LUCANUS. M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia cum commentario Petri Burmanni. Leiden (Leidae), Apud Conradum Wishoff, Danielem Goetval et Georg. Jacob. Wishoff, fil.Conrad., 1740. 4to. (LII),735,(1 blank) (160 indices) p. Marbled calf. 26 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 239852117; Schweiger 2,565; Dibdin 2,186; Brunet 3,1200; Moss 2,242: 'A very excellent and critical edition, and by far the best which has yet been published'; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,147/48: 'ceteris praeferenda'; Ebert 12350; Graesse 4,273/74; Spoelder p. 642/3, Middelburg 4) (Details: Prize copy. Backstrip ruled in gilt. Red morocco shield on the back. Gilt coat of arms of Middelburg on both boards. Gilt palmette motifs along the borders of the boards. Title in red and black. On the title also a large engraving of a battle scene, the battle of Actium, designed by J. de Groot, and engraved by J. v.d. Spyk) (Condition: The back has been repaired expertly. The front flyleaf, with on it the ...

LUCIANUS. LOUKIANOU SAMOSATEÔS HAPANTA. Luciani Samosatenis Opera. Ex versione Ioannis Benedicti. Cum notis integris Ioannis Bourdelotii, Iacobi Palmerii a Grentemesnil, Tanaquilli Fabri, Aegidii Menagii, Francisci Guieti, Ioannis Georgii Graevii, Iacobi Gronovii, Lamberti Barlaei, Iacobi Tollii & selectis aliorum. Accedunt inedita scholia in Lucianum, ex Bibliotheca Isaaci Vossii. (At the end: Scholia in volumen primum (& secundum) Luciani. Nunquam hactenus edita. Recensuit & notulas adjecit Johannes Clericus) Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Ex Typographia P. &. I. Blaeu, Prostant apud Wolfgang, Ianssonio-Waesbergios, Boom, a Someren, & Goethals, 1687. 8vo. 2 volumes: (XXIV),1060,(18 index),(2 blank); (IV),922,(26 index); (VIII),46,(2 blank);55,(1 blank) p., engraved frontispiece. Vellum 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 853061254; Hoffmann 2,537; Dibdin 2,193; Moss 2,262/3; Brunet 3,1207; Graesse 4,278; Ebert 12384) (Details: 6 ...

LUCIANUS. LOUKIANOU SAMOSATEÔS HAPANTA. Luciani Samosatensis Opera. Cum nova versione Tiber. Hemsterhusii, & Io. Matthiae Gesneri, graecis scholiis, ac notis omnium proximae editionis commentatorum, additis Io.Brodaei, Io. Iensii, Lud. Kusteri, Lamb. Bosii, Hor. Vitringae, Ioan. de la Faye, Ed. Leedes aliisque ineditis, ac praecipue Mosis Solani & I.M. Gesneri. Cujus priorem partem summo studio curavit & illustravit Tiberius Hemsterhusius. Ceteras inde partes ordinavit, notasque suas adjecit Ioannes Fredericus Reitzius. (And:) Tib. Hemsterhusii Animadversionum in Lucianum Appendix. Ex schedis MSS. in Bibl. Lugd. Bat. servatis collegit, disposuit et edidit Jacobus Geel. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Sumptibus Jacobi Wetstenii, 1743. (And:) Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud S. et J. Luchtmans, Academiae Typographos, 1824. 4to. 3 volumes, plus 1 additional volume: (1:) (XII including title and frontispiece),LXXII,882 p., 1 plate. (2:) ...

LUCRETIUS. Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex. Accedunt selectae lectiones dilucidando poëmati appositae. (Curante Stephano Andrea Philippe). Paris, (Lutetiae Parisiorum), Typis Josephi Barbou, 1754. 12mo. XXXVI,288 p., frontispiece and 6 plates. Later half morocco. 17.5 cm (Ref: Gordon 504B; Ebert 12455; Brunet 3,1220; cf. Schweiger 2,576 for the ed. of 1744; Graesse 4,280) (Details: Nice copy. Red morocco, first half 20th century. Back with 4 raised bands, with gilt fillets and lettering. Marbled boards and endpapers. Thick paper, wide margins, untrimmed. Fine engraved frontispiece and plates designed by Frans van Mieris junior, engraved by Cl. Duflos for Coustelier in 1744, and used again by Barbou for this edition. For an explanation of these mythological plates see the bibliography of Gordon, p. 244. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree, symbolising the ...

LYCOPHRON. Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra. Poëma obscurum. Ioannes Meursius recensuit, & libro commentario illustravit. Altera editio aucta & innovata. Accessit Iosephi Scaligeri Iulii Caes. F. versio centum locis emendatior. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Ludovici Elzevirii. 1599. 8vo. (XVI),350,(18 index) p. Calf (19th century) 16 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 15153098; Willems 39; Rahir 25; Berghman 835; Hoffmann 2,569; cf. Smitskamp, The Scaliger collection, no.93 for the first edition of 1597; Brunet 3,1247-1248; Ebert 12543; Graesse 4,309) (Details: Back elaborately gilt with four ornamental lozenges. Brown shield in the second 'campartment'. Boards with a triple gilt fillet border, and gilt edges. Edges of the book block sprinkled. Marbled endpapers. The colophon on the last page reads: 'Lugduni Batavorum. Excudebat Ioannes Balduini. VIII. Kal. Maias. anno 1599') (Condition: Nice copy, some slight ...

LYCOPHRON. (First title:) LUKOPHRONOS TOU CHALKIDEÔS ALEXANDRA, to skoteinon poiêma, kai eis auto touto ISAAKIOU, mallon de IÔANNOU, tou TZETZOU EXÊGÊMA. (Second title:) Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra, obscurum poema. Cum graeco Isaacii, seu potius Johannis Tzetzae commentario. Versiones, variantes lectiones, emendationes, adnotationes, & indices necessarios adjecit Johannes Potterus, A.M. & Collegii Lincolniensis Socius. Editio secunda, priori auctior. Oxford (Oxonii), E Theatro Sheldoniano, impensis Joannis Oweni, 1702. Folio. (XVIII, including a frontispiece & a title in Greek):183,(1 blank),(28 index),(2),(4),174,(17 index),(1 blank) p. Vellum 33 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T107442; Hoffmann 2,569; Dibdin 2,209/210; Brunet 3,1248; Sandys 2,356; Graesse 4,309; Ebert 12546: 'This 2nd edition is particularly scarce') (Details: 8 thongs laced through the joints. Red morocco shield on the ...

LYCOPHRON. LUKOPHRONOS TOU CHALKIDEÔS KASSANDRA. To skoteinon Poiêma; Kai eis auto touto ISAAKOU mallon de IÔANNOU TOU TZETZOU EXÊGÊMA. Lycophrois Chalcidensis Cassandra, obscurum poema ope XVI. codicum MSS. sanioribus subinde lectionibus restitutum, fideliori interpretatione exornatum, et accurata paraphrasi explicatum; cum Isaaci vel potius Johannis Tzetzae commentario. Ex postrema Oxoniensi editione ad fidem XIII. exemplarium bis mille ferme in locis emendato, notabiliter aucto, latine reddito, et illustrato. Accedunt fragmenta undique collecta, variantes lectiones, emendationes, et indices necessarii, studio et impensis Leopoldi Sebastiani. Roma, Apud Antonium Fulgonium, 1803. 4to. (IV),XL,416,210 p., frontispiece, 1 plate. Calf 29.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 2,569: 'Im Text des Lykophron liess der Herausgeber vieles unverbessert, obwohl er einiges trefflich verbesserte. Mehr leistete er in dem Commentar des Tzetzes, ...

LYDUS, JOHANNES LAURENTIUS. Joannis Laurentii Lydi Philadelpheni De Magistratibus reipublicae romanae libri tres, nunc primum in lucem editi, et versione, notis indicibusque aucti a Joanne Dominico Fuss. Praefatus est Carolus Benedictus HASE, codd. graec. et lat. in Bibliotheca Imperiali Parisiensi sub conservatore custos. Paris (Parisiis), Ex officina J.-M. Eberharti, Collegii Imperialis Franciae Typographi, 1812. 4to. (VIII),LXXXVII,(1 blank), 316 p. Contemporary boards. 28 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 2,510 (Laurentius); Brunet 3,880; Graesse 4,122; Ebert 12557) (Details: 1 of the 100 quarto copies, on wove paper and with broad margins. Gilt black shield on the back. Greek text with parallel Latin translation) (Condition: Binding scuffed. Back chafed and discoloured, and slightly damaged at the head. 2 library bookplates on the front pastedown. Some slight foxing) (Note: Johannes Laurentius Lydus was born in 490 AD at Philadelphia in ...

LYSIAS & ISOCRATES. The orations of Lysias and Isocrates, translated from the Greek; with some account of their lives; and a discourse on the history, manners, and character of the Greeks, from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian war, to the battle of Chaeronea, by John Gillies, LL.D. London, Edinburgh, Printed for J. Murray, and J. Bell, 1778. 4to. (XXXVI),CXXXV,(1 blank),498,(1 errata)(1 blank) p.; a portrait of Lysias & of Isocrates. Calf 28 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T106138; Hoffmann 2,490 & 2,575: 'eine gute Übersetzung'; Ebert 10628 & 12573; Moss 2,119: 'faithful and masterly'; Brunet 3,1258: 'Traduction fidèle, et comme telle fort estimée; Graesse 4,315; Ebert 12573; Dict. of British Classicists 2,370/2) (Details: Back ruled gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red morocco shield with gold lettering in the second compartment. Small and fading gilt coat of arms on the boards, within a ...

MABLY,G.B. DE. Observations sur les Romains. Par M. l'Abbé de Mably. Seconde édition revue & corrigée. Geneva (Genève), Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1767. 12mo. VIII,(IV),426,(2 advertisements, errata) p. Contemporary mottled calf. 17 cm (Ref: Cioranescu 41169; Brunet vol. 6, 22934) (Details: Back tooled gilt with floral motives, and with a red morocco shield in the second compartment. Endpapers marbled) (Condition: Binding slightly worn at the extremes. Corners grazed. Paper yellowing) (Note: The Frenchman Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, 1709-1785, also known as Abbé de Mably, was a philosopher and historian of great repute in the 18th century, and a pioneer of the French Revolution. After a short career in diplomacy, he dedicated himself to literary and scholarly studies. He was a lifelong friend of the philosopher Rousseau, who tutored from 1740 to 1741 the two sons of his brother ...

MACROBIUS. Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii Theodosii viri consularis & illustris in Somnium Scipionis libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis codicibus recogniti & aucti. (Edited by) Joach. Camerarius. Basel (Basileae), Ex officina Ioan. Hervagii, 1535. Cum privilegio Caesaris ad quinquennium. Folio. (XL),334,2 p. Vellum 30 cm (Ref: VD16 ZV 20513; Schweiger 2,586: the first mentioned copy with the privilegium and the corrections. 'Neue, schätzbare Recension von Joach. Camerarius, nach 2 Handschriften'. Dibdin 2,220: 'under the care of the celebrated Camerarius, and by the help of several important MSS. there was hardly a verse in the poets quoted but what received very considerable emendation. (...) A volume, thus intrinsically valuable, will not fail to find a purchaser at a reasonable price'; Ebert 12716; Graesse 4,330) (Details: Later vellum (18th century?). Brown morocco shield on ...

MACROBIUS. Aur. Theodosii Macrobi v.cl. & inlustris Opera. Ioh. Isacius Pontanus recensuit, & Saturnaliorum libros MS. ope auxit, ordinavit, & castigationes sive notas adiecit. Ad amplissimum virum Arnoldum Witfeldium Regni Daniae Cancellarium. Contenta hoc libro vide pagina sequenti, quibus accedunt I. Meursi breviores notae. Leiden, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1597. 8vo. (XVI),697,(55) p. Limp overlapping vellum. 17 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,587: 'Eine englische Handschrift ist für die Verbesserung des Textes benutzt'; Ebert 12718: 'the notes are valuable'; Graesse 4,330) (Details: Printer's mark on the title: a pair of compasses, motto 'labore et sapientia') (Condition: Vellum soiled and wrinkled. A small piece of vellum has gone at the head of the spine. New leaf pasted on the front pastedown. Paper yellowing. Edges of the title slightly thumbed. Upper margin of ...

MARMONTEL, J.-F. Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'Empire du Pérou. Lyon, Chez Amable Leroy, 1810. 8vo. 2 volumes: (VI, including frontispiece),XLIV,290; (IV),349 p.; 11 engraved plates (including the frontispiece), 2 folding maps. Dull contemporary wrappers. 21,5 cm (Margins uncut. Paper on the back and covers partly worn away, resulting in some small holes. Partly foxed)
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MARTIALIS. M. Val. Martialis. Ex museo Petri Scriverii. Sumptibus Societatis. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Typis Danielis Elzevirii, 1664. 24mo. 310,(2 blank) p. Calf 12 cm (Ref: Willems 1344, & 1448; Berghman 2096 & 2092; Rahir 1392 & 1535) In october 2013 it was reported in the 'Daily Mail online' that in a book just published, 'Mad about the boy' of Helen Fielding, 40 pages had been swapped with another title that was printed on the same day, Sir David Jason's autobiography. The Mail observes: 'The printers have had a Bridget moment. Only early editions of this new novel contain chunks of Sir David's book. A kind of error that would have left Bridget Jones herself feeling very embarrassed and resolving to try harder. Readers of the latest instalment of the hapless singleton's diary were astonished to discover Bridget's reflections on life and lover interrupted by 40 pages of Sir David Jason's ...

MARTIALIS. M. Val. Martialis epigrammata demptis obscenis. Addidit annotationes & interpretationem Josephus Juvencius, e Societate Jesu. Venice (Venetiis), Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1736. 12mo. (X),685,(24 index) p. Vellum 15.5 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,599 mentions only the first edition of 1693) (Details: 2 thongs laced through cover. Latin text followed by a commentary in 2 columns) (Condition: Binding soiled. Lower corner bumped. Title dust-soiled) (Note: The Roman epigrammist Martial, ca. 41-104 A.D., embraced in his 14 books of epigrams 'many topics: flattery of social superiors, satire of man's foibles, eroticism'. (The Classical Heritage, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 565/66). Contemporaries valued his work for its frankness and wit. Later Renaissance authors mined his work and sparked a resurgence of Neo-Latin and vernacular epigrams throughout Europe. § Martial's obscenity created a dilemma for ...

MAUNDRELL,H. A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697. The sixth edtion, to which is now added an account of the author's journey to the banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the country of Mesopotamia. With an index to the whole work, not in any former edition. By Hen. Maundrell, M.A. late fellow of Exeter Coll. and Chaplain to the factory of Aleppo. Oxford, Printed at the Theatre, for A. Peisley bookseller in Oxford, and W. Meadows bookseller in Cornhill, 1740. 8vo. (XI),(I),171,(1 blank) p., 9 folding plates, 6 full page plates, 3 text illustrations. Modern cloth 22 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T100587; 'The library of Henry M. Blackmer II', London 1989, no, 214; Brunet 3,1542) (Details: Tasteful and simple modern binding with an gilt red morocco shield on the back. Engraving of the Sheldonian Theater on the title, executed by M. Cole. The first plate is a view on Aleppo. There are engravings of Mount Carmel and Tabor; 7 ...

MAXIMUS TYRIUS. V.C. Maximi Tyri Philosophi Platonici Dissertationes XLI. Graece. Cum interpretatione, notis, & emendationibus Danielis Heinsii. Accessit Alcinoi In doctrinam Platonis introductio ab eodem emendata: & alia ejusdem generis. Leiden, (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Joannem Patium, Acad. Typogr., 1607. 8vo. 3 parts in 1: (XXIII),(1 blank),408; (12),411,(4),(1 blank); (159 unnumbered pages),(1 blank) p. Vellum 17.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 2,585; Schweiger 1,204; Dibdin 2,232; Graesse 4,453; Ebert 13450; Brunet 3,1552) (Details: Two thongs laced through the joints. Each part has its own title, the first is in red & black. Woodcut printer's mark of Paets on the titles, depicting a winged young woman who holds a scythe in her left hand and an opened book in her right arm) (Condition: Vellum age-toned and spotted. Tiny hole in the vellum of the lower board. Both pastedowns detached. Bookplate pasted on inside of the ...

MAXIMUS TYRIUS. MAXIMOU TURIOU LOGOI. Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes. Ex interpretatione Danielis Heinsii. Recensuit & notulis illustravit Joannes Davisius, Coll. Regin. apud Cantabr. Socius. Cambridge (Cantabrigiae), Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, celeberrimae Academiae Typographi, 1703. 8vo. (XVI),435,(1 blank);(10 index),(2 blank) p. Vellum 20 cm (Ref: ESTC Citation No. T98323; Hoffmann 2,586: 'Diese Ausgabe übertrifft die früheren'; Dibdin p. 2,233: 'Foreign critics seem to consider Davies the best editor of Maximus Tyrius. (...) but it is to be regretted that Heinsius's notes are not given entire. At the bottom of each page some short critical and historical observations are given; and there are two very useful indexes'; Brunet 3,1552; Graesse 4,453; Ebert 13454: 'Die Anmerkungen sind theils kritisch, theils die Geschichte der Philosophie betreffend'; Spoelder p. 578, 's-Gravenhage 3) (Details: ...

MEERMAN,J. Josia, Antoninus Pius en Hendrik IV met elkander vergeleeken. Eene verhandeling, voorgeleezen in de Maatschappij van Natuur- en Letterkunde, onder de Zinspreuk: Diligentia, in 's Graavenhaage op Dingsdag den 13 en 20 January 1807 door Mr. Johan Meerman, Heer van Dalem en Vuren. The Hague (In 'sGraavenhaage), By de gebroeders Van Cleef, boekverkoopers des Konings, en der Koninklyke Bibliotheek, 1807. 8vo. (IV),126,(2 stocklist) p. Half calf 20 cm (Ref: ) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red morocco letter label) (Condition: Binding slightly worn at the extremes. The small piece of leather which should protect the right lower corner of the upper board has gone. Some small damage to the leather along the joint of the upper board) (Note: The Dutch Republic was between 1588 and 1795 a Confederation of the Seven United Provinces. This period ended with the French occupation in 1795. In this year the French established a ...

MELA POMPONIUS. Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri III. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonii Pintiani, Petri Ciacconii, Andreae Schotti, Isaci Vossii, & Jacobi Gronovii. Accedunt Julii Honorii oratoris Excerpta Cosmographiae. Cosmographia falso Aethicum auctorem praeferens, cum variis lectionibus ex MS. Ravennatis Anonymi Geographia, ex MS. Leidensis suppleta, curante Abrahamo Gronovio. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Samuelis Luchtmans, 1722. 8vo. (LXXX),811,(36 index),(1 blank) p., frontispiece, folding map. Vellum 21 cm Prize copy (Ref: STCN ppn 238632024; Schweiger 2,611; Brunet 4,801; Dibdin 2,356; Graesse 5,402/403; Ebert 13632; Spoelder p. 683, Utrecht 3) (Details: Prize copy of the 'Gymnasium Hieronymianum' at Utrecht, without the prize. Gilt coat of arms of Utrecht within gilt borders on both boards. 6 thongs laced through the joints. The frontispiece, designed by H. van ...