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. Iliadis fragmenta antiquissima cum picturis, item scholia vetera ad Odysseam, edente Angelo Maio Ambrosiani Collegii doctore Regiarum Galliae, Belgii, Bavariae et Neapolis Academiarum sodale. Milan, (Mediolani), Regiis Typis, 1819. Large folio. (VIII),LVI pages; leaves (II), I-LVIII, pages LIX-LXX; 1-164 pages. Calf. 60 x 35 cm (Ref: . Hoffmann 2,328; Schweiger 1,161; Brunet 3,282; Ebert 10007; Graesse 3,331; Sandys 3,241) (Details: Back gilt, and with 7 raised bands. Boards with gilt borders and a gilt coat of arms in the centre. Marbled endpapers. Nice engraved architectural title, with 9 round medaillons, 3 of which are portraits of Achilles, Homer and Odysseus, the others show scenes from the Ilias and Odyssea. One full page specimen of the Greek script; 58 engravings accompanying 58 fragments from a 'Codex Ambrosianus Pictus'. Three sumptuous engraved headpieces, one text illustration. Fresh white paper, with very ...

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. ...

HISTORIA AUGUSTA. Historiae Augustae Scriptores Sex. Aelianus Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio & Flavius Vopiscus. Isaacus Casaubonus ex vett. libris recensuit, idemque librum adiecit emendationum ac notarum. Paris (Parisiis), Apud Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart, 1603. 4to. 2 volumes in 1: (XX),375,(1 blank),(55)(1 blank); 576,34,(2 blank) p. Overlapping vellum (Ref: Schweiger 2,384; Sandys 2,209; Fabricius/Ernesti. 'Bibliotheca Latina' 3,101/02; NP Suppl. 2, p. 298; Graesse 3,303; Ebert 9827) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. 2 titles, the first is in red and black, the title of the second part is black only. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, a thisle within an oval banner a French and Latin motto, reading: 'Nul ne s'y frote' and 'patere aut abstine', 'let no one meddle', and 'bear of forebear'. 1 text engraving) (Condition: ...

HIPPOCRATES. Hippocratis Coi, Medicorum omnium facile principis, Liber secundus de morbis vulgaribus, difficilimus & pulcherrimus; olim a Galeno commentariis illustratus, qui temporis iniuria interciderunt, nunc vero pene in integrum restitutus, commentariis sex & latinitate donatus, Anutio Foësio Mediomatrico Medico authore. Ad Carolum Lotharingium, Lotharingiae Ducem illustrissimum. Basel (Basileae), 1560. (Colophon at the end: 'Excudebat Iacobus Parcus, expensis viduae M. Isingrinei, anno 1560, mense martio) 8vo. (LVI),501,(1 blank),(16) p. Pigskin over wooded boards. 17.5 cm 'Interesting text with an interesting provenance' (Ref: VD16 H 3797; Maloney & Savoie no. 369; not in Ebert, Graesse or Brunet) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands. The boards are decorated with blind stamped triple fillet borders and a row consisting of floral motives and some tiny portraits; the central panel of the boards shows palmet ...

HIERAKOSOPHION. HIERAKOSOPHION. Rei Accipitrariae scriptores nunc primum editi. Accessit KUNOSOPHION. Liber de cura canum. Ex biblioth. Regia Medicea. (Hoc volumine continentur 'Demetrii Constantinop. de re accipitraria liber, a Petro Gillio latine redditus; Alius liber de re accipitraria, latine redditus ab eodem P. Gillio; Libellus de cura canum, latine versus ab Andrea Aurifabro Vratislavienssi medico; Epistola Aquilae Symmachi et Theodotionis ad Ptolemaeum regem Aegypti, de re accipitraria, catalanica lingua; De diversis generibus falconum, sive accipitrum (...) Ex libro incerti auctoris, De Natura Rerum; Jacobi-Augusti Thuani de re accipitraria libri III; Hier. Fracastorii Alcon, sive de cura canum venaticorum) (Edidit N. Rigault) Paris (Lutetiae), Typis Regiis excudebat C. Morellus, 1612. 4to. 3 parts in 1 volume: (XVI),278,(16 index),(2 blank); (XII),211,(1 blank);120 pages. 18th century mottled calf 23.5 cm. 'Editio princeps' of some ...

HESYCHIUS. HÊSUCHIOU LEXIKON. Hesychii lexicon, cum notis doctorum virorum integris, vel editis antehac, nunc auctis & emendatis, Hadr. Iunii, Henr. Stephani, Jos. Scaligeri, Claud. Salmasii, Jac. Palmerii, Franc. Guyeti, Godefr. Sopingii, Jo. Fungeri, Jo. Cocceji, Jo. Fred. Gronovii, Jo. Casp. Suiceri, Tanaq. Fabri, Corn. Schrevelii, Ed. Bernardi, etc., vel ineditis Henr. Valesii, Dan. Heinsii, Phil. Jac. Maussaci, Thom. Brunonis, Isaaci Vossii, Jo. Viti Pergeri, Thom. Munkeri, Marc. Meibomii, Jo. Verweji, etc., in primis Ludolphi Kusteri, Tiber. Hemsterhusii, Jo. Christian Biel, etc., praeter selectas Jo. Jensii, Dan. Wilh. Trilleri, Georg. D'Arnaud, Frid. Lud. Abresch, etc. Ex autographis partim recensuit, partim nunc primum edidit, suasque animadversiones perpetuas adjecit Joannes Alberti. Cum ejusdem prolegomenis et apparatu Hesychiano. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, et Filium, 1746 - 1766. (volume 2: Apud S. and J. ...

HESIODUS. De Werken en Dagen van Hesiodus. Naar het Grieksch in Nederduitsche verzen gevolgd door D.J. van Lennep. Tweede druk. Amsterdam, Bij P. Meijer Warnars, 1834. 8vo. XX (recte XXII); 62,(2 blank) p., 1 plate. Contemporary boards. 20 cm (Ref: Geerebaert 45,2; OiN p. 199) (Details: Fine copy. Title page completely engraved by the Dutch artist Philippus Velijn. The introduction numbers 20 pages, the Dutch translation in iambic verser 40 pages; notes on pages 41/62) (Collation: *2 (chi 1, the title, inserted between leaf *1 and *2), (2)*8, 1-4/8 (the last leaf, leaf 4/8 blank)) (Photographs on request)
Book number: 154228 Euro 80.00

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