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Diodori Siculi libri XV. de XL.
Gr.
Stephani.
1559.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 121, as above.
DIODORUS SICULUS.
Διοδωρου του Σικελιωτου βιβλιοθηκης ιστορικης βιβλια πεντεκαιδεκα εκ των τεσσαρ(`α)κοντα. Diodori Sicvli Bibliothecæ historicæ libri quindecim de quadraginta. Decem ex his quindecim nunquam prius fuerunt editi. [
Geneva:] Anno
M. D. LIX Excvdebat
Henricvs Stephanvs illustris viri
Hvldrici Fvggeri typographus. [1559.]
PA3965 .D3 1559
Folio. 430 leaves, Estienne device on the title, woodcut initials and ornaments; printed in
Greek letter.
Brunet II, page 715.
Dibdin, page 119.
French red morocco, gilt back, gilt line borders on the sides, marbled endpapers, g.e. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. i
and t. The autograph signature of Macé du püy S
t. Cyr, 1663, is written on the title-page and at the end. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Diodorus Siculus, fl. 60-21 B.C., Greek historian. This edition was edited by Henri Estienne, and is the first of the greater part of the work; an edition containing only books XVI to XX was published in Basle in 1539.
Henri Estienne, 1528-1598, French printer and scholar, was the second of that name, and the son of Robert Estienne.
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Diodori Siculi libri 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Graece
Basiliae
}
Diodorus Siculus.
Latiné Rhodomanni . .
}
4. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 16, Diodori Siculi libri, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Gr. Basiliae, et Lat. Rhodomanni, 4 v 12mo
DIODORUS SICULUS.
Διοδωρου Σικελιωτου ιστοριων βιβλια τινα τ(`α) εύρισκ(`ο)μενα. Diodori Sicvli Historiarvm Libri Aliqvot, qvi extant, opera & studio Vincentii Obsopoei in lucem editi. Cum gratia & priuilegio ad triennium. Basileae:
Oporin,
1539--[
Bibliothecæ historicæ libri XV de XL . . .
Hanau:
Wechel,
1611].
PA3965 .D3 1539
4to. and
sm. 8vo. The
Basel edition, in
quarto, is the first edition of the
Greek text, and has been cut down by Jefferson to resemble a
duodecimo, and conflated with the
octavo edition which is the
Latin translation by Rhodomann. The whole is bound in
four small volumes, of which the first is now lost. Notes on the fly-leaves of vol. II and III signed by F. Vinton, and made after the loss of vol. I, give a full explanation of Jefferson’s procedure.
The volumes are bound in tree calf, with marbled endpapers, gilt backs, lettered II, III, IV, probably by Milligan. Initialled
by Jefferson in each volume at sigs. I and T and a few marginal notes in his autograph. The inscription
Conradus Pfistorius, Basiliensis obtulit 1611, and other manuscript notes are on the title-page of vol. III. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
The Basel edition was probably bought from
Froullé in 1792, to whom on October 10 of that year Jefferson sent an order for a number of books including: “
Diodorus Siculus, ab Obsopoei Gr. Coln. 1539. This edition or any smaller one which is
complete
either in Greek alone, or Greek & Latin.”
Jefferson had tried to get a copy of this edition in 1788.
On March 23 of that year an order to Van Damme included no. 158 in his catalogue: Diodorus Siculus. Græcé. Basiliæ 1539. 8vo. Four months later, on July 25,
Jefferson cancelled his order to Van Damme for this and other books as he had “
trouvé l’occasion d’acheter ailleurs”.
Only four days before the order was cancelled, on July 21, Jefferson had written to Monsieur Gautier (of the house of Grand
& Co. in Paris):
