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1858 · 31349AB — 1858. Bonn Apud Adolphum Marcum 1858. Octavo. VI 594 pages / 480 pages. Hardcover / Original 19th century half-vellum with marbled-paper-covered boards. Bookseller-Sticker of William McGee College Bookseller - 18 Nassau Street - Dublin to the pastedowns of both Volumes. Both bindings with staining and wear. The Odyssey - Volume with minor split to lower spine. Interior in excellent condition besides an occasional appearance of a fainted dampstain. August Immanuel Bekker 21 May 1785 – 7 June 1871 was a German philologist and critic. Born in Berlin Bekker completed his classical education at the University of Halle under Friedrich August Wolf who considered him as his most promising pupil. In 1810 he was appointed professor of philosophy in the University of Berlin. For several years between 1810 and 1821 he travelled in France Italy England and parts of Germany examining classical manuscripts and gathering materials for his great editorial labours. Some of the fruits of his researches were published in the Anecdota Graeca 3 vols 1814–1821 but the major results are to be found in the enormous array of classical authors edited by him. Anything like a complete list of his works would occupy too much space but it may be said that his industry extended to nearly the whole of Greek literature with the exception of the tragedians and lyric poets. His best known editions are those of Plato 1816–1823 Oratores Attici 1823–1824 Aristotle 1831–1836 Aristophanes 1829 and twenty-five volumes of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae. The only Latin authors edited by him were Livy 1829–1830 and Tacitus 1831. Bekker confined himself entirely to manuscript investigations and textual criticism; he contributed little to the extension of other types of scholarship. Bekker numbers have become the standard way of referring to the works of Aristotle and the Corpus Aristotelicum. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1861. He died in Berlin aged 86. Wikipedia hardcover