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, 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. 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. 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 ...

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 ...

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. 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 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. 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. 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.- RUHNKEN,D. Davidis Ruhnkenii in Terentii comoedias dictata. Brunsiano exemplo emendatius multisque partibus integrius ex apographo hamburgensi edita. Cura Ludovici Schopeni. Bonn (Bonnae), Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Impensis Ed. Weber, Apud S. et I. Luchtmans, 1825. VI,285 p. Half calf. 20.5 cm (Binding slightly worn)
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TERTULLIANUS. L'Apologétique et les Prescriptions de Tertullien. Nouvelle édition. Revue & corrigée d'après les Manuscrits, les édtions & différens ouvrages de Tertullien, avec la traduction & des remarques, par M. L'Abbé de Gourcy, vicaire général du Diocèse de Bordeaux, de l'Académie Royale de Nancy. Paris (A Paris), Chez Sorin, Libraire, rue de la Juiverie à côté de l' Église de la Magdeleine, 1780. 12mo. XXXIV,423,6,(1 blank) p. Marbled calf 17.5 cm (Ref: Ebert 22582, cf. Brunet 5,730) (Details: Latin text and French translation. Back gilt, a gilt corn sheaf in 2 'compartments', and a red morocco shield. Endpapers & edges marbled. Woodcut ornament on the title. Excellent paper) (Condition: Small old paper label on the head of spine. Front joint starting to split) (Note: Not much ...

THEOCRITUS. Theocriti, Bionis et Moschi carmina bucolica. Graece et Latine. Latino carmine pleraque reddita ab Eobano Hesso, nonnulla a G.E. Higtio subiecit, Graeca ex edd. primis, codd. & aliunde emendavit, variis lectionibus instruxit L.C. Valckenaer. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Abrahamum et Janum Honkoop, 1781. 8vo. (XVIII),567,(1 blank) p., engraved frontispiece. Half calf. 21.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 23992424X; Hoffmann p. 3,482; Schweiger 1,311; Didbin 2,492: 'Valckenaer alone has done more for Theocritus than all the previous editors of the poet put together'; Moss 2,693: 'the notes are short and perspicuous, and chiefly critical'; Ebert 22779; Graesse 6/2,115) (Details: Greek text and Latin translation. Back gilt. Marbled endpapers. The frontispiece, by B. de Bakker, depicts a bucolic scene from the first idyll of Theocritus, two chatting shepherds. (Id. 1, 12-14) Engraved coat of arms of the Russian Prince ...

THEODORETUS CYRRHENSIS. (Theodoreti Opera Omnia, graece et latine, ex recensione Iac. Sirmondi denuo edidit, Graeca e codd. locupletavit, editiones antiquiores adhibuit, versionem latinam recognovit, et varias lectiones adiecit Io. Ludou. Schulze. Tomos II.) (Title completely in Greek) Halle (En Chalêi têi Magdebourgikêi), En tôi Tupographeiôi tou Orphanotropheiou, Halae Sax.), 1770. 8vo. 2 volumes: (XXIV),1694,(2 blank) p. Half calf. 22 cm 'Biblical exegesis' (Ref: Hofmann 3,494; Graesse 6/2,118; Ebert 22796; Brunet 5,786; not yet in VD18) (Details: Backs with 5 raised bands. Marbled boards. Greek text and Latin translation in 2 columns. Volume two of five) (Condition: Bindings scuffed, backs skilfully repaired and rubbed. One of the shields on the back of the first volume has gone. Corners bumped, boards chafed. Paper foxed and yellowing. Lacking the volume 1 and 3/5) (Note: Theodoretus, ...

THUCYDIDES. Thucydidis Atheniensis Historiae de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo, e Graeco sermone in Latinam linguam conversi a Vito Winsemio patre, artis medicae Doctore, & Graecae linguae Professore in inclyta Academia Witebergensi. Nunc denuo ad exemplum ab ipso authore ante obitum diligentissime recognitum, recusi & editi. Wittenberg (Witebergae), 1580. 8vo. (XL),848 p. Overlapping vellum. 18 cm (Ref: VD16 T 1123; Hoffmann 3,557. Schweiger 1,328; Graesse 6/2,151; Ebert 22947) (Details: Latin translation only. Short title in ink on the back. Woodcut printer's device of Samuel Selfisch on the title: it depicts Samuel anointing David, behind David lies his harp (Samuel I,16,13); Samuel and David are depicted within a floral festoon, in both upper corners are two putti looking on; at the feet Samuel and David rests a shield with a big S in its centre. Good quality paper.) (Condition: Vellum aged and somewhat soiled. All four ties ...

THUCYDIDES. Thucydides over den oorlog der Peloponnesers en Atheners. Vertaald door H. Frieseman. Amsterdam (Te Amsteldam), Bij Pieter den Hengst, 1786. 8vo. 2 volumes: VIII,424; (II),485,(1) p. Contemporary marbled boards. 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 177080426; Geerebaert 84,1; OiN 372) (Details: Backs ruled gilt, and with a blue letterpiece in the 'second compartment') (Condition: Binding worn, especially at the extremes. Backs rubbed. Letterpiece on the back of volume 2 slightly damaged. 1 stamp on the first title. 2 stamps on the second title) (Note: This is the first translation into Dutch of the work of the Greek historian Thucydides, 'perhaps the greatest historian who has yet lived, incontestably the greatest in antiquity'. (H.J. Rose, A handbook of Greek literature, London, 1965, p. 302) The translation was made by the Dutch schoolman Hendrik Frieseman, born ca. 1755. Later in life he succeeded in obtaining ...

THUCYDIDES.- PAULINUS,F. Praelectiones Marciae, sive Commentaria in Thucydidis Historiam, seu Narrationem de Peste Atheniensium. Ex ore Fabii Paulini Utinens(is), philosophi et medici, in Veneto Gymnasio ad D. Marci Bibliothecam, excepta, et edita. Ad Excellentiss. III. Viros, Veneti, Patavinique Gymnasii. Cum triplici indice; uno Quaestionum, altero Auctorum, tertio rerum memorab. Cum privilegiis. Venice (Venetiis), Apud Juntas, 1603. 4to. (XLIV),600 p. Overlapping vellum 23 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 3,563; Schweiger 1,331; Ebert 22957) (Details: Two thongs laced through the joints. Gilt red morocco letterpiece on the back. Printer's mark of the Giunta family on the title: a fleur-de-lys. Woodcut initials, good paper, fine printing) (Condition: old and small inscription on front pastedown; a bigger one on the front flyleaf. Name and a faint small inkstain on the title. Some very small wormholes near the lower edge, keeping far away from ...

TIBULLUS. Albii Tibulli Equitis Rom. Quae exstant, ad fidem veterum membranarum sedulo castigata. Accedunt notae, cum Variar. Lectionum libello, & terni Indices; quorum primus omnes voces Tibullianas complectitur. Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1708. 4to. (XX, including frontispiece),476,(73 index),(1 blank) p., 9 full page engravings. Calf. 23.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 186442033; Schweiger 2,1093; Graesse 6/2,157; Ebert 22968; Brunet 5,856) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red shield in the second compartment. Edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraved after a design of Joseph Mulder, by Willem (de) Broen, who is also the engraver of the 9 plates. The frontispiece shows left a shepherdess, probably Delia, Tibullus first love, and the subject of book I; she leans on a fountain, holding a staff; she reaches out towards a shepherd at the left, in the distance 3 nude women (the three Graces) dancing ...

TURSELLINUS,H. Horatii Tursellini Romani, Historiarum, ab origine mundi, usque ad annum, a Christo nato, 1598. Epitomae, libri decem. Cum brevibus notis, duplici item accessione, usque ad annum 1642, ac duplici indice. Editio ultima a quamplurimis mendis, nunc demum purgata. Utrecht (Ultrajecti), Apud Gulielmum vande Water, 1718. 8vo. (XVI),566,(74 index) p., frontispiece. Vellum 16.5 cm (Ref: cf. Graesse 6/2,216) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Boards blind tooled. Frontispiece engraved by P. Sluyter, probably depicting the Muse Clio, a winged woman with a quill in her hand and a laurel wreath on her head; she is visited by several allegorical figures, such as Father Time, and a naked woman with a palm branch (Victoria?) in her hand; in the background is Fama, who blows her horn. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting Fama hovering above a city, the motto is: 'Pax artium ...

VAILLANT,J. Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum praestantiora a Julio Caesar ad Postumum et Tyrannos. Per Joannem Vaillant Bellovacum, Doct. Med. & Seren. Ducis Cenomanensium Antiquarium. Tomus primus: De Romanis aeris, seu Senatus consulto percussis. Editio tertia emendatior & plurimis rarissimis nummis auctior. Cui accessit Series numismatum Maximi Moduli nondum observata. Tomus secundus: De aureis et argenteis. Editio tertia plurimis rarissimis Regum & Urbium nummis ut & maximis & quinariis auctior. Cui accessere eorum omnium interpretationes. Paris (Lutetiae Parisiorum), Apud Joannem Jombert, 1694. 4to. 2 volumes: (XVI),256,(18 index); (VIII),397,(43 index) p. Early 20th century cloth. 20.5 (Ref: cf ISBN 304573108 (which has the impressum 'Amstelodami, apud G. Gallet, 1694'; cf. Ebert 23241; Graesse 6/2,234'; Brunet 5,1027) (Details: 2 frontispieces, the same, designed and engraved by the Amsterdam printmaker ...