tens. Accurante Antonio Zanolini, J. U. D. & in Seminario Patavino linguarum Orientalium professore, ad usum Seminarii.
Patavii:
Typis Seminarii,
1747.
8vo. 431 leaves, text in
Greek,
Latin and
Italian. A copy was not obtainable for collation. The title is quoted from the card of the New York Public Library in the National
Union Catalog.
Graesse III, 263.
Ebert 9607.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript with the price,
9.
Hesiod, Greek didactic poet of uncertain date. Modern opinion places him later than Homer, but there is no agreement as to his date.
For
Orpheus, see no. 4391.
Proclus, 410-435; for another work by him, see no. 3705.
For other translations by Salvini, see the Index.
Anton Zanolini, 1693-1762, Italian classicist and orientalist.
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10
Virgilii Bucolica. Rami
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 147, no. 27, as above.
VIRGILIUS MARO,
Publius.
P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, P. Rami, professoris regii, prælectionibus exposita: quibus poetæ vita præposita est. Editio
qvinta.
Francofvrdi: apud heredes
Andræ Wecheli,
Claudium Marnium &
Ioann. Aubrium,
1590.
12mo. 88 leaves, the last a blank, printer’s device on the title page. A copy of this edition was not available for examination;
the above title was copied from the card of the University of Illinois in the National Union Catalog.
Graesse VI, 348.
See Haag, VI, 329.
Pierre de la Ramée, 1515-1572, French classical scholar, was for a quarter of a century the most prominent teacher in Paris, and in 1551 a special
chair of eloquence and philosophy was instituted on his behalf. His first edition of the
Bucolica was published in Paris in 1555. La Ramée was a Protestant, and was one of the victims of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
in 1572.
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11
Bucoliques de Virgile
Lat.
Fr. par Didot.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 147, no. 54, Virgilii Bucolica, Lat. Fr. par Didot, 8vo.
VIRGILIUS MARO,
Publius.
Les Bucoliques de Virgile, précédées de plusieurs Idylles de Théocrite, de Bion et de Moschus; suivies de tous les passages de Théocrite que Virgile a imités; traduites en Vers
Français par Firmin Didot. Gravé, fondu et imprimé par le Traducteur.
A
Paris: a la Libraire de
Firmin Didot,
1806.
PA6809 .B7 D5
First Edition of this Translation. 8vo. 140 leaves including the first blank, engraved Estienne device on the last leaf, recto.
At the end a
Note Bibliographique et Typographique, au sujet de quelques vers de la X
e Idylle de Théocrite, imités par Henri Etienne
.
Graesse VI, 358.
Ebert 23778.
Quérard X, 236.
Jefferson’s copy was bound for him in calf, gilt, by John March, on June 30, 1807, cost one dollar.
Firmin Didot, 1764-1836, a member of the famous French family of scholars, printers and publishers, was the author of this translation,
and printed it by the beautiful stereotype process which he himself had revived.
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