GRAEVIUS,J.G. Jo. Georgii Graevii Praefationes et Epistolae CXX. In usum latinae eloquentiae studiosorum collectae & editae a Jo. Alberto Fabricio, D. & Eloqu. Prof. Adjuncta est Petri Burmanni V.Cl. oratio dicta in Graevii funere. Hamburg (Hamburgi), Sumtu Christiani Liebezeit, Typis Spiringianis, 1707. Small 8vo. (XVI),637,(3 blank) p. Vellum 17 cm (Ref: Not yet in VD18; Sandys 2,327ff.) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved portrait of Graevius before the title, made after an engraving of G. Valck of ca. 1705, engraved in its turn after an oil painting by Gerard Hoet, painted between 1675 and 1699. Title in red & black) (Condition: Vellum somewhat spotted. Renewed endpapers; some old ink underlinings; small wormhole in the right margin of the last two blank leaves) (Note: Johann Georg Graeve, or in Latin Johannes Georgius Graevius, 1632-1703, was born in Germany, and educated at Schulpforta. He was professor of Eloquence at Duisburg, from 1657 at Deventer and at from 1662 at Utrecht, 'where he lived and worked for the last 40 years of his life'. He limited his attention mainly to writers of Latin prose, Cicero, Suetonius, Caesar, Justinus, Florus. He is remembered for his 'Inscriptiones antiquae', and famous for his three 'Thesauri', in which important works of previous scholars were collected and reprinted, the 'Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae' (1710), the 12 folio volumes of the 'Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum' (1694-99), and the 9 volume 'Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae' (1704). 'The latin style of his prefaces, his speeches and his letters is elegant'. The letters contain a treasure of information on classical authors. The German editor of this collection, the bibliographer Johannes Albertus Fabricius, 1668-1736, was a friend and a great admirer of Graevius. 'Quanta in illo Viro quamque accurata & dilucida cognitio Antiquitatis, quanta utriusque linguae peritia'. He is particularly lyrical about Graevius' eloquence and Latin style. 'Eloquentia vero tam singularis tamque exquisita, ut sermo ejus a Musis videatur ipsis & Gratiis elaboratus esse'. (Dedicatio p. ):(5 recto) ) (Provenance: On the pastedown of the lower board a small label: 'Sammlung Otto Fritz Böhme'. Elke von Radziewsky made of this Collection of the antiquarian bookseller Otto Fritz Böhme a interesting bibliography: 'Sammlung Otto Fritz Böhme, Drucke aus Offizinen im Raum der ehemaligen (Ost-)Hanse', Hamburg, Otto Fritz Böhme, 1986. It presents more than 1700 entries of publications from the 15th to the 19th century, arranged according to printing places from Altona to Zerbst) (Collation: pi1 (portrait), *8 (minus leaf *8); A-2R8 (2R7 verso blank & 2R8 blank) (Photographs on request)
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Keywords: (Oude Druk), (Rare Books), Briefe, Correspondence, Epistulae, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie, Latin literature, Letters, antike altertum antiquity, catbiografie, history of classical scholarship, römische Literatur