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194427667AB1944. 8 Bde. St. Gallen Vlg. Zollikofer 1944-1949. 8° Halblederbände mit Rückenschild. Rücken mit Farbabweichungen verbleicht. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung des Herausgebers J. Strebel an Hans Sulzer unknown
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1653ABC_50270Leiden 1653. 24mo. Joannes Maire Contemporary vellum sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints with the manuscript author on the spine. With a vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments the work is partly printed in Greek type. 359 1 pp. Miniature edition of the "Moral Characters" a major work of ancient philosophy by Theophrastus ca. 371-287 BCE. The work is published with the Greek and Latin texts on opposite pages to which are added the extensive notes and comments of over 200 pages by Johannes Augustus Werdenhagen 1581-1652 for use of students. The present second Dutch edition is quite rare with only three copies recorded in institutions.Theophrastus was born on the island of Lesbos and was a student of Aristotle. He wrote numerous treatises across all areas of philosophy but the present work is his most well-known and has been imitated many times especially in the 17th century. The work which was already widely read in classical antiquity contains thirty descriptions of moral types which are both humorous and morally instructive. As the first recorded attempt of systematic character writing it paints a vivid picture of various human behaviours and offers insight into universal human weaknesses. Theophrastus' simple and direct style makes the work accessible while offering a profound reflection on the qualities and flaws of human nature.With the armorial bookplate of Edward Shipperdson mounted on the front pastedown and the manuscript initials "RK" on the first free flyleaf. The vellum is somewhat soiled and stained with a tear and small loss at the foot. The leaves are somewhat browned. Otherwise in good condition.l The children's world of learning 208; STCN 113911513 3 copies; USTC 1809102 3 copies; Welsh A bibl. of miniature books 6679; not in Dibdin. hardcover
1799000013139Ienae = Jena: Friederici Frommanni 1799. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 3 vi-xxx 2 1-262 pp. Contemporary straight-grain green morocco boards with gilt decorations and borders gilt decorations to the turn-ins spine in six compartments with gilt decorations and gilt lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound with a silk pink ribbon bookmark bound without the half-title. Text in Greek and Latin. Greek and Latin text and notes edited and corrected by Johannes Gottlieb Schneider. Dibdin 504. Moss 695-696. Oxford Classical Dictionary 1504-1505. Theophrastus was student of Aristotle's and an accomplished philosopher and logician. His Characters one of the surviving works from his prolific canon constitutes a list of brief outlines of negative personality types exhibited by people. Moss refers to Schneider's edition as the best one Dibdin says "the collector should not be without it." The book contains an account of the surviving manuscripts which provide modern readers with the remaining works of Theophrastus and incorporates elements of Amadutius' editing into his own. This is the first Schneider edition of Theophrastus' Characters. A touch of rubbing to the corners two ink inscriptions. Friederici Frommanni hardcover
161729016<p>Issued in Lyon in 1617 this edition of Characters by Theophrastus was translated and edited by Isaac Casaubon. The work includes 28 character types presented in Greek and Latin with Casaubon's annotations. First printed in 1592 this edition adds five character sketches not present in earlier forms. Casaubon's involvement established a lasting reputation in classical studies. The text explores fixed moral profiles as literary forms rather than continuous narratives. Known for its compact presentation the sextodecimo format facilitated access by early scholars. The publisher the widow of Antoine de Harsy issued many classical works and this volume appears in major bibliographies. Bound in full leather the book shows surface wear; the binding remains tight. The title page has been restored. Collation: 16 367 13. Format: Sextodecimo 16mo single volume. #29016 PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> viduam Ant. De Harsy hardcover
84188London Printed for the Author 1774. VIII 342 46 s. Fint priv. håndb. skinnbd. med ryggdekor i gull. Grønt skinn tittelfelt. . unknown
17431545Glasguae Glasgow: In Aedibus Academicis Excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus. 1743. First Edition. Leather Bound. pp. 2 105. 12mo. measuring 20 cm tall. Unassuming modest brown leather over boards; four raised bands to spine five compartments. Printed in Greek type with the Latin translation on the facing page. Extremities rubbed some scuffing some chipping to the spine ends. Internally very clean and unmarked with tight sound binding. The leather binding has recently been professionally replenished and treated with a natural leather preserver. Scarce in commerce. Correponds to OCLC #61707412. Glasgow born Robert Foulis 1707-1776 was a Scottish printer whose work had considerable influence on the printers and publishers of his time. Initially apprenticing as a master barber he was encouraged to take up the trade of printing and bookselling at the suggestion of his friend Francis Hutcheson of the University of Glasgow. Beginning in 1741 Foulis engaged in the selling of books in Glasgow and it was very shortly thereafter in 1742 that he set up his own press. He was appointed printer to the University of Glasgow in 1743 and in the same year produced the first Greek book printed in Glasgow the Peri herm neias in both Greek and Latin of the pseudo-Demetrius Phalereus. "Five years later he went into partnership with his brother Andrew and by 1775 had produced more than 500 separate editions including an edition of Homer 4 vol. folio 175658 Callimachus small quarto 1755 Thomas Grays Poems quarto 1768 Herodotus Thucydides and Xenophon with Latin translations and one of the first Scottish editions of Shakespeare. The Foulises best works were distinguished by their excellent layout legibility and accuracy." EB April 2019. Some of the credit for their achievement is attributable to the renowned type-maker and punch-cutter Alexander Wilson from whom they purchased their types. Robert Foulis died on 2 June 1776 in Edinburgh. <br/><br/> In Aedibus Academicis Excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus. hardcover
1824166494London: Josiah Taylor 1824. First Taylor edition of Theophrastus' timeless gallery of personality traits translated into English and beautifully illustrated with caricatures. The English translation is followed by the Greek text and notes. Taylor 1787-1865 was a philosophical and historical writer artist and inventor. Born into a family of engravers he initially followed this trade before turning to literature. This edition was welcomed with enthusiastic reviews the Literary Chronicle highlighting that "The sketches are bold and spirited full of character; there is scarcely an extraneous or unnecessary line in their whole engraving". This copy was bound for Sotheran's in London for Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale 1849-1912 with his gilt monogram stamp on the front cover. Dimsdale was a British banker and Conservative politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1901 to 1902. Quarto 270 x 193 mm. With 50 mounted wood-engraved illustrations. Late 19th-century green morocco over bevelled boards spine with raised bands gilt lettering in compartments monogram stamp "D" surmounted by a griffin's head and motto "quod Deus vult fiet" of Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale 1849-1912 on front cover marbled endpapers edges gilt. Spine and extremities faded to brown a few spots of wear at extremities front joint partly cracked short splits at rear joint ends and inner hinges but firm a little peripheral skinning to endpapers from adhesion margins of rear blanks toned occasional spot of foxing to contents otherwise clean. A very good wide-margined copy. hardcover
1967040653United States: University Books Inc 1967. Limited & Numbered . Hardcover. Very Good/NO Dustwrapper. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two Volumes in Slipcase. Now for the first time faithfully translated into English. Edited with a biographical preface elucidatory notes Hermetic vocabulary and index by Arthur Edward Waite. Vol I: Hermetic Chemistry. Vol II: Hermetic Medicine and Hermetic Philosophy. Complete Reprint of the 1894 Edition. Unusual Ex-Libris Plate of B.J.H. King author. Limited & Numbered Edition No 655 of 1000 sets. University Books Inc. New York USA 1967. I: xxiv 394pp; II: viii 396pp hb slipcase No Dust-wrapper slightly worn & bumped 1/4 gilt grey/black cloth red cloth maroon slip case vg <br/> <br/> University Books Inc hardcover
1993BN108839Anger-Verlag 1993. 1993. Hardcover. Sämtliche Werke 4 Bde. <br/><br/>Sämtliche Werke 4 Bde. Anger-Verlag hardcover
1585D11004Frankfurt am Main: Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli heirs of Andreas Wechel MDLXXXV 1585. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 210 x 149mm. 16 blank leaves at front and back 4 318 2 pages including final leaf with Wechel printers device. Title also with Wechels woodcut printers device a pegasus soaring over a caduceus pair of cornucopia and shaking hands AW monogram twice. Edited by Friedrich Sylburg. Dedicated to French scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger 1540-1609. Latin dedication notes and index. Greek text 18th-century calf marbled endpapers and red edges rebacked; light edgewear light marginal foxing title lightly browned. Likely remaining for several generations at the library of Balliol College Taylor Institution Oxford number B.181 deaccessioned sometime in the early 20th century two bookplates on front pastedown. Collection of Francis Howard Forbes 1881-1957 professor of Greek language and literature at Amherst College his round pictorial bookplate of Attic-style scribes on front pastedown. This particular copy was cared for by Oxford institutions for a good part of its history then crossed into a New England personal library of a classical scholar sometime in the early 20th century. <br/><br/>This is the self-contained volume from the 1584-1587 collected edition of the works of Aristotle in Greek and the Metaphysica of Theophrastus. Friedrich Sylburg 1536-1596 was a German classical scholar who made important contributions to several popular Greek texts of the later sixteenth century like Estiennes Greek Thesaurus. In 1583 Sylburg resigned from an educational post he held at Lich and moved to Frankfurt to work as leading active editor for the enterprising Wechel publishers. The humanist printers flourished in three distinct cities; Paris Frankfurt and Hanau. Andreas Wechel settled the firm in Frankfurt and distinguished it mainly by publishing neo-Latin literature classical philology and works by Ramus and his followers. The relationship between Sylburg and the Wechel printers was a seamless match; this 1585 edition of Aristotle was praised for its great critical power and finesse. It is widely regarded as the authoritative edition of its kind. Sound example of a sixteenth century published work on Aristotelian principles born from the inventive relationship between scholar and press.Fabricius-Harles III 444; Hoffmann I 275 and 289. Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli (heirs of Andreas Wechel) hardcover
1589934320031<p>English description below</p><p>Dritter Band der seltenen ersten deutschen Gesamtausgabe von Paracelsus Schriften maßgeblich für alle späteren Ausgaben. Herausgegeben von Johann Huser mit Unterstützung des Kurfürsten und Kölner Erzbischofs Ernst Prinz von Bayern.</p><p>Mit 2 ganzseitigen Porträt-Holzschnitten wdh. die Paracelsus 1540 nach einem Kupferstich von Augustin Hirschvogel zeigen 1 Wappenholzschnitt Das Paracelsus-Wappen und als Wappenspruch die Grabinschrift PAX VIVIS REQVIES AETERNA SEPVLTIS und 1 Holzschnitt-Druckermarke am Ende. Basel Conrad Waldkirch 1589. Schweinslederband d. Zt. 24 x 17 cm 5 Bl.; 420 S. 55 Bll. Register. Ecken etwas beschabt durchgehend gebräunt vgl. die Fotos. Insgesamt gutes Exemplar der geschätzten ersten Huser'schen Ausgabe.</p><p>Ein Digitalisat aus der Sammlung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek finde sich hier: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00022504</p><p><br /><br />Third volume of the rare first German complete edition of Paracelsus' writings whose text became authoritative for all later editions. It came about with the support of the Elector and Archbishop of Cologne Ernst Prince of Bavaria and was edited by Johann Huser.<br />With 2 full-page portrait woodcuts ditto showing Paracelsus 1540 after an engraving by Augustin Hirschvogel 1 armorial woodcut the Paracelsus coat of arms and as heraldic motto the epitaph PAX VIVIS REQVIES AETERNA SEPVLTIS and 1 woodcut printer's mark at the end. Basel Conrad Waldkirch 1589. Contemporary pigskin binding 24 x 17 cm 5 fol.; 420 pp. 55 ll. Index. Corners a bit scuffed browning throughout please see the images. Overall good copy of Huser's esteemed first edition.<br />A digital copy from the collection of Bayerische Staatsbibliothek can be found here: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00022504<br /><br /><br /><br /></p> Conrad Waldkirch hardcover
1708AQ28440London: Printed for Bernard Lintott 1708. 14 384pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary panelled calf calf lettering-piece. Extremities worn upper joint split lower joint starting loss to head-cap. Endpapers browned scattered spotting early inked ownership inscription of George Leslie to REP. Armorial bookplate to FEP of Scottish advocate and philosopher Henry Home Lord Kames 1696-1782. An extended edition of an early eighteenth-century work of moral philosophy sometimes attributed to lexicographer and journalist Abel Boyer 1667-1729. First printed in 1702 the book collects aphorisms and observations on contemporary character types and traits social institutions and behaviour drawn from the writings of La Bruyere La Rochefoucauld and others. ESTC T85463. Third edition. 8vo. Printed for Bernard Lintott unknown
2033Glasguæ: in ædibus academicis excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus 1743. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. ii 53 52pp. 1 A4-G4 - G4 blank A4-F4 G2. Greek text followed by the Latin translation. Contemporary red morocco spine gilt. Bound with: 24 page Greek manuscript. This manuscript follows the divisional sections of the Greek text and acts as an explanatory or transilational adjunct to it. This is the first book in which Foulis described himself as University Printer to which office he was elected on 31 March 1743. <br/> <br/> Glasguæ: in ædibus academicis excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus, 1743. hardcover
168828099Paris Estienne Michallet Se vend à Bruxelles chez Jean Leonard 1688. Later ca. 1800 cardboardbdg. w. marbled peper. Library-labels on back. Hinges capitals and corners w. traces of use. Occationally brownspotted. 56 226 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>This is the reimpression of the original second edition with the words "Se vend à Bruxelles chez Jean Leonard" on title-page from the same year as the first original edition. "Cette réimpression assez belle a 28 ff. prélim. et 226 pp. de texte plus un f. pour le privilége; l'errata n'y est pas reproduit bien que les corrections qu'il indique n'aient pas été faites dans le texte." Brunet III p.720. This work includes the first French translation of Theophrast's Characters and probably the first translation into any modern language. "Theophraste a eu le grand honneur comme on sait d'être ttraduit au XVIIe siècle par La Bruyère: et c'est pourquoi en France plus que dans tout autre pays en dehors même du cercle des érudits son nom et son opuscule sont populaires." navarre Budé-edition of "Caractères" Paris 1920.Jean de la Bruyère 1639/1644 - 1996 was a very famous French moralist and writer. "C'est au commencement de 1688 que parut la premiere édition des "Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec ou les Mæurs de ce siècle." L'auteur mettait ses propres observations sur la société moderne sous le patronage d'un ancien." N.B.G. p. 427. The "Characters" gave La Bruyère quite a few enemies and created furor in the learned world. In Denmark Holberg calls him "trivial and simple" Epistle 404. "Mais si en effet la malignité contemporaine applaudissant aux traits satiriques de l'ouvrage a peu contribuer à sa vogue le jugement de la postérité l'a consacré comme un des meilleurs livres de notre langue." N.B.G. p. 427. This work is thus still considered to be one of the greatest French books. Voltaire writes in "Siecle de Louis XIV c. XXXII": "On peut compter parmi les productions d'un genre unique les "Caractères" de La Bruyère. Un style rigide concis nerveaux des expressions pittoresques un usage tout nouveau de la langue mais qui n'en bless pas les règles frappèrent le public". Bruyère's work with the translation really did cause astonishment and had an immense impact on late 17th century Europe and onwards; it created a new litterary genre in Europe and the age of Enlightenment was delighted with the short precise characterisations of people and their customs. For an analysis of the contents and the impact on the time of La Bruyère see Nouvelle Biographie Generelle N.B.G. pp. 426-39. Brunet V:798 III:721 Graesse 4:61. </em> unknown
152924241<p><strong>1529 GREEK Theophrastus BOTANY Philosophy Metaphysics Causes of PLANTS Botanical</strong></p><p><em>"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." </em></p><p>― Theophrastus </p><p>Theophrastus was a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher known for his studies in metaphysics and logic of Aristotle and Plato. One of his remaining works was '<em>On the Causes of Plants'</em> an extensive botanical treatise. In fact this work is <strong>considered to be one of the most important works of botany from the middle ages.</strong> Theophrastus describes plant growth instruction on planting and harvesting soils and fertilizers farming tools and the medicinal properties of many plants.</p><p>This 1529 edition of Theophrastus' '<em>Plants'</em> was published in Lutetia or Paris by Christian Wechel.</p><p>Item number: #24241</p><p>Price: $1950</p><p>THEOPHRASTUS</p><p><strong><em>Theophrasti De Cavsis Plantarvm Libri VI. Theodoro Gaza Interprete</em></strong></p><p>Lutetiæ: ex officina Christiani Wechel 1529.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->19 2-354 24</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Dozens of illustrated initials throughout</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: Latin </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~6.25in X 4.25in 16cm x 10.5cm</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Exceedingly rare valuable and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at over $3000</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>24241</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> Christiani Wechel hardcover
1599ST16215hLugduni Lyon: Excudebat Guichard Julliéron apud Antoine de Harsy 1599. Editio Altera Second Edition; EDITIO PRINCEPS of books 24-28. 173 x 109 mm. 6 7/8 x 4 1/4". 12 p.l. 349 1 pp. 24 leaves.Edited by Isaac Casaubon. <br/> 18th century French polished calf smooth spine gilt in compartments with central floral sprig surrounded by leaf tools gilt lettering of owner's name Brunck at tail of spine red morocco label marbled endpapers older repairs to joints. Printer's device on title page. Text in Greek and Latin. Title page with ink ownership inscription of Bibliothèque Villelufpen and Richard Brunck; isolated ink marginalia in Hebrew Arabic Greek or Latin. Dibdin II 501; STC French 419; Graesse VII 125; USTC 158510. ◆A couple of short scratches and two small water stains to upper board shallow chip to head of spine leaves somewhat browned due to paper quality a couple of tiny rust spots but a very good copy clean and fresh internally in a sound binding.<br/> <br/> From the library of a notable--and perhaps notorious--classical scholar this is an important edition of the Greek philosopher's "Characters" with Isaac Casaubon's revisions to his translation and commentary of 1592 and the addition of five sections printed here for the first time that Casaubon had recently discovered at the Palatine Library. One of the earliest known works of psychology "Characters" contains pithy descriptions of the various types of human foibles noted by the Oxford Companion for their "remarkable vivacity and keenness of observation." A pupil of Aristotle and the master's successor as head of the school of Peripatetic philosophy Theophrastus ca. 371 - ca. 287 B.C. wrote widely on a number of subjects ranging from ethics to physics to botany he is considered the "father" of the last discipline. He would have considered these descriptions of such characters as "The Flattering Man" "The Stupid Man" and "The Oligarch" a minor work but it is one that has weathered the centuries. The present translation and commentary marked a milestone in the life of the great classical scholar Isaac Casaubon 1559-1614. Sandys says "It is not until we reach his commentary on the 'Characters' of Theophrastus 1592 that we find a work that is marked by his distinctive merit an interpretation of a text of the most varied interest founded on wide reading and consummate learning. It was a work that won the highest praise from Scaliger." Dibdin called the commentary "a rich mine of Grecian literature." Former owner Richard François Philippe Brunck 1729-1803 was a classical scholar of considerable note who devoted his leisure to the critical revision of the Greek poets. According to Britannica "He spent considerable sums of money in publishing editions of the Greek classics." Flaunting the established mode of editing and criticism he did not hesitate to make clarifying changes to difficult or inscrutable passages of text--whether these alterations were supported by manuscript authorities or not. Deprived of his royal pension by the French Revolution Brunck was forced to sell portions of his library in 1790 and again in 1801. Excudebat Guichard Julliéron apud Antoine de Harsy unknown
168827999Paris Estienne Michallet 1688. Cont. full calf. 5 raised bands on back back richly gilt all edges of boards gilt. Lacking leather at capitals front-hinge cracked so cords are showing. <br/><br/><em>Second or third printing of the original edition. The title-page states "seconde edition" but it is probably the third printed in the same year as the first and second being a page-by-page re-impression of the second except for the fact that corrections have been made and the errata-leaf is thus not printed in the third. Both the second and third original editions are from the same year and by the same printer as the first. "La seconde édition également impr. en 1688 n'offre que quelques légers changements. et la troisième sous la même date ne qu'une simple réimpression de la seconde." Brunet III:720. This work includes the first French translation of Theophrast's Characters and probably the first translation into any modern language. "Theophraste a eu le grand honneur comme on sait d'être ttraduit au XVIIe siècle par La Bruyère: et c'est pourquoi en France plus que dans tout autre pays en dehors même du cercle des érudits son nom et son opuscule sont populaires." navarre Budé-edition of "Caractères" Paris 1920.Jean de la Bruyère 1639/1644 - 1996 was a very famous French moralist and writer. "C'est au commencement de 1688 que parut la premiere édition des "Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec ou les Mæurs de ce siècle." L'auteur mettait ses propres observations sur la société moderne sous le patronage d'un ancien." N.B.G. p. 427. The "Characters" gave La Bruyère quite a few enemies and created furor in the learned world. In Denmark Holberg calls him "trivial and simple" Epistle 404. "Mais si en effet la malignité contemporaine applaudissant aux traits satiriques de l'ouvrage a peu contribuer à sa vogue le jugement de la postérité l'a consacré comme un des meilleurs livres de notre langue." N.B.G. p. 427. This work is thus still considered to be one of the greatest French books. Voltaire writes in "Siecle de Louis XIV c. XXXII": "On peut compter parmi les productions d'un genre unique les "Caractères" de La Bruyère. Un style rigide concis nerveaux des expressions pittoresques un usage tout nouveau de la langue mais qui n'en bless pas les règles frappèrent le public". Bruyère's work with the translation really did cause astonishment and had an immense impact on late 17th century Europe and onwards; it created a new literary genre in Europe and the age of Enlightenment was delighted with the short precise characterizations of people and their customs. For an analysis of the contents and the impact on the time of La Bruyère see Nouvelle Biographie Generelle N.B.G. pp. 426-39. Brunet V:798 III:721 Graesse 4:61. </em> hardcover
178635101Parmae Ex Regio Typographeo 1786. 4to. Orig. blank boards. Spine missing. Bdg. and bookblock tight. Minor occasional soiling; lacking a small part of corners of some leaves far from affecting text. An overall good and solid copy. Engr. frontispiece-portrait engr. title-vignette. Printed on good and thick paper. 10 128 6 pp 1 leaf errata. <br/><br/><em>The rare editio princeps of Theophrastus' 29th and 30th characters. Greek and Latin text.The work is renowned not only for containing the very first printing of Theophrastus' two last "characteres" but also for the beautiful printing of it and Amadutius' excellent and instructive foreword and notes. "A very splendid edition exhibiting only two chapters cap. 29 and 30 of this work from a Vatican MS. of the eleventh century. It is mentioned in order that the student may consult the very learned prolegomena which it contains." Dibdin II:503. Brunet 5:798. </em> hardcover
156128328Lipsiae Excudebat Iohannes Rhamba 1561. Small 8vo. Later blue boards ab. 1800. Spine with minor loss and a few cracks. First few leaves with minor soiling but otherwise a nice and clean copy. 19th century owner's inscription to inside of front cover: "Colegii Thomani". Lovely woodcut opening initial. Beautiful Greek script. 48 ff. <br/><br/><em>Extremely scarce first edition thus containing all of Theophrastus' 23 characters in Greek and Latin being the first edition of Auberius' excellent Latin translation and first edition with Lycio's interesting commentaries. "This very rare edition which presents us with the Greek text of H. Stephan Stephanus contains a new Latin version by Claudius Auberius who was scarcely twenty years of age when he composed it. The notes are critical and historical; sometimes bold but always erudite. This version and these notes were republished in Zuinger's edition of Aristotle's "Ethics" at Basil. fol. 1582." Dibdin II:500. This version of Theophrastus' milestone work the first recorded attempt at systematic character writing became hugely influential and is still referred to in modern editions of the text as Auberius' translation is regarded as one of the best and most important interpretations of the text. Claude Aubery or Claudius Auberius ca. 1540-1596 was a noted philosopher and medical doctor professor of Philosophy in Lausanne. He translated several Greek texts into Latin but is best remembered for his excellent version of Theophrastus' "Characters" which was highly influential throughout the Renaissance and which was incorporated into later Renaissance Aristotle-editions as the standard-version of Theophrastus' text. Theophrastus ca. 371- ca. 287 BC Aristotle's successor at the Lyceum and probably the most famous Aristotelian of all times successfully presided over the Peripatetic School for 36 years and here wrote a number of works. The most famous of them is arguably his great moral opus "The Characters" which continues to amaze readers to this day. It introduced the "character sketch" which became the core of the Character as a genre and as such it influenced the entire literay tradition of the Western world. The fabulous very witty astute harsh and insightful characteristics of type characters of the human race have been formative for our understanding of moral virtues and vices and how they come to be expressed in man for our understanding of human nature in general. It is no wonder that the work became so popular and widely read during the Renaissance the era of man as the centre of the universe. "Le texte est le celui de Henri Estienne insére dans l'édition d'Aristote de 1557 mais dans la version il suit pour la plupart ses propres conjectures" Graesse 7: 125. Dibdin II:500 Graesse VII:125. </em> hardcover
1529613371529. Vænit Parisiis apud Egidium Gourmoncium Wechel 1529 kl.-8° 16 14 2 343 22 3 pp.; 18 354 24 pp. alter Pergamenteinband; teilweise im oberen Rand zarter Wasserrand; trotz der Mängel ein feines Exemplar. Theophrasti de historia et causis plantarum libri quindecim. Theodoro Gaza interprete. Ejusdem Tabulas duas capita librorum complectentes : quarum unam libris de historia alteram de causis plantarum unàcum vocabulis quibusdam græcorum & latinorum nominum præfixas invenies lector. Theodoro Gaza interprete. & Second and last part: "Theophrasti de causis plantarum libri VI. Theodoro Gaza interprete. Luteciæ ex officina Christiani Wechel. 1529" Very Rare second single edition first published in Tarvisii 1483 and together with Aristotel. Hist. anim. Ventia 1504. "Copies of the complete 1529 edition seem to be quite rare as we have found only three others listed above." Hunt catalogue 1:34-35 entry 26. "This is the earliest work of scientific botany a subject not addressed in any of the writings of Aristotle." Theophrastus "system of botanical classification analogous to the zoological system in Aristotle's Historia animalium maintained its authority until the advent of the microscope in the mid 17th century." Garrison & Morton Theophrastus of Eresos c.370-287 bce "one of Aristotle's greatest students built upon Diodes' work and founded the field of biology known as botany. In his works 'On the Natural History of Plants' and 'On the Origins of Plants' Theophrastus identified and classified over 500 species of plants and explained their medicinal properties. He succeeded Aristotle at the Lyceum and taught there for nearly 35 years. He has often been called "the father of botany" and perhaps deserves the title "the father of pharmacognosy" as well. Remarkably Theophrastus pioneered the concept of drug tolerance observing that the power of a drug taken over a long period diminishes in people who become accustomed to taking them." Bob Zebroski A Brief History of Pharmacy: Humanity's Search for Wellness 2016 Uebersetzung des Theodorus Gaza c.1398-c.1475 "kritisch und wichtig" und hier zum ersten Mal "mit brauchbarem Index der griechischen und lateinischen Namen." Choulant pp.58-59 Garrison & Morton No.81.1 1783 1st. Ed.1483 unknown
1573622821573. Argentorati = Basel Petrus Perna 1573 Folio 10 223 1 28; 2 250 36 pp. alter Halbledereinband; Titelblatt aufgelegt etwas fleckig; mit alten Marginalien; feines Expl. mit ExLibris von Kenneth Harvey Abbott. Erste Ausgabe! PHILIPPI AVREOLI THEOPHRASTI PARACELSI BOMBAST EREMITAE SVMMI INter Germanos Medici & Philosophi. CHIRVRGIA MAGNA in duos tomos digesta. . Nunc recens à IOSQVINO DALHEMIO OSTOFRANCO Medico Latinitate donata. Tomus I : De vulneribus et fracturis libri III. De ulceribus libri III. De tumoribus et aperturis libri III. Tomus II : De Tumoribus Pustulis & Ulceribus / Morbi Gallici Lib. X. De Curatione & Imposturis Morbi / Gallici Lib. Octo. Dieser Band enthält die "Chirurgia magna" in zwei Tomi in lateinischer Übersetzung von Josquinus Dalhemius tätig 2. H. 16. Jh. humanistischer Übersetzer paracelsischer Schriften. - Gedruckt von dem aus Lucca stammenden seit den 1540er-Jahren in Basel tätigen Humanisten- und Reformationsverleger Petrus Perna ca. 1519-1582. Die Chirurgia magna ist das zentrale chirurgische Werk Paracelsus' und dokumentiert seine praktische Wundarznei ebenso wie seine Reinterpretation traditioneller Krankheitslehren. In ihr treten seine Abkehr von der bloßen Galen Exegese sein empirisches Vorgehen am Krankenbett und sein Einsatz chemischer Präparate deutlich hervor; sie ist für das Verständnis der paracelsischen "Reformation der Medizin" unverzichtbar. Paracelsus betont systematisch die Bedeutung gründlicher Wundreinigung Drainage und Verhinderung von Fäulnis; die "gute Eiterung" der traditionellen Chirurgie wird kritisch relativiert und der Fokus stärker auf rasche "spezifische" Heilung gerichtet. Er beschreibt Trauma Frakturen Ulzera und Tumoren in enger Verbindung mit Umwelt und Stoffeinflüssen; damit wird die spätere Toxikologie vorbereitet Stichwort "Die Dosis macht das Gift" und eine spezifische substanzgebundene Krankheitsauffassung gefördert. Von besonderem Interesse auch für die frühe Geschichte der Neurochirurgie: Paracelsus behandelt in der Chirurgia magna Kopf- und Schädelverletzungen inkl. Indikationen zur Trepanation im Rahmen einer empirisch orientierten Wundchirurgie und verknüpft traumabedingte Lähmungen und Krampfzustände mit lokalen Strukturverletzungen statt ausschließlich mit humoral-systemischen Ursachen. Die Perna-Ausgabe von 1573 ist die erste große lateinische Gesamtausgabe der paracelsischen Chirurgie: Sie überführt die ursprünglich deutschsprachigen Wundarznei-Schriften Große und Kleine Chirurgie in ein gelehrtes europaweit rezipierbares Format und ist damit ein Schlüsselstück der frühen Paracelsus-Rezeption. Chirurgiegeschichtlich markiert der Band den Übergang von handwerklich-zunftgebundener Wundbehandlung zu einer spezifischen substanzgebundenen Therapieauffassung Toxikologie organspezifische Wirkungen Kritik an der "guten Eiterung" und ist für die Geschichte der Chirurgie wie der Pharmakologie gleichermaßen bedeutend. First major Latin edition of Paracelsus' surgical works containing the two tomes of the "Chirurgia magna" in one folio volume. Translated into Latin by Josquinus Dalhemius and printed by the Basel humanist printer Petrus Perna in 1573. Covers wounds fractures ulcers tumours and related conditions combining practical wound surgery with Paracelsus' innovative chymical pathology. Key document in the spread of Paracelsian medicine from German vernacular surgery into the international learned medical world. VD16 P 469 Sudhoff "Bibliographia Paracelsica" Nr. 146-147 unknown
159250012Lyon Franciscus le Preux 1592. Small 8o. Early 19th century half calf with gilt title-label to spine. A bit of wear to hinges and corners but fine and tight. Internally exceptionally nice and clean. P. Rubow's owner's signature to front free end-paper. Woodcut vignettes to title-pages and woodcut initials at beginning of both parts. 8 88; 270 pp 1 blank leaf 16 ff. of indexes and errata at end. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition thus being the editio princeps of Casaubon's milestone-edition of the seminal work that is Theophrastus' "Characters" containing apart from the original Greek text and Casaubon's translation of it into Latin also Casaubon's highly important commentary of the text. "This edition which was frequently reprinted 1598-1612-1617-1638 &c. is in every respect worthy of the high reputation of Casaubon. Both the text and the notes have served almost every subsequent editor. The Commentary is a rich mine of Grecian literature. The editor availed himself of the use of four MSS. in the Palatine library". Dibdin.Theophrastus ca. 371- ca. 287 BC Aristotle's successor at the Lyceum and probably the most famous Aristotelian of all times successfully presided over the Peripatetic School for 36 years and here wrote a number of works. The most famous of them is arguably his great moral opus "The Characters" which continues to amaze readers to this day. It introduced the "character sketch" which became the core of the Character as a genre and as such influenced the entire literary tradition of the Western world. The fabulous very witty astute harsh and insightful characteristics of type characters of the human race have been formative for our understanding of moral virtues and vices and for how man expresses them for our understanding of human nature in general. It is no wonder that the work became so popular and widely read during the Renaissance the era of man as the centre of the universe. The French-English classical scholar and philologist Isaac Casaubon 1559 - 1614 was regarded by many of his time as the most learned man in Europe. He is famous for his magnificent commentaries and deep understanding of the texts that he edited translated and commented. His edition of Theophrastus's Characters is considered a work of breakthrough as it constitutes the first example of his peculiar style of illustrative commentary at once apposite and profuse. This work is generally considered to exhibit his most characteristic excellences as a commentator.The present edition came to exercise a profound influence upon the interpretation of Theophrastus' great work. Casaubon's commentary served as the standard commentary for centuries and his translation remains a standard translation of the text. The present work thus remains a primary reference and a primary source when reading the work today.The commentary provided much commentary on Athenian society and the translation popularized the text making it available to modern Renaissance readers. Due to the excellent manner of translation into Latin the first English and French translations of this foundational text were enabled.The work was reprinted numerous times and kept appearing for centuries. "Nouvelle revision du texte sur 4 mss. Palatins accompagnée d'une nouvelle trad. latine et d'un commentaire excellent." Graesse VII:125. Dibdin II:501. </em> unknown
1557ST16215jGeneva: Ex Officina Henrici Stephani 1557. 172 x 105 mm. 6 3/4 x 4 1/8". 4 p.l. 17-168 i.e. 152 pp. mispaginated but complete. Edited by Henri Estienne. <br/> Simple but appealing 18th century tan calf covers with triple gilt fillet border smooth spine divided into panels by plain and dotted gilt rules gilt starburst centerpiece gilt titling marbled endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Renouard 116:3; Schreiber 142; Dibdin II 500; Hoffmann I 287-88; Hoffmann III 524; USTC 450450. ◆Joints and extremities lightly rubbed minor offsetting from turn-ins to endpapers and flyleaves leaves with a touch of browning to head edge isolated small marginal spots or minor smudges but still an extremely pleasing copy clean and fresh internally in a well-preserved binding.<br/> <br/> Rarely seen in the marketplace this collection of Greek texts printed in the exquisite Estienne "grecs du roi" type includes four parts: the 23 "Characters" of Theophrastus along with that author's essay on the senses and perception; the pseudo-Aristotle "De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus" "On Marvellous Things Heard"; and an essay on springs rivers and pools by the first century A.D. Greek philosopher Sotion. In "Characters" Theophrastus ca. 371 - ca. 287 B.C. delineates such human foibles as gossiping grumbling and boasting while the text once attributed to Aristotle is a series of anecdotes about inexplicable phenomena in the natural world a genre of classical literature known as paradoxography. The classical texts are followed by the critical notes of Henri Estienne 1528 or 1531-91 who rivaled Aldus Manutius in combining publishing with scholarship. In discussing this work Dibdin says "whatever H. Stephen did is worth consulting." Henri also contributed to the typography used here the smallest size of the "grecs du roi" cut for his father Robert by Claude Garamond--it is based on the Greek script written by the precocious Henri when he was 10 years old. Ex Officina Henrici Stephani unknown
