BUTTMANN,Ph. Lexilogus, or critical examination of the meaning and etymology of numerous Greek words and passages, intended principally for Homer and Hesiod. By Philip Buttmann, LL.D, late professor in the University of Berlin, and librarian of the Royal Library. Translated and edited with explanatory notes and copious indexes by J.R. Fishlake, late fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Second edition, revised. London, John Murray, 1840. 8vo. XVI,597 p. Calf 22 cm (Details: Nice binding: Back with 5 raised bands and with gilt floral motives in the compartments.n Orange lettering label in the second compartment of the back. Boards with double fillet gilt borders; marbled endpapers; edges of the boards gilt, book block has marbled edges) (Condition: Some slight wear to the extremities; boards slightly scratched; blind stamp of 'W.J. Richards, Bookseller, High St. 104, Oxford' in the front flyleaf) (Note: Philipp Karl Buttmann, ...

BURMANNUS, PETRUS. Catalogus rarissimorum & praestantissimorum librorum qui in thesauris romano, graeco, italico & siculo continentur, secundum nomina auctorum per alphabeti ordinem digestus. Leiden (Leidae), Apud Petrum vander Aa, Typographum Academiae, 1725. 8vo. (VIII),88 p. Vellum 20.5 cm (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title, it depicts Athena and Hermes, the motto is: 'Hac itur ad astra', borrowed from Seneca's 73th letter. The words that complete this saying are often forgotten: 'hac secundum frugalitatem, hac secundum temperantiam, hac secundum fortitudinem') (Condition: Vellum age-tanned. Some small wormholes in the gutter of the blank upper corner, sometimes nibbling at a letter. Pinpoint wormhole in the blank right margin) (Note: The Dutch classical scholar Pieter Burman, latinized as Petrus Burmannus, 1668-1741, was professor of History and Eloquence (Latin) at the University of ...

BURMANNUS, PETRUS. Unum epistolium epistoliorum dulcissimorum dulcissimum, unius fidelissimi discipuli & olim scholaris ad suum magistrum. Copenhagen (Coppenhagae), 1706. 4to. (II),70 p. Modern boards. 22 cm 'Written cum maxima fractura capitis & labore' (Ref: STCN ppn 183625013; Knuttel 15549) (Condition: Paper browning. Edges of the title and second leaf chipped) (Note: The Roman author, orator and politician Cicero enjoyed his greatest glory during the Renaissance, 'when he became not only a historical figure and a writer but also the object of the literary cult known as Ciceronianism'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 195) Petrach established Cicero as a uniquely powerful stylistic source and intellectual resource. 'In the later 15th century Humanists like Angelo Poliziano and Filippo Beroaldo began to widen the range of Latinity: they commented on and sometimes imitated Quintilian, ...

BULWER LYTTON,E. De laatste dagen van Pompeji. Naar het Engelsch van E. Lytton Bulwer, schrijver van Eugenius Aram., Pelham, enz. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1835. 3 volumes: 289; 248; 249 p. Contemporary half cloth. 23 cm (Historical novel) (Details: All 3 title pages have the same engraving, designed by the Dutch artist Hendrik Breukelaar and executed by the engraver Philippus Velijn, who often worked together; depicted is a scene from the 9th chapter of the 3rd book, 'De spelonk der tooverheks', the meeting of Glaukus, Jone and a female slave with the witch in her cave; at her feet rest a fox and a viper) (Condition: Bindings slightly scuffed. Interior fine) (Note: The famous historical novel 'The Last Days of Pompeii' was first published in 1834. A Dutch translation followed soon. The name of the translator of the novel is however not known for the time being. The reviewer of this novel in the leading literary ...

BUCHANANUS, GEORGIUS. Georgij Buchanani Scoti ad viros sui seculi clarissimos, eorumque ad eundem Epistolae. Ex Mss. accurate descriptae, nunc primum in lucem editae. London (Londini), Impensis D. Brown (ad Insigne Cygni Nigri extra Portam vulgo dictam Temple-Bar) & G. Taylor, 1711. (X),93 p. 20th century half brown morocco 17.5 cm (Ref: J. Durkan, 'Bibliography of Buchanan', Glasgow 1994, no. 271) (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting 2 black swans. Lacking the leaves A2 & A3, these leaves contain the dedication to John, Duke of Roxburgh, and are signed by one Ja(mes) Oliphant) (Condition: Binding slightly scuffed, paper slightly foxed; the verso of the last page, with an advertisement, has been glued to last flyleaf; without the last blank leaf. Lacking leaves A2 & A3 with the dedication. Small etched bookplate on the front pastedown) (Note: George Buchanan, 1506-1582, was a Scottish historian and humanist ...

BRÜCKE,E. Grundzüge der Physiologie und Systematik der Sprachlaute für Linguisten und Taubstummenlehrer. Wien, Gerold, 1856. (V),134 p., 1 folding lithographed table. Paper wrapper gone. 20 cm (Small bookplate of Robert Washington Oates on the verso of the title; See for Oates Wikipedia; see also Wikipedia for the importance of Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke; first edition of this classic on phonetics)
Book number: 160032 Euro 200.00

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BROUKHUSIUS,J. Jani Broukhusii Carmina. Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Apud Franciscum Halma, Academ. Typogr. Ordinarium, 1684. 12mo. (VIII),95,(1 blank) p. Vellum 16 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 84001225X; Oberlé no. 325) (Details: 3 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut flowery ornament on the title) (Condition: Vellum age-toned and slightly scratched. Small dent in the spine. Front pastedown detached. Small inscription on the front flyleaf, and on the title, where someone wrote below 'Carmina' the word 'Quaerendo'. Paper slightly yellowing, some spots in the first leaves) (Note: This is the first edition of the neolatin poetry of the Dutch scholar/soldier Joan van Broekhuizen (Janus Broukhusius), 1649-1707, who during an adventurous life pursued his classical studies and poetry at leisure. His editions of Propertius (1702) and Tibullus (1707) laid the foundation for his reputation as a classical scholar. He was ...

BORRICHIUS,O. Olai Borrichii Cogitationes De variis latinae linguae aetatibus, & Scripto illustris Viri, Ger. Joann. Vossii De vitiis sermonis; Accedit ejusdem Defensio nomine Vossii & Stradae, adversus Gasp. Scioppium. (Bound with:) Olai Borrichii Analecta ad Cogitationes De lingua latina. Accedit appendix De lexicis latinis, & graecis, cum indice addendorum ad Fori Romani literam C. Copenhagen (Hafniae), Sumptibus Petri Hauboldi, Reg. Acad. Bibliop., 1675 & 1682. 4to. 2 volumes in 1: (XVI),314,(6 index); (IV),63,(1 blank);68 p. Contemporary blindstamped vellum. 21 cm (Ref: P.A. Hansen, 'A bibliography of Danish contributions to Classical scholarship', no. 1350, 1352 & 1413) (Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Short title in ink on the back. Blind ruled borders, with floral corner pieces. Title in red and black) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled. Boards slightly curved. Paper of the first ...

BONEFONIUS. Johannis Bonefonii Arverni carmina. London (Londini), Ex officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, 1720. 12mo XI,(1 blank),75,(1 blank) p. 19th century half morocco 15 cm (Ref: IJsewijn p. 135; Graesse 1,486; ESTC T72206) (Details: Gilt short title on the back; title in red & black; woodcut printer's mark on the title, showing all kinds of symbols of wisdom and science) (Condition: Lacking the last 8 pages; wear to the extremities; upper margin partly and lightly waterstained) (Note: The French Neo-Latin poet Jean Bonefons, or Johannes Bonefonius in Latin, (Clermont/Auvergne, 1554-1614) is the last great poet of the 'first great age of French Neo-Latin poetry'. IJsewijn calls him a 'belated Petrarchan singer'; (IJsewijn p. 135). Of the poets who followed the footsteps of the Dutch erotic poet Janus Secundus, he was one of the best known. They are often found together in later editions of erotic ...

BONAMICUS, CASTRUCCIUS. Castruccii Bonamici De rebus ad Velitras gestis commentarius. Ad Trojanum Aquavivam Aragonium S.R.E. Principem Cardinalem Montis Regalis Archiepiscopum, et potentissimorum Hispaniarum, atque utriusque Siciliae Regum ad Pontificem Maximum, Sedemque apostolicam Legatum. Editio nova, auctior. Curante Cornelio Valerio Vonck. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Marcum Michaelem Rey, 1748. 8vo. XXIV,64 p. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: IJsewijn, Companion, 2nd ed. 1,66; Michaud, Biographie Universelle, 1854 p. 147) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Green morocco label on the back. Marbled endpapers. Title in red and black. Engraved printer's mark of the French refugee printer/publisher Marc Michel Rey on the title, depicting a beehive: motto 'ingeniosa assiduitate') (Condition: Binding slightly curved and age-toned. Tail of the spine chafed. Back and morocco shield somewhat rubbed. A few tiny pinpoint spots of ...

BEZA, MURETUS, JANUS SECUNDUS Theodori Bezae Vezelii Poemata. (Bound with:) Marci Antonii Mureti Juvenilia. (And:) Johannis Secundi Hagiensis Juvenilia. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), 1757. 12mo in 8 & 4 sheets. 3 volumes in 1: (IV),IV,124 p., a portrait of Beza; X,106 p., a portrait of Muretus; IV,3-156 p. Green morocco 16 cm (Ref: Brunet 1,239; Graesse cf 1,359, where we find the imprint Paris 1757) (Details: Green morocco; red morocco shield on the back; gilt floral decoration on the back; boards with gilt triple fillet borders; inside dentelles gilt; marbled endpapers; edges of the bookblock gilt; woodcut printers' mark of Joseph Gérard Barbou on all three titles, depicting an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree. The motto is 'Non solus'. The 2 portraits have been etched by Fiquet) (Condition: Some wear to the extremes. A small bump in the bottom edge of the front board. Two tiny and ...

BETOUW,J. IN DE. Annales Noviomagi, Oppidi olim Batavorum, hodie primariae Gelrorum Civitatis. Nijmegen (Noviomagi), (Ex typographia Ahasuëri van Goor filiique), 1790. 4to. (IV),244,(4 index) p. Contemporary wrapppers 22 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 190386835; Gheprint te Nymeghen 45.1) (Details: Uncut) (Condition: Wrappers chafed. Paper on the back gone. Paper of 9 gatherings browned. Waterstain, sometimes almost invisible, in the upper inner corner) (Note: The city of Nijmegen, in the Dutch province of Gelderland, is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. In the first century BC the Romans built a military limes-camp on a place of great strategic value because of the surrounding hills, which gave a good view over the Rhine valley. By 69 a village called 'Oppidum Batavorum' had formed near the Roman camp, where 'Legio X Gemina' was stationed. The settlement around the camp received in 98 A.D. Roman city ...

BERONICIUS. P.J. Beronicii Georgarchontomachia, caeterorumque ejus carminum sylvula; quorum prius carmine belgico secutum. Boeren- en overheids-stryd, en de overige gedichten van P.J. Beronicius, welkers eerste in Nederduitsche vaarzen is nagevolgd door J.B. Waar by gevoegd is het zonderling leven des dichters; een goed aantal van Nederduitsche aanteekeningen; en een keurig zestal van fraaije koperen platen. Te Goes & Middelburg, Bij Jacobus Huysman & Jeroen van de Sande, J.z., 1766. 8vo. XX,178 p. Modern half vellum 22 cm (Ref: Best source: C.J. Krijger, 'P.J. Beronicius Boeren- en Overheidsstryd, 1673'. Doctoraal scriptie 1986, Reliable: Winkler Prins 6e dr., vol. 3, p. 777; also important: Sizoo, Hermeneus 8 (1936) p.17/21; uncritical: Van der AA 2,442/45; NNBW 8,88) (Details: Tasteful antique style binding, with a red morocco shield on the back. Frontispiece & six scenes on three plates by Simon Fokke. The ...

BEROALDUS, PHILIPPUS. Varia Philippi Beroaldi opuscula in hoc Codice contenta. * Orationes: praelectiones; & Praefationes: & quaedam mithicae Historiae Philippi Beroaldi. * Item Plusculae Angeli Politiani; Hermolai Barbari atque una Iasonis Maini ad serenissimum Maximilianum invictissimum Rhomanorum imperatorem Oratio. * Epigrammata ac ludicra quaedam facilioris musae carmina eruditissimi viri Philippi Beroaldi ab Ascensio nuper eludicata: nunc demum coimpressa & eo ordine disposita, ut maxime moralia sint omnium prima. * L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani pia Nenia verbis Christi domini crucifixi, sua in nos beneficia commemorantis. * Item Phi. Beroaldi de septem sapientium sententiis Libellus. * Eiusdem Symbola Pythagorae moraliter explicata. * De optimo statu, & de foelicitate. * Declamatio Philosophi medici & oratoris. * Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris & aleatoris. * Oratio autem proverbialis caeteris apposita est. N.pl. (Basel), n.d. (1513) ...

BENEDICTUS. Den regel van den Heyligen Vader Benedictus, Abt ende Patriarch der Monincken in den Westen. Nieuws over-geset uyt het Latijn in de Nederduytsche tale, door eenen Religieus van de Abdije van S. Salvator, der Ordere van Cisteaux. Tweeden druck. Antwerp ('t Antwerpen), By de Wed. vander Hey, op de Meir, in den H. Geest. Met Approbatie, n.d. (ca. 1768) 12mo. 150,(6) p. Calf 12.2 cm (Ref: A. Welkenhuysen, 'Benedicti Regula belgice, over bibliografie van Benedictus-vertalingen en oude drukken van de 'Regel' in het Nederduits', in Zetesis, Album amicorum, door vrienden en collaga's aangeboden aan Prof. Dr. E. de Strycker, Antw., Utrecht, 1954, p. 396-415, especially p. 412-415; Bibl. Cath. Neerl. Impr. 1954, p. 469, no. 1528'; not yet in STCV) (Details: Back with 3 raised bands. Gilt floral motive in the 4 compartments. Engraved printer's mark on the title, depicting the radiant dove of ...

BECK,M.F. Monumenta Antiqua Judaica, Augustae Vindel. reperta, & enarrata, cum Mantissa III. Monum. vetustorum Roman., operis Velseriani de antiquis Monum. August. appendice quadam. Studio Matthiae Friderici Beckii. Augsburg, (Augustae Vindel.), Apud Viduam Theoph. Goebelii, Typis Koppmayerianis impressa, 1686. 8vo. 62,(2) p., 2 engraved plates. Modern marbled boards. 16 cm (Ref: VD17 1:060593L) (Details: Title in red and black. Occasional Hebrew texts and inscriptions. Two engraved plates of two sides of the four-sided Roman monument of one Aelius Montanus Haederanus found in Augsburg, and erected in the garden of the Aedes Peutingeriana; good quality paper) (Condition: Two plates depicting two sides of the four-sided Roman monument have been removed) (Note: The German orientalist Matthias Friedrich Beck, 1649-1701, studied in Jena oriental languages and literature. In 1672 he received a stipendium from the city of ...

BASILIUS MAGNUS. Basilii Magni Caesariensium in Cappadocia Antistitis sanctissimi Opera plane divina, variis e locis sedulo collecta & accuratione ac impensis Iodoci Badii Ascensii recognita & coimpressa, quorum Index proxima pandetur charta. (Paris), Prelum Ascensii), 1520. (At the end: 'Impressa sum impensis & recognitione Iodoci Ascensii ad Idus Novemb. Anni Dominici 1520') Folio. (X),178 leaves. 19th century half calf. 30 cm (Ref: BP16_104596; Hoffman 1,412; Renouard 2,145/6; Moreau 1511-1520: 2246; Graesse 1,306; USTC no: 145192) (Details: Back gilt, with a red morocco letterpiece. Marbled paper on the boards. The architectural border on the title-page, filled with fable animals, encompasses the printer's device of Josse Badius (Jodocus Badius or Josse Bade), which features a printing press. A sign reads: 'Prelum Ascensianum', or 'Press of Asse', since Badius was from the Flemish village of ...

BARTHOLINUS,Casp. Casp. Bartholini Thom. Fil. De tibiis veterum, et earum antiquo usu libri tres. Editio altera, figuris auctior. (Bound with:) Casp. Bartholini Thom. Fil. De Ovariis mulierum et Generationis historia epistola anatomica, antea Romae edita. Cui jam accessit alia ejusdem argumenti. Ad 1: Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud JHenr. Wetstenium, 1679. Ad 2: Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Sumptibus JHenr. Wetstenii, 1678. 12mo. 2 volumes in 1. Ad 1: (XXIV),415;(5), 22 full page engravings in the text, 5 smaller text engravings, and 5 folding plates; a frontispiece and a portrait of Casparus Bartholinus at the age of 22. Ad 2: 69,(2),(1 blank) p. Calf 14 cm (Ref: Ad 1: Brunet no. 29042. Ad 2: Bibliotheca Osleriana no. 1922) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Frontispiece, depicting a seated satyr, surrounded by pipes, flutes, horns, trumpets, and other wood-wind instruments. Woodcut printer's mark of J.H. Wetstein on the ...

BARTHÉLEMY,J.J. Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, dans le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire. 3e édition. Paris, Chez De Bure l'aîné, 1790. 8vo. 7 volumes: 1, XVI,248 p., 4 maps; 2, (IV),350 p., 13 maps & plates; 3, (VIII),332 p., 5 maps & plates; 4, (VI),339 p., 6 maps & plates; 5, (VI),336 p., 1 plate; 6, (VI),313 p., 1 map & 1 plate; 7, (II),78,(2),LXIV,CXXXIX p. In all, 4 & 27 folding plates & maps. Contemporary boards. 19.5 cm (Ref: Graesse 1,300; Brunet 1,674) (Details: Without the Atlas volume. Bindings in marbled paper. All spines ruled gilt, and with a light brown title label, and a dark blue small oval volume label. Small paper library label at the foot of the spines. Maps engraved by the French cartographer Jean Denis Barbié du Bocage, 1760-1825, who was a friend of the author Barthélemy. At this time he was attached, ...

BARLAEUS, CASPER. Casparis Barlaei Antverpiani Poematum pars II: Elegiarum et Miscellaneorum carminum. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud Joannem Blaeu, 1646. 12mo. (VIII),576 p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a celestial sphere flanked by Tempus and Hercules, motto: 'Indefessus agendo'. This is the second volume of a two volume set. The first volume was published in 1645 by Blaeu, simply as 'Poemata') (Condition: Vellum age-toned. Old name on the title. Faint waterstain in the upper and lower margin of most quires.) (Note: When he was one year old the Flemish parents of the Dutch polymath, poet, theologian and historian Caspar Barlaeus, 1584-1648, had to flee Antwerp for the 'Spanish fury'. 'They settled in Zaltbommel, where his father eventually would become head of the Latin school. Caspar studied theology and ...