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XXVII (I), incl. titlepage, 'Praemonitum', 'Fabricio dedicato', 'Fabricio praefatio', 'De Sexto Empirico Testimonia', 'Editiones Sexti Empirici', 'Henricus Stephani Dedicatio', 'Gentiani Herveti Dedicatio', 'Ad lectorem. . .'; 355 pages. / Titlepage, 894 pages, incl. (startin with p. 829) I. 'Index scriptorum et virorum illustrium a Sexto memoratorum.', II. 'Index vocum graecarum.', III. 'Index locorum s. scripturae in notis ad Sextum . . .', IV. 'Index scriptorum in notis laudatorum.', V. 'Index rerum'. - Publisher's gently gilt-decorated and -titled darker-bronze halfcloth-bindings with brown panels and cloth-sharpcorners; large.-8vo.(ca. 23 x 15 x 8 cm; ca. 1,2 kg.). *** IMPROVED EDITION (1st 1718 in 1 volume), much better readable than the old one; THE 3 KNOWN 'BOOKS ON PYRRHONISM' AND ALL 11 'PROS' IN 2 VOLUMES, WITH NEWLY ADDED COMMENTARIES AND EXTENSIVE INDICES. - Panels slightly rubbed, interior with slight cigarette-smake smell (disappears at open standing over time); A VERY GOOD SET.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. [xvi], 578, [lxxx] pp. Small octavo. Full leather binding, probably 1600s, with blind ruling to the covers. First edition with Estienne's own editing. The printer is not named but since Estienne apologizes for the printing (because the ink is darker on some pages than others), there's a good chance it was he -- most WorldCat entries show him as the assumed printer. Boards are scuffed and worn but still functional, spine covering is quite worn with evidence of old amateurish repair, joints cracking. Interior pastedowns are gone, first blank is quite browned and chipped and it is pulling away from the block, hinges cracked but sewing still strong. Interior text is clean and unmarked, a little browned near the front and back but otherwise good. In Latin with Greek text passages, primarily in Italic. Edited by the celebrated scholar/printer Henri Estienne (in Latin, Henricus Stephanus). It contains the important mystical Commentary on the Dream of Scipio - Cicero's account of a dream Roman general Scipio had two years before he conquered Carthage. Macrobius takes the dream and uses it to expound on Neo-Platonic, Stoic mystical and astronomical ideas -- ideas about Pythagorean thought, a round earth, the creation of the universe, the strange music of the spheres; all of which permeated Medieval thought. This edition also contains the other major text by Macrobius, the Saturnalia. Here, Macrobius describes the banquets and discussions held in the house of Vettius Praetextatus. He covers a broad range of topics -- mythological and astronomical, medical, tantalizingly citing numerous ancient texts, many of them now lost to history. This 1585 edition is important historically as it is also based on several manuscripts which had just been reviewed by the scholar Estienne. In addition to the text and commentary, Estienne also explains the process of examining old manuscripts and arriving at a definitive text -- a fascinating look at the efforts of a great classical scholar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 578 pages.

Four parts bound in three vols, folio, pp.I: i: [xxxvi], 542, II: ii: [viii], 992, III: iii: [viii], 416, iv:139; vol.I bound without the final blank Yy8; printed in Latin and Greek in parallel columns, large printer's device to titles, woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tail-pieces; bifolia INn3.4 and IIINNNN6 misbound; very small marginal paper-flaws to ILl1, small marginal paper-flaw to title of vol.II (neatly repaired), a few very light spots to the preliminary leaves of vol.I, withal a very good set; bound in late nineteenth-century blue morocco gilt à la dentelle, endpapers signed in black (MacKenzie?), spines gilt in compartments with gilt red morocco lettering-pieces, edges gilt, marbled endpapers; volsI andII neatly rebacked with spine relaid, joints and extremities a little rubbed with some old retouching, a few slight scuffs, corners bumped; modern private collector's booklabel to front pastedowns.A magnificent large-paper copy of the first complete edition of Plato's corpus, edited by Henri Estienne and accompanied by a new parallel translation by Jean de Serres. 'Henri Estienne's monumental edition of Plato, the first complete edition, which for two centuries remained the indispensable instrument of Platonic studies; to this day its pagination is universally accepted as the standard system of reference to the text of Plato' (Schreiber). The 'Stephanus' reference to chapters and paragraphs, still used in scholarship today, refers to the arrangement devised by Henri Estienne for this edition. This landmark edition of Plato's collected works ranks among the most remarkable and influential achievements of the eminent scholar-printer Henri EstienneII. He established the Greek text through meticulous comparison of the 1513 Aldine edition, the Basel printings of 1534 and 1566, and the 1531 Louvain edition of the Laws, supplementing these with manuscript sources. Maintaining his exacting scholarly principles, Estienne emended corrupt passages through conjecture, but printed the latter in the margins, clearly setting them apart from the text proper; he also rejected Ficino's Latin translation and arranged for a fresh one by Jean de Serres, which he carefully revised. Serres, a committed Protestant, prefaced the three volumes with individual dedicatory letters addressed to ElizabethI of England, JamesVI of Scotland, and the Canton of Berne. 'Of all Estienne's publications the Plato is perhaps the most lavishly decorated: besides numerous woodcut initials, culs-de-lampe, and a striking, elaborate title-device, it is the only publication in which Estienne used his entire series of decorative headpieces. Although this sumptuous Plato further contributed to Estienne's financial ruin, it is also (after the Thesaurus) the work which most contributed to his fame' (Schreiber). Both Renouard and Brunet note that copies in good condition are rare, while Dibdin writes: 'This work has long been considered as a very valuable acquisition to the libraries of the learned, and for its magnificence and variety of critical material must be always held in estimation'. USTC 450772; GLN 15-16 2690; Adams, P1439; Brunet IV, 695; Dibdin II, p.134-6; Renouard 145-6, 1; Schreiber 201. Language: Greek.

Folio, pp.[xvi], 631, [1], [284 (col.1568)], [48]; printed in Greek and Latin in parallel columns, woodcut Wechel devices to title-page and to final verso, woodcut headpieces and initials, typographic manicules, extra-illustrated with two folding letterpress tables, a woodcut map of Syracuse (with letterpress text on verso, all bound after preliminaries) and a folding copper-engraved map of Greece (defective and laid down, bound at end); toned throughout with some minor foxing, very occasional marginal dampstaining, two short closed tears to title, marginal paper-flaws to oo2 and ss1 with old repairs, final 41 leaves defective and repaired at lower corner (affecting text on c.30 leaves, mostly index leaves) with some dampstaining, last 15 leaves also repaired at outer margin, a few other marginal paper repairs, a few small marginal wormholes; bound in early nineteenth-century half vellum with marbled sides, gilt red morocco lettering-piece (slightly chipped), edges stained blue; extremities rubbed, sides cracked in places; early seventeenth-century dated annotations in Latin and Greek to c.400pp. (some at top of pages cropped or shaved) and extensive underlinings, inscriptions of Johannes Nicolaus Schulius[?] dated 1611 and Johannes Zerner of Heilbronn dated 1626 to title-page, nineteenth-century inscription 'Ex libris GRW' (i.e. William Rollinson Whittingham) to head of title-page dated 'March15. '39', ink stamp of Stinneke Maryland Episcopal Library (dated 1879, from the legacy of Bishop Whittingham) to first two leaves, first letterpress table, and woodcut map, bookplates of StMark's Library of the General Theological Seminary, New York, to front pastedown, with their pencil shelfmark and classification to verso of title.A richly annotated and extra-illustrated copy of Thucydides, edited and printed by perhaps the greatest Greek scholar of the sixteenth century; a bilingual edition with multilingual annotations, providing evidence of the keen interest in Thucydides demonstrated by German Protestant humanist scholars.The annotations cover books III, the start of book III, and books VIVII, in both the main text and the separate commentary. As well as marginal annotations, this copy has extensive underlining and a green wash applied over some passages of text, some of which are also highlighted in green in the index; in the chronology, some additional dates have been calculated and there are notes made about other classical texts, plausibly for teaching purposes. The notes indicate the source for variant readings ('Hen. Steph.' on A2v), translations of and grammatical comments on Greek words, typographical corrections made as per the errata, and notes on other texts (such as Cicero, Herodotus, and Pausanias). The main annotator has helpfully dated his reading; he began bookII on '28Junii a[nn]?o 1602', noting at the end of bookII, 'finivi 24 Novemb. a[nn]o 1603'; bookVI is started on 12April 1603, and at the end of bookVI, he writes 'finivi 26Aprilis a[nn]o 1603 Mane circa horam 9 & 10 ante Meridiam', giving not just the date but the time as well (between 9 and 10 in the morning); he begins book VII on '28 Aprilis', and finishes it on 3 November 1603, 'redux a exsilio' (returned from exile). The chart on 3a4v seems to be some sort of teaching plan or structure, listing six different subjects, and also giving the date November 1603, 'redux ab exilio perscripti et decrevi' (returned from exile, I noted down and decided), which would also indicate that the annotator is a teacher. Given the later provenance of the book, it seems likely that this annotator is the Tettelbach mentioned as the previous owner by Schulius. Somewhat unusually, a few of the marginal annotations are in German. Johann Zerner, who obtained the book in 1626, has also made notes in the book. At the end of the Life of Thucydides, ß4v, he has written out a fourteen-line verse about Herodotus and other historians (the final line is cropped), with his IZ monogr.

Amsterdam, Gérard Th. van Heusden, 1969, (reprint of the Chicago 1911 edition), in-4°, [204]pp+27 pp, publisher's cloth with printed dustwrapper.

Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp.8, 494, [2, blank]; 40, 432; printed in Greek and in Latin, woodcut printer's device to title-page (Schreiber 16), woodcut initials and headpieces; slight dampstaining to outer corners of first leaves, otherwise a very good copy; contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges; recased, endpapers, ties, and thongs renewed; textblock splitting at foot between a2 and a3; inscription 'Eremita | 1606' to title, inscriptions 'Simonidæ Groen | 1665', 'Me possidet J. Masson', and 'W.Carr' to original front flyleaf (seebelow).First Estienne edition of The Lives of the Philosophers, the main surviving source of information on many Greek philosophers and their writings, including quotations from works now lost. Diogenes Laertius compiled his Lives probably in the early third century AD, often making use of earlier compilations and helpfully naming his sources. The Greek text was originally printed in 1533, but Estienne used manuscripts with additional sections of text which were incorporated for the first time into this edition, including a manuscript from Cardinal Bessarion's library which he had borrowed in 1555. The Latin translation is that of Ambrogio Traversari, composed c.14241433 and first printed in 1472, and the Pythagorean fragments were edited with notes by the Utrecht scholar Willem Canter (15421575). Estienne was not, however, uncritical of Diogenes' text: 'In his preface he is critical of Diogenes' subjects, explaining that while there are philosophical aspects to the Lives, the men in them are hardly worthy of the title of "philosophers." Estienne, by separating the philosophical life from the possible lives of those whom Diogenes calls philosophers, was drawing a clear line between a collection of disparate philosophies and "the" philosophy, which could only come from a sacred text' (Calhoun, Montaigne and the Lives of the Philosophers, 2015, pp.8788). Provenance:Likely from the library of the French Protestant antiquarian Jean Masson (16801750) who was in the Netherlands and then in England in the early eighteenth century, working under the patronage of William Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester, in his research on biblical chronology.USTC 450603; Adams D482; GLN 1516 2405; Schreiber, The Estiennes 178. Language: Greek.

Volume one only (of 2, but complete in itself) of an edition of Homer's collected works published by the Dutch bookseller Johannes van Ravesteyn (1618-1681), comprising the Greek text of the Iliad with a Latin translation on the opposite pages, edited by the French printer and classical scholar Henricus Stephanus (Henri Estienne, ca. 1528-1598). The text is reprinted after the edition which was published by Estienne in 1589 in Geneva, including his preface to the reader, his letter to the dedicatee Karl von Zerotin (1564-1636) and his preface to Homer. The Latin translation was made by the Greek-Italian humanist and classical scholar Franciscus Portus (1511-1581).This volume was in the former possession of Pieter Nuyts (who purchased it in 1650, the year of publication), a Dutch explorer and diplomat who was employed by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Nuyts was born in 1598 in Middelburg and studied philosophy at the University of Leiden. In 1626 he went to Java and visited on the way Australia, exploring and mapping for the first time the southern coast of Western Australia of which a part was named after him (including a group of islands, the Nuyts Archipelago). He was appointed both governor of Formosa (Taiwan) and ambassador to Japan in 1627, but became a controversial figure due to his private misbehaviour and disastrous handling of official duties. In 1637, Nuyts returned to the Low Countries and settled in Zeelandic Flanders. He was appointed mayor in Hulst where he died in 1655.Provenance: With the manuscript ownership entry in black ink by the Dutch explorer and diplomat Pieter Nuyts (1598-1655) on verso of the second free endpaper, with his motto "Age nunc quod moritur[us] ages" (Act now for you are about to die), signed "P: Nuijts" and dated "1650". First free endpaper missing, small portion of the lower blank corner of the preliminary leaf *4 torn off, occasionally slightly stained, small waterstain in upper blank margin. Otherwise in good condition.l Brunet III, col. 272; Graesse III, p. 328 (note); cf. Howgego N46 (on Pieter Nuyts); Schreiber, The Estiennes, no. 218 (edition of 1589); not in Dibdin. Contemporary overlapping vellum, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, red painted edges. With the engraved title (within collation) and a few woodcut tail-pieces and decorated initials. Pages: [16], 895, [1 blank], [14] pp.