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Athenaei Deipnosophistae.
Lat. Natale de Conte.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 122, as above.
ATHENÆUS.
Athenæi Dipnosophistarvm siue Cœnæ sapientum Libri XV. Natale de Comitibvs Veneto Nvnc primum è
Græca in
Latinam linguam uertente . . . Ad potentissimum Ferdinandum, Pannoniæ, Boemiæ, ac Romanorum Regem . . .
Venetiis: apud
Andream Arriuabenum ad signum Putei,
MDLVI. [1556.]
PA3937 .A5 1556a
First edition of this translation.
Folio. 156 leaves; printer’s woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut initials; chiefly in italic letter, with passages in
Greek, printed in double columns.
This edition not in Brunet.
Graesse I, page 244.
In a contemporary Venetian binding of calf, blind stamped roll borders and inner frames on the sides, rebacked. Initialled
by Jefferson at sig. I and T. The initials JG in an old hand on the title-page. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
From the Library of Benjamin Franklin. Purchased in 1803 by Jefferson from
Dufief, cost $
1.50., at the time the latter was trying, without success, to sell Franklin’s library to Congress.
On February 4th, 1803, Jefferson wrote to Dufief: “
I recieved . . . last night your letter of Jan. 31. with Doct
r. Franklin’s catalogue, which I have this morning sent to the chairman of the library-committee of Congress. I observe in it
the following books
Athenai Deipnosophistorium. fol.
Philostratus works from the Greek. fol.
Durham’s Physico and Astrotheology. 8vo. which I will ask the favor of you to send me with those you are about forwarding
me . . .
”
Dufief replied on February 14: “. . . Aussitot la lecture de votre lettre j’ai fait mettre a part les trois ouvrages de votre choix--je vous les adresserai
à la premiere occasion favorable . . .”
Dufief eventually sent the books on February 26, and the bill on March 1.
For the Philostratus see chapter 16 and for Derham, Physico Astrotheology see chapter 27.
Athenaeus, fl. 190 A.D., Greek rhetorician and grammarian, was an Egyptian by birth. The Deipnosophistæ, or Dinner Table Philosophers,
was first published by Aldus in 1524.
Natale Conti, 1520-1582, Milanese scholar.
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Bryant’s mythology.
3. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 109, as above.
BRYANT,
Jacob.
A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology: Wherein an Attempt is made to divest Tradition of Fable; and to reduce
the Truth to its Original Purity . . . Vol. I [-II]. The
Second Edition. [-Vol. III.] By Jacob Bryant . . .
London: Printed for
T. Payne,
P. Elmsly,
B. White, and
J. Walter,
M.DCC.LXXV. [-
M.DCC.LXXVI.] [1775, 1776.]
BL305 .B7
3 vol.
4to.
First Edition of vol. III,
second edition of vol. I and II; vol. I, 268 leaves; engraved frontispiece of the Marlborough Gem by Sherwin, engraved map; vol. II, 272 leaves, folded engraved map; vol. III, 305 leaves; engravings in the text throughout, and numbered plates by Basire. In vol. III, leaf Ggg
4 has been inserted and has the lower margin cut away.
Original sprinkled calf, with marbled end papers; not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1822 bookplate.
From the Library of George Wythe, with a number of manuscript notes and corrections by him.
