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id. cum supplemento Freinshemii Delphini.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 63, Id. in usum Delphini, cum supplemento Freinshemii, 8vo
CURTIUS RUFUS,
Quintus.
Q. Curtii Rufi de Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni Cum Supplementis Freinshemii. Interpretatione & Notis Illustravit Michael le Tellier è Societate Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum serenissimi
Delphini.
London: Impensis
A. & J. Churchill,
1705.
PA6376 .A2 1705
8vo. 296 leaves, text in long lines, notes in double columns, 2 pages of
Exemplaria tam Mss. quam edita Curtii ex Freinshemio; publishers’ advertisement on the verso of the last leaf.
Graesse II, 311. Ebert 5551.
Lowndes I, 573.
Old calf; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. A few contemporary manuscript notes occur. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
From the Library of Peyton Randolph, whose bookplate was present in 1903 when the Library card was printed, but has since
been removed.
A copy was ordered by Jefferson through
Stockdale, on July 1, 1787, from the 2
d. Part of
Lackington’s catalogue, no. 4623. Q. Curtius
1/6. Jefferson’s own memorandum includes the edition:
4623. Q. Curtius Delphini. 8
vo.
1/6.
Johann Freinshem, 1608-1660, German scholar. His first edition of Quintus Curtius was published in Strassburg in 1639. The first Delphin edition
was published in Paris in 1678. For a note on the Delphin editions, see no. 52.
Peyton Randolph, c. 1721-1775, son of Sir John Randolph, was born in Virginia and educated at the College of William and Mary. He studied law in London, was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1739, and was called to the Bar in 1744. He returned to Williamsburg and was appointed King’s attorney. After his death Jefferson purchased his library, including a number of valuable Virginia law manuscripts Randolph had inherited from his father.
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Quinte Curce de Vaugelas.
Lat.
Fr.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 13, Quinte Curce, Lat. Fr. de Vaugelas, 12mo.
CURTIUS RUFUS,
Quintus.
Quinte Curce de la Vie et des Actions d’Alexandre le Grand, de la Traduction de Monsieur de Vaugelas, avec les Supplemens de Jean Freinshemius, Traduits par feu M. du Ryer. à
Berlin: Aux Depens d’
Ambroise Haude,
1746.
PA6377 .F5V3 1746
2 vol. in 1.
8vo. 273 leaves; this copy lacks the portrait; the
French title is followed by a
Latin title, each with an engraved medallion portrait, and preceded by a half-title; sig. S
i has the half-title for
Tome Second. The
French and
Latin texts are printed in parallel columns.
Graesse II, page 313.
Ebert 5567.
This edition not in Quérard.
Old vellum (back gone); red edges. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. The initials S. B. written in ink on the title-page.
From the library of F. R. Salzmann, [?Friedrich Rudolf Salzmann, 1749-1821] whose bookplate (Ferdinand Wachsmuth del.) has
been removed from the inside cover since the printing of the Library catalogue card in 1903.
Two editions in French are listed on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, both with prices:
Quinte Curce de Vaugelas et du Ryer.
4to.
1.16.
Quinte Curce de Vaugelas. Lat. Fr. 12mo.
3 (livres).
Claude Favre, Seigneur de Vaugelas, Baron de Péroges, 1595-1650, French grammarian and man of letters. The first edition of his translation
of Quintus Curtius was posthumously published in 1653.
Pierre du Ryer, 1605-1658, French author and translator, secretary to the King of France.
Friedrich Rudolph Salzmann, 1749-1821, was the editor of the Rheinischer Most, projected by the members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft in Strassburg.
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Blackwell’s life & writings of Homer, & court of Augustus.
8
vo
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 64, as above.
BLACKWELL,
Thomas.
An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer. By Thomas Blackwell, J. U. D. Late Principal of Marishal College in the University of Aberdeen. The
