TERENTIUS. P. Terentii Carthaginiensis Afri Comoediae sex. Interpretatione & notis illustravit Nicolaus Camus, Juris Utriusque Doctor, jussu Christianissimi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Editio prioribus longe emaculatior. London (Londoni), Impensis J. Pote (et alii), 1776. 8vo. (VI),CXXXVIII,288,(80 index) p. Calf 21 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T219687; Schweiger 2,1070; cf Brunet 5,716; Graesse 6/2,59; Ebert 22513; Cupaiuolo no. 946; La collection Ad usum Delphini, vol. 2,51/61; Spoelder p. 644, Middelburg 5) (Details: Prize copy, without the prize. Back ruled gilt. Red morocco shield on the 'second compartment'. Gilt coat of arms of Middelburg on both boards. Title in red & black. Terence's Latin text is surrounded with an easy Latin version and with annotations, and is preceded by 138 pages of 'prolegomena Terentiana') (Condition: Prize removed. Binding slightly rubbed, especially at the ...

TERENTIUS. P. Terentii Afri Comoediae sex, ad fidem duodecim amplius Msstorum codicum, et pluscularum optimae notae editionum recensitae, et commentario perpetuo illustratae. Accedunt interpretes vetustiores, Aelius Donatus, Eugraphius, Calphurnius (...); additis observationibus (...). Porro Frid. Lindenbruchii observationes (...) et Ael Donati Commentarium, (...). Curavit Arn. Henr. Westerhovius. The Hague (Hagae-Comitum), Apud Thomam Johnsonium, 1726. 4to. 2 volumes: (XII),LXXXIX,(5); 1240; 244, (379 index),(1 blank) p.; 2 frontispieces, portrait of Terentius. Vellum. 26.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 310362857; Cupaiuolo, 'Bibliografia Terenziana', no. 863; Schweiger 2,1068; Dibdin 2,475: 'A sumptuous and valuable edition'; Moss 2 673/74: 'the best edition which has yet been published'; Brunet 5,717: 'Édition fort recherchée à cause des commentaires et du bon index'; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,62; Graesse ...

TERENTIUS. Publii Terentii Comoediae sex, ad optimas editiones nunc demum emendatae. Accedunt notae Joh. Min-Ellii, et index absolutissimus. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud R. & G. Wetstenios, 1721. 12mo. (XVI, including frontispiece),540,(42 index),(2 blank) p. Vellum. 14.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 30413497X; Schweiger 2,1067; Graesse 6/2,59) (Details: Five thongs laced through both joints. The frontispiece, depicts a scene from one of the plays, the return of an abandoned child. Printer's device on the title: a burin being sharpened on a whetstone, around it the motto: 'Terar dum prosim') (Condition: Terentius written in ink on both boards and on the spine. Some small and faint ink annotations (18th century)) (Note: The late antique grammarian Aelius Donatus (4th century A.D) wrote not only a commentary on the plays of the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer, ca. 190-159 B.C., but also a short biography, in which ...

TERENTIUS. De zes comedien van P. Terentius. Verduitst door Henricus Zwaardekroon, rector der Schole, tot Rotterdam. Rotterdam, Gedrukt bij Johannes Naeranus, 1668. 12mo. 498,(6 blank) p. Vellum 12.5 cm (Ref: Geerebaert 138,11,6; OiN 362) (Condition: Binding scuffed, spotted and soiled. Frontispiece removed. Oval stamp on the title. Some worming in the blank upper margin, occasionally nibbling at letters. Paper yellowing) (Note: The late antique grammarian Aelius Donatus (4th century A.D) wrote not only a commentary on the plays of the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer, ca. 190-159 B.C., but also a short biography, in which he tells that Terentius was born in the Roman province Africa and that he came as a slave in the houshold of the senator Terentius Lucanus. He adopted his name when he was manumitted. Terentius is the author of 'fabulae palliatae', which means 'plays in Greek cloths'. He adapted Greek plays, ...

TERENTIUS. Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afri Comoediae N. VI. Et in eas: Aelii Donati VC. oratoris Urbis Romae, et Eugraphii Veteris Scholiastae commentaria. Frid. Lindenbrogius collatis MSS. veteribusque exemplaribus recensuit, auxit, & observationibus inlustravit, adiecto indice uberrimo. Frankfurt (Francofurti), In Bibliopolio Heringiano, 1623. 4to. (XX),666 (recte 664) p. Modern plain and tasteless boards. 22 cm (Ref: VD17 1:043236K; Graesse 6/2 58/59; Ebert 22504; Schweiger 2,1064; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,58: 'editio insignis atque reliquis praeferenda') (Details: Title printed in red & black. An engraved portrait of Terentius on the title. Bookblock in good condition) (Condition: Binding plain and very shabby. Bookblock loose in the binding. Front flyleaf loose, front pastedown gone. Title dustsoiled. Paper yellowing) (Note: The 6 plays of the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer, ca. 190-159 B.C, ...

TERENTIUS. P. Terentii Comoediae sex elegantissimae, cum Donati commentariis ex optimorum praesertim veterum exemplariorum collatione emendatae, atque scholiis exactissimis, a multis doctis viris illustratae, & nunc denuo a omnibus mendis purgatae. Basel (Basileae), Apud Nicolaum Brylingerum, 1561. 8vo. (XXVI),643,(1 blank) p. Pigskin binding, over wooden boards and dated 1565. 17.5 cm (Ref: VD16 T 456; cf. Schweiger 2,1059; cf. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p. 43, no. 15; cf. Dibdin 2,470 for the Stephanus ed. of 1536) (Details: Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, dated 1565. Back with 3 raised bands, and its 4 compartments have blindstamped floral motives. The boards decorated with a triple blind-rolled frame; the outer frame comprising human figures, alternating with acanthus leaves; the central compartment of the upper board shows the female figure of Justice, who holds a sword and a pair of scales, below her 3 lines ...

TACITUS. C. Corneli Taciti Quae exstant opera. Recensuit J.N. Lallemand. Paris (Parisiis), Apud Desaint & Saillant, (...) typis J. Barbou, 1760. 12mo. 3 volumes: XXIV,444; (VI),480; 456 p., 3 frontispieces. Mottled calf. 16 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,1004: 'L.'s Noten sind von Werth'; Dibdin 2,455: 'one of the most beautiful and correct of all his classics'; Moss 2,645: 'A pleasing and accurate little edition'; Graesse 6/2,10: 'Jolie edition dans laquelle le texte d'Ernesti (of 1752) a ete corrigé à l'aide d'un manuscript de Paris'; Ebert 22175; Brunet 5,636: 'Bon texte') (Details: Backs with 2 shields, and gilt with fleurettes. Edges of the boards and the bookblocks also gilt. Boards with triple fillet gilt borders. Marbled endpapers. The frontispiece of the first volume, designed by Ch. Eisen and executed by L. Lempereur depicts Tacitus in his study; Tacitus looks at a ...

TACITUS. C. Cornelii Taciti Opera quae exstant, integris Beati Rhenani, Fulvii Ursini, M. Antonii Mureti, Josiae Merceri, Justi Lipsii, Valentis Acidalii, Curtii Pichenae, Jani Gruteri, Hugonis Grotii, Joannis Freinshemii, Joannis Frederici Gronovii, & selectis aliorum commentariis illustrata. Ex recensione & cum notis Jacobi Gronovii. Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Apud Jacobum a Poolsum & Johannem Visch, 1721. 4to. 2 volumes. Frontispiece, (XXXVI),756 (recte 764);578,(158 index) p. Vellum 26 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 198473214; Schweiger 2,1003/04; Dibdin 2,454: 'A very ample and excellent edition; containing the notes and observations of almost all the old and best editors'; Moss 2,644/45; Brunet 5, 635; 398/99; Graesse 6/2, p. 9/10; Ebert 22169; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,398/99) (Details: Backs with 6 raised bands. Short title in ink in the second compartment. Boards with blindstamped double fillet borders, enclosing another ...

TACITUS. C. Cornelius Tacitus, Jaarboeken en Historien, ook zyn Germanië, en 't leeven van J. Agricola, in 't Hollandsch vertaalt door den Heer Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. Amsterdam, By Hendrik Boom, en de Weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1684. Folio. (XL),528,(4),11;(72) p., 14 engraved portraits & 8 folding historical plates. Calf 33 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 171376293; Geerebaert 137,5,II; OiN p. 359; Schweiger 2,1028) (Details: Back gilt and with 6 raised bands. Boards with double fillet gilt borders. Title in red & black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting Ceres and Flora under a palmtree (Boom means tree); the banner at their feet reads: I.V.S. A.W. H.D.B., which means: 'Johannes Van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangk, Hendrik en Dirk Boom'. Woodcut initials. 14 magnificent full-page portraits of Roman emperors engraved by A. Vaillandt, and 8 double-page battle and rural scenes engraved by I. Mulder) (Condition: Binding scuffed and scratched. ...

TACITUS. C. Cornelius Tacitus, accurante Matthia Berneggero. Strassburg (Argentorati), Ediderunt Georgius Andreas Dolhopfius & Johannes Eberhardus Zetznerus, 1664. 8vo. (XVIII,1122,(2 blank)) p. Overlapping vellum 17 cm (Ref: VD17 547:695101K; Schweiger 2,1002; Dibdin 2,452; Moss 2,643; Graesse 6/2 9; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,398) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title, depicting an altar, left of which stands a Roman emperor, right a German warrior; on the surface of the altar the text 'Aeternitati', for Eternity; just above the altar hangs the globe, upon which stands an eagle with spread wings. This scene seems a combination of two Roman coins. It was perhaps made after the verso side of a coin struck by Constantine the Great in Trier in 321 A.D.; on this coin there is however no eagle; a scene consisting of a globe on which an eagle stands, is to be seen on a denarius of Caracalla, struck after 217 A.D. This ...

TACITUS. C. Cornelius Tacitus, accurante Matthia Berneggero. Strassburg, (Argentorati), Ediderunt Haeredes Lazari Zezneri, 1638. 8vo. (XVIII,1123,(1 blank)) p. Vellum 17.5 cm (Ref: VD17 23:249104Z; Schweiger 2,1002; Dibdin 2,452; Moss 2,643; Graesse 6/2 9; Fabricius/ Ernesti 2,398) (Details: Fine contemporary vellum. 6 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title, depicting an altar, left of which stands a Roman emperor, right a German warrior; on the surface of the altar the text 'Aeternitati', for Eternity; just above the altar hangs the globe, upon which stands an eagle with spread wings. This scene seems a combination of two Roman coins. It was perhaps made after the verso side of a coin struck by Constantine the Great in Trier in 321 A.D.; on this coin there is however no eagle; a scene consisting of a globe on which an eagle stands, is to be seen on a denarius of Caracalla, struck after 217 A.D.; this old eagle-and-globe ...

TACITUS. C. Cornelius Tacitus ex I. Lipsii accuratissima editione. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634. 12mo. (XX),786,(29 index),(1 blank) p., engraved title, 1 plate with 3 portraits. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 833597485; Willems 415: 'l'édition est fort belle et très recherchée'. Berghman 2145; Rahir 403; Copinger 4630; Schweiger 2,1001/1002: 'Sehr niedlicher Abdruck des Textes nach Lipsius'; Moss 2,643; Brunet 5,634; Graesse 6/2 9: 'Édition très jolie'; Ebert 22157) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Nice title engraved by C.C. Duysent, depicting the river god Tiberinus, who sits at the border of the Tiber, and holds in his arms a big jar from which water flows, and a cornucopia; behind him stands a woman who has a mirror in her hand. At the end of the preliminary pages a plate, also engraved by Duysent, showing within an ...

TACITUS. C. Cornelii Taciti Opera quae exstant. Ad exemplar quod I. Lipsius quintum recensuit. Seorsum excusi commentarii eiusdem Lipsii meliores plenioresque cum curis secundis, & auctariolo non ante adiecto. Guil. Barclayus praemetia quaedam ex vita Agricolae libavit. Adiecti sunt indices aliquanto ditiores. Paris (Parisiis), Apud Ioannem Gesselin, 1599. 8vo. (XVI),790,(2 blank),(24 index) p. Overlapping vellum 18.5 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,1000; Dibdin 2,450/2; Ebert 22148; Graesse 6/2,8) (Details: This is the first part of a two volume edition of Tacitus; it contains the Latin text of Tacitus only, and lacks the commentary part. Vellum thong laced through joints at the head and tail of the spine; 4 thongs (partly) gone. Short title in ink on the back. Woodcut printer's mark on the title: depicting the winged mythological horse Pegasus (though cloven-hoofed), the motto in an oval reads: 'Sic aetas non retinenda fugit') ...

SYMMACHUS. Q. Aurelii Symmachi V.C.P.V et Cos. Ord. Epistolarum ad diversos libri X. Ex nova recensione Joh. Philippi Parei. Accesserunt etiam Electa Symmachiana, cum indice. (Bound with 2:) Calligraphia Symmachiana: in qua omnes phrases, & formulae elegantiores, quotquot exstant in gravissimo authore Q. Aurelio Symmacho Praef. Urb. In gratiam & usum Philologiae studiosorum, inprimis eorum, qui Principibus ab Epistolis esse cupiunt, per certos titulos locorum communium colliguntur, ac disponuntur, studio & opera Joh. Philippi Parei. (Bound with 3:) Electa Symmachiana: in quibus quicquid rerum memorabilium, antiquitatisque Romanae in gravissimo authore Q. Aurelio Symmacho Praef. Urb. continentur, sub certos titulos reales locorum communium refertur. Studio & opera Joh. Philippi Parei. (Bound with 4:) Lexicon Symmachianum. (...) Ad editionem, quae prodiit ex nova recensione Joh. Philippi Parei. Neustadt (Neapoli Nemetum), Impensis Joh. Caroli ...

SULPICIUS SEVERUS. Kerkelyke Historie van Sulpicius Severus. Sedert des Weerelds aanvang, tot het vierhonderdste jaar na Christus geboorte; vervolgd tot den tijd van Keizer Karel den V. Uit het Latijn vertaald, en met uitvoerige aanmerkingen verrijkt door Pieter Rabus. Met privilegie van d'Ed. Gr. Mog. Heeren Staten van Holland en West-vriesland. Rotterdam (Te Rotterdam), By Barent Bos Boekverkooper, 1702. 4to. (XXXIV),560 p., frontispiece, 2 plates. Overlapping vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 216756308; OiN 355) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece by C. Huyberts, depicts Sulpicius in his study writing his 'Sacrae Historiae'. Title in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting the goddess of wisdom Athena, surrounded by a great number of books; it's appropriate motto: 'Non curta supellex', 'not an ill-furnished mind/library'. The other 2 engraved plates show ...

SULPICIUS SEVERUS. Sulpitii Severi Opera omnia quae extant. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Ex officina Elzeviriana 1656. 12mo. 333,(3) p. 19th century calf. 13 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 852876300; Willems 1207; 1526; Rahir 1233; Brunet 5,322; cf. Graesse 6/1,376; Ebert 21999; Schoenemann 2,391) (Details: Nice binding. Back with 4 raised bands. Engraved title, depicting Martinus of Tours on horseback ready to cut his cloak in two for a beggar) (Condition: Binding slightly worn. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: The Latin historian Sulpicius (or Sulpitius) Severus was born in Aquitania ca. 360 A.D. He organized under the influence of Bishop Martinus of Tours a sort of monastic life on his own estate for himself and his friends. His extant works are a vita S. Martini Turonensis, 'which is an apology for ascetism'; and this Sacrae Historiae, a kind of universal chronicle to A.D. 402, ...

SULPICIUS SEVERUS. Sulpitii Severi Aquitani Sacrae Historiae a mundi exordio ad sua usq; tempora deductae, libri duo; item Dorothei Episcopi Tyri, qui sub Constantino Magno vixit, De vita Prophetarum & Apostolorum, Synopsis. Quibus accessit rerum & verborum index copiosus. Paris (Parisiis), Apud Gulielmum Guillard & Almaricum Warencore, 1560. Small 8vo. (XXXII),156,(2 blank);(24 index) p. Modern hardbound binding. 13.5 cm 'A universal chronicle which is an important source for the history of 4th-century events' (Ref: USTC 153005; Ebert 22005; Schoenemann 2,378/79) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands, and with a gilt short title in the second 'compartment') (Condition: Old inscriptions on the front flyleaf. Front flyleaf worn, thumbed and dustsoiled. Title also thumbed and dustsoiled, and with an old ownership entry and shelf number) (Note: The Latin historian Sulpicius (or Sulpitius) Severus was born ...

SUETONIUS. Histoire des douze Césars de Suétone, traduite par Henri Ophellot de la Pause. Avec des Mêlanges philosophiques & des notes. Paris, Chez Saillant & Nyon, Libraires, 1771. 8vo. 4 volumes: CXXI,(1 blank),390,(4); (VIII),522; (IV),528; (VIII),383,(1 blank), 86,(2 blank) p. Half calf. 22 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,984/85; Moss 2,638; Brunet 5,584; Graesse 6/1,525; Ebert 21957; Cioranescu 22813) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Title pages in red and black. Latin text with parallel French translation, with notes and 'mélanges philosophique') (Condition: Bindings scuffed. Backs rubbed and slightly damaged at the head and foot of the spine. Shields on the backs partly gone. Boards scratches. Tiny wormhole in the blank lower margin of the first 140 pages of the second volume only) (Note: The Roman historian Suetonius, born c. 69 A.D, is the most influential and best known biographer ...

SUETONIUS. Cajus Suetonius Tranquillus, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem castigatus. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud S. et J. Luchtmans, 1767. 12mo. (VI),408 p. Vellum 14 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,980; Ebert; 21938) (Details: The frontispiece depicts the author at a desk, having a book before him; he seems to discuss with an emperor (Trajan or Hadrian). In the background two rows with busts of emperors) (Condition: Binding age-toned and slightly soiled. Paper yellowing. One gathering loosening. Some small ink marks) (Note: The Roman historian Suetonius, born c. 69 A.D, is the most influential and best known biographer in the Latin language. He was appointed under the emperors Hadrian and Trajan to the secretarial posts of a studiis, a bibliothecis, and ab epistulis of the palace administration, jobs that gave him access to the imperial archives. His Lives of the Emperors De vita Caesarum offers the biographies ...

SUETONIUS. Cajus Suetonius Tranquillus, ex recensione Francisci Oudendorpii, qui variantes lectiones, suasque animadversiones adjecit; intermixtis J.G. Graevii, et J. Gronovii, nec non ineditis Caroli Andreae Dukeri adnotationibus. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Samuelem Luchtmans & filios, 1751. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: (XLIV),1024,(32, index) p.; frontispiece, 12 plates. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 241753686; Schweiger 2,980; Dibdin 2,443; Moss 2,633 (corrects Dibdin); Fabricius/Ernesti 2,460: ' bene sane de Suetonio meritus'; Graesse 6,523; Ebert 21938: 'Eine durch neue krit. und exeget. Ausstattung sich sehr empfehlende Handausgabe'; 'Spoelder p. 685, Utrecht 5) (Details: Nice prize copy, without the prize. 6 thongs laced through the joints. Back with 7 gilt bands and rosettes. Boards with gilt floral borders, corner pieces, and the coat of arms of Utrecht. Frontispiece of H. van der Mij and J.v.d. Spijk, depicting a ...