PHILELEUTHERUS HELVETIUS. (Pseudonym of Johannes Jakob Zimmermann.) De miraculis quae Pythagorae, Apollonio Tyanensi, Francisco Assisio, Dominico, & Ignatio Lojolae tribuuntur, libellus, auctore Phileleuthero Helvetio. Douai (Duaci) (= Zürich), Typis Petri Columbii, 1734. 8vo. (XVI;XXXVI),404 p. Vellum 17 cm (Ref: Brunet 4,602; Graesse 5,263; E. Weller, 'Die falschen und fingirten Druckorte', Leipzig, 1858, p. 190) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Short title & year on the back. All 3 edges marbled. Good quality paper) (Condition: Vellum soiled. Old inscription on the front flyleaf: 'Bel exemplaire de ce livre curieux et recherché'; old references written on the verso of this flyleaf) (Note: 'Johannes Jakob Zimmermann, Professor der Theologie an der Karlsschule in Zürich war der erste namhafte Vertreter der religiösen Aufklärung dieser Stadt'. ...

PHILOSTRATUS. The two first books of Philostratus, concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus: written originally in Greek, and now published in English: together with philological notes upon each chapter. By Charles Blount, Gent. London, Printed for Nathaniel Thompson, next dore to the Sign of the Cross-Keys in Fetter-Lane, 1680. Folio. (VIII),243,(1 blank) p. Calf 32 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. R4123; Hoffmann 3,82; Ebert 16760 'Wurde verboten, weil man die Noten antichristlich fand'; Graesse 5,274) (Details: Back with 5 raised band. Blind tooled double fillet border on both boards. Title in red and black. Woodcut text illustration, which represents a diagram of the philosophic schools in antiquity) (Condition: Binding scuffed. Back rubbed. Joints weak, partly starting to split. Boards spotted. Paper browning and foxed. Endpapers worn and browning) (Note: Few books have over a long period of time aroused so much upheaval among ...

PHILOSTRATUS. TA TÔN PHILOSTRATÔN LEIPOMENA HAPANTA. Philostratorum quae supersunt omnia. Vita Apollonii libris VIII; Vitae Sophistarum libris II, Heroica, Imagines priores atque posteriores et Epistolae. Accessere Apollonii Tyanensis epistolae, Eusebii liber adversus Hieroclem, Callistrati descript. statuarum, omnia ex MSS. Codd. recensuit, notis perpetuis illustravit, versionem totam fere novam fecit Gottfridus Olearius. Leipzig (Lipsiae), Apud Thomam Fritsch, 1709. (Colophon at the end: 'Typis Christophori Fleischeri, an. MDCCIX') Folio. (VIII),XLIII, (I);987 p. Vellum 37 cm (Ref: Hoffman 3,77/78; Ebert 16744a; Brunet 4,619; Graesse 5,273; not yet in VD18) (Details: Back with 6 raised bands. Boards with blindstamped borders. Blindstamped floral ornament in the center of the boards. Title in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title: a pegasus flying among the clouds. Text in 2 columns, Greek with parallel ...

PHOTIUS. Phôtiou Patriarchou Kônstantinou-poleôs Epistolai. Photii Sanctissimi Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Epistolae. Per Reverendum Virum Richardum Montacutium, Norvicensem nuper Episcopum, latine redditae, & notis subinde illustratae. London (Londoni), Ex officina Rogeri Danielis, 1651. Folio. (8), 393,(1 blank),(10 index) p. Contemporary calf. 35 cm (Ref: ESTC R12714; Hoffmann 3,89; Brunet 4,624; Ebert 16779; Graesse 5,276) (Details: Gilt back with 6 raised bands. Gilt coat of arms on both boards. Woodcut printer's device on the title, depicting a palm tree, the motto reads: ''Depressa resurgo'. 'Oppressed, higher I rise'. Printed in 2 columns, Greek text of 248 letters, with parallel Latin translation. At the end have been added 5 letters 'ex veteri codice orientali') (Condition: Binding somewhat rubbed. Upper & lower part of the front joint split over 4 and 6 cm. Tiny ...

PINDARUS. PINDAROU OLUMPIA, PUTHIA, NEMEA, ISTHMIA. Pindari Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphalengium, 1590. 8vo. (XVI),246,(4 blank) p. Vellum. 16 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 3,98; Graesse 5,294; Ebert 16858) (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title, it depicts a hand that comes out of a cloud, and draws a circle with a pair of compasses, the motto is: 'Labore et constantia'. Short biography of Pindar by Gyraldus in Latin precedes the Greek text of the epinicia. Greek text only) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned. Some small wormholes in the blank upper corner of the first gathering, smaller pinpoint ones in next six gatherings, nowhere affecting the text. The edges of the lower corner of the first gathering eaten away by some insect) (Note: A quarter of the works of the Greek poet Pindar, ca. 518-438 BC, his four books of 'epinicia', named ...

PINDARUS. PINDAROU PERIODOS. Pindari Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Johannes Benedictus, medicinae doctor, & in Salmuriensi Academia Regia linguae Graecae Professor, ad metri rationem, variorum exemplarium fidem, scholiastae ad verisimiles coniecturas directionem, totum authorem innumeris mendis repurgavit. Metaphrasi recognita, latina paraphrasi addita, poeticis & obscuris phrasibus graeca prosa declaratis; denique adiectis rerum & verborum brevibus & sufficientibus commentariis, arduum eiusdem sensum explanavit. Editio purissma, cum indice locupletissimo. Saumur, (Salmurii), Ex typis Petri Piededii, 1620. 4to. (XVI),756,(recte 750),(56 index) p. Calf 24 cm (Ref: Gerber p. 5; Rico p. 13; Hoffmann 3,99; Schweiger 1,235; Dibdin 2,288; Moss 2,410: 'a very good and critical edition'; Brunet 4,659; Graesse 5,294; Ebert 16864) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands, elaborately gilt & expertly rebacked in antique style ...

PINDARUS. Pindari carmina. Ex editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne. Oxford (Oxonii), Typis N. Bliss, impensis M. Bliss et R. Bliss, 1808. 16ş 2 volumes in 1: (IV), 230,(2 blank);138,(2 blank) p Black morocco 12 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 3,100: 'Schöne Ausgabe'; Schweiger I,236; Brunet 4,660; Graesse 5,295; Ebert 16880; Not in Gerber; Rico, Ensayo de bibliografia Pindarica, p. 3) (Details: Back gilt and with 3 raised bands. Boards with double fillet gilt borders. Within these borders a band of blind-stamped floral motives. Edges of the boards and of the book-block gilt. Gilt inside dentelles. Charming and fine typography. The odes are preceded by explanatory 'argumenta'. There is no Latin translation, nor commentary) (Condition: Wear to the extremes of the binding. Ownership inscription on the front flyleaf) (Note: A quarter of the works of the Greek poet Pindar, ca. 518-438 B.C., his four books of epinicia, ...

PLAUTUS. M. Acci Plauti Comoediae XX. superstites, nunc denuo post omnium editiones, ad fidem meliorem codd. & inprimis vetustissimis MSS. Camerarii, seu Camerario-Palatinorum, ut & doctissimis virorum curas accuratius exactae, & novis commentariis illustratae. (...) Plautina item fragmenta ad similem faciem concinnata, & Plauto denique supposita omnia studio & industria Frid. Taubmanni, Franci. (Wittenberg), Apud Zachariam Schurerum (typis Johannis Gormanni), 1612. 4to. 2 volumes: (XVI,XXIV),1320,(122 index),(1 printer's mark)(1 blank) p. 19th cent. boards. 24 cm (Ref: VD17 1:043513Q. Schweiger p. 764/5: 'Gänzliche Umarbeitung seiner Ausg. (...) T.'s Commentar ist höchst schätzbar'. Dibdin 2,311: Taubmann 'has greatly contributed towards the restoration of the true text of Plautus'. Fabricius/Ernesti, Bibl. Lat. 1773, I,19/20: 'Praestantissimae ad intelligendum hunc Comicum sunt editiones ...

PLAUTUS. M. Accius Plautus, ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus; ab eodemque commentariis explicatus. Nunc denuo plurimis, quae in praecedentibus editionibus irrepserant, mendis, repurgatus; multisque in locis in gratiam antiquariorum illustratus. Additi quoque sunt duo indices copiosissimi. Prior, verborum, locutionum & sententiarum; posterior, eorum quae commentariis D. Lambini continentur. Geneva (Coloniae Allobrogum), Apud Petrum & Iacobum Chouët, 1622. 4to. (VIII),920,(51 index)(1 blank) p. Calf 25 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,765; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,18; Moss 2,461; Ebert 17188; cf. GLN 15-16 no. 3810; cf. Dibdin 2,310/11; Graesse 5,328; Ebert 17188) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Gilt letterpiece in the second compartment. Boards blindtooled. Title with woodcut architectural borders. Occasional woodcut headpieces and initials) (Condition: Binding very scuffed, ...

PLAUTUS. M. Accius Plautus ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus; ab eodemque commentariis explicatus. Nunc denuo plurimis, quae in praecedentibus editionibus irrepserant, mendis, repurgatus; multisque in locis in gratiam antiquariorum illustratus. Geneva (Coloniae Allobrogum), Apud Petrum & Iacobum Chouët, 1622. 4to. (VIII),920,(51 index),(1 blank) p. Overlapping vellum. 24 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,765; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,18; Moss 2,461; Ebert 17188: 'Bloss Nachdruck der Lambinischen Ausgabe'; cf. GLN-3810) (Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Title with broad woodcut architectural borders. Woodcut headpieces. Woodcut initials. At the end 2 indices, one 'verborum, locutionum & sententiarum', the other on the commentary of Lambinus) (Condition: Vellum age-toned & soiled. On the titlepage the place of printing: 'Coloniae Allobrogum' (Latin name of ...

PLAUTUS. M. Acci Plauti Comoediae Superstites XX. Accuratissime editae. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Typis Ludovici Elzevirii, 1652. 24mo. 715,(5) p., engraved title. 19th century half calf. 13.5 cm (Ref: Willems 1152, note; Bergmann 2214; Rahir 3319; Schweiger 2,766; Ebert 17196; Brunet 4,709; Graesse 5,329) (Details: Back gilt, and divided in 7 compartments, in 4 of them gilt lozenges filled with tiny floral motives. Marbled endpapers. Uncut right and lower margin. Engraved title, depicting the playwright Plautus pointing with his left hand to a performance, in his right hand he holds a jester staff) (Condition: Binding slightly scuffed. Head of the spine very slightly damaged. Boards somewhat scratched and corners somewhat bumped) (Note: M. Accius Plautus, ca. 250-184 B.C., better known as Titus Maccius Plautus was a playwright of great talent, 'one of the highest type of dramatists, worthy to rank with Sophocles, for example, or ...

PLAUTUS. M. Acci Plauti Comoediae. Accedit commentarius ex Variorum notis & observationibus. Quarum plurimae nunc primum eduntur. Ex recensione Ioh. Frederici Gronovii. Leiden (Lugd. Batavorum), Ex officina Hackiana, 1664. 8vo. (XVI),1154,(52 index) p. Calf 20.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 840013841; Schweiger 2,766; Dibdin 2,312: 'Gronovius by the assistance of 6 ancient MSS. and his own sagacious conjectures, has improved the text in many places, and given some ingenious and successful explanations of difficult passages'; Moss 2,461/2; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,21; Neue Pauly, Supplement Band 2, Geschichte der antiken Texte, Darmstadt 2007, p. 477; Graesse 5,329; Ebert 17202) (Details: Gilt back with 5 raised bands. Engraved title. Commentary in 2 columns beneath the text) (Condition: Binding scuffed and scratched. Shield on the back gone. Paper of the front pastdown wrinkled. Titlepage cut out, and mounted on blank flyleaf expertly, with removal of the blank ...

PLAUTUS. Pseudolus, ein Lustspiel des Plautus in alten Sylbenmaassen verdeutscht. Zur Anhörung feyerlicher Reden bey der öffentlichen Entlassung einiger Schüler von der Thomasschule auf die Universität am 17. April 1823 früh um 9 Uhr, laded die hohen Patrone und theilnehmenden Freunde der Schule gehorsamst und ergebenst ein Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost, Rector. Leipzig, Gedruckt bey Wilhelm Staritz, 1823. 60 p. Plain wrappers 21.5 cm (On the last 3 pages: 'Kurze Nachrichten zur Geschichte der Thomasschule'. Cover worn. Frontcover faded and with some small spots. Title dustsoiled) (The Thomasschule, the 'Schola Thomana Lipsiensis', is a public boarding school in Leipzig, Saxony. It was founded in 1212 and is one of the oldest schools in the world. Cultivating classical languages is an old tradition at St. Thomas School. (See Wikipedia: 'Thomasschule zu Leipzig')
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PLINIUS MINOR. C. Pliniii Secundi Novocomensis Liber de viris in re militari & administranda republica illustribus, a multis mendis repurgatus, & novis commentariis nunc primum (nunc primum per Conradum Lycosthenem) ita illustratus, ut ad omnes Romanorum historias plurimum lucis & utilitatis adferat. Una cum eiusdem Plinii vita, rerumque & verborum omnium indice copiosissimo. Basel (Basileae), no publisher, n.d. (Colophon on the last page: 'Basileae, Ex officina Ioannis Oporini, Anno salutis humanae 1547, mense Septembri) 8vo. (XXXII),595,(75 index),(2 blank) p. 19th century half vellum 17 cm (Ref: VD16 P 3521; Schweiger, 2,1139 (under Sextus Aurelius Victor); Graesse 5,350) (Details: Back ruled gilt, and with a green morocco shield. 2 woodcut initials) (Condition: On the title page the words 'per Conradum Lycosthenem' are carefully erased. This erasing has been repeated on the verso of the title, ...

PLINIUS MINOR. C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolarum libri X. Notis integris Is. Casauboni, Jani Gruteri, H. Stephani, Augusti Buchneri, Casp. Barthii, Joh. Fred. Gronovii, Selectissimisque Joh. Mariae Catanaei, Ritterhusii & aliorum, insertis suo loco integris commentariis Francisci Balduini, J.C. Cunradi Ritterhusii, J.C. & Gerh. Joh. Vossii in 'Relationem' seu consultationem 'Plinii', & ad hanc 'Rescriptum Trajani' Imper. de 'Christianis', illustrati & accurate recensiti a Johanne Veenhusio, Brem. Leiden, Rotterdam (Lugd. Batav. Roterodami), Ex Officina Hackiana, 1669. 8vo. (LII),818,(23 index),(1 blank) p., frontispiece. 19th century half calf. 19.5 cm 'We shall have reason to congratulate ourselves on the acquisition of so elegant and desirable an edition' (Ref: STCN ppn 840239440; Schweiger 2,809; Brunet 4,722: 'bonne édition'; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,415, among the ...

PLINIUS MINOR. Lettere di Plinio il Giovane, tradotte in lingua Italiana e dedicate all'Illustriss., ed Eccellentiss. Signore D. Alessandro Albani, nipote di nostro Signore Clemente XI, Pontefice Ottimo Massimo, dal Canonico Gio. Antonio Tedeschi e tra gli Arcadi Orticolo Eleo. Roma, Della Stamperia di Gio. Maria Salvioni, nella Sapienza, 1717. 4to. (XXXV),(1 blank); 441,(1 errori),(2 blank) p. Calf 24 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,816; Moss 2,502, quotes Nicola Francesco Haym ('Biblioteca Italiana o sia notizia de libri rari nella lingua italiana', Venice/Milan, 1741, p. 157): 'La traduzione, e l'impressione sono ambi bellissime'; Ebert 17379; Graesse 3,351) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands, and a gilt red morocco shield in the second compartment. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut initials. Excellent quality paper) (Condition: Binding scuffed. Boards scratches and spotted. Corners bumped. Foot of the spine ...

PLINIUS MINOR. Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolarum libros decem, cum notis selectis Jo. Mariae Catanaei, Jac. Schegkii, Jac. Sirmondi, Is. Casauboni, Henrici Stephani, Conradi Rittershusii, Cl. Minois, Casparis Barthii, Aug. Buchneri, Jo. Schefferi, Jo. Frid. Gronovii, Christophori Cellarii aliorumque, recensuerunt suisque animadversionibus illustrarunt Gottlieb Cortius et Paullus Daniel Longolius, qui etiam universum opus indicibus locupletissimis instruxit. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1734. 4to. Frontispiece, (LII),92,(4);846,(119),(1 blank) p. Vellum 26.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 186700156; Schweiger 2,809/10; Brunet 4,722: 'bonne édition'; Dibdin 2,332; Graesse 5,343; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,416: 'optima editio') (Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Short title in the second compartment. Blind tooled boards. The engraved frontispiece depicts a pensive Pliny busy writing a letter. Title printed in ...

PLINIUS MINOR. Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolarum libros decem, cum notis selectis Jo. Mariae Catanaei, Jac. Schegkii, Jac. Sirmondi, Is. Casauboni, Henrici Stephani, Conradi Rittershusii, Cl. Minois, Casparis Barthii, Aug. Buchneri, Jo. Schefferi, Jo. Frid. Gronovii, Christophori Cellarii aliorumque, recensuerunt suisque animadversionibus illustrarunt Gottlieb Cortius et Paullus Daniel Longolius, qui etiam universum opus indicibus locupletissimis instruxit. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1734. 4to. Frontispiece, (LII),92,(4);846,(119),(1 blank) p. Contemporary mottled calf 26 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 186700156; Schweiger 2,809/10; Brunet 4,722: 'bonne édition'; Dibdin 2,332; Graesse 5,343; Ebert 17356; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,416) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands, and panelled in gilt with floral motives. Frontispiece, it depicts Pliny writing a letter. Title in red & black. Engraved printer's mark ...

PLINIUS MINOR. Caji Plinii Caecilii Secundi Panegyricus, cum notis integris Francisci Jureti, Joannis Livineji, Justi Lipsii, Petri Fabri, Conradi Rittershusii, Jani Gruteri, Christiani Gotlibi Schwarzii, et selectis aliorum, curante Joanne Arntzenio, qui & suas adnotationes adjecit. Accedit Joannis Masson Vita Plinii, editio tertia auctior. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Janssonio Waesbergios, 1738. 4to. (XXIV including frontispiece),XCII,(4 index); 469,(57 index) p. Half vellum 25 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 186699948; Schweiger 2,812/3; Dibdin 2,335; Moss 2,495/6; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,423; Graesse 5,349: 'Bonne édition'; Ebert 17374) (Details: Early 20th century binding. Brown gilt morocco shield on the back. Title in red & black. Engraved printer's mark on the title, depicting a mole, flanked by a seating Hermes and Athena; the motto is: 'vulgo caeca vocor, video sed acutius ipso', 'By the crowd I am called ...

PLINIUS MINOR. Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa. (Liber I-X: ex recensione Cortii et Longolii. Panegyricus Nervae Trajano Augusto dictus, ex editione T. Hearne) Glasgow (Glasguae), In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, Academiae typographi, 1751. 12mo. 3 volumes in 2: (IV),1-275,(1 blank); (IV),277-633(1 blank),(23 p. index),(1 blank) p. Vellum 13 cm (Ref: Gaskell no. 208+ (p. 163), and especially no. 208 (p. 419); ESTC Citation No. T190303; Schweiger 2,807: 'Sehr saubrer Abdruck des Textes der Briefe nach Corte und Longolius und des Panegyricus nach Th. Hearne'; Graesse 5,346; Ebert 17358; cf. Dibdin 2,331 & 332; cf. Moss 2,495) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled and scratched. Some foxing. Paper yellowing) (Note: The Roman civilian administrator Gaius ...