of Congress bookplate.
Alonso Ordoñez das Seijas y Tobar published the first edition of his translation in 1628. This is the first edition with the translations of Daniel Heinsius
(1580-1655), the Abbé Charles Batteux (1713-1780) and Casimiro Florez Canseco.
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Rapin’s critical works.
Eng.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 159, no. 7, as above.
RAPIN,
René.
The Whole Critical Works of Monsieur Rapin, in
Two Volumes. Vol. I. Containing, I. A Comparison between Demosthenes and Cicero for Eloquence. II.----Homer and Virgil for Poetry. III.----Thucydides
and Livy for History. IV.----Plato and Aristotle for Philosophy; with the Opinions of the Wise Men of all Ages upon their
Doctrine, and the different Adventures of their Sects. Newly translated into
English by several hands.
London: printed for
H. Bonwicke,
T. Goodwin,
M. Wotton,
B. Tooke,
S. Manship,
1706.
AC21 .R3
2 vol. 8vo. 275 and 268 leaves, publishers’ advertisements on 2 pages at the end of vol. II.
Rebound in half blue morocco by the Library of Congress in 1950. Initialled in both volumes at I and T by Jefferson. The autograph
signature of J. Wayles. Cost 7/6 on the fly-leaf of vol. II.
René Rapin, 1621-1687, French Jesuit, was the author of a number of works in verse and in prose, in Latin and in French. Basil Kennett, q.v., was largely responsible for this translation.
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Trapp’s praelectiones poeticae. 2
d. vol.
1815 Catalogue, page 160, no. 5, as above.
TRAPP,
Joseph.
Prælectiones Poeticæ: In Schola Naturalis Philosophiæ Oxon. Habitæ. Auctore Josepho Trapp, A.M. Coll. Wadh. Socio, & Prælectore Publico Lecturæ Poeticæ; a Viro Insignissimo D. Henrico Birkhead, L.L. D. Coll. Omnium
Animarum olim Socio, in celeberrima Universitate Oxoniensi nuper fundatæ. Editio
Tertia; recognita ab Auctore, et Indice Alphabetico aucta. Vol. II.
Londini: Impensis
Henrici Lintot,
mdccxxxvi
. [1736.]
PN1040 .T6
Vol. II only, 12mo. 170 leaves, chiefly roman letter with passages in
Greek and italic,
Lintot’s advertisement on the verso of the last leaf of text before the
Index, list of errata for vol. I and II at the end.
Joseph Trapp, 1679-1747, English poet and pamphleteer. The first edition of this work was published in 1711-19, and the second in 1722.
Jefferson sold only the second volume to Congress.
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[Horace de arte poeticâ. in op.]
1815 Catalogue, page 159, as above.
For the works of Horace, see in Chapter XLIV.
6
[Vida de arte poetica in Poem. Italorum.]
1815 Catalogue, page 160, unnumbered. [Vide de Arte poetica, in Poematis Italorum.]
For this work, see in Chapter XLIV.
