii], cols.406, pp.[ix], cols. 158, pp.[lxxxiii], cols.278, pp.[xiii]. Title-page in red and black with large woodcut printer's device. Woodcut initials, ornamental head- and tail-pieces. A little toned, small spots and smudges, occasional paper flaws to bottom edge. A very small amount of marginalia in an old hand. Somewhat later vellum, neatly rebacked with old spine retained, very lightly blind embossed centrepiece, edges red, endpapers renewed. A few spine splits repaired, upper joint just starting at head but holding firm, a few smudgy marks but very good indeed. Contents: Vol.I. Decretum Gratiani; Vol.II. Decretales D. Gregorij Pap? IX; Vol.III. Liber sextus Decretalium D. Bonifacij Pap? IIX vn? cum Clementinis & extrauagantibus; Vol. IV. Index generalis pr?cedentium librorum; Vol.V. Institutiones iuris canonici, ? Paulo Lancellotto, Perusino conscript?; Vol.VI. Liber septimus Decretalium, cum indice. See Camus 2686, which lists the first edition as having been published in Rome (1582). Ref: 54923show full image..
Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus: Observatorum in Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, [...], Monobiblos. (with) Observationum Liber Nonus, [...] Notis ad T. Livium [...]. Daventriae [Deventer]: typis Johannis Columbii, 1651; 1652. Two works in one vol. 8vo., pp. [xxvi], 292, [xxviii]; [xxiv], 431, [lxiii]. Printer's device to both title-pages, woodcut initials and decorative headpieces. A few leaves unopened at fore-edge. Occasional small spots (wax?) and smudges, very good. Contemporary vellum, titles inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, all edges blue. Pencilled booksellers' notes to front pastedown. A few marks to boards, endpapers toned, an approx. 3cm piece cut out of ffep possibly to remove a name, still very good. Two ownership inscriptions to ffep: D. Wyttenbach, dated August 1765, and J.A. Jeremie(?) dated 1863. The former is quite likely to be the classical scholar Daniel Wyttenbach (1746-1820), student of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer and Ruhnken who, along with them, laid the foundations for modern Greek scholarship. In 1765 he was just ending his studies at the university in Marburg. Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1611-1671) was in 1643 appointed professor of rhetoric and history at Deventer, before moving in 1658 to the Greek chair at Leiden, where he spent the rest of his life. Gronovius was the 6th Librarian of the University of Leiden (1665?1671) and, in a nice link, Wyttenbach became the 13th Librarian in 1799 following the death of David Ruhken. Wyttenbach also wrote a highly-regarded Life of his predecessor, which was published in Leiden in the same year. Ref: 54418show full image..
Harwood, Edward: A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, with Remarks [...] London: printed for T. Becket [...] 1775. First edition. 8vo., pp. [ii], xxiv, 229, [iii]. Includes three-page catalogue of Harwood's books sold by Becket at rear. Some reversed writing in light pencil to p.96, seemingly offset from something no longer present. A few lightly smudges to title-page but generally clean internally. Mid-twentieth century half tan calf, gilt spine with label, brown marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. A bit rubbed, joints slightly worn but firm, small dent to top edge of upper board, still a very good copy. Pencil note to front paste-down: 'Coll. Christopher Dobson c.1967'. 'Harwood (1729?1794) was a prolific writer and author of numerous religious and biblical treatises and classical works. He once claimed to have written more books than anyone then living with the exception of Joseph Priestley. Of these the one which contributed most to his reputation as a scholar was A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (1775), which by 1790 had run to four editions and had been translated into German (1778) and Italian (1780 and 1793).' (ODNB) ESTC T118350 Ref: 51811show full image..
Heinsius, Daniel; Nonnus of Panopolis: Aristarchus sacer, sive Ad Nonni in Iohannem metaphrasin exercitationes. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex officina Bonaventurae & Abrahami Elzevir, 1627. First edition. 8vo. pp. [116], 225, [39]; 551, [49]. Woodcut vignette to title. Title dusty, repaired to lower outer corner, small clean tear to lower outer blank corner of one leaf, scattered ink spots to couple of gatherings, verso of last leaf bit soiled. Marbled boards c.1800, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label, all edges sprinkled green. Extremities little rubbed. Indistinct inscription and date 1832 to ffep; 17th-century (?) autograph H. Rodolphi to title. 'A learned edition' (Willems) of the verse paraphrase of St John's Gospel by the Hellenistic, Egypt-born poet Nonnus of Panopolis. Heinsius's commentary was based on the work of scholars like Scaliger. Willems 276. Ref: 53286show full image..
Herbert, Edward (Lord Herbert of Cherbury): The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth. London: printed by M[ary] Clark, for Henry Herringman [?]. 1682. Folio, pp. [vi], 636, [xx] + portrait frontispiece. Title-page in red and black, woodcut initials, final leaf blank. 4G with short closed tear to lower margin not affecting text, a few light spots and smudges. Contemporary brown calf, spine label replaced, raised bands, blind-tooled borders and frames. Head- and tail-caps repaired, rubbed, joints creased and a bit worn, corners repaired, some spots and stains but still very good. Ownership inscription of Ja. Winstanley in an old hand to top of title-page. Third edition (the first published in 1649) of this apologetic Life of Henry VIII by the soldier, statesman and Deist philosopher Edward Herbert (1572-1648), elder brother of the poet George Herbert. ESTC R37413 Ref: 54896show full image..
