J.79
Appiano Alessandrino dal Braccio é Ruscelli.
12
mo.
Ven.
1567.
1815 Catalogue, page 3. no. 31, as above.
APPIANUS OF ALEXANDRIA.
Appiano Alessandrino delle Gverre de’Romani, cosi esterne, come civili. Tradotte da M. Alessandro Braccio Secretario Fiorentino. Nuouamente ristampato & tutto ricorretto, & di copiose tauole migliorato. Con l’Istoria della Gverra
Illirica, & di quella contra Annibale, del medesimo Autore nuouamente ritrouata in lingua
Greca, & tradotta in
Italiano dal S. Girolamo Rvscelli.
Venetia:
M. D. LXVII, appresso
Domenico, & Gio Battista Guerra, fratelli. [1567.]
PA3873 .A3 1567
Sm. 8vo. 2 parts in 1. 296 leaves (208 and 88); the last leaf of the first part has the Register, woodcut Phoenix device and
the colophon, and is followed by the second title, with imprint dated 1567 (colophon dated 1566); separate pagination; printed
in italic letter throughout.
Graesse I, page 270.
Argelati, page 74.
Bound in calf for Jefferson by J. March, marbled end papers, with Jefferson’s original shelf-mark
C.1. / 31 [Chapter I. no. 31] in ink, on a slip pasted down on the title-page. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Ordered by Jefferson while in Holland, on March 23, 1788, from
Van Damme, no. 282 in his catalogue. It is listed without the price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Alessandro Braccio, d. 1503, a Florentine, was Secretary to the Republic of Florence. The first edition of his translation of Appianus, made
from the Latin version of Candido, appeared in 1563.
Girolamo Ruscelli, d. 1566, Italian man of letters.
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J.80
Tacitus Gronovii. not. var. Amstel.
Elzevir
1672. &
Eng. by Gordon.
9 v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 7. no. 83, as above with Cronovii.
TACITUS,
Cornelius.
C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, quæ exstant . . . Joh. Fred. Gronovius recensuit, & suas notas passim adjecit . . . Amstelodami: apud
Danielem Elsevirium,
1672, 3.--
The Works of Tacitus. In
Four Volumes. To which are prefixed, Political Discourses upon that Author . . . The
Second Edition, corrected.
London: Printed for
T. Woodward, and
J. Peele,
1737
PA6705 .A2 1672
9 vol. 8vo. This set consists of the
Elzevir edition (Willems 1479), 2 vol. and the second edition of the
English version by Thomas Gordon, 4 vol., conflated by Jefferson and bound in 9 vol., tree and
marbled calf, gilt backs, plain
endpapers: Initialled by
Jefferson at sigs. I
and T wherever they occur, vol.
1-7, with the Library of
Congress 1815
bookplate, vol. 8, rebound with a
new bookplate, vol. 9,
repaired and with the
1864 plate. This volume has the
plates and maps folded to 8vo.
size.
Vol. 2 has the stamp of
R. D. Cooke, 18 Church Street, New York on the Library of Congress bookplate. The Elzevir edition has the autograph signature of
Ludouicus Alexander Croiset in several places. Some of the volumes are scorched and water stained.
Jefferson bought a copy of Gordon’s Tacitus from
Stockdale, price £
1-4, in August, 1787, and a copy of Taciti cum notis variorum 4 vol. price
28 livres from
Froullé in the same month.
On July 1, 1787 Jefferson wrote to Stockdale: “
. . . If you can procure for me a copy of all Tacitus’s works in Latin, in usum Delphini and in 8
vo. send them: and in that case send also from Lackington N
o.
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