hombre de la Cámara de la Magestad del Emperador. Con las Licencias Necesarias. En
Madrid: por D.
Antonio de Sancha, Año de
m. dcc. lxxvi
. Se hallará en su casa, en la Aduana vieja. [1776.]
PQ6389 .A2 1776
3 parts in 2 vol. 8vo. 180 and 208 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I by Juan Moxeno Fejada, folded engraved map of a part of Chile by Don Tomas Lopez, 1777, engraved plates in volume II by and after Antonio Carnicero. Volume I contains the fist part, Volume II the second and third, with separate titles, continuous signatures and pagination.
Sabin 22725 calls for a map in the second volume.
Palau III, 126 (with date MDCCLXXV).
Medina, no. 534.
Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga, 1533-1595, Spanish soldier and poet, joined the expedition to subdue the Araucanians of Chile, and the first part of this
poem, composed in Chile and originally published in 1569, is a versified narrative of the events of the wars in which he had
taken part.
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Lycophronis Cassandra.
Gr.
Lat. Reichardi.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 45, as above.
LYCOPHRON.
Λυκοφρονος του Χαλκιδεως Αλεξανδρα. Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra, sive Cassandra, cvm Versione et Commentario Gvilielmi Canteri, Paraphrasin, Notas, Indicem
Graecvm, e Scholiis Avctvm, Adiecit, ac Praefatvs est Henricvs Godofredvs Reichardvs A.M. Schol. Prov. Grimmensis Collega III.
Lipsiae: apvd
Sigfrid Lebrecht Crvsivm,
mdcclxxxviii
. [1788.]
PA4240 .L4 1788
8vo. 174 leaves,
Greek and
Latin text on opposite pages, with notes in the lower margins. The work is preceded by a Praefatio, and followed by an Index, after
which is an imitation in
German, with half-title: Nachahmung von Lycophrons Cassandra zu mehrerer Empfehlung des griechischen Originals.
Graesse IV, 309.
Ebert 12547.
Ordered by Jefferson from the catalogue of
Armand Koenig of Strassburg, in a letter dated from Paris 29 Juin, 1789. The book was included in Koenig’s bill, dated July 8, price
six shillings. It is entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Lycophron of Calchis in Euboea, born c. 330 B.C. Lycophron was summoned to Alexandria, by Ptolemy Philadelphus, to arrange the comic poets in the Alexandria
Library. His Alexandra is a dramatic monologue in 1474 iambics, in which Cassandra, the slave set to watch Alexandra, reports
her prophecies to Priam.
Willem Canter, 1542-1575, classical scholar of Utrecht, was the author of the translation into Latin.
Heinrich Godfried Reichard, 1742-1801, German classical scholar, was the editor of this edition, and the author of the German imitation at the end.
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Xenophontis Ephesii Amores Anthiae et Abrocomae.
Gr.
Lat.
Ital.
Gall.
4
to.
Lucca.
1781.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 66, as above.
XENOPHON
of Ephesus.
Ξενοφωντος Εφεσιου των κατα Ανθιαν και Αβροκομην Εφεσιακων λογοι π. Xenophontis Ephesii Ephesiacorum Libri V. De Amoribus Anthiæ et Abrocomæ accedit versio
Latina Antonii Cocchi,
Italica Antonii Salvini, et
Gallica D.J. Lucæ
mdcclxxxi
.
Ex Typographia
Francisci Bonsignori. Cum Ap. [1781.]
PA4500 .X3 1781
4to. Engraved title with vignette and border by Bart Nerici Luc. 110 leaves, the last for the errata lists, texts in
Greek,
Latin,
Italian and
French in parallel columns across the verso and the recto of the leaves,
French text in italic letter.
Graesse VI, 493.
Ebert 24164.