Manilius m arcus (3 Ergebnisse)

Small 4to (142 x 188 mm). 2 parts in one volume. (32), 131, (5) pp. (20), 510, (2) pp. With two identical printer's devices and several woodcut diagrams in the text. 19th century red morocco with giltstamped fillets to spine and covers. Gilt inner dentelle. All edges gilt. Third edition of Scaliger's famous recension of this instructional poem on astronomy written in the first century. "[Scaliger's] penetrating scholarship and powerful gift of analysis were magisterially demonstrated in his edition of one of the most difficult of Latin texts, the 'Astronomica' of Manilius, and this was a forerunner to his greatest work [namely 'De emendatione temporum']" (PMM, p. 59f.). The commentary (pp. 473-510, with letterpress Arabic) contains one of the earliest European studies of Arabic star names ("De quarundam stellarum arabicis appellationibus"). This edition was first published by Estienne in 1579; the first part of the present edition had already appeared in the previous year (cf. Adams M 364, Graesse IV, 364 & Houzeau/L. 1037). - Binding professionally repaired at extremities. Rebound in the 19th century, trimming the edges fairly closely, touching some of the diagrams. Modern endpapers. Occasional light brownstaining; insignificant waterstain to gutter of first few leaves and outer margins. A few early annotations in brown ink. Title has stamp of St Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster (West Sussex). - Adams M 365. Caillet 7076. Ebert 12943. Houzeau/Lancaster 1037. Riccardi I2, 93, 12. Schweiger II.2, 590 (with erroneous collation). Cf. Wolf 189b; Zinner 3387 (1590 ed.). PMM 98 (note).…

2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. iv, 502; 2 p.l., [503]-956, lxxvi, with half-title in Vol. II. later half calf (rubbed, extremities worn & chipped, lacking spine labels, internally very good). armorial bookplates of George Cornewall Lewis [1806-1863] & William Spottiswoode [1825-1883]. Houzeau & Lancaster 1037.

3 Parts in 1, second part with fly title, Scaliger's commentary with separate title-page & pagination, but beginning with signature AA. 8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 136, [5], [blank leaf], 131, [1]blank, [3]; 415, [1]blank, [13]. woodcut printer's device on both titles. text diagrams. contemporary vellum, overlapping fore-edges (book block loose in binding, vellum soiled, ties wanting, some foxing & browning, front flyleaf wanting, repair to lower blank margin of title). armorial bookplate of the Rev. Walter Stennett. & ownership entry of the Jesuit College at Louvain. A didactic poem in five books, written at the beginning of the first century, A.D., the Astronomicon is the earliest surviving connected treatise on astrology. The first book deals with the origin and nature of the universe, the stars, zodiacal and other constellations, planets, the circles of the sky, and comets, the second with zodiacal signs, their classifications, &c., the third with the twelve astrological places, the Lot of Fortune, the rising times of the signs at Alexandria, &c., book four with monomoria and an astrological geography, and the last with the fixed stars. (see DCB) Scaliger's edition was originally published in 1579. His commentary is usually bound first in the volume. Adams M362. BM STC German p. 591. Houzeau & Lancaster I 1037. cfKenney 113 & 167(1655 edn.). …