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lectiones, versionem novam, ac notas adjunxit Gulielmus Battie M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. et Soc. Reg. Socius. Vol. I [-II]. Londoni: [ sic -- Ed. ] impensis C. Davis, J. Whiston, et B. Dod, m dcc xlix . [1749]
PA4216 .A2 1749
2 vol. 8vo. 250 and 286 leaves, Greek text in long lines above the Latin in double columns; the Præfatio dated from London, Dec. 5, 1748.
Graesse III, 434.
Ebert 10599.
Old calf, initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in both volumes, and with his autograph signature in an early hand Ex Libris Thomæ Jefferson on the title-page of both volumes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Isocrates, 436-338 B.C., Attic orator. The first edition of his Orations was printed in Milan in 1493.
William Battie, 1704-1776, English physician. The first edition of his edition of the Opera of Isocrates was published in 1749, and gave rise to considerable ridicule.
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the same [Isocratis Orationes.] Eng. by Dinsdale. 8 vo
1815 Catalogue, page 156, no. 32, Isocrates Orations Eng. by Dinsdale, 8vo.
ISOCRATES.
The Orations and Epistles of Isocrates. Translated from the Greek by Mr. Joshua Dinsdale. And revised by the Rev. Mr. Young . . . London: printed for T. Waller, mdcclii . [1752.]
PA4217 .E5 1752
8vo. 224 leaves, the last with publisher’s advertisement.
Lowndes III, 1173.
Rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress in 1905. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T, an index in his hand in ink, in 30 lines, bound between pages 136 and 137 (with binding instructions in pencil in a modern hand), a page numeral corrected by Jefferson in ink.
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Isocrate d’Auger. 3. v. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 156, no. 31, as above.
ISOCRATES.
Oeuvres Complettes d’Isocrate, Auxquelles on a joint quelques Discours analogues à ceux de cet Orateur, tirés de Platon, de Lysias, de Thucydide, de Xénophon, de Démosthene, d’Antiphon, de Gorgias, d’Antisthene & d’Alcidamas; Traduites en François, Par M. l’Abbé Auger, Vicaire Général du Diocese du Lescar, de l’académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres & Arts de la ville de Rouen, ancien Professeur d’Eloquence dans le même ville. Tome Premier. [-Troisieme] A Paris, Chez De Bure, Fils aîné, Théoph. Barrois jeune, quai des Augustins. m. dcc. lxxxi . Avec Approbation, & Privilege du Roi. [1781]
PA4217 .F8 1781
3 vol. 8vo. 224, 231 and 216 leaves; at the beginning of Volume I is a Dictionnaire Géographique.
Graesse III, 437.
Ebert 10620.
Contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired; not initialled by Jefferson; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate in all volumes.
This is the first edition of the translation into French by the Abbé Auger. See also no. 4664 above.
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Ciceronis Orationes. notês Graevii. 6. v. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 156, unnumbered. [Ciceronis Orationes] in Op.
For the Opera of Cicero; [punct. sic.-- Ed.] see Chapter XLIV.
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