J. 91
Maximi Tyri dissertationes.
Gr.
Lat.
16
s.
Oxon.
1677.
1815 Catalogue, page 58. no. 20, as above, with the reading
Tyrii.
MAXIMUS TYRIUS.
Μαξιμου Τυριου λογοι. Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes. [--Δημοφιλου ομοια . . . Demophili Similitudines seu Vitæ curatio.] Oxoniæ: E
Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno Dom.
1677.
B588 .A4 L2
12mo. 264 leaves, the last a blank; engraved device of the Sheldonian Theatre on the title-page,
Greek and
Latin text in parallel columns; Demophili Similitudines begins on page 501. sig. Tt
5.
Graesse IV, 453.
Madan 3146.
STC M1376.
Rebound in calf with the original panelled calf sides preserved, by the Library of Congress in 1903; the upper margin of the
title-page, with the first word of the title, cut away. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
1/-.
This is the first complete edition of the
Dissertationes of Maximus Tyrius published in England and the only Oxford edition. The first English edition of the
Similitudines of Demophilus, a Pythagorean, was printed in Cambridge in 1671.
[1329]
92
Catonis disticha. Stirling.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 56. no. 9, as above, with the readings
Distica and
Sterling.
CATO,
Dionysius--
STIRLING, John.
Catonis Disticha Moralia, et Lilii Monita Pædagogica; or, Cato’s moral distichs, and Lily’s Pædagogical Admonitions. With the following improvements, in a Method intirely new . . . For the Use of Schools. By John Stirling, M.A. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon. The
Third Edition.
London: Printed for
Thomas Astley,
1738. [Price
One Shilling Bound.]
PA6272 .A2
12mo. 26 leaves, collating in sixes; the last leaf has in the Library of Congress copy the catchword
Books printed for
Tho. Astley
, and should be followed by leaves of advertisement.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in Graesse.
Not in Ebert.
Ordered by Jefferson from
Lackington’s catalogue for 1787, no. 3907, price
9d. in a letter to
Stockdale, July 1, 1787.
Dionysius Cato is the supposed author of the
Disticha Moralia, ascribed also to Marcus Porcius Cato, 234-149 B.C., “the Censor.”
William Lilly, 1468-1522, English grammarian. The Monita Paedagogica, an extract from his Grammar, begins on page [28] with the famous
Qui mihi discipulus, Puer . . .
John Stirling, D.D., d. 1777, English cleric.
[1330]
J. 93
Minutius Felix.
12
mo.
Not in the 1815 Catalogue.
MINUCIUS,
Felix Marcus.
M. Minvcii Felicis, Romani olim Cavsidici, Octavivs, in qvo agitvr vetervm Christianorum causa, restitivtvs a Fr. Bald. I. C. Ex officina
Lvdovici Lucij, typographi
Heidelbergensis,
m.d.lx
. [Heidelberg, 1560.]
BT1116 .M6
