EUTROPIUS. Eutropii Historiae Romanae Breviarium ab Urbe condita usque ad Valentinianum et Valentem Augustos, notis et emendationibus illustravit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri filia jussu christianissimi regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Paris (Parisiis), Apud Viduam Antonii Cellier, 1683. 4to. (XIV),183,(3 blank) p. (recte 181,(3 blank) p.) Calf 24 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,346; Moss 1,436: 'edited by the celebrated Madame Dacier'; Brunet 2,1115; Fabricius/Ernesti 3,136; Graesse 2,529; Ebert 7181; La collection Ad Usum Delphini, 2, 304/12) (Details: Back gilt & with 5 raised bands; brown shield in second compartment. Some woodcut initials, headpieces and cul-de-lampes. Engraved coat of arms of the Dauphin at the beginning of the dedication) (Condition: Binding rubbed & worn at extremities. Corners bumped. The title leaf has been strengthened in the inner margin with a very small strip of paper. A tear in the outer margin has ...

EUSEBIUS. Kerkelyke geschiedenissen, zedert den dood van onzen Zaligmaker tot aan den volkomen bloeistand van 't Kristendom. Waar in van de prediking der Apostelen; de Heilige Schrift des N. Verbonds; de opvolgeren der Apostelen; de uitmuntende mannen in de vornaamste kerken, en hunne schriften; de vervolgingen; martelaren; scheuringen; ketteryen, en andere zaken, de eerste Kristen Kerk betreffende, berigt wordt gegeven: In het Grieksch beschreven door Eusebius Pamfilus, (...). Nu vertaald en met vele aantekeningen opgehelderd door Abraham Arent Vander Meersch; (...). Amsterdam (Te Amsteldam), By F. Houttuyn, 1749. 4to. Frontispiece, (XLVI),584,L,116,(36) p., 2 folding maps. Vellum. 26.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 82986403, STCN does not mention the cancel of leaf 2Y4, p. 359/360, which our copy has; OiN p. 180) (Details: Title printed in red & black. The frontispiece by J.C. Philips depicts an allegorical scene of the battle between False ...

EUSEBIUS. Eusebii Pamphili, Ruffini, Socratis, Theodoreti, Sozomeni, Theodori, Euagrij, & Dorothei Ecclesiastica Historia. Sex prope seculorum res gestas complectens; Latine olim a doctissimis viris partim scripta, partim e Graeco a clarissimis viris, Vuolfgango Musculo, Ioachimo Camerario & Iohanne Christophersono Britanno, eleganter conversa; et nunc ex fide Graecorum codicum, sic ut novum opus videri possit, per Ioan. Iacobum Grynaeum locis obscuris innumeris illustrata, dubijs explicata, mutilis restituta; Chronographia insuper Abrahami Bucholceri, ad Annum Epochae Christianae 1598. & lectionis sacrae historiae luculenta Methodo exornata. Cum continuatione in praesentem annum 1611. Et indicibus rerum verborumque locupletiss. Basel (Basileae), Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, n.d. (1611) Folio. (LXXX),807,(1 blank),(23 index),(1) p. Overlapping vellum 34 cm (Ref: VD17 23:297069D; Hoffmann 2,107) (Details: Latin translation only. ...

EURIPIDES. De Fenicische vrouwen. Treurspel, naar Euripides, door P. Camper, Ph. Th. M. & L.H. Doctor. Zutphen, Bij H.C.A. Thieme, 1823. (I),4, XLVIII,140,(4) p. Red morocco. 21 cm (Ref: Geerebaert XXXVII,11; not in OiN) (Details: Back ruled gilt and with a beige shield in the 'second compartment'. Boards with borders consisting of a row of gilt floral motives. Edges of the boards and of the bookblock also gilt. Oval engraving on the title page, designed bij P. Camper and engraved by D. Veelwaard. Marbled endpapers) (Condition: Binding somewhat soiled and worn at the extremes. An extra flyleaf, once bound before the title, has been removed. On this disappeared flyleaf Camper probably wrote a dedication. Faint ink traces of this dedication are still visible on the verso of the flyleaf. (The Royal Library in The Hague has a copy of this title, bound in exact the same binding, but still having Camper's dedication to the ...

EURIPIDES. EURIPIDOU PHOINISSAI. Euripidis tragoedia Phoenissae. Interpretationem addidit H. Grotii; graeca castigavit e Mstis, atque adnotationibus instruxit, scholia subiecit Ludovicus Casp. Valckenaer. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Samuelem et Joannem Luchtmans, 1802. 4to. 2 parts in 1 volume: (IV),23,(1 blank),452;196 p. Vellum. 26 cm. Prize copy (Ref: Hoffmann 2,77; Schweiger I,119; Brunet 2,1106; Dibdin I,545; Moss 1,424; Ebert 7102) (Details: Prize copy Utrecht, but without the prize. Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Boards with gilt borders, and the gilt coat of arms of Utrecht, within a gilt rectangle adorned with corner pieces. § The first part contains the introduction, the Greek text of Euripides' Phoenissae, with critical notes and the parallel Latin translation of Grotius, followed by the commentary of Valckenaer. The second part contains the Scholia to 'veterum grammaticorum in Euripidis Phoenissas. ...

EURIPIDES. EURIPIDOU HIPPOLUTOS. Euripidis tragoedia Hippolytus, quam, Latino carmine conversam a Georgio Ratallero, adnotationibus instruxit Ludov. Casp. Valckenaer. (Bound with:) Lud. Casp. Valckenari Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Ioann. Luzac & Ioann. Le Mair, 1767 - 1768. 4to. 2 volumes in 1: XXVIII,322,(XVIII);VIII,312 p. Vellum 26 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 2,78; Moss 1,425: 'A very elegant and excellent edition, containing a very correct text'; Dibdin 1,548/49: 'It is a perfect specimen of careful research, acute emendation, and copious illustration'; Brunet 2,1104: 'Édition très recherchée'; Graesse 2,522; Ebert 7107; Spoelder p. 684, Utrecht 4; Ad 1: STCN 238032841; Ad 2: STCN 23803271X; Hoffmann 2,97) (Details: Prize copy Utrecht, without the prize. Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Boards with gilt borders and the gilt coat of arms of ...

EURIPIDES. EURIPIDOU PHOINISSAI. Euripidis tragoedia Phoenissae. Interpretationem addidit H. Grotii; Graeca castigavit e Mstis, atque adnotationibus instruxit, scholia, partim nunc primum evulgata, subiecit Ludovicus Casp. Valckenaer. Franeker (Franequerae), Typis et sumptibus, Iacobi Brouwer, 1755. 4to. XXIV,831,(19 index) p. Half calf 22.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 151473129; Hoffmann 2,76/77; Schweiger I,119; Brunet 2,1106; Dibdin I,545; Moss 1,424; Graesse 2,523: 'édition excellente'; Ebert 7102) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands, and a brown morocco lettershield; margins uncut. § Greek text with facing Latin translation, commentary in two columns on the lower half of the page; p. 561-815 contain the scholia to the 'Phoenissae', accompanied by Latin commentary; at the end 14 p. 'Prolegomena' to the 'Phoenissae' by Hugo Grotius) (Condition: Back rubbed; head of spine slightly chafed; ...

EURIPIDES. Euripides poeta, Tragicorum princeps, in Latinum sermonem conversus, adiecto e regione textu Graeco: cum annotationibus et praefationibus in omnes eius Tragoedias, autore Gasparo Stiblino. Accesserunt, Iacobi Micylli, De Euripidis vita, ex diversis autoribus collecta; item De Tragoedia & eius partibus 'prolegomena' quaedam. Item Ioannis Brodaei Turonensis Annotationes doctiss. nunquam antea in lucem editae. Ad haec, rerum & verborum toto opere praecipue memorabilium copiosus index. Cum Caes. Maiest. & Christianiss. Gallorum Regis gratia ac privilegio, ad decennium. Basel (Basileae), Per Ioannem Oporinum, (1562) (Colophon at the end: 'Basileae, Ex officina Ioannis Oporini, Anno salutis humanae 1562, mense Martio') Folio. p. 1-667; col. 668-679, (1 p.), col. 680-845; (23 index) p. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards. 34 cm This Euripides edition is the first to offer a Greek text accompanied by a ...

EUNAPIUS. EUNAPIOU TOU SARDIANOU BIOI philosophôn kai sophistôn. Eunapius Sardianus, De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum, Hadriano Iunio Hornano interprete. Graeca cum mss. Palatinis comparata, aucta & emendata Hieronymi Commelini opera. Nunc recens accedunt eiusdem auctoris Legationes, e bibliotheca Andreae Schotti Antverpiani. N.pl. (Geneva), Oliva Pauli Stephani, 1616. 8vo. 169,(1),(5 index),(1 blank) p. 18th century boards. 17 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 2,65; Renouard, Stephani, 497 (erronously dating 1612); Schweiger 1,114; Graesse 2,518; Ebert 7069; Brunet 2,1094) (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a man on his knees under an olive tree, he is praying; some branches are broken off and are falling down; from the mouth of the man comes on a banner the motto: 'rami ut ego insererer defracti sunt', 'the branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in'. (Romans 11,19) The text is ...

EUCLIDES. De ses eerste boeken der beginselen van Euclides op een korte en klare manier gedemonstreert door Henrick Coets, lector in de Mathesis te Leyden. Met eene voorreden, en eenige aanmerkingen verrykt door Wilhelmus La Bordus. Den derden druck, veel verandert en verbeetert. Leiden (Te Leyden), By Samuel Luchtmans, Ordinaris Stads Drukker, 1740. 8vo. (X),435,(1 blank) p. Half calf 17.5 cm (Ref: Geerebaert 36,9,b; OiN 174) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Red morocco shield in the second compartment. Title in red & black. Numerous woodcut geometric illustrations in the text) (Condition: Cover worn. Back rubbed. Small tear in the head of the spine. Two old ownership entries on the title) (Note: Euclides was a Greek mathematician who lived in the 3rd cent. B.C. He wrote the most famous book in the history of mathematics, the 'Elements'. His work was intended for teaching, and follows a deductive approach. ...

ESTIENNE,H. Apologie pour Hérodote, ou traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes par Henri Estienne. Nouvelle Édition, faite sur la première, augmentée de tout ce que les posterieures ont de curieux, et de remarques par Mr. Le Duchat, avec une table alphabétique des matieres. The Hague (à La Haye), Chez Henri Scheurleer, 1735. 8vo. 2 volumes in 3: (IV),XXXVI,200,(48 index); (IV), p. 201 - 624; (IV),(IV),434 p., 3 engraved frontispieces. 19th or 20th century calf. 17 cm 'Stephanus plays an important role in the reception of Herodotus' (Ref: STCN ppn 213119420; Hoffmann 2,242/43; Brunet 2,1077; Graesse 2,506; Ebert 6972: 'Unmutilated and enlarged edition with good observations'; Renouard p. 126/28, who calls this 1735 edition 'bien imprimée' and 'la seule complète') (Details: Tasteful binding in antique style: backs ...

ERIZZO,S. Discorso di M. Sebastiano Erizzo sopra le Medaglie degli Antichi. Con la dichiaratione delle Monete Consulari & delle Medaglie de gli Imperadori Romani. Nel'a qual si contiene una piena & varia cognitione del'Istoria di quei tempi. Di nuovo in questa quarta editione dall'istesto authore revisto, & ampliato. Venice (In Vinegia), Appresso Gio. Varisco & Paganino Paganini, n.d. (ca. 1584). 8vo. 4to. 2 parts in 1: (XVI),572;282 p., numerous woodcut illustrations. Modern 20th century vellum. 22 cm (Ref: Edit16 CNCE 18279: 'non prima del 1584'; Graesse 2,498; Ebert 6901; Brunet 2,1047) (Details: Modern vellum in antique style. Back with 3 raised bands. Boards panelled. Title within woodcut symmetric architectural borders. The printer's mark is a crowned double-tailed Sirene (Sirena bicaudata), who holds the end of her tails in her hand. (This creature from medieval mythology was chosen in 1971 as ...

ERASMUS. MÔRIAS EGKÔMION. Id est Stultitiae laus. Erasmi Roterodami declamatio. Ad fidem editionis antiquae Frobenii figuris Holbenianis ornata. Cum duabus Erasmi epistolis ad Martinum Dorpium et ad Thomam Morum. Accessit dialogus Epicureus. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud D. Noothoven van Goor, 1851. XL,233 p.; illustrations in the text, 2 portraits. Half calf. 24 cm (Details: Rebound in antique style. Back with 5 raised bands. Portrait of Erasmus lithographed by H.J. Backer after H. Holbein bound before the title, and a lithographed portrait of Hans Holbein at the end of the preliminary pages) (Note: This edition of 1851 is a reissue of an edition which was published earlier in the Dutch town of Hoorn in 1839. The sale of that edition apparantly fell short of expectation. The remainder was sold and was republished in Leiden in 1851. Only the title was renewed. The edition was produced by the Dutch schoolmaster Cornelis Alard ...

ERASMUS. Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Liber utilissimus de conscribendis epistolis, continens artificium & praecepta in earum compositione observanda. Editio nova, diligenter ab erratis expurgata. Amsterdam, Apud Henricum & Theodorum Boom, 1670. 12mo. 470,(33),(1 blank) p., frontispiece. Calf 13 cm The definitive work on the subject (Ref: Spoelder p. 644: Middelburg 5;) (Details: Prize copy, but without the prize. Back ruled gilt, with a red morocco letterpiece. The boards have gilt borders. In the center of both boards the gilt coat of arms of Middelburg. The frontispiece depicts Erasmus in his study, writing a letter. On the title a woodcut printer's mark, depicting Hercules, club at hand, and the Nemean lion under a tree, the motto reads: 'Virtus nescia vinci', 'Virtue doesnot know defeat') (Condition: Some wear to the extremes. Front flyleaf removed. The blank upper margin of the frontispiece ...

ERASMUS. Des. Erasmi Roterod. Colloquia, nunc emendatiora. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1662. 12mo. (XX),672 p. Overlapping vellum. 14 cm (Ref: Willems 1285: 'Réimpression ligne pour ligne de l'édition donnée par les Elzevier en 1655'; Berghman 1350; Rahir 1324; Brunet 2,1040) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Title engraved by Corn. Cl. Duysend, it depicts a standing Erasmus, who looks through a telescope into a clouded sky; from a cloud comes the hand of God, that bears the 'globus cruciger' (corss-bearing orb, in German Reichsapfel); the globe represents the earth, and he who holds the globe, owns the world. The motto on the title suits Erasmus: 'Vidit, pervidit, risit'. This engraved title was already used by Elsevier for the edition of the Colloquia of 1636. On the last of the preliminary pages a woodcut illustration, depicting both sides of a medal of ...

EPICTETUS. Epicteti Enchiridium una cum Cebetis Thebani tabula, Graec. & Lat. Cum notis Wolfii, Casauboni, Caselii & aliorum; quibus accedit Graeca Enchiridii paraphrasis, lacunis omnibus, codicis Medicei ope a Jacobo Gronovio repletis. Recensuit & a plurimis mendis, quae in priores editiones irrepserant, repurgavit, ac notis quibusdam & animadversionibus illustravit Joannes Casparus Schröderus. Delft (Delphis), Apud Adrianum Beman, 1723. 8vo. (LXIV),288 p., frontispiece, folding plate. Vellum 20.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 140819754; Oldfather no. 232, but see also Oldfather Supplement no. 233; Hoffmann 2,15; Dibdin 1,515: on the 2nd edition of 1683: 'is reputed the best of the octavo Variorums'; Ebert 6777; Brunet 2,1013) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved frontispiece depicting the philosopher Epictetus, behind him a host of (allegoric) female followers. One holds a lamp, another a pair of scales. In his left hand Epictetus holds a scroll ...

EPICTETUS. Epicteti Manuale et Sententiae. Quibus accedunt Tabula Cebetis, & alia affinis argumenti, in linguam Latinam conversa a Marco Meibomio. Subjiciuntur eiusdem notae, emendationes Claudii Salmasii in Epictetum, notae illorum & alius viri docti in Dissertationes Epicteti ab Arriano digestas, & varians scriptura codicum manu exaratorum, cura Hadriani Relandi. Utrecht (Trajecti Batavorum), Ex officina Gulielmi Broedelet, bibliopolae, 1711. 4to. 3 parts in 1: (XX),151,(1);124; 152,(59 index),(1 blank) p. Calf. 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 185671004; Oldfather no. 287; Hoffmann 2,15; Didbin 2,515/6: 'The edition is a valuable and critical one'; Ebert 6775; Brunet 2,1012/13; Graesse 2,484; P.A. Hansen, 'A bibliography of Danish contributions to classical scholarship from the 16th century to 1970', Copenhagen 1977, no. 363) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut ...

EPICTETUS. EPIKTÊTOY Egcheiridion, KEBÊTOS thêbaiou Pinaks; kai THEOPHRASTOY Êthikoi Charaktêres. Epicteti Enchiridion, Cebetis Thebani Tabula; et Theophrasti Characteres Ethici. Cum versione latina. Denuo recognita & notis illustrata. Oxford (Oxonii), E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1670. 8vo. (XV)(1),143(1);95(1),8 p. Calf 15.5 cm (Ref: Oldfather 175, see also 114; Ebert 6771; not in Hoffmann; only 2 copies in the British Libraries; cf. Brunet 2,1012, who mentions an edition of 1707) (Details: Back ruled gilt, and with 4 raised bands. Black morocco shield in second compartment. Boards ruled with double fillet borders. Greek text with facing Latin translation) (Condition: Cover scuffed and worn at the extremes. Head of the spine gone for 1 cm. Front joint beginning to split. Corners bumped) (Note: This book is the first publication for the market, i.e. 'real book', printed in the famous ...

ENCYCLOPÉDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL RAISONNÉ. Tapis de Turquie. Contenant planches simples 4. Yverdon, 1780. 6 pages, 3 plates. Modern plain wrappers. 25 cm (Lacking the 4th plate) (From: 'Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines', Planches Tome X)
Book number: 154600 Euro 30.00

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DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS. Dionysii Halicarnassei Antiquitatum, sive Originum Romanarum libri decem, Sigismundo Gelenio interprete. Adiecimus Undecimum ex versione Lapi: ac indicem rerum notatu dignarum locupletissimum. Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Antonium Vincentium, 1561. (Colophon at the end: 'Lugduni excudebat Symphorianus Barbierus) 16mo. 854,66 p. Calf 12.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,586; Graesse 2,400) (Details: Back gilt, and with 4 raised bands, red morocco shield in the second compartment. Endpapers marbled. Edges of the bookblock dyed red. Latin translation only.) (Condition: Binding somewhat scuffed, corners bumped. Waterstain on the title. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: The 'Antiquitates Romanae' of the Greek rhetor and historian Dionysius Halicarnassensis, who came to Rome ca. 30 B.C. to teach rhetoric, and who spent there at least 22 years or longer, are little known and little read nowadays. His work on ...