HORATIUS. Hekeldichten, brieven en dichtkunst van Q. Horatius Flaccus. In Nederduitsche vaarzen overgebragt door B. Huydecoper. Amsterdam, By d'Erven J. Ratelband en Compagnie, en Hermanus Uitwerf, 1737. 4to. (XX),292,(1 errata) p., frontispiece & portrait. Half calf. 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 184323649; OiN p. 212; Geerebaert 111,41,II) (Details: Back gilt, and with an orange morocco shield. Frontispiece by J.C. Philips, showing a rich man in a kind of skybox of a hippodrome being served by 3 servants, an example of the decadent luxury Horatius criticizes. Of the same engraver a portrait of Horatius on the title. A beautiful portrait of the translator Huydecoper, engraved by J. Houbraken after a painting of J.M. Quinkhard, at the beginning of the translation) (Condition: Back rubbed. Wear to the extremes, corners and spine ends; front joint partly split) (Note: Balthasar Huydecoper, 1695-1778, famous Dutch poet, linguist & philologist. He also wrote tragedies like Achilles, and Edipus. He was much praised for his neolatin poetry, and with his translation into Dutch of the 'Satirae' and the 'Epistulae', the 'Ars Poetica' he is said to have revived Horace in the Low Countries. (Van der Aa, 8, 1495/8) (Provenance: name on front endpaper: 'G.A. Loeff, Zwolle 1829'. We found on the internet an 'ingenieur-verificateur en provinciaal bewaarder van het Kadaster te Zwolle', with that name. § On the front flyleaf the name 'J.H. Waszink, 1928'. J.H. Waszink, 1908-1990, a wellknown Dutch classical philologist, who has a short lemma at Wikipedia) (Collation: pi1, *-2*4, 3*2, chi1 (portrait of Huydecoper); A-2N4, 2O2,(2P)1 (minus leaf 2O4) (Gathering G = G1,G3,G2,G4) (Photographs on request)
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