2 parts in 1.
8vo. 464 and 248 leaves, printer’s woodcut device on both titles.
Old vellum, gilt frame sides with arms in the center and ornaments at the angles. A prize copy presented to Jacobo Hoflandio,
at
Rotterod. ix Calend. Aprilis, 1650. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in the first alphabet. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
A copy of this edition is listed on Jefferson’s undated catalogue, with the price,
5/-. A copy of
Halicarnassis (
Dionysii)
antiquitates, Lugd. 1555. 2.v p. in 12 was ordered by Jefferson from Van Damme (Vol. I of his catalogue, page 237), from Paris, on March 23, 1788, but apparently not obtained.
Frideric Sylburg, 1536-1596, German classical scholar. Sylburg was for some years employed by Wechel to edit his series of the classics, and
later worked for Commelin at Heidelberg in the same capacity.
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Denys d’Halicarnasse.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 111, as above.
DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSUS.
Les Antiquités Romaines de Denys d’Halicarnasse Traduites en
François: Avec des Notes Historiques, Geographiques, Chronologiques et Critiques. Par M.*** Tome Premier [-Second].
A
Paris: Chez
Philippe-Nicolas Lottin,
M. DCC. XXIII. Avec Privilege du Roi. [1723.]
DG207 .D587
2 vol.
4to. vol. I, 358 leaves; vol. II, 387 leaves; 5 engraved maps and plans in the first and 3 in the second volume; in the first volume is the
Catalogue des Auteurs Cités dans les Notes de cet Ouvrage; the
Chronologie Grecque-Romaine selon Denys d’Halicarnasse, with separate pagination, is on 19 preliminary leaves.
Quérard II, page 480.
Barbier I, col. 223.
Old French mottled calf, gilt backs, gilt line borders on sides, blue endpapers, r.e., a leaf missing in volume I at the end
of the Chronologie. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
A French edition in six volumes bought from Froullé in 1788 for 78 (livres) was not for Jefferson’s own library.
François Bellanger, 1688-1749, French humanist and scholar. This is the first edition of his translation of Dionysius Halicarnassus and was
the earliest of a number of translations made by him from the classics. It is dedicated to Monsieur Barentin.
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Polybii historia.
Gr.
Lat. Casauboni.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 123, as above.
POLYBIUS.
Πολυβιου του λυκορτα Μεγαλοπολιτου ιστοριων τ(`α) σωζομενα. Polybii Lycortæ F. Megalopolitani Historiarum libri qui supersunt. Isaacvs Casavbonvs ex antiquis libris emendauit,
Latine vertit, & Commentariis illustrauit . . .
[
Frankfort:] Typis
Wechelianis sumptibus
Daniel. & Dauid. Aubriorum &
Clementis Schleichii,
M. DC. XIX. [1619.]
PA4391 .A2 1619
Folio. 668 leaves;
Wechel’s woodcut device on the title-page, title printed in red and
black;
woodcut initials and ornaments;
Greek and
Latin text in parallel columns, lower margin cut away from the title.
Ebert 17692.
Dibdin,
Greek and Latin Classics, page 328.
Old calf (back cover gone), marbled end papers. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Jefferson bought a copy of
Polybii cum notis casoboni, 3 vol. 51 (livres) from Froullé on August 16, 1787, apparently not for his own library.
Polybius, c. 204-c. 123 B.C., Greek historian. His history was a source book for Livy, Cicero and later historians.
For a note on Casaubon see no. 32. This is his second edition of Polybius. The first was published in Paris in 1609 by Drouart, who supplied copies to Wechel
distributed by the latter with his own title-page, and re-issued in 1619.
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