8vo. 2 vol. in 1. 260 leaves,
Greek text in the upper half of the page,
Latin translation in the lower, both in long lines, notes in double columns below, Index Verborum and Index Auctorum qui citantur
in Scholiis and in Notis at the end, each with a half title.
Graesse I, 164.
Ebert 827.
Dibdin I, 276.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
9.0.
Apollonius Rhodius, 3d century B.C., was for a time librarian of the Alexandrian library, after which he retired to Rhodes, and thus acquired
his name. The Argonautica narrates the voyage of the Argo to Colchis by the Propontis and Black Sea, the winning of the Golden
Fleece and the return by the Danube, the Po, the Rhone, the Mediterranean and Northern Africa.
John Shaw, of Magdalen College, Oxford, dedicated this second edition to Thomas [Thurlow], Bishop of Lincoln. The first edition was
printed in 1777.
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id. [i.e. Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica]
Eng.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 137, no. 42, Apollonius Rhodius in Eng. verse, 2 v 8vo.
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS.
The Argonautic Expedition. Translated from the
Greek of Apollonius Rhodius, into
English verse, with critical, historical, and explanatory Remarks, and Prefatory Essays, with a large Appendix. Inscribed to his
Grace the Duke of Marlborough . . . Vol. I [-II].
London: Printed for
Thomas Payne and Son; and
Robert Faulder,
1780.
PA3872 .E5 1780a
First Edition of this translation. 2 vol. small 4to collating in eights. Vol. I, 312 leaves (with 2 additional leaves in sig. E),
Vol. II, 148 leaves, the last 2 for
Faulder’s advertisement, the errata list and the directions to the binder;
at the beginning of Vol. I a complimentary sonnet addressed to the Duke of
Marlborough by Edward Burnaby Greene, dated from Blenheim, Sep. 10, 1779.
Lowndes I, 56.
Graesse I, 165.
This book was assumedly bought by Jefferson when in Paris; it is entered in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price written
6f12.
Edward Burnaby Greene, d. 1788, English poet and translator.
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Silius Italicus.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 4, as above.
SILIUS ITALICUS,
Tiberius Catius Asconius.
De Bello Punico, Libri
xvii., cum Notis.
Antverpiae,
1601.
This title, with the additional information that the book is in 24s (an error for 12mo), is taken from the Library of Congress
Catalogue of 1839 (repeated in later catalogues).
It is to be assumed that this is the edition in 12mo, printed in Antwerp apud Gislenium Jansenium, 1601, founded on that of
Heinsius, printed in Leyden, 1600. A copy was not available for examination. See Graesse VI, 404.
Jefferson entered his copy in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
1-4.
Silius Italicus, c. 26-101 A.D. This work is an historical epic in 12,200 verses on the Second Punic War. The first edition was printed in
Rome by Sweynheim and Pannartz in 1471.
Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655, Dutch classical scholar, was the author of the critical notes, first printed in 1600 as above.
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12
Spencer by Hughes.
6. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 15, as above.
SPENSER,
Edmund.
The Works of Spenser. In
Six Volumes. With a Glossary explaining the Old and Obscure Words. To which is prefix’d the Life of the Author, and an Essay
,
