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Les voiages de Cyrus. par Ramsay.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 71, as above.
RAMSAY,
Andrew Michael.
Les Voyages de Cyrus. Nouvelle Edition. A
Londres: Chez
Jaques Bettenham Imprimeur,
m. dcc. xxx
. [1730.]
4to. 2 parts in 1 with separate signatures and pagination, 188 and 52 leaves, engraved vignette on the title-page, engraved
head and tail-pieces and initials by Van der Gucht. The second part, without separate title, is for the
Discours sur la Theologie et la Mythologie des Payens, followed by a Lettre de M. Freret a l’Auteur sur la Chronologie de son Ouvrage.
Quérard VII, 449.
Graesse VI, 21.
This edition not in Wolfsteig,
Bibliographie der Freimauerischen.
In his undated manuscript catalogue, Jefferson entered an edition in 12mo, with the price,
1/3.
For other works by Andrew Michael Ramsay, the “Chevalier de Ramsay,” see the Index.
Les Voyage
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
de Cyrus, a “roman franc-maçonnique” was first published in Paris in 1728.
Nicolas Freret, 1688-1749, French scholar, was an authority on the studies of history, chronology and mythology. He became an associate,
and later perpetual secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions.
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Coluthi raptus Helenae.
Gr.
Lat. alennep.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 40, as above, but reading
a Lenep.
COLLUTHUS.
Κολουθου αρπαγη Ελενης. 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. Leovardiae: Ex Officina
Gulielmi Coulon [Typis
Jacobi Brouwer, Franequerae, D.
16. Julii. 1747] cIɔIɔccxlvii.
8vo. 184 leaves,
Greek and
Latin text on opposite pages, in long lines, notes in double columns below; the text with Index ends on sig. H
8 recto, page 127, and is followed by Joann. Daniel a Lennep Animadversionum ad Coluthum, with caption titles, separate signatures and pagination; general title in red and black.
Graesse II, 231.
Ebert 5018.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
8.
Colluthus, fl. 491-518, Greek epic poet.
Jan Daniel van Lennep, 1724-1771, Dutch scholar.
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Il Dante del Venture.
3. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 5, as above.
DANTE ALIGHIERI.
La Divina Commedia. Con una breve e sufficiente dichiarazione del senso letterale diversa in più luoghi da quella degli antichi
commentatori.
Venezia:
Giamb. Pasquali,
1751.
3 vol. sm. 8vo. A copy of this edition was not available for examination.
Graesse II, 330.
Ebert 5715.
This book was one of those bought by Jefferson from the Rev. Samuel Henley in March 1785. It is included in the list appended by Jefferson to Henley dated from Paris March 3, of that year, and is also in the list made by Jefferson for himself of that purchase. Jefferson refers to the volumes as being in 12mo; actually they were a small
octavo.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Italian poet. The action of the Commedia opens at Eastertide, 1300. The first edition was printed in 1472, and
the first with the title Divina Commedia in 1555.
Pompeo Venturi, 1693-1753, Italian scholar, published his first edition of Dante with commentaries in 1732.
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