VERGILIUS. Publius Virgilius Maroos Wercken, vertaelt door J. v. Vondel. Amsterdam., By J. Roman, A. Lobedanius, J. Kouwe & J. Roman de Jonge, 1737. 4to. (XXX, including frontispiece & title),476 p. Contemporary paper covered boards 22 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 297005618; Geerebaert 143,7 does not mention this reissue of 1737; OiN 379) (Details: The frontispiece depicts scenes and props from the poetry of Vergil, and is engraved by 'C. de Putter 1736'. The copper plate for this frontispiece was cut by De Putter exactly after the frontispiece of the first edition of this translation, Leiden 1646. In 1660, and in 1696 the original plate was used again for the verse translations of Vergil of Vondel, but then under the name of the engraver T. Matham. Woodcut printer's mark on title, 2 ploughing oxen, motto: 'trahite aequo jugo') (Conditon: Binding worn and chafed. Wear to the extremes. Stamp and name on the title. Frontispiece ...

VENERES BLYENBURGICAE, sive amorum hortus: in quinque areolas divisus & fragantissimis CXLVIII celeberrimorum poetarum flosculis refertus, opera Damasi Blyenburgy Batavi, H.F. (Part 1: Venerum Blyenburgicarum, sive Horti Amoris, areola prima: Ad amicam; 2: Areoloa secunda: Laudes; 3: Areola tertia: Ad se ipsum; 4: Areola quarta, Ad Venerem & Cupidinem; 5: Areoloa quinta: Ad animum, mentem, mortem et similia. Dordrecht (Dordraci), Ex typographia Isaaci Canini, impensis Davidis Episcopii, 1600. 8vo. 5 parts in 1: (XVI),865 (recte 871),(1 blank)(84 appendix) p. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum 16 cm (Ref: Brunet 1,982: 'Ce recueil de pièces érotiques est un des plus agréables que nous ayons en ce genre, mais il y manque nombre de morceaux qui auraient dû y figurer'; Graesse 1,444; Gay-Lemonnyer 3,1308) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Manuscript title on the back. Each part has its own ...

VELLEIUS PATERCULUS. C. Velleii Paterculi Quae supersunt ex Historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus, cum integris animadversionibus doctorum, curante Davide Ruhnkenio. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Samuel et Joann. Luchtmans, 1779. 8vo. 2 volumes: (II, frontispiece),(XXXII),CXXII,1262 (recte 1260),(99 index),(1 blank) p. Half calf 21.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 241048281; Schweiger 2,1130: a long note, from which :'Sehr wichtige Ausgabe'; 'an offenbar corrupten Stellen nahm er Emendationen, fremde und eigene, auf'. 'Die Notae des Rhenanus und Burer liess er unverstümmelt unter dem Texte abdrücken und fügte ihnen seine Anmerkungen ... neue Emendationen .. hinzu'. 'Der zweite Theil enthält den vollständigen Apparat der Burmannischen Ausgabe'; Dibdin 2, 525: 'a very excellent edition'; the text is 'amended in many passages by the judgement of Ruhnkenius, and not according to the fanciful suggestions ...

VELLEIUS PATERCULUS. C. Velleii Paterculi Quae supersunt ex Historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus, cum integris animadversionibus doctorum, curante Davide Ruhnkenio. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Samuel et Joann. Luchtmans, Academiae Typographos, 1779. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: (II, frontispiece),(XXXII),CXXII,1262 (recte 1260),(99 index) p. Calf 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 241048281; Schweiger 2,1130: a long note, from which :'Sehr wichtige Ausgabe'; 'an offenbar corrupten Stellen nahm er Emendationen, fremde und eigene, auf'. 'Die Notae des Rhenanus und Burer liess er unverstümmelt unter dem Texte abdrücken und fügte ihnen seine Anmerkungen ... neue Emendationen .. hinzu'. 'Der zweite Theil enthält den vollständigen Apparat der Burmannischen Ausgabe'; Dibdin 2, 525: 'a very excellent edition'; The text is 'amended in many passages by the judgement of Ruhnkenius, and not according to the ...

VELLEIUS PATERCULUS. C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt. Nicolaus Heinsius Dan. F. recensuit et castigationum libellum addidit. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1678. 12mo. (XXIV),115,(29 index);108,(12 addenda & index) p., engraved title. Vellum 14 cm Prize copy Gouda (Ref: Willems 1550: 'Des 5 éditions de Paterculus données par les Elzevier, celle-ci est la plus estimée. Elle présente un texte nouveau revu par N. Heinsius'; Berghman 2110; Rahir 1686; Schweiger 2,1128; Brunet 4,430: 'édition préférable'; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,20; Graesse 5,162; Ebert 23478; Prize copy: Spoelder Gouda 2, p. 568) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Back ruled gilt. Boards with double fillet gilt borders. Gilt coat of arms in the centre of the boards. Engraved title, it depicts Aeneas with his father Anchises on his shoulders, and holding the hand of his son ...

VARRO. M. Terentii Varronis, Pars librorum quattuor et viginti de lingua latina. Ex Bibliotheca Antonii Augustini. Rome (Romae), Apud Vincentium Luchinum, 1557. (Colophon at the end: Romae, Apud Antonium Bladium impressorem Cameralem, 1557) 8vo. (XXIV),211,(1 blank),(43 index),(1 blank),(99 index),(1 blank) p. Modern cloth 17 cm (Ref: EDIT16 CNCE 35852; Schweiger 2,1118; Brunet 5,1092; Graesse 6/2, 263; Ebert 23393) (Details: A vellum look-a-like cloth binding from ca. 1900. See for this date the provenance below) (Condition: Binding somewhat soiled. Both flyleaves browning. Title and last page dust-soiled. Small piece of the right upper corner of the first 2 leaves worn away. Blank right upper corner of 88 pages, somewhere in the middle of the book, cut off. Some foxing. A few allmost invisible pinpoint wormholes at the right edge of the first half. Some wormholes in the margin of 50 pages of the index, sometimes nibbling at a few ...

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Valerii Maximi Libri novem Factorum Dictorumque Memorabilium; cum notis integris Henrici Loriti Glareani, Stephani Pighii, Justi Lipsii, Christophori Coleri, et Johannis Vorstii; necnon selectis aliorum observationibus; quibus accedunt emendationes ineditae Casparis Barthii, Francisci Guyeti et Marquardi Gudii. Item notae & observationes perpetuae Jacobi Perizonii, ut et Antonii Schultingii JCti & Antecessoris, Exercitatio ad Val. Max. lib. VII. cap. VII. De testamentis rescissis. Ad plurimorum MSS fidem opus recensuit, & notas adjecit Abrahamus Torrenius. Leiden (Leidae), Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1726. 4to. (XLIV),914 (recte 916),(183),(1 blank) p. Frontispiece. 19th century vellum. 26 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 240849671; Schweiger 2,1111; Brunet 5,1050: 'bonne édition'; Dibdin 2,522/23: 'one of the most valuable and best edited of the Dutch classics'; Moss 2,702; Graesse 6,2/245; Ebert 23333; ...

VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorum memorabilium lib. IX, cum I. Lipsii notis et indice uberrimo. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1647. 12mo. (XII),486,(26 index) p. Modern calf 14 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,1110; Graesse 6/2,245) (Details: 20th century new binding, antique style. Back with three raised bands. Gilt short title in second compartment. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title: a woman holding in her hands a balance scale and reins. Woodcut initials. Edges of the book-block dyed blue) (Condition: Back spotted. Title page thumbed. Lower margin of the blank front flyleaf damaged. A few small wormholes in the lower margin of the title page, outside the engraving. Two small wormholes near the gutter of the first 3 leaves, nibling at a few letters) (Note: The Roman historian Valerius Maximus, who lived during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, composed a manual of illustrative examples for ...

VALERIUS FLACCUS. Caii Valerii Flacci Argonautica. Ioan. Baptistae Pii carmen ex quarto Argonauticon Apollonii. Orphei Argonautica, innominato interprete. Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1548. 16mo. 308,(1 colophon),(1 blank) p. Limp vellum 11.5 cm (Ref: USTC 149936; Schweiger 2,1099, incorrect (See note): 'Nachdruck der Strassb. Ausg. Die Vorrede der Aldine u. die des Engentinus sind mit abgedr.'; Graesse 6/2 241; Ebert 23289; cf. Brunet 5,1045) (Details: Printed completely in italics. On the title the printer's mark of Sebastianus Gryphius, 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, ...

VALCKENAER,L.C. Ludovici Caspari Valckenaer, Oratio de sacra Novi Foederis critice a literatoribus, quos vocant, non exercenda. Habita Kalendis Iuniis 1745 quum abiret Magistratu Academico. Franeker (Franequerae), Excudit Gulielmus Coulon, Illust. Frisiae Ordd. atque Eorumd. Academ. Typogr. Ord., 1745. 4to. (II),60,(X) p. Plain modern cloth 26 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 151528659; Gerretzen p. 208/09) (Details: Woodcut of the coat of arms of the province Frisia (Friesland) on the title. At the end a long laudatory poem of Johannes Daniel van Lennep, a student of Valckenaer, in Greek, and by Ernst Willem Higt, who studied theology in Franeker, in Dutch) (Condition: The lower margin of last pages slightly stained. Lower margin of last leaf frayed. Last leaf soiled) (Note: The Frisian scholar Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, 1715-1785, was a pupil of his fellow Frisian Tiberius Hemsterhuis, and after him the greatest Dutch classical scholar of ...

TURSELLINUS,H. Horatii Tursellini Romani, Historiarum, ab origine mundi, usque ad annum, a Christo nato, 1598. Epitomae, libri decem. Cum brevibus notis, duplici item accessione, usque ad annum 1642, ac duplici indice. Editio ultima a quamplurimis mendis, nunc demum purgata. Utrecht (Ultrajecti), Apud Gulielmum vande Water, 1718. 8vo. (XVI),566,(74 index) p., frontispiece. Vellum 16.5 cm (Ref: cf. Graesse 6/2,216) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Boards blind tooled. Frontispiece engraved by P. Sluyter, probably depicting the Muse Clio, a winged woman with a quill in her hand and a laurel wreath on her head; she is visited by several allegorical figures, such as Father Time, and a naked woman with a palm branch (Victoria?) in her hand; in the background is Fama, who blows her horn. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting Fama hovering above a city, the motto is: 'Pax artium ...

TIBULLUS. Albii Tibulli Equitis Rom. Quae exstant, ad fidem veterum membranarum sedulo castigata. Accedunt notae, cum Variar. Lectionum libello, & terni Indices; quorum primus omnes voces Tibullianas complectitur. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1708. 4to. (XX, including frontispiece),476,(73 index),(1 blank) p., 9 full page engravings. Calf. 23.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 186442033; Schweiger 2,1093; Graesse 6/2,157; Ebert 22968; Brunet 5,856) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red shield in the second compartment. Edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraved after a design of Joseph Mulder, by Willem (de) Broen, who is also the engraver of the 9 plates. The frontispiece shows left a shepherdess, probably Delia, Tibullus first love, and the subject of book I; she leans on a fountain, holding a staff; she reaches out towards a shepherd at the left, in the distance 3 nude women (the three Graces) dancing ...

THUCYDIDES.- PAULINUS,F. Praelectiones Marciae, sive Commentaria in Thucydidis Historiam, seu Narrationem de Peste Atheniensium. Ex ore Fabii Paulini Utinens(is), philosophi et medici, in Veneto Gymnasio ad D. Marci Bibliothecam, excepta, et edita. Ad Excellentiss. III. Viros, Veneti, Patavinique Gymnasii. Cum triplici indice; uno Quaestionum, altero Auctorum, tertio rerum memorab. Cum privilegiis. Venice (Venetiis), Apud Juntas, 1603. 4to. (XLIV),600 p. Overlapping vellum 23 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 3,563; Schweiger 1,331; Ebert 22957) (Details: Two thongs laced through the joints. Gilt red morocco letterpiece on the back. Printer's mark of the Giunta family on the title: a fleur-de-lys. Woodcut initials, good paper, fine printing) (Condition: old and small inscription on front pastedown; a bigger one on the front flyleaf. Name and a faint small inkstain on the title. Some very small wormholes near the lower edge, keeping far away from ...

THUCYDIDES. Thucydides over den oorlog der Peloponnesers en Atheners. Vertaald door H. Frieseman. Amsterdam (Te Amsteldam), Bij Pieter den Hengst, 1786. 8vo. 2 volumes: VIII,424; (II),485,(1) p. Contemporary marbled boards. 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 177080426; Geerebaert 84,1; OiN 372) (Details: Backs ruled gilt, and with a blue letterpiece in the 'second compartment') (Condition: Binding worn, especially at the extremes. Backs rubbed. Letterpiece on the back of volume 2 slightly damaged. 1 stamp on the first title. 2 stamps on the second title) (Note: This is the first translation into Dutch of the work of the Greek historian Thucydides, 'perhaps the greatest historian who has yet lived, incontestably the greatest in antiquity'. (H.J. Rose, A handbook of Greek literature, London, 1965, p. 302) The translation was made by the Dutch schoolman Hendrik Frieseman, born ca. 1755. Later in life he succeeded in obtaining ...

THUCYDIDES. Thucydidis Atheniensis Historiae de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo, e Graeco sermone in Latinam linguam conversi a Vito Winsemio patre, artis medicae Doctore, & Graecae linguae Professore in inclyta Academia Witebergensi. Nunc denuo ad exemplum ab ipso authore ante obitum diligentissime recognitum, recusi & editi. Wittenberg (Witebergae), 1580. 8vo. (XL),848 p. Overlapping vellum. 18 cm (Ref: VD16 T 1123; Hoffmann 3,557. Schweiger 1,328; Graesse 6/2,151; Ebert 22947) (Details: Latin translation only. Short title in ink on the back. Woodcut printer's device of Samuel Selfisch on the title: it depicts Samuel anointing David, behind David lies his harp (Samuel I,16,13); Samuel and David are depicted within a floral festoon, in both upper corners are two putti looking on; at the feet Samuel and David rests a shield with a big S in its centre. Good quality paper.) (Condition: Vellum aged and somewhat soiled. All four ties ...

THEODORETUS CYRRHENSIS. (Theodoreti Opera Omnia, graece et latine, ex recensione Iac. Sirmondi denuo edidit, Graeca e codd. locupletavit, editiones antiquiores adhibuit, versionem latinam recognovit, et varias lectiones adiecit Io. Ludou. Schulze. Tomos II.) (Title completely in Greek) Halle (En Chalêi têi Magdebourgikêi), En tôi Tupographeiôi tou Orphanotropheiou, Halae Sax.), 1770. 8vo. 2 volumes: (XXIV),1694,(2 blank) p. Half calf. 22 cm 'Biblical exegesis' (Ref: Hofmann 3,494; Graesse 6/2,118; Ebert 22796; Brunet 5,786; not yet in VD18) (Details: Backs with 5 raised bands. Marbled boards. Greek text and Latin translation in 2 columns. Volume two of five) (Condition: Bindings scuffed, backs skilfully repaired and rubbed. One of the shields on the back of the first volume has gone. Corners bumped, boards chafed. Paper foxed and yellowing. Lacking the volume 1 and 3/5) (Note: Theodoretus, ...

THEOCRITUS. Theocriti, Bionis et Moschi carmina bucolica. Graece et Latine. Latino carmine pleraque reddita ab Eobano Hesso, nonnulla a G.E. Higtio subiecit, Graeca ex edd. primis, codd. & aliunde emendavit, variis lectionibus instruxit L.C. Valckenaer. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Abrahamum et Janum Honkoop, 1781. 8vo. (XVIII),567,(1 blank) p., engraved frontispiece. Half calf. 21.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 23992424X; Hoffmann p. 3,482; Schweiger 1,311; Didbin 2,492: 'Valckenaer alone has done more for Theocritus than all the previous editors of the poet put together'; Moss 2,693: 'the notes are short and perspicuous, and chiefly critical'; Ebert 22779; Graesse 6/2,115) (Details: Greek text and Latin translation. Back gilt. Marbled endpapers. The frontispiece, by B. de Bakker, depicts a bucolic scene from the first idyll of Theocritus, two chatting shepherds. (Id. 1, 12-14) Engraved coat of arms of the Russian Prince ...

TERTULLIANUS. L'Apologétique et les Prescriptions de Tertullien. Nouvelle édition. Revue & corrigée d'après les Manuscrits, les édtions & différens ouvrages de Tertullien, avec la traduction & des remarques, par M. L'Abbé de Gourcy, vicaire général du Diocèse de Bordeaux, de l'Académie Royale de Nancy. Paris (A Paris), Chez Sorin, Libraire, rue de la Juiverie à côté de l' Église de la Magdeleine, 1780. 12mo. XXXIV,423,6,(1 blank) p. Marbled calf 17.5 cm (Ref: Ebert 22582, cf. Brunet 5,730) (Details: Latin text and French translation. Back gilt, a gilt corn sheaf in 2 'compartments', and a red morocco shield. Endpapers & edges marbled. Woodcut ornament on the title. Excellent paper) (Condition: Small old paper label on the head of spine. Front joint starting to split) (Note: Not much ...

TERENTIUS.- RUHNKEN,D. Davidis Ruhnkenii in Terentii comoedias dictata. Brunsiano exemplo emendatius multisque partibus integrius ex apographo hamburgensi edita. Cura Ludovici Schopeni. Bonn (Bonnae), Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Impensis Ed. Weber, Apud S. et I. Luchtmans, 1825. VI,285 p. Half calf. 20.5 cm (Binding slightly worn)
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TERENTIUS. P. Terentii Carthaginiensis Afri Comoediae sex. Interpretatione & notis illustravit Nicolaus Camus, Juris Utriusque Doctor, jussu Christianissimi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Editio prioribus longe emaculatior. London (Londoni), Impensis J. Pote (et alii), 1776. 8vo. (VI),CXXXVIII,288,(80 index) p. Calf 21 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T219687; Schweiger 2,1070; cf Brunet 5,716; Graesse 6/2,59; Ebert 22513; Cupaiuolo no. 946; La collection Ad usum Delphini, vol. 2,51/61; Spoelder p. 644, Middelburg 5) (Details: Prize copy, without the prize. Back ruled gilt. Red morocco shield on the 'second compartment'. Gilt coat of arms of Middelburg on both boards. Title in red & black. Terence's Latin text is surrounded with an easy Latin version and with annotations, and is preceded by 138 pages of 'prolegomena Terentiana') (Condition: Prize removed. Binding slightly rubbed, especially at the ...