DIOGENES LAERTIUS. Diogenis Laertii De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum libri decem, graece et latine. Leipzig (Lipsiae), Impensis Ioannis Pauli Krausii, Bibliop. Viennens., 1759. (Colophon at the end: 'Lipsiae, Ex officina I.G.I. Breitkopfii') 8vo. (XIV),756 (recte 736),(94 index) p. Contemporary calf. 19.5 cm The greatest known source of information about the philosophers of antiquity (Ref: VD18 10213392-008; Hoffmann 1,566; Dibdin 1,504; Moss 1,400/01; Brunet 2,720; Graesse 2,396; Ebert 6177) (Details: Printed in 2 colums, Greek text with facing Latin translation) (Condition: Binding scuffed & chafed, especially at the extremes. Back & boards rubbed. Paper foxing, yellowing and occasionally browning. Right upper corner of the last 80 p. is slightly waterstained. Some small and old ink annotations and underlinings) (Note: The 'Lives and Doctrines of the ...

DIOGENES LAERTIUS. Diogenis Laertii De vita et moribus philosophorum libri X. Recens ad exemplar Graecum collati, ex eiusque fide cura doctissimorum virorum restituti & emendati. Cum indice nominum ac rerum locupletissimo. Paris, (Parisiis), Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, sub Pelicano, Monte D. Hilarii, 1560. 12mo. 596,(28 index),(2 epilogue 'Candido Lectori'),(1 woodcut illustration),(1 woodcut printer's mark of De Marnef) p. Later vellum 13 cm - The greatest known source of information about the philosophers of antiquity (Ref: Hoffmann 1,569; Graesse 2,397, erroneously dating 1561) (Details: 2 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark of De Marnef on the title (BaTyR no. 28133), depicting a pelican on his nest, feeding his young with his own blood; the motto is: 'In me mors, in me vita'. On the last page another version of De Marnef's printer's mark (BaTyR no. 2882), now depicting a ...

DESRIVIERES, DIT BOURGUIGNON,F. Loisirs d'un Soldat du Régiment des Gardes Françoises. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. (Broché, 1 liv., 10 sous) (And:) Réponse de l'auteur à différentes critiques dont on a honoré Ses Loisirs. (Bound with:) Réponse des Soldats du Régiment des Gardes Françoises, aux Loisirs d'un Soldat du même Régiment.nd ad 1: A Amsterdam, & se trouve à Paris, Chez Saillant, Libraire, rue Saint-Jean-de Beauvais, 1767; ad 2: N.pl., 1767. 8vo. 2 volumes, consisting of 3 parts, bound in 1 volume: (1),174;48 p. Contemporary wrappers. 18 cm (Ref: Cf. Cioranescu 23764 & 23765) (Details: Uncut edges. Woodcut ornament on both titles. Some woodcut headpieces) (Condition: Marbled cover scuffed. Paper on the back partly gone. Somewhat dog-eared) (Note: The most important ...

DEMOSTHENES & AESCHINES. Demosthenis et Aeschinis Mutuae accusationes de ementita Legatione, et de Corona, ac contra Timarchum quinque numero, cum earum argumentis, ipsorum oratorum vita, et Aeschinis Epistola ad Athenienses, ac indice copioso. Nuper a bene docto viro traductae. Dictorum series versa pagina conintetur. Cum Privilegio Veneto. Venice (Venetiis), Apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1545. 223,(1 blank) leaves. Limp overlapping vellum. 16 cm (Ref: Edit16 CNCE 16736; Hoffmann 1,528) (Details: Latin translation only. 5 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark on the title and the verso of the last leaf blank, depicting a branch of olive and a palm tree, graft onto trunk, with between them an anchor; anchor and trunk are held together bij the initials SOS (Signum Octaviani Scoti); a banner runs around with the motto: 'In tenebris fulget'. Printed in italis, except for the title. Some historiated and ornamental ...

DECLARATIO ORDINUM HOLLANDIAE WEST-FRISIAEQUE, Declaratio Ordinum Hollandiae West-Frisiaeque, ex ipsis fundamentis Regiminis Belgici desumpta, qua jus & potestas singularum Provinciarum cum externis Princibus contrahendi, & de quibuscunq: negotiis constituendi proponitur, nisi quid foedere unionis An. 1579 Ultrajecti composito, aut speciatim Foederatorum Procerum conventui delatum fuerit. Qua legitima & justa esse ostenditur concessio instrumenti seclusionis Principis Auriaci, sicut a Nobil. & Potentibus Ordin. Hollandiae West-Frisiaeque anno 1654, IV Maii decretum fuit; (...) Versum Exemplar ex Belgico, quod impressum est Hagae-comitis a Typographo Nob. & Potent. Ord. Hollandiae West-Frisiaeque, cum privilegio. Leiden, Amsterdam, (Lugduni Batavorum, Amstelrodami), Apud Joannem Maire, et (...) apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1654. 4to. 196 (recte 192) p. 18th century boards. 19 cm (Ref: Willems 1172; Berghman 302; Not in Rahir; ...

DAMM,Ch.T. Inleiding in de fabelkunde der oude Grieken en Romeinen, door Christiaan Tobias Damm, rector van het Koninglyk Gymnasium te Berlin. Naar den vyfden druk uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Leiden (Leyden), By W.H. Gryp, 1786. 8vo. (II),VIII,348,(XX) p. Half calf 16 cm (Details: Back ruled gilt. Marbled endpapers) (Condition: Binding scuffed, back rubbed, corners bumped. Stamp on front flyleaf, 3 stamps on the title) (Note: Christian Tobias Damm, 1699-1778, 'Rector am köllnischen Gymnasium zu Berlin', 'im grauen Kloster' in the 'Klosterstrasse' was a solid classicist, and one of the first German scholars who stressed the excellence of Greek literature and its language compared to Roman literature and language. He also stressed the necessity of imitating the Greek examples for the improvement of national education. He wanted to make the masterpieces of Greek poetry accessable for a general public with ...

CYRILLUS HIEROSOLYMITANUS. Tou en hagiois Patros hêmôn Kyrillou hierosolumôn Archiepiskopou Ta heuriskomena panta. S. Cyrilli Archiepiscopi Hierosolymitani Opera quae exstant omnia, et ejus nomine circumferuntur, ad Manuscriptos codices nec-non ad superiores editiones castigata, dissertationibus & notis illustrata, cum nova interpretatione & copiosis indicibus. Cura & studio Domni Antonii-Augustini Touttée, Presbyteri & Monachi Benedictini e Congregatione S. Mauri. Paris (Parisiis), Typis Jacobi Vincent, 1720. Folio. (XVIII) p., CCL columns, p. CCLI-CCLXVIII; 416 p., columns 417-426, p. 426-472; (2),(2 blank) p. Calf 41.5 cm. 'A fundamental edition of one of the most precious treasures of Christian antiquity' (Ref: Brunet 2,462/63; Hoffmann 1,495; Graesse 2,317; Ebert 5602. Quasten 3, p. 366) (Details: Back with 6 raised bands, and a black gilt shield in the second compartment. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, ...

CYPRIANUS. D. Caecilii Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginiensis et martyris opera. Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1550. 8vo. 466 (recte 456),(13 index),(1),(2 blank); 456,(6 index),(1 blank),(1 printer's mark) p. Half calf over wooden boards 18 cm (Ref: USTC 123042; Schoenemann 1,117 & 119, mentions editions of Sebastianus Gryphius of 1528 and 1544; Graesse 2,316 mentions a Gryphius' edition of 1544; a quick search in KVK yields other Gryphius editions of 1535 and 1537; Baudrier 8,239) (Details: Back with 4 raised bands. Red morocco shield on the back. Gryphius' woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a griffin, which mythological animal symbolizes courage, diligence, watchfulness, and rapidity of execution, used as a pun of his family name Gryph or Greif. From the claws of this creature hangs a big rectangular stone, beneath which is a winged orb. The motto is 'Virtute duce / comite fortuna', 'Virtue ...

CURTIUS RUFUS. Quinti Curtii Rufi De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, regis Macedonum, libri superstites. Cum omnibus supplementis, variantibus lectionibus, commentariis ac notis perpetuis, Fr. Modii, V. Acidalii, T. Popmae, Joh. Freinshemii, Joh. Schefferi, Christoph. Cellarii, Nic. Heinsii. Selectis & excerptis Ph. Rubenii, J. Rutgersii, C. Barthii, Joh. Loccenii, M. Raderi, Cl. Salmasii, J.F. Gronovii, M. Tellierii, Christoph. Aug. Heumanni, itemque Jac. Perizonii vindiciis, & aliorum observationibus, auctioribusque indicibus curavit & digessit Henricus Snakenburg. Delft, Leiden (Delphis & Lugd. Bat.), Apud Adrianum Beman, Samuelem Luchtmans, 1724. 4to. (XXXVII),824,222,1 p. Frontispiece, folding map & 17 engraved plates. Vellum 25 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 141302143; Schweiger 2,323; Brunet 2,450: 'édition très estimée'; Moss 2,549: 'This is undoubtedly a very excellent and copious edition'; Ernesti 2,352/3; Dibdin ...

CURTIUS RUFUS. Q. Curtii Rufi Historia Alexandri Magni. Cum notis selectiss. Variorum, Raderi, Freinshemii, Loccenii, Blancardi, &c. Editio accuratissima, accurante C.S.M.D. (And:) J. Freinshemii Supplementorum in Q. Curtium liber I (& II). Amsterdam, Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1673. 8vo. 2 parts in 1: 751,(1); 93,(48),(1 blank) p., engraved title, 1 plate, 1 map. Overlapping vellum 19 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 095875646; Willems 1482; Berghman 2055; Rahir 1590; Schweiger 2,321; Moss 548; Dibdin 375: 'the edition of 1673 is the most correct and beautiful'; Graesse 2,311) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title, depicting a world conquering Alexander on horseback, trampling his enemy Darius; he is accompanied by a flying Fama, who blows her horn. A plate depicts the 'fons solis', a fountain in the Egyptian oasis of the temple of Ammon, cool at midday and warm at the rising and setting of the sun. Alexander ...

CURTIUS RUFUS. Q. Curtii Rufi Historia Alexandri Magni. Cum notis selectiss. Variorum, Raderi, Freinshemii, Loccenii, Blancardi, &c. Editio accuratissima. Accurante C.S.M.D. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1664. 8vo. (IV),93,46,(1 blank);751,(1) p. folding map, and folding plate. Mottled 18th century calf 19.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 094956561; Schweiger 2,320; Willems 1325; Berghman 2054; Rahir 1369; Moss 548; Dibdin 375; Graesse 2,311; Ebert 5549) (Details: Beautiful binding. Back with 5 raised bands and panelled gilt with repeating floral motifs; in the center of the compartments gilt birds visit a bunch of flowers. Brown morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. All 3 edges of both boards gilt. Edges of the bookblock dyed red. Endpapers marbled. Engraved title, which depicts a world conquering Alexander on horseback, trampling his enemy Darius. He is accompanied by a flying Fama, who blows her horn. The plate depicts the 'fons ...

CURTIUS RUFUS. Hoogberoemde historie van 't leven ende de daden Alexandri de Groote. Inhoudende hoe hy Europa overheerd, Darius der Persen Coninck met gansch Asia ende India tot de Oceanische Zee t'ondergebraght heeft, ende eyntlijck tot Babilon gestorven is. Overgeset uyt Latijn door A. SNEL. Den vierden druck gecorrigeert. Rotterdam, By Pieter van Waesbergen, 1648. 8vo. 513,(14) p. Vellum 16 cm (Ref: Geerebaert 105,c; OiN 154; Schweiger 2,328) (Details: Engraved title, depicting Alexander on horseback, at his feet a trampled Darius; printed in Gothic type, as is usual with translations into Dutch) (Condition: Shabby: vellum worn, back wrinkled; small tear at head of spine; book block loose in binding; front endpapers gone; rear endpapers loose; title soiled, loosening and with thumbed edges; small wormhole in the first 6 leaves near the left upper corner; first 2 gatherings dampstained at the lower margin; gatherings quite loose) (Note: This ...

CUPERUS,G. Gisb. Cuperi Harpocrates, sive Explicatio imagunculae argenteae perantiquae, quae in figuram Harpocratis formata representat Solem. Ejusdem Monumenta antiqua inedita. Multi auctorum loci, multae inscriptiones, marmora, nummi, gemmae, varii ritus, & antiquitates in utroque opusculo emendantur & illustrantur. Accedit Stephani Le Moine Epistola de Melanophoris. Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Apud Franciscum Halma, Acad. Typogr., 1687. 4to. (VIII),294,(14 index) p., frontispiece, 6 plates, of which 5 folding, text engravings. Vellum. 20.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 833724266; Brunet 6, no. 22603; Cicognara 3212; Ebert 5512; Graesse 2,308) (Details: 5 thongs laced through both joints. Engraved frontispiece, it depicts Harpocrates standing on a pedestal, around him gods like Apollo, Hermes, Serapis and Isis, and in the foreground Tempus, who shovels for Egyptian antiquities. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on ...

CORSINUS,E. Notae Graecorum, sive vocum et numerorum compendia, quae in aereis atque marmoreis graecorum tabulis observantur. Collegit, recensuit, explicavit easdemque tabulas opportune illustravit Eduardus Corsinus, Cl. Reg. Scholarum Piarum in Academia Pisana Philosophiae Professor. Accedunt dissertationes sex quibus marmora quaedam tum sacra tum profana exponuntur ac emendantur. Florence (Florentiae), e Typographio Imperiali, 1749. Folio. 2 parts in 1: XXXXVIII,92;132 p., 1 folding table. Vellum 38 cm 'On Greek abbreviations' (Ref: Brunet 2,309; Sandys 2,379; Graesse 2,227; Ebert 5315; Neue Pauly 13,282 & 15/3,1177) (Details: Title in red & black. Big engraved title vignet, it depicts 2 seated angels, one of whom points at the radiant symbol of 'Maria Theou', 'Maria the Mother of God' in the background; between them on a pedestal an inscription: 'IN SPIRITU SCIENTIAE ET PIETATIS'; this vignet is an ...

CORPUS POETARUM LATINORUM, UNO VOLUMINE ABSOLUTUM. Cum selecta varietate lectionis et explicatione brevissima edidit Guilielmus Ernestus Weber, Philosophiae Doctor, Lycei Bremensis Director atque Professor. Frankfurt (Francofurti ad Moenum), Sumptibus et Typis Henrici Ludovici Broenneri, 1833. LXXXII,(II),1419,(3) p. Contemporary calf. 26 cm (Ref: Spoelder p. 507, Arnhem 3) (Details: Prize copy, with the prize, dated 13 July 1850, awarded by the 'Scholarchae' of the Gymnasium of Arnhem to 'Ingenuo bonaque spei juveni Johanni Henrico André dela Porte', and signed by 6 curators and by the Rector J.W. Elink Sterk, Not much is known about Johannes Hendrikus André de la (dela) Porte, 1831-1889. He was born in Arnhem and died there. His family belonged to the local elite. Binding slightly scuffed. Back and boards gilt, gilt coat of arms of Arnhem on both boards) (Condition: foxed throughout, occasionally ...

COLUTHUS. KOLOUTHOU HARPAGÊ HELENÊS. Coluthi raptus Helenae. Recensuit ad fidem codicum MSS. ac variantes lectiones et notas adiecit Joannes Daniel a Lennep. Accedunt eiusdem animadversionum libri tres tum in Coluthum tum in nonnullos alios auctores. Leeuwarden, (Leovardiae), Ex officina Guilielmi Coulon, Illustr. Frisiae Ordd. & Acad. Typographi, (colophon: Typis J. Brouwer, Franequerae), 1747. 8vo. XXVI,127,(1 blank);215,(1 colophon) p. Vellum 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 156632918; Hoffmann I,471; Brunet 2,173/74; Ebert 5018; Graesse 2,231) (Details: 6 thongs laced through both joints. Title in red & black. Greek text with facing Latin translation, and critical notes on the lower part of the page. The second part of the work consists of 2 books with a commentary on Coluthus, and a third on several other Greek authors) (Condition: Vellum showing the patina of its age. Free endpapers gone. Edges of first leaves thumbed. ...

COLLECTIO PISAURENSIS, omnium poematum, carminum, fragmentorum latinorum, sive ad christianos, sive ad ethnicos, sive ad certos, sive ad incertos poetas; a prima latinae linguae aetate ad sextum usque christianum seculum & Longobardorum in Italiam adventum pertinens, ab omnium poetarum libris, collectionibus, lapidibus, codicibus exscripta. Pesaro (Pisauri), Ex Amantina Chalcographia, 1766. 4to. 6 vols: XVIII,LII,522; (II),XXXV,480; (II),XXIV,529,(1 blank); (II),LXXIV,514; (II),VIII,388; (II),XII,306 p. H.calf 27 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,1284; Ebert 4932; Brunet 2,134; Graesse 2,215) (Details: Backs with 5 raised bands. Floral ornament in the compartments on the back. Edges dyed red. Engraved printer's mark on the first title, it depicts a flying Fama, the banner of her trumpet reads: 'Hic meret aera liber Sosiis', taken from the 'Ars Poetica' of Horace, verse 345/46: 'Hic meret aera liber Sosiis, hic et mare transit et longum noto scriptori ...

CLAUDIANUS. Cl. Claudiani Quae exstant. Varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustrata a Io. Matthia Gesnero. Accedit index uberrimus. Leipzig (Lipsiae), In officina Fritschia, 1759. 8vo. 2 volumes: (XIV) p., p. 1-400; (2),401-720; 222 (index),(2 blank). Vellum. 20 cm (Ref: Neue Pauly, Suppl. 2, p. 178: 'enthält (...) nützlichen lat. Komm.'; Schweiger 2,184: 'Im wesentlichen ist der Text der Ausg. von Heinsius (1650) wiederhohlt, aber auch dessen spätere Emendationen u. ältere Ausgg. zu Rathe gezogen. Die kurzen Anmerkgg. erläutern trefflich den Sinn, die Sprache u. die Sachen'; Dibdin 1,471/72: 'A work so recommended (...) will not make the student hesitate long about the necessity of procuring it.'; Moss 1,377: 'undoubtedly a very excellent and valuable edition'.; Ebert 4759; Brunet 2,88; Graesse 2,194; Not yet in VD18; Fabricius/Ernesti 3,202) (Details: 2 thongs laced ...

CLAUDIANUS. Cl. Claudiani Quae exstant. Nic. Heinsius Dan. Fil. recensuit ac notas addidit, post primam editionem altera fere parte nunc auctiores. Accedunt selecta Variorum commentaria, accurante C.S.M.D. Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1665. 8vo. (XXVIII),917,(15 index) p. Vellum 20 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,283/84; Dibdin 1,471: 'in fact the best Variorum edition'; Moss 1,377: 'a very correct and valuable edition' and 'This is one of the very scarcest of the Variorum editions'; Graesse 2,194; Ebert 4757; Brunet 2,88; Ernesti, Bibl. Lat. 1774, 3,201: 'sed optima est ed. a. 1665'; Willems 1350: 'fort bien imprimé'; Rahir 1400; Berghman 2036; Spoelder, Enkhuizen 1, p. 554) (Details: Prize copy, prize gone. 6 thongs laced through both joints. Gilt coat of arms of Enkhuizen within blind ruled borders on both boards. Engraved title depicting the rape of Proserpina, and the battle of ...

CLAUDIANUS. Cl. Claudiani Principum, Heroumque Poetae praegloriosissimi, Quae exstant. Caspar Barthius ope XVII manuscriptorum exemplarium restituit; commentario multo locupletiore, grammatico, critico, philologo, historico, philosophico, politicoque, ita illustravit, ut Auctor pretiosissimus omni aetati, scholasticae, academicae, aulicae, politicaeque, esse debeat ex commendato commendatissimus. Frankfurt (Francofurti), Apud Joannem Naumannum, Bibliop. Hamburgensem, 1650. 4to. (LXXVI, including title & frontispiece),111,(1 blank),1371,(1 blank),(31 corrigenda),(1 blank) p. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: VD17 3:006469N; Schweiger 2,283; Dibdin 1,470: 'Barthius commentary is not only superior to every work which preceded it, but has never been surpassed by any similar production'; Moss 1,376/7: 'rare, and held in considerable estimation'; Brunet 2,88; Ebert 4756; Graesse 2,194; Fabricius/Ernesti 3,201) (Details: 5 thongs laced ...