J.77
Dionis Casii.
[
sic
in Sowerby. MS says “
Cassii.
”--
Ed.
] historia et Xiphilinus.
Gr.
Lat. Xylandri.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 125, as above.
DIO CASSIUS.
Των Διωνος του Κασσιου ρωμαικων ιστοριων βιβλία πέντε κα(`ι) ε(‘`ι)κοσι. Dionis Cassii Romanarvm Historiarvm Libri XXV, Ex Guilielmi Xylandri interpretatione . . . [
Geneva:] Excudebat
Henricus Stephanus, Anno
M. D. XCII. [1592.]--
Xiphilinus, Joannes. Εεκ των Διωνος κλογαι Ιωαννου του Ξιφιλινου. E Dione Excerptæ Historiæ ab Ioanne Xiphilino. Ex interpretatione Guilielmi
Blanci, à Guilielmo Xylandro recognita.
Henrici Stephani in Ioannem Xiphilinum post duos egregios messores Spicilegium.
Excudebat
Henricus Stephanus, Anno
M. D. XCII. [1592.]
PA3947 .A2 1592
2 vol. in 1. Folio. [i] 414 leaves; [ii] 204 leaves;
Estienne’s device on both title-pages, woodcut initials and ornaments,
Greek and
Latin text in parallel columns.
Brunet II, page 712 and V, page 1504.
Graesse II, page 393 and VI, page 495 (with date misprinted 1572).
Dibdin 126.
Old calf, rebacked. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. i i and t i. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the Library of William Byrd, with his armorial bookplate. In his library catalogue it is listed in Case 15. Second Shelf.
folio. Deonis et Ziphilini. Opera.
Dio Cassius Cocceianus, c. 150-235, Greek writer of Roman birth. Part of his original history remains and part is preserved in the epitome of Joannes
Xiphilinus.
Joannes Xiphilinus, fl. 1075, a monk of Constantinople. His epitome of Dio Cassius’s work was prepared by order of Michael Parapinaces.
Guilielmus Xylander, was the pseudonym of William Holtzmann, 1532-1596, professor of Greek at Heidelberg University.
For a note on Henri Estienne see no. 15.
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J.78
Appiani Alexandrini historia.
Gr.
Lat. Tollii.
2. v.
8
vo.
Jansonii
1670.
1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 82, as above.
APPIANUS OF ALEXANDRIA.
Αππιανου Αλεξανδρεως ρωμαικα. Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum Historiarum Pars prior . . . Alexander Tollivs, Utrumque textum multis in locis emendavit, correxit & Henrici Stephani, Ac Doctorum quorundam Virorum Selectas Annotationes
adjecit. [Pars Altera . . . ]
Amstelodami: Ex Officina
Joh. Janssonii à Waesberge, Et
Johannis à Someren. Anno
M. DC. LXX. [1670.]
PA3873 .A2 1670
2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 309 leaves, engraved title; vol. II, 368 leaves;
Greek and
Latin text in parallel columns; the colophon at the foot of Iiii
8 recto reads: Hardervici: Ex Typographiâ Pauli Vanden Houte . . . Anno M. DC. LXX.
Graesse I, page 168.
Dibdin, page 32.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson in both volumes.
A copy of this book from
De Bure’s catalogue was bought by Jefferson while in Holland on March 18, 1788, from
Van Damme of Amsterdam. Van Damme sent the book to Jefferson in Paris in June, price
12 (Dutch livres). The book is entered in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with this price.
Appianus of Alexandria, fl. A.D. 138, Roman historian. His work was originally written in Greek and is a valuable source book for the history of
various peoples and countries to their incorporation in the Roman Empire.
Alexander Tollius, 1625-1675. This is his first edition of Appianus, and was founded on that of Henri Estienne.
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