HUG,I.L. Untersuchungen über den Mythos der berühmtern Völker der alten Welt, vorzüglich der Griechen; dessen Entstehen, Veränderungen und Innhalt. Freiburg und Konstanz, In der Herderschen Buchhandlung, 1812. (VI),IV,349,(1 blank) p. Half cloth 25 cm (Details: Simple binding. 4 large folding plates, 1: of the zodiac of the two hemispheres, 3 & 4: 'Alter Tierkreis den man in dem Tempel zu Tentyra in Oberägypten gefunden hat', and 4: engraving of the Egyptian zodiac. Four nice engravings in the text) (Condition: Back slightly damaged. Somewhat foxed) (Note: The German Roman Catholic theologian, orientalist and biblical scholar Johann Leonhard Hug, 1765-1846, was called to the Freiburg chair of Oriental languages and Old Testament exegesis in 1791. Hug published on the Synoptic Gospels. He further wrote on the origin of alphabetical writing (Die Erfindung der Buch-stabenschrift, 1801), on the antiquity of the Codex Vaticanus ...

HUET,P.D. Histoire du commerce et de la navigation des anciens. Par M. Huet, ancien Evêque d'Avranches, sous-Précepteur de feu Mr. le Dauphin, & l'un des quarante de l'Académie Françoise. Seconde édition, revue. Paris, Chez Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, 1716. 8vo. (XXIV),446,(50 index) p. Old marbled boards. 17 cm (Ref: Sandys 2,292/3) (Details: Margins uncut, woodcut illustration on the title) (Condition: Binding worn. Back faded. 2 old paper labels on the back. Library stamp on the title) (Note: The French cleric and scholar Pierre Daniel Huet, 1630-1721, was coadjutor in the tuition of the Grand Dauphin, the son of Louis XIV, future king. He was also general editor and organiser of the wellknown series of Delphin Classics. Among patrologists he is best known for his edition in 1668 in Rouen of Origenes' 'Commentaria in Sacras Scripturas'. In the preface to this ...

HORATIUS.- WAGNER,H. Q. Horatii Flacci Carmina collatione scriptorum graecorum illustrata ab Henrico Wagnero. Praefatus est Christ. Adolphus Klotzius. Halle (Halae Magdeburgicae), Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1770. 8vo. (VIII),XXII,136 p. Contemporary boards 20 cm (Ref: not yet in VD18; Schweiger 2,461; Ebert 10280; Brunet 6, no. 12507) (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title) (Condition: Binding scuffed and spotted. Owner's inscriptions written on the front endpapers. First and last leaves browning, the rest is yellowing) (Note: The works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 B.C., have enjoyed a continuous presence in European culture. His memorable phrases made him the most quoted ancient author. Till well into the 20th century he stood central in school curricula. Earlier, in the Middle Ages, he was next to Vergil the most important school author. Horace is transmitted in around 300 medieval ...

HORATIUS. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera. Cum novo commentario ad modum Joannis Bond. Paris (Parisiis), Ex typographia Firminorum Didot, 1855. 12mo. (VIII),46,299,(1 blank) p., including a frontispiece, engraved title, 6 photo-lithographs, 11 lithographed vignette headpieces, 2 double page maps. Brown morocco 14 cm 'Pour quelques exemplaires, la photographie, cette merveille de notre siècle, a reproduit les dessins mêmes de M. Barrias'. (Ref: Brunet 3,325; Graesse 3,357) (Details: Signed binding by the French bookbinder Lortic. Back with four raised bands, lettered, and with four gilt fleurons; gilt short title and imprint in the second and third compartment. Borders of the boards tooled in blind, with in the corners a gilt floral element. A fine gilt centerpiece on both boards. Gilt inside dentelles, edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved titlepage within floral borders. Photo-lithographed frontispiece made by the ...

HORATIUS. Q. Horatii Flacci Carmina expurgata. Accuratis notis ac appendice de Diis & Heroibus Poëticis illustravit Josephus Juvencius. Editio prioribus auctior & emendatior. Iuxta exemplar Romae. Cum privilegio Regis. Rouen (Rothomagi), Ex typographia privilegio distincta, 1790. (XVIII),XXX,407,(12I = index),(1 blank) p. Half calf. 17 cm (Ref: cf Schweiger 2,405 for the first edition) (Details: Back gilt, endpapers and boards marbled) (Condition: Some wear to the extremes of the binding. Occasional ink & pencil marginalia. A few very pinpoint wormholes, almost invisible, in the blank lower margin, from p. 145 till the end) (Note: This school edition of Horace is the work of the French Jesuit scholar, poet and paedagogue Joseph de Jouvancy, or Jouvency, in Latin Josephus Juvencius, 1643-1719. Jouvancy entered the Society of Jesus when he was sixteen, 'and after completing his studies he taught grammar at ...

HORATIUS. Quinti Horatii Flacci Carmina, nitori suo restituta. Accurante Steph. And. Philippe. Paris (Lutetiae Parisiorum), Sumptibus Ant. Urb. Coustelier, 1746. (Colophon at the foot of leaf 2B6v reads: 'Typis viduae Delatour') Small 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, XXIV,299,(1 blank) p. Calf 15,5 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,410; Brunet 3,320; Graesse 3,355; Ebert 10211) (Details: Nice copy. Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Boards with tripple fillet gilt borders. Gilt inside dentelles. Edges of the bookblock gilt. Green marbled endpapers. Frontispiece designed by B. Picart, and executed by Cl. Duflos. (Claude-Augustin-Pierre Duflos) It depicts a bucolic scene with in the foreground Venus and little Amor; in the middle a medallion with a portrait of Horace. Printer's mark of the Estiennes on the title, featuring an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree, symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and ...

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 ...

HORATIUS. Q. Horatius Flaccus ex recensione Heinsii et Fabri, ac cum variis lectionibus Rich. Bentleii. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Ap. R. et G. Wetstenios, 1719. 12mo. 214,(2 blank) p. Vellum 12.5 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,407; Graesse 3,354) (Details: 4 thongs laced through the joints. Title engraved by J. Wandelaar) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned. Both pastedown detached. Right margin slightly thumbed. Engraved title coloured with watercolours. Some old ink underlinings. Faintly waterstained) (Note: This booklet was produced for schoolboys and educated men able to read Latin, but not to be bothered with philological niceties. The Wetsteins had already published an important Horace edition of the English genius Richard Bentley for scholars in Amsterdam in 1713. In a short note (p. 5) the 'typographus' Wetstein tells the reader that this booklet offers all that is to be desired for little money (paucis accipe). The odes, he ...

HORATIUS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Accedunt nunc Danielis Heinsii De Satyra Horatiana libri duo, in quibus totum poëtae institutum & genius expenditur. Cum ejusdem in omnia poëtae animadversionibus, longe auctioribus. Leiden (Lugd. Batav.), Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 12mo. 3 volumes in 1: (XXXII),239,(1 blank); 250,(4 blank); 296 (recte 286) p. Modern calf 13.5 cm The best and most complete Horace edition of Heinsius (Ref: Willems 314: 'cette édition d'Horace est jolie, et les exemplaires bien conservés se vendent assez cher'; Schweiger 2,403: 'Beste Ausgabe von Heinsius. Sehr sauber, in vollständigen Exx. höchst selten'; cf. Dibdin 2,97/98; Berghman 2069: 'Édition jolie et recherchée'; Rahir 285; Copinger 2396; Graesse 3,353; Ebert 10179) (Details: Modern calf, back with 4 raised bands; with engraved main title, and 2 separate titles, the first bearing the date 1628, the ...

HORATIUS. Q. Horatius Flaccus, cum erudito Laevini Torrentii commentario, nunc primum in lucem edito. Item Petri Nannii Alcmariani in Artem Poëticam. Antwerp (Antverpiae), Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1608. 4to. (XX),839,(1 blank),(46 index) p. (2 engraved portraits, of Torrentius and Horace) Modern half vellum 26 cm (Ref: STCV:6607438; Schweiger 2,401: 'Commentar zeichnet sich durch Kenntniss der Grammatik'; Dibdin 2,97; Moss 2,14: 'A very beautiful and critical edition'; Ebert 10175: 'some of his corrections are very happy'; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,410: 'Cum erudito commentario Laevini Torentii, bonis Codd. MSS. usi') (Details: Modern and modest binding, antique style. Engraved printer's mark on the title, motto: 'Labore et Constantia'. Engraved portrait of Torrentius after Gisbert Venius, beneath the portrait 2 distichs by the Antwerp Neolatin poet Johannes Bochius (Jan Boghe); ...

HORATIUS. Quincti Horatii Flacci Venusini, Poetae Lyrici elegantiss. Opera, grammaticorum XL tam antiquiss. quam neotericorum partim iustis commentariis, partim succinctis annotationibus, singulari studio & amplissimis sumptibus in unum Corpus collectis, illustrata, variisque ac vetustissimis exemplaribus collata, & menda in iisdem sublata, quorum Auth(orum) nomina & ordinem sequens pagina demonstrabit. Iam pridem, in studiosae iuventutis gratiam et utilitatem post Herculeos labores edita, cum gemino indice rerum, verborum ac sententiarum locupletissimo. Basel (Basileae), Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, (1580). Folio. (XXIV),(XXXVI),2280 columns, (12 index, and printer's mark at the end) p. 19th century full calf. 35 cm 'May be classed among the most excellent and rare' (Ref: VD16 H 4874; Schweiger 2,398; Dibdin 2,94; Moss 2,12/13; Brunet 3,314/15: 'mérite certainement d'être distinguée'; Ebert ...

HORATIUS. Q. Horatii Flacci Odarum sive Carminum libri quatuor. Epodon liber unus, cum annotatiunculis quam antea auctoribus in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint. Nicolai Perotti libellus non infrugifer de metris Odarum Horatianarum. (Bound with:) Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolarum libri duo. Sermonum sive satyrarum libri duo, ad Mecaenatem. Ars poetica, ad Pisones. cum annotatiunculis quam antea auctoribus in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint. (And:) Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint. (And:) Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint. Paris (Parisiis), Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1535 - 1541. (Ad 1 & 2: 1539. Ad 3: 1535. Ad 4: 1541) 8vo. 4 volumes in 1: 96,75,64 & 12 leaves. 20th century red morocco. 8vo. 17.5 cm (Ref: Ad ...

HOOGVLIET,A. Abraham, de Aartsvader. In XII boeken, door Arnold Hoogvliet. De negende druk. Rotterdam (tot Rotterdam), By Hendrik Beman, 1776. 4to. (LIV),288 p., frontispiece, portrait and 12 plates. Half calf. 23 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 189763396)(Details: Back with 5 raised bands, and divided by gilt double fillets. The nice allegoric frontispiece was designed by Jan Wandelaar and engraved by Simon Fokke, it depicts Abraham together with Fides (True Faith) before an altar on which a goat is being burned; Fides' offer helps Abraham to conquer Vice; Obedience, depicted as a yoked woman (who else?), binds wings to Abraham's feet, to help him accept the yoke of Virtue; Abraham holds with his right hand 3 chained figures, Instability, Idolatry and Vanity. § Title printed in red and black. Engraved printer's mark on the title depicting Athena, who rests on a pile of books; at her feet a putto reading a book.The portrait of ...

HOMERUS.- LA MOTTE,A. HOUDART DE. L'Iliade. Poëme, avec un discours sur Homère. Par Monsieur De la Motte, de l'Académie Françoise. Paris, Chez Gregoire Dupuis, 1714. 8vo. Frontispiece, CLXXX,208,16,(8) p.; 12 full-page engravings. Contemporary calf 17 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 2,345; Cioranescu 36534; Graesse 3,337; Ebert 100600) (Details: Decorated gilt back with 5 raised bands. The frontispiece and engraved plates depict scenes from the Ilias; they were designed by Fr. Roettiers, Nattier, A. Dieu, & F. Delamonce, and executed by Edelinck & Chaufourier. Woodcut head-pieces) (Condition: Binding scuffed, corners bumped. Leather of the turn-in of the lower board partly worn away. Flyleaves removed. A tiny strip of a few millimeters of the blank upper-margin of the title has been torn off, not affecting any text. The first gathering is slightly stained in the gutter. One small wormhole in the blank ...

HOMERUS. HOMÊROU BATRACHOMUOMACHIA. Homeri Batrachomyomachia. Maastricht, The Halcyon Press, 1929. (Colophon: 'Trajecti ad Mosam (vulgo Maastricht) editum impensis Alexandri Stols') 4to. (20) p. Red/brown morocco. 28.5 cm (On the last page: 'Haec BATRACHOMYOMACHIA HOMERI editio anno Mdccccxxix impressa est Harlemi in Officina Enschedaniana typis graecis, quorum forma inventa est a Iano van Krimpen. Exemplaria sunt emissa CXXV charta batava quorum hic est numerus XXXV') (Ref: Van Dijk 182) (Details: No. 35 of 125 copies printed. Secured in a cardboard slipcase covered with marbled paper. Bound by the well known bookbinder Louis Malcorps. Back with 4 raised bands, with the Greek title gilt in the second compartment, and the gilt year (1929) at the foot of the spine. Boards with a blind ruled border. Blind ruled turn-ins, showing at the 4 corners a floral vignet. Marbled endpapers. Fine printing. Dutch laid paper of ...

HOMERUS. Homeri Odyssea. Cum interpretatione lat. ad verbum, post alias omnes editiones repurgata plurimis erroribus, (& quidem crassis alicubi) partim ab Henr. Stephano, partim ab aliis. Adjecti sunt etiam Homerici Centones qui Graece HOMÊPOKENTPA: item, proverbialium Homeri versuum libellus. Editio postrema diligenter recognita per I.T.P. Amsterdam (Amstelredami), Sumptibus Henrici Laurent, Bibliopolae, 1648. 8vo. 803,(1),67,(41 index) p. Contemporary overlapping vellum 16 cm (Ref: Schweiger 1,158; Hoffmann 2,318; Graesse 3,328; Ebert 9968; cf Dibdin 2,51/52 for the Stephanus edition on 1588; Brunet 3,272) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a gardener, who is removing with his pruning knife dead, bad and otherwise harmful wood. The motto is: 'Non odit tamen', 'Even so he does not hate the tree'. Greek text with facing Latin translation. At the end, ...

HOMERUS. HOMÊROU ODUSSEIA. Homeri Odyssea. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, aliaq.; eius opuscula, seu catalecta. Omnia graece & latine edita quam emendatissime. Cum praefatione, scholiis, & indice D. Giphanii. Strassburg, (Argentorati), Excudebat Theodosius Rihelius, n.d. (1572) 8vo. 827,(52 notes & index) (1 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 18 cm (Ref: VD16 ZV 22787; Hoffmann 2,317; Schweiger 1,157; Ebert 9960) (Details: Boards with blind-stamped double fillet borders; elaborate floral motive stamped in the center of the boards. Oval woodcut printer's device of Rihel on the title, depicting an emblematical representation of a winged and bare breasted Nemesis, holding in her right hand the reins, bid and bridle of a horse, and in her left a carpenter's square; Nemeis punishes excess. Greek text with opposing Latin translation. The German jurist and classical scholar of Dutch origin Hubertus (Obertus) Giphanius ...

HOMERUS. Homeri poetae clariss. Ilias. Interprete Lauren. Valla. N.pl. (Cologne), Eucharius Cervicornus excudebat, 1527. 495,(1 woodcut),32 (index) p. 20th century calf 16 cm (Ref: VD16 H 4663; Hoffmann 2,334; Not in Brunet, Graesse, Ebert & Moss) (Details: Very tasteful new binding in antique 16th century style, with 4 raised bands on the back, and a red shield in the second compartment. Title with woodcut borders, depicting in the lower part the adoration of Christ by the three Magi; the text of the title is flanked by 2 pillars; on the upper part two winged putti that flank a coat of arms; on the shield of it a kind of thornbush (thorns - antlers?); above the shield are the three crowns of the arms of the city Cologne. The woodcut at the end of the Ilias depicts Saint George killing the dragon) (Condition: The title is slightly soiled and its right margin and that of the last leaf are thumbed. A tiny and almost invisible hole ...

(HOFFMANN, HEINRICH CARL GEORG). Teutsche Volks-Geschichten, aus dem ersten Jahrhundert vor und nach Christi unsres Heilands Geburt. Heidelberg, Bei Mohr & Winter, 1821. 8vo. VIII,342,(2 corrigenda) p., 10 engraved plates, 1 folding map. Hardbound. 24 cm (Ref: Holzmann/Bohatta IV, 10414 s.v. Volksgeschichten) An attempt of the Heidelberger 'Romantik' to build a national German character. (Details: Contemporary 'Pappband'. The 10 plates, mostly heroic scenes, were drawn by the author, 7 of which were etched by Bauch, and 3 by Schilbach. The map, which was also drawn by the author, is a lithography and shows boundaries in 7 watercolours) (Condition: Cover very worn at the extremities. Corners bumped. Head & tail of the spine damaged. Boards spotted. Partly foxed. Some pencil. Inscribed dedication on the front pastedown. A former owner has written in pencil on the title: 'Verf. Hoffmann, Heinr. Karl ...

HISTORIA AUGUSTA. Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI. Aelius Spartianus, Vulc. Gallicanus, Julius Capitolinus, Trebell. Pollio, Aelius Lampridius, Flavius Vopiscus. Cum notis selectis Isaaci Casauboni, Cl. Salmasii & Jani Gruteri. Cum indice locupletissimo rerum ac verborum. Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Francisci Hackii, 1661. 8vo. (VI),997,(35 index) p., engraved title. Recently repaired calf. 19 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 840035284; Schweiger 2,385; Fabricius/Ernesti, 3,102; Graesse 3,304; Ebert 9831) (Details: Boards with blind double fillet borders; the boards have a blind triple fillet rectangle in the center, and on its corners 4 blind stamped 'fleur de lis'. Frontispiece, depicting the seated goddess Roma; she looks in despair at the capture and humiliation of the Roman emperor Valerianus I (the father of Gallienus) by the Sassanid king Shapur after the battle of Edessa (Syria) in 260 A.D. ...