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. 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. 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. 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 ...

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, ...

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. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'. ...

PHAEDRUS. Ezopische Fabelen van Fedrus, gevryden slaef des Keizers Augustus. In Nederduitsch Dicht vertaelt en met Aanmerkingen verrykt door D. van Hoogstraten. The Hague ('s Gravenhage), By Gerard Block, 1739. 8vo (XLVIII),259,(1 blank),37,(1 blank) p. Vellum. 15.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 303260319; Geerebaert 125,2,a; cf. OiN p. 290) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Title in red & black. Woodcut floral ornament on the title. Woodcut initials) (Condition: Binding age-tanned and slightly spotted. Small name label on the front pastedown. 1 name and 1 small stamp on the front flyleaf. Paper slightly yellowing. Endpapers foxed) (Note: David van Hoogstraten (1658-1724) was conrector of the 'Schola Latina' at Amsterdam from 1694 till 1722. He wrote Dutch and neolatin poetry, and is well known for his lexicon 'Nieuw woordenboek der Nederlantsche en Latynsche tale' (1704, 1719, 1736). He published ...

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri, Aug. liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii, Conr. Rittershusii, Nic. Rigaltii, Is. Neveleti, Nic. Heinsii, Joan. Schefferi, Jo. Lud. Praschii, & excerptis aliorum curante Petro Burmanno. Leiden (Lugduni in Batavis), Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1728. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: (LXII),398;258,(70 index) p., including frontispiece. Calf 21 cm (Ref: STCN 296744565; Schweiger 2,736; cf. Dibdin 2,280; cf. Moss 2,394; Graesse 5,253; Brunet 4,588; Ebert 16595) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands. Morocco letterpiece, once red, in the second compartment. Floral gilt ornaments in the other compartments. Marbled endpapers. Title in red & black. Woodcut ornament on the title. Frontispiece designed by P. Tiedeman and executed by J. Mulder, depicting Phaedrus with pen on paper while he listens to his Muse; in the background Aesopus surrounded by fable animals) (Condition: Back scuffed. Corners bumped) ...

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri, Aug. liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii, Conr. Rittershusii, Nic. Rigaltii, Is. Neveleti, Nic. Heinsii, Joan. Schefferi, Jo. Lud. Praschii, & excerptis aliorum. Curante Petro Burmanno. The Hague (Hagae-Comitum), Apud Henricum Scheurleer, 1718. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: (LXII),398;258,(70 index) p., including frontispiece. Vellum 19.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 189725249; Schweiger 2,735; Dibdin 2,280; Moss 2,394; Graesse 5,253; Ebert 16595) (Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Borders of the boards tooled in blind with double fillet, and with gilt floral ornaments at the corners of blind tooled rectangles. Title in red & black. Printer's device on the title, which depicts a flying Hermes; with an appropriate motto: 'Voor konst en koopmanschap'. Frontispiece designed by P. Tiedeman and executed by J. Mulder, depicting Phaedrus with pen on paper while listening to his ...

PETITE GRAMMAIRE FRANÇOISE, A L'USAGE DES ÉLEVES DE L'ÉCOLE ROYALE MILITAIRE. (Bound with:) Petite grammaire latine à l'usage des élèves de l'École Royale Militaire. (&:) Petite grammaire grecque à l'usage des élèves de l'École Royale Militaire. Paris, Chez Nyon l'aîné, 1778. 3 volumes in 1: 59,(1 blank); 93,(3 blank); 70 p. Contemporary wrappers. 18 cm (Details: Marbled wrappers. Woodcut ornament on the title, depicting a radiant sun, in the heart of which stand the three fleurs-de-lis of the House of Bourbon) (Condition: Back worn & slightly damaged. The last five leaves slightly waterstained) (Note: The 'École Royale Militaire' 'was founded in 1750, after the War of the Austrian Succession, by Louis XV on the basis of a proposal of Marshal Maurice de Saxe and with the support of Madame de Pompadour and the financier ...

PETIT,P. Petri Petiti, Philosophi & Doct. Medici, De Amazonibus dissertatio, qua an vere extiterint, necne, variis ultro citroque conjecturis & argumentis disputatur. Multa etiam ad eam gentem pertinentia, ex antiquis monumentis eruuntur atque illustrantur. Editio secunda, auctior & correctior. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud Johannem Wolters & Ysbrandum Haring, 1687. 12mo. (XII),398,(3 addenda),(1 blank),(8 index) p., more than 50 engraved text illustations on 39 p., of which one is full page; folding map, frontispiece. Overlapping vellum 16.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 102316597; Brunet 4,1 529; Graesse 5,219) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. The frontispiece, designed and executed by Joh. van den Aveele, depicts a seated Amazone, in the background a battle scene, obviously inspired by Rubens' painting 'Battle of the Amazons', or 'Amazonomachia'. The map, 24x18, depicts the Eastern Mediterranean) ...

PETAVIUS,D. D. Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Iesu Rationarium Temporum in partes duas, libros tredecim distributum. In quo aetatum omnium sacra profanaque historia chronologicis probationibus munita summatim traditur. Editio ultima, nonnullis accessionibus auctior facta, & ab Auctore recognita. Paris (Parisiis), Apud Sebastianum Cramoisy, Regis & Reginae Architypographum, 1662 - 1663. 12mo. 2 volumes in 1: (XX),526 (recte 516),(76 index),(2 blank); 241,(7 index),(2 blank) p. Calf. 15 cm (Details: Back gilt, and with 5 raised bands; red morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. Marbled enpapers) (Condition: Binding worn at the extremities. Corners bumped. Owner's entry on the title. Small label on the front pastedown partly removed) (Note: This 'Rationarium Temporum' of the French Jesuit classical scholar, historian and theologian Denis Pétau, latinized as Dionysius Petavius, 1583-1652, is a ...

PERSIUS. Auli Persii Flacci Satirarum liber, cum ejus vita, vetere scholiaste, & Isaaci Casauboni notis, qui eum recensuit, & commentario libro illustravit, una cum ejusdem Persiana Horatii imitatione. Editio novissima, auctior & emendatior ex ipsius auctoris codice; cura & opera Merici Casauboni. Accessit & Graecorum, ubi opus erat, interpretatio, item index auctorum rerum verborum locupletissimus. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Excudit Petrus vander Aa, 1695. 4to. (XVI, including a portrait of Persius),214,(16 index) p., 2 engraved plates. Vellum 25 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 83225780X; Schweiger 2,711; Brunet 4,521; Dibdin 2,155; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,361/62; Ebert 11246; Graesse 3,520) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Portrait of Persius, engraved after a relief once owned by Fulvius Ursinus. Title printed in red & black. Engraved printer's device on the title, which shows a resting Athena, in the background a ...

PERSIUS. Auli Persii Flacci Satirarum liber. Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit, & commentario libro illustravit. Ad virum amplisissmum D. Achillem Harlaeum senatus principem. (Volume 2: Isaaci Casauboni in Persii Satiras Liber commentarius. Eiusdem Persiana Horatii imitatio) Paris (Parisiis), Apud Hieronymum Drouart, 1615. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: (XV),(1 blank),43,(4),(1 blank); (XXXII),558,(26 index) p. Vellum 17.5 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,711; Graesse 5,212; Ebert 16282; Smitskamp, 'The Scaliger collection', no. 116) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. The first title shows an engraving of a 'thiasos': a drunken Bacchus is carried off by a bunch of satyrs, accompanied by some revellers. The second title has an oval woodcut printer's mark; it depicts a thisle flank by the initials A and D. of Ambrosius (Ambroise) Drouart, the brother of Hieronymus (Jerôme). Hieronymus kept using his brother's printer's ...

PERSIUS. Auli Persii Flacci Satirarum liber. Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit, & commentario libro illustravit. Ad virum amplisissmum D. Achillem Harlaeum senatus principem. (Volume 2: Isaaci Casauboni in Persii Satiras Liber commentarius. Eiusdem Persiana Horatii imitatio) Paris (Parisiis), Apud Ambroisum et Hieronymum Drouart, sub scuto Solari, via Iacobaea, 1605. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: (XVI),43,(4),(1 blank); (XXXII),558,(2 blank),(26 index),(1 errata),(1 blank) p. Modern calf antique style. 18 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,710; Graesse 5,212; Ebert 16282; cf. Smitskamp, 'The Scaliger collection', no. 116; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,165/66: 'eruditissimus atque divinus commentarius') (Details: Back with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering. 2 title pages, the first shows an oval engraving of a 'thiasos': a drunken Bacchus is carried by a bunch of satyrs, accompanied by some revellers. The second title has an oval ...