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Florus Delphini. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 77, Id. Delphini, 8vo.
FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus.
L. Annæi Flori Rerum Romanarum Epitome. Interpretatione & Notis illustravit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri Filia, jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Londini: Impensis R. Clavell, H. Mortlock, & S. Smith, M DC XCII. [1692.]
PA6386 .A2 1692
8vo. 176 leaves; title-page printed in red and black; the text printed in long lines, the Interpretatio and Notae in double columns.
Graesse II, page 605.
Ebert 7685.
STC F1378.
Rebound in red morocco in 1903 by the Library of Congress, gilt line border on the sides. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Listed on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with the price 1 f 16.
The first Delphin edition was printed in Paris in 1674.
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Vertot. Revolutions de Rome. 3. v. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 25, as above.
VERTOT, René-Aubert de.
Histoire des Revolutions arrivées dans le Gouvernement de la Republique Romaine. Par Mr. l’Abbé de Vertot . . . Quatrième Edition augmentée d’une Dissertation de l’Auteur, sur le Senat Romain, &c. Tome Premier [-Troisième]. A La Haye: chez Antoine Van Dole, MDCCXXXIV. [1734.]
DG231 .V557
3 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 221 leaves; vol. II, 229 leaves; the last two with a list of Livres imprimez chez H. Scheurleer . . . vol. III, 249 leaves, at the end Difficultez touchant la Constitution du Sénat Romain, proposées par Milord Stanhope . . . et résolues par Monsr. l’Abbé de Vertot . . . A la Haye: chez Henri Scheurleer, 1722 , with separate title, the last three leaves for Scheurleer’s Catalogue; titles printed in red and black.
Brunet IV, page 595.
This edition not in Quérard.
Old calf, gilt back. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout; a small note written in ink in vol. II, page 45; 2 leaves, probably blank, torn away at the end of vol. I; title leaf in vol. III lacking. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
René-Aubert de Vertot, 1655-1735, French religieux. The first edition of this work was printed in Paris in 1719.
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Annales Romaines par Macquer. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 26, as above.
MACQUER, Philippe.
Annales Romaines, ou Abregé Cronologique de l’Histoire Romaine, depuis la Fondation de Rome, jusqu’aux Empereurs . . . A Paris: chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, M. DCC. LVI. [1756.]
DG210 .M17
First Edition. 8vo. 284 leaves, sheet Z misbound.
Quérard V, page 419.
French mottled calf, gilt back, marbled end papers, sprinkled edges; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Bought from Froullé on June 27, 1787, price 4 livres.
Philippe Macquer, 1720-1770, French scholar, was a member of a Scottish Catholic family who emigrated to France on the fall of the Stewarts. He was a brother of the chemist, Pierre-Joseph Macquer, q.v.
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