The book referred to was probably the following:
The Works of Anacreon and Sappho, done from the
Greek by several hands. Also Bion’s Idyllium upon the Death of Adonis, by the Earl of Winchelsea.
London: Printed for
E. Cadell at the Dial and Bible in Fleet-street; and
A. Bettesworth at the Red Lion on London-Bridge,
1713. Price
2s.
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32
Aurelius Prudentius.
Elzevir.
24
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 143, no. 13, Prudentii quae extant Heinsii, 16s.
PRUDENTIUS CLEMENTS,
Aurelius.
Aurelii Prudentii Clementis quæ exstant. Nicolaus Heinsius Dan. Fil. Ex vetustissimis exemplaribus recensuit, & Animadversiones adecit. [-Nicolaii Heinsii Dan. F. in Prudentium adnotata.] Amstelodami: Apud
Danielem Elzevirium,
cIɔ Iɔclxvii. [1667.]
PA6648 .P6 A8
12mo, 2 parts in 1, 176 and 92 leaves, with separate titles, signatures and pagination, general title in red and black,
Elzevir Minerva device on both titles.
Graesse V, 467.
Ebert 18067.
Willems 1386.
Pieters, page 299, no. 369.
Rahir 1450.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Van Damme of Amsterdam, price
7-10, included in a long list of his purchases sent to Jefferson at Paris by Van Damme in a letter dated June 25, 1778. [
i.e. “1788”?--
Ed.] An edition
Aurelius Prudentius. Amst. Janssonii, 1625, 24
s.
is entered in both the dated and undated manuscript catalogues, but was not sold to Congress.
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, c. 348-c. 410, was a native of Spain, and is considered one of the greatest of the Christian Latin poets.
Niklaas Heinsius, 1620-1681, Dutch scholar, was the only son of Daniel Heinsius. This is his first edition of the works of Prudentius.
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Ausonius. Amst.
Janssonii.
1621.
24
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 141, no. 14, Ausonius, 12mo.
AUSONIUS,
Decimus Magnus.
Decimus Magni Ausonii Burdigalensis Opera. Amstelaedami: apud
Guiljel. Iannson,
1621.
12mo. Engraved title, 120 leaves; a copy was not available for examination.
This edition not in Graesse, not in Ebert, not in Brunet and not in Dibdin.
Jefferson had two other editions of Ausonius entered in his dated catalogue,
Amst. Blaeu. 1669. 24
s.
, and
Wetsten 1750. 24
s.
. All these editions are entered also in the undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 310-c. 395, Latin poet. and rhetorician, [punct.
sic--
Ed.] was born in Bordeaux. The first edition of his works was printed in Venice in 1472.
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Poetae Latini minores.
12
mo.
Foul.
1752.
1815 Catalogue, page 143, no. 15, Poetae Latini Minores, Foul. 12mo 1752, sc. Faliscus, Nemesianus, Serenus, Calpurnius, Rutilius,
Marcellus, Fannius, Sulpicia.
Poetae Latini Minores, ex editione Petri Burmanni Fideliter Expressi. Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis excudebant
Robertus et Andreas Foulis,
m. dcc. lii
. [1752.]
PA6121 .A4 1752
