Salmasii, Jo. Freinshemii, & Variorum. Nec non Numismata et Antiqua Monumenta in hac nova editione, suo cuique loco inserta.
Cum variantibus, lectionibus & Indice. In fine additus est L. Ampelius ex Bibliotheca Cl. Salmasii. Tomus I [-II].
Amstelaedami: apud
Georgium Gallet,
M.DCCII. [1702.]
PA6386 .A2 1702
2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 278 leaves, 1 folded leaf with a table printed in red and black inserted at page 156; engraved numismatic
and other illustrations in the text, including one full-page engraving of a column, and a trireme; vol. II,194 leaves, titles
printed in red and black. In vol. I the text is in long lines with the gloss below in double columns; in vol. II the text
is in long lines and is followed by the notes in long lines.
Graesse II, page 605.
Ebert 7689.
Dibdin, page 150.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T in both volumes.
Lucius Annaeus Florus, Roman historian, lived under Trajan and Hadrian. His epitome of Roman history covers the period from the foundation of the
city to the establishment of the empire under Augustus, and is drawn chiefly from Livy.
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id.
Lat.
Fr. Le Mothe le Vayer.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 24, as above.
FLORUS,
Lucius Annaeus.
Epitome de l’Histoire Romaine, fait en quatre livres par Lucius Ann. Florus et mis en
François sur les traductions de Monsieur, frère unique du Roy.
A
Paris: chez
Thomas Jolly,
M. DC. LXX. [1670.]
PA6387 .F8L4 1670
12mo. 239 leaves only: ã
6, A-T
12, V
5, imperfect at the end, several leaves of
Table missing, printer’s wodcut device on the title-page,
French and
Latin text on opposite pages.
This edition not in Graesse.
Not in Quérard.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf by John March; with Jefferson’s original shelf-mark:
C.1. /
24 written on a slip and pasted on the title-page, on which is his autograph signature in an early hand:
Ex Libris Thomae Jefferso[
n] (the last letter cut away by the binder.) Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
François de la Mothe le Vayer, 1588-1672, French academicien, the translator, was at one time tutor to Louis XIV. This work is dedicated by him to
Monseigneur le Duc d’Anjou, frère unique de sa Majesté.
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Florus by Stirling.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 78, Id. Stirling, 8vo.
FLORUS,
Lucius Annaeus.
L. Annæi Flori Rerum Romanarum Epitome. Or, an Abridgment of the Roman History by L. Annæus Florus . . . For the Use of Schools. By John Stirling, M.A. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon.
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by
T. Astley,
M DCC XXXVIII. [1738.]
PA6386 .A2 1738
First edition in this translation. 8vo. in fours. 124 leaves, text in double columns,
Ordo in long lines below. The work ends on Y
i verso, page 162, and is followed by a Geographical Index, Vocabularium and Themata Verborum; publisher’s advertisement on
the last leaf.
Graesse II, page 606.
Not in Ebert.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Ordered by Jefferson in a letter to
Stockdale, written from Paris on July 1, 1787, no. 3912 in the second part of
Lackington’s catalogue, price
1/6.
Listed at this price, in Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
John Stirling, D.D., d. 1777, Vicar of Great Gaddesdon, Hertfordshire, England, was the author of several translations from the classics.
The preface to this work was written from Gadbridge near Hempstead, undated.
John Stockdale, 1749?-1814, London publisher. Stockdale began as a porter to John Almon [q.v.] on whose retirement in favor of Debrett [q.v.] Stockdale opened an opposition shop. Numerous transactions between Jefferson and Stockdale, who acted as the former’s agent for the purchase of books in London, are noted in this catalogue. Stockdale was the publisher of the first English edition of the Notes on the State of Virginia, no. 4167.
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