BAÏF, L. DE. De vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum causa ex Bayfio decerptus, addita vulgari latinarum vocum interpretatione. Paris (Parisiis), Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii, 1543. (Colophon at the end: 'Excudebat Rob. Stephanus Typographus Regius, Parisiis, an. M.D.XLIII, XIII Cal. Oct.) 8vo. 52,(3 index),(1 blank) p. Half vellum (20th century) 17 cm (Ref: not in Renouard, 'Ann. de l'Impr. des Estienne', see however p. 58, 1543/12: 'Carolus Stephanus, De re Vestiaria, Vascularia et Navali, ex Bayfio. Addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione'; not in Brunet, Graesse, or Ebert) (Details: Printer's Olive tree device of the Stephanus family on the title, motto: 'Noli altum sapere', short for 'Noli altum sapere, sed time', in English 'Donot be high-minded, but fear'. (Epistola Beati Pauli ad Romanos 11,20) (Condition: The right upper corner of the first gathering ...

BADEN, TORCHILLUS. Torchilli Badenii Jac. fil. Roma Danica, harmoniam atque affinitatem linguae danicae cum lingua romana exhibens. Editio altera priore anni 1699 auctior et emendatior curante Torchillo Badenio pronepote. Copenhagen (Hafniae), Apud C. Steenium, 1835. 8vo. (IV),206 p. Contemporary blue boards 19,5 cm (Small Danish name in ballpoint on titlepage) (Note: Torkel Baden, or Torkil Baden, 1765-1849, 'studied at Göttingen and acquired an interest in art during his travels in Italy. He was professor at Kiel in Holstein (then part of Denmark) and (in 1804-23) at Copenhagen. His published works (such as his dissertation on Philostratus) were partly inspired by his interest in ancient art. He 'had read nearly all the Greek and Latin Classics', but the result of all this reading is inadequately represented in his edition of the Tragedies of Seneca. His edition of his grandfather's 'Roma Danica' brought him into feud ...

AUSONIUS. D. Magni Ausonii Burdig. viri consularis opera. A Iosepho Scaligero, & Elia Vineto denuo recognita, disposita, & variorum notis illustrata (...) Adiectis variis & locupletissimis indicibus. (Geneve), Typis Iacobi Stoer, 1588. 16mo. 2 volumes in 1: (XXXII),350;247,(1 blank),(14 indices) p. 18th century calf, back recently and decently restored. 13 cm (Ref: GLN-3290; Schweiger 21; Graesse I,259; Smitskamp p. 118) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands, recently and expertly restored. Morocco shield with gilt lettering in second compartment. Boards with blind triple fillet borders. Elaborately blind tooled rectangles on both boards. Edges of the boards gilt, edges of the bookblock dyed red. Title within woodcut borders, right edge of the title slightly cut short. The second volume has a title of its own, it contains 'Iosephi Scaligeri Iul. Caes. F. Ausonianarum lectionum libri duo', to which have been added notes of ...

AUSONIUS. Decii Ausonii Burdigalensis viri consularis varia opuscula dilegenter recognita. Basel (Basileae), Apud Valentinum Curionem, 1523. 8vo. (XVI),249,(3) p. Early 20th century half vellum 15.5 cm (Ref: VD16 A 4385; Schweiger 2,21: 'nicht ohne krit. Werth'; Fabricius/Ernesti 3,147) (Details: Title with large woodcut borders. Large printer's mark, designed by Hans Holebein, at the end; Holbein worked for Curio from 1521 till 1524. (Heitz/Bernoulli, 'Basler Büchermarken', Strassburg 1895, p. 67, illustration 102)) (Condition: Binding probably early 20th century. Damaged back restored with a strip vellum. Title slightly soiled, and its edges are somewhat thumbed, and its upper margin is somewhat cut short. Name on the title below the imprint. First gathering slightly waterstained. No flyleaves. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Burdigala (Bordeaux), ca. 310-394, was ...

AUGUSTINUS. De Belydenisse van S Augustyn. (Nu onlanghs uyt het Latijn in het Duytsch overgeset door eenen Eerweerdigen P. der Societeyt Jesu) Antwerpen, ('t Antwerpen), By Frederick van Metelen, inde Warmoes-straet inde 4 Evangelisten, 1688. 12mo. (XV)(1 blank),365 (recte 363),(1),(4 blank) p. Calf 15 cm (Ref: cf. OiN 106; Not yet in STCV) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Gilt floral motives in the 4 compartments of the back. Engraved title, depicting Augustine leaning against a tree, in the sky 3 angels, one of them calling tolle lege, tolle lege. Printed in Gothic script) (Condition: Back rubbed; foot of spine slightly damaged; a few small wormholes visible in the frontcover; 5 pinpoint wormholes in first gathering, reduced in the second gathering to 3, and in the fouth to 2 wormholes, of which one is in the inner margin/gutter, sometimes nibbling at a letter. Front flyleaf removed. 3 names on the front pastedown) (Note: ...

AUGUSTINUS. Sancti Augustini Episcopi Hipponensis & Ecclesiae Doctoris opuscula quaedam selecta. (...) Editio quarta. Brussels (Bruxellae), E typographia Francisci Vivien, 1662. 12mo. (XXIV),514,(2 blank) p. Vellum 12 cm (Ref: STCV:12911771; Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa 11822) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back. Marbled endpapers. Lacking the frontispiece) (Condition: Frontispiece removed. Paper yellowing) (Note: Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430 AD, bishop of Hippo, is undoubtedly the greatest and the most influential of the Church Fathers. He was trained in classical rhetoric and ancient philosophy, and 'left his distinctive mark on most aspects of western Christianity'. (...) Augustine's major works are landmarks in the abandonment of classical ideals. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 148) § The 'Opuscula Selecta' are: 'Epistola S. Augustini CV, ad Sixtum ...

AUCTORES LATINAE LINGUAE, IN UNUM REDACTI CORPUS. Quorum auctorum veterum & neotericorum elenchum sequens pagina docebit. Adiectis notis Dionysii Gothofredi I.C. Una cum indice generali in omnes auctores. Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains (S. Gervasii), Apud Iacobum Chouët, 1602. 4to. (VII),(1 blank) p; 1924 (recte 1926) columns, (1 blank) p.; (74 index) p., (2 blank) p.;106 (recte 74) columns. Overlapping vellum 26 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,1297; Graesse 1,250; Ebert 8793; Brunet 1,548/49) (Details: 7 thongs laced through the joints. The title page has woodcut architectural borders filled with floral motives and human figures, 2 reading men are flanking the title on each side, at the foot two naked athletes, at the top a tympanon. Woocut printer's device on the title, depicting an kind of Nehustan anchor, held by 2 hands emerging from a cloud; around the upperpart of the anchor coils a snake) (Condition: Vellum age tanned and ...

ATHENAGORAS & HERMIAS PHILOSOPHUS. Sancti Athenagorae Atheniensis Philosophi Deprecationem (vulgo Legationem) pro Christianis. Edidit M. Io.Gottlieb Lindner, rector Scholae Arnstadiensis. (Bound with:) HERMIOU PHILOSOPHOU DIASURMOS TÔN EXÔ PHILOSOPHÔN. Hermiae Philosophi Gentilium Philosophorum Irrisio. Cum adnotationibus Hier. Wolfii, Thomae Galei, Wilh. Worthii suisque. Graece in usum praelectionum separatim edidit Jo. Christoph. Dommerich, dialect. et philosoph. primae professor P.O. in Academia Helmstadiensi. Langensalza (Longosalissae), Sumptibus Io.Chr. Martini, 1774. Ad 2: Halle (Halae), Apud Carolum Hermannum Hemmerde, 1764. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: XXXIV,238,(28 index); 108,(3),(1 blank) p. Late 19th century half cloth 17 cm (Ref: Ad 1: Hoffmann 1,400: 'Dem Text sind schätzbare Anmerkungen beigefügt'; Brunet 1,537; Graesse 1,245; Ebert 1322; Ad 2: Hoffmann 2,214; Brunet 3,117: 'Seule ...

ATHENAEUM ILLUSTRE.- A collection of dissertations: 1, Petrus Nieuwland: Dissertatio philosophico-critica De Musonio Rufo philosopho stoico. (Praeside D. Wyttenbachio, 1783) (Bound with:) 2, B.P. Van Wesele Scholten: Dissertatio philosophico-critica De Philosophiae Ciceronianae loco, qui est De Divina Natura. (Praeside D. Wyttenbachio, 1783) (&:) 3, B.P. Van Wesele Scholten: Dissertatio juridica De foedere Madritano, quod Franciscus I. Rex cum Carolo V. Imp. captivus fecit. (Praeside H.C. Cras, 1784) (&:) 4, Benjamin Petrus van Wesele Scholten: Dissertatio juridica inauguralis, Ad fragmentum Scaevolae, quod exstat in Leg. CII Princ. Dig. de Solut. et Liberat. (Praeside D.G. van der Keessel, 1785) (&:) 5, David Jacobus Van Lennep: Disputatio juris, sive ethico-juridica De loco Ciceronis qui est De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. (Praeside H.C. Cras, 1793) (&:) 6, E.C. d'Engelbronner: Disputatio juris De loco Ciceronis qui est De Legibus. (Praeside H.C. Cras, ...

ATHANASIUS & BASILIUS. Athanasiou dialogoi e', peri tês hagias Triados. Basileiou logoi d' kata dussebous Eunomiou. Anastasiou kai Kurillou ekthesis suntomos tês orthodoksou pisteôs. Athanasii dialogi V, de sancta Trinitate. Basilii libri IIII, adversus impium Eunomium. Anastasii et Cyrilli compendiaria orthodoxae fidei explanatio. Ex interpretatione Th. Bezae. Foebadi, sive Foebadii liber contra Arianos. Quae Athanasii, Anastasii & Cyrilli sunt, & quae Foebadii, nunc primum eduntur. N.pl. (Geneva), Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1570. 8vo. (XIV),24;431,(1 blank) p. 18th century vellum 17.5 cm A collection of Trinitarian texts (Ref: GLN-2395; Hoffmann 1,387; Renouard, Estienne p. 133; Graesse 1,243; Butterweck, Athanasius Bibliographie, p. 64/65; Dibdin 1,196: 'scarce and estimable'; not in Brunet) (Details: Two morocco letterpieces on the spine. Boards with gilt borders. Marbled endpapers, ...

ARRIANUS. Arriani Nicomedensis Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem, et Historia Indica graec. et lat. cum annotationibus et indice graeco locupletissimo Georgii Raphelii. Accedunt Eclogae Photii ad Arrianum pertinentes cum lectionibus variantibus Dav. Hoeschelii, summaria librorum distincta & emendata, index rerum accuratissimus, nec non tabula geographica Expeditionis Alexandri. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Wetstenium, 1757. 8vo. XLVIII,637,(211) p., frontispiece, folding map of Europe and the Orient. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 212310364; Hoffmann 1,377; Brunet 1,497; Dibdin 1,329: 'An excellent and commodious edition'; Moss 1,188; Graesse 1,227; Ebert 1236) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece by I.K. Philips (in Greek letters), depicting an armed and winged Nike crushing 3 ennemies, a black African, an Asian and a European; in the air flies Fama with her trumpet. Title in red & black. Printer's ...

ARNOBIUS.- MEURSIUS,J. Ioannis Meursii Criticus Arnobianus tributus in libros septem. Item Hypocriticus Minutianus, & Excerpta MS. Regii Parisiensis. Editio altera, & melior. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Ludovici Elzevirii, 1599. 8vo. (XX),167,(23)(1 blank) Vellum 16 cm (Ref: Dibdin 1,215: 'an indispensable work to peruse, for those who are curious in the learning of the author'; Willems 44; Rahir 26; Berghman 1283; Schoenemann 1,166/67) (Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints; colophon at the end: 'Lugduni Batavorum, Excudebat Ioannes Balduini. Anno 1599, mense Julio') (Condition: Short title in ink on the back; vellum somewhat soiled; 2 hardly noticeable pinpoint wormholes in the first 6 leaves; some foxing; name on front flyleaf erased, leaving a small hole) (Note: Arnobius, a teacher of rhetoric at Sicca Veneria in Numidia 'was suddenly converted to Christianity (ca. A.D. 295) ...

ARNOBIUS. Arnobii Disputationum adversus gentes libri septem, recogniti & aucti. Ex bibliotheca Theodori Canteri Ultraiectini, cuius etiam notae adiectae sunt. Antwerpen (Antverpiae), Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1582. 8vo. 285,(1 errata, & 2 blank) p. Tasteful modern half calf. 18 cm (Ref: Belg. Typ. 172; STC Dutch p. 14; Adams A1996; Voet 596 variant A; Sorgeloos 113; Dibdin 1,215: 'An excellent edition, in which the modesty and learning of its editor are successfully opposed to the rashness of his predecessor Gelenius' (in his edition of 1546); Ebert 1219; not in Brunet) (Details: Woodcut printer's device on the title. Red morocco letterpiece on the back. The binder used a broad strip of vellum as spine lining; this strip was probably cut from an old manuscript contract) (Condition: Name on the title. Very small tear near the right lower corner of the title. Occasional old ink underlinings on ca. 70 pages. Right margin ...

ARISTOTELES. ARISTOTELOUS PHUSIKÊS AKROASEÔS BIBLIA TH'. Aristotelis Stagiritae, Peripateticorum Principis, Naturalis auscultationis libri VIII. Jul. Pacius a Beriga cum Graecis excusis quam scriptis codicibus accurate contulit, Latina interpretatione auxit, & commentariis analyticis illustravit. Adiectus est geminus index: alter librorum, tractatuum & capitum: alter rerum & verborum in toto opere memorabilium. Frankfurt (Francofurti), Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli, Claudium Marnium & Iohannem Aubrium, 1596. 8vo. (XXIV),992 (recte 984) p. Vellum. 17 cm. <Important edition of the Physics, one of Aristotle's principal works> (Ref: VD16 A 3554; Hoffmann 1,286: 'Durch d. Vergleich v. Heidelb. Mss. hat d. Ausg. krit. Werth'; Cranz, 'A bibliography of Aristotle editions, 1501-1600', no. 108.745'; cf. Neue Pauly, Supplementband 2, p. 73 where Pacius' edition of the complete ...

ARISTOTELES. Aristotelis Politicorum libri octo ex Dion. Lambini & Pet. Victorii interpretationibus puriss. graecolatini, Theod. Zvingeri Argumentis atque Scholiis, Tabulis quinetiam in tres priores libros illustrati, Victorii commentariis perpetuis declarati, Pythagoreorum veterum Fragmenta politica, a Io. Spondano conversa & emendata. Index rerum & verborum pleniss. Basle (Basileae), Eusebii Episcopii opera ac impensa, 1582. Folio. (XX),623,(12 index),(1 printer's mark) p. Modern calf 35.5 cm (Details: Nice copy, bound in modern full (red)brown calf, with 5 raised bands on the back. Spine short title in gilt: 'ARISTOTELIS / DE REPVBLICA'. Text in three columns, with the Greek in the centre flanked by the Latin translations of Piero Vettori and Denys Lambin respectively on each side. Large printer's woodcut device to the title and last page, depicting a bust of 'Hermes triceps' (three-headed Hermes) on a pillar; ...

ARISTOTELES. ARISTOTELOUS ÊTHIKÔN NIKOMACHEIÔN biblia deka. Aristotelis De moribus ad Nicomachum libri decem. Ita Graecis interpretatione recenti cum Latinis coniunctis, ut ferme singula singulis respondeant: in eorum gratiam, qui Graeca cum Latinis comparare volunt. Heidelberg (Heidelbergae), 1560. (Colophon: 'Heidelbergae, Excudebat Lodovicus Lucius, Universitatis typographus, Anno salutis humanae 1560, Mense Septembri) 8vo. (VIII),567(recte 571),(1 colophon),(4 blank) p. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. 17.5 cm (Ref: VD16 A 3403; Hoffmann 1,291; Schweiger 1,52; cf. Dibdin 1,326 & Moss 1,126 for the edition of 1555; cf. Graesse 1,212; Cranz, A bibliography of Aristotle editions, 1501-1600, no. 108.398; J. Lewis, 'Adrien Turnèbe (1512-1565), a humanist observed', Genève, 1998, p. 127/28) (Details: Nice contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. Back with 3 raised bands. ...

ARISTOPHANES. ARISTOPHANOUS PLOUTOS. Aristophanis comoedia Plutus. Aiecta sunt scholia vetusta. Recognovit ad veteres membranas, variis lectionibus ac notis instruxit, et scholiastas locupletavit Tiberius Hemsterhuis. Harlingen (Harlingae), Ex officina Volkeri van der Plaats, 1744. 8vo. (XXIV),484,(25 index),(3 blank) p. Vellum 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 15383420X; Hoffmann 1,260; Dibdin 1,306; Moss 1,97/98; Brunet 1,456: 'édition estimée'; Ebert 1099; Graesse 1,208) (Details: Greek text accompanied by scholia and commentary. Short title in ink on the back) (Condition: Vellum age toned and soiled. Small paper label pasted on the back. Front joint partly split. Paper yellowing. Pinpoint wormhole in the lower part of the first 130 p., sometimes nibbling at a letter) (Note: Of the Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, ca. 455-385 BC, born in the radical democracy of Athens, survive 11 plays. In a less free society ...

ARISTOPHANES. ARISTOPHANOUS KÔMÔiDIAI iá. Aristophanis comoediae undecim, graece & latine, cum indice paroemiarum selectiorum, et emendationibus virorum doctorum praecipue Josephi Scaligeri. Accesserunt praetera Fragmenta ejusdem ineditarum comoediarum Aristophanis. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Joannis Maire, 1624. 12mo. (XXIV),935,(1),56 (recte 60) p. Contemporary boards 14 cm (Ref: Breugelmans 1624,2, with a note on the date, he suggests a date after 1626; Hoffmann 1,254, a very elaborate description; Dibdin 1,299; Smitskamp, The Scaliger Collection 5; Brunet 1,453; Moss 1,94: 'a beautiful edition'; Graesse 1,207; Ebert 1090) (Details: Greek text and Latin translation. Binding: marbled paper over boards. Back ruled gilt, and with a red letter label. Edges dyed red. Printer's device on the title: a shoveling farmer, above his head the motto 'fac & spera'. 6 woodcut initials) ...

ARISTAENETUS. Aristaeneti Epistolae graecae cum versione latina et notis Josiae Merceri curante Joan. Cornelio de Pauw, cujus notae accedunt. Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Apud Hermannum Besseling, 1737. 4to. (XXIV),287,(1 colophon) p. Overlapping vellum 15.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,240; Schweiger 1,44; Dibdin 1,292; Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, ed. 4a, Hamburg 1780, p. 696; Brunet 1,448; Ebert 1066; Graesse 1,204) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut ornament on the title. Greek text with facing Latin translation, commentary on the lower half of the page. Edges dyed blue) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled. Stamp and name on the front flyleaf. Small part of the right lower corner of the front flyleaf cut off, and renewed. Small shelf number in red ink on the title. Two stamps on the verso of the title) (Note: A survey of erotic motives in the literature of Greece and Rome. ...

ARISTAENETUS. ARISTAINETOU EPISTOLAI. Aristaeneti Epistolae graecae. Cum latina interpretatione & notis. Altera editio emendatior & auctior. Paris (Parisiis), Apud Marcum Orry, via Iacobaea, sub signo leonis salientis, 1600. 8vo. (VIII),282,(2 animadvertenda),(4 blank) p. Limp vellum 18 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,239; Graesse 1,204; Ebert 1065) (Details: Among bibliographers and librarians there is confusion about the date of this book. The date on the title of this second edition of the letters of Aristaenetus is indicated as MVIC. We found in KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog) records of this title dated 1594, 1596 and 1600. 1594 is definitely wrong, for the Parisian printer Orry published the first edition of this title in 1595, indicated by him as MDLXXXXV, and he repeated it the next year, now with MDXXXXVI. The third edition was published in 1610, with the date MCX. As the second edition ...