LA BRUYèRE, Jean de ; THéOPHRASTELivre Rare Book
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1699110674à Paris, chez Estienne Michallet 1699 3 ouvrages en 1 volume] In-16 15,5 x 9 cm. Reliure de l’époque veau havane marbré, pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquin grenat, 163-273-229 pp. Reliure légèment frottée, coiffe de tête usée, coins légèrement émoussés, intérieur frais.
54731Trajecti ad Rhenum Utrecht: apud Joannem Evelt 1737. 8vo. pp. xl 221 iii. Text in Greek with parallel Latin translation final page is 'Corrige in Notis' and colophon. Woodcut ornament to title-page woodcut initials. Small horizontal tear to fore-edge margin 4 just touching text G2 with tiny hole and small loss to bottom corner not affecting text. Contemporary vellum title faintly inked to spine. Spine a little darkened with a few smudges and stains endpapers bit toned very good overall. Translated by Isaac Casaubon 1559-1614 with commentary by Jan Cornelis de Pauw d.1749. Schweiger I 320. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: apud Joannem Evelt, 1737. hardcover
73769Oxonii Oxford Clarendon 1811. 8vo 21.7 x 13.8 cm. viii 92 pp.; mezzotint portrait one engraved plate. 19th-century ruled half linen over marbled boards. Printed label on the spine. = John Stackhouse 1742-1819 was a British botanist principally interested in Spermatophytes and algae. He published for instance the Nereis Britannicae or a Botanical Description of British Marine Plants. The present work was aimed at clarifying the plant genera and species used by Theophrastus containing a lexicon and providing the Linnaean names. The plate depicts two Pinus species. Tiny cryptic bookplate of Henry or Henri Duhamel 1853-1917 a French bibliophile mountaineer author and skiing pioneer. "He introduced the practice of skiing to his circle of friends at Grenoble leading to the creation of the first ski club in France. . Duhamel's library was dispersed at two sales in Lyon in 1921 and 1922. In honor of Duhamel a street in Grenoble bears his name as does the gap separating the Croix de Belledonne from the central peak of the Belledonne range and one of the side peaks in the Massif des Écrins the Pyramide Duhamel" Wikipedia. Rare. An excellent clean copy. Cat. BMNH p. 1997; Pritzel 8890; Stafleu and Cowan 12730. Not in Nissen BBI. hardcover
2004x-0521839807Cambridge Univ Pr 2004. Hardcover. New. revised edition. 612 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.50 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
154217Leiden Lugduni Batavorum Ex officina Elseviriana 1640. 12mo. 1115 index1033 blank p. Modern boards. 13.5 cm Ref: STCN ppn 061216267; Willems 504; Rahir 499; Berghman 1285; Hoffmann 537/38 Details: Elsevier's woodcut printer's mark on the title depicting an old man standing in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher. The motto is: 'Non solus'. After the index at the end we find: 'Adolphi Vorstii Epistola de obitu V.Cl. Ioannis Meursii ad filium ejus Joannem iuvenem praestantissimum' followed by a short 'epitaphium' for Meursius by his friend A. Buchellius and an elegiac couplet of Nicolaus Heinsius Condition: Title page soiled and a small piece removed from the tip of its right lower corner. Small stamp on the title. 3rd leaf slightly soiled Note: The Greek scholar Theophrastus ca. 370-287 B.C. was a pupil collaborator and successor of Aristotle. He was a scientific researcher rather than a speculative philosophers. Only a small part of Theophrastus' output has been preserved or as Meursius observes at the beginning of this 'liber singularis' of 1640: 'paucis conservatis pleraque interciderunt' 'few works have been saved most have perished'. p. 5 The importance of classification runs through all his extant works including even the brochure known as the Characters' Charaktêres. This collection of 30 descriptive sketches of types of people exhibiting deviations from proper norms of behaviour is nowadays his most famous and most imitated work. § This title of 1640 is the only edition of the last work of the Dutch classicist and historian Johannes Meursius Johannes van Meurs 1579-1639. It consists of 2 parts the first of which p. 1/82 is on the lost works of Theophrastus. Meursius list here 234 works with sources and testimonia. The second part p. 83/111 contains notes and emendations by Meursius on a number of Theophrastus' extant works 'Ioannis Meursii Lectiones Theophrasteae in quibus eorum librorum qui supersunt loca aliquot emendantur'. § Meursius was professor of History and Greek in the university of Leiden from 1610 till 1620. He studied under the genius J.J. Scaliger and is best known for the 'editiones principes' of a number of Byzantine authors that he produced. Meursius' indefatigable labours concerned also the history of ancient Greece and especially Eleusis and the antiquities of Athens and Attica. Meursius laid with his works the foundations of much later learning Provenance: The stamp on the title is a crown with 7 pearls of a Dutch/German/Austrian baron Beneath the crown 2 intertwined initials 'C.C'. or 'C.D' Collation: A-E12 F6 leaf F5 verso and F6 blank Photographs on request hardcover
154217Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Elseviriana, 1640.
175415495Oxford: Printed; and to be had of R. Clements and J. Fletcher…et al. 1754 First edition. Contemporary calf rubbed rebacked with old spine laid down. Octavo. Main text in Greek and Latin on facing pages. Extensive notes and observations in English. Covers rubbed corners worn. Armorial bookplate of William Frere 1775-1836 master of Downing College and later vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. Later pencil notations by a later student one dated 1932. A little light foxing. A good copy. The translator/compiler is Richard Newton 1676-1753 was educated at Christ Church College Oxford becoming a doctor of divinity in 1710. In 1710 he became principal of Hart Hall in Oxford where he tried to implement educational reforms. Running into opposition he oversaw its transformation into Hertford Colege. "Its statutes were the work of Newton and embodied his ideas on education… He would oversee tutors and students with equal strictness. Regular and rigorous academic exercises were to guarantee scholastic standards. Great power reposed in the principal who doubled as bursar. The principal in a manner more appropriate to a hall than to a college selected fellows. Future principals following Newton's own example were to be chosen exclusively from alumni of Westminster and Christ Church. Newton was keen too that an economical regime should attract undergraduates from less affluent backgrounds and compete for members against other colleges within the university. As principal he watched vigilantly over the domestic economy of the house. He calculated that the annual expenses of an undergraduate could be cut to about £31. He also waged an unavailing battle against the distractions that seduced the young from their studies. His frugal regimen at Hertford of 'small-beer and apple dumplings' was easily mocked"Oxford DNB. An able translator he produced this as part of his academic work and it was published posthumously. Printed; and to be had of R. Clements and J. Fletcher…[et al.], unknown
1714370<p>Theophrastus<i>The Moral Characters of Theophrastus. Translated from the Greek By Eustace Budgell Esq; Reddere persone scit convenientia cuique. Hor. </i>London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespeare's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand 1714. engraved frontispiece by Lud. Du Guernier deli & Sculp; vi; life of Theophrastus xvi; the preface viii; 80; iv 12mo. The introduction begins the text on page 1 chapter 1 begins on page 5; erratum on page 80 advertisements for Jacob Tonson's books 4 pages. Page 79 mis-numbered as "89." Bound in blind-stamped eighteenth century calf re-backed six raised bands. Book plate and embossed stamp of the Sondley Reference Library 1879 – 1919 City of Asheville North Carolina. Ownership signature of Henry Reid above the book plate. With the bookseller's tag of Joseph McDonough Rare Books Albany New York.</p><p>The fraught history of the Sondley Library its holdings its generous benefactor and its eventual piecemeal dispersal is a cautionary tale to any benefactor who might assume economic conditions and local politics will leave his/her bequest unaltered and intact in perpetuity. In the late nineteen-eighties the trustees of the Sondley Library authorized the sale of those books they deemed irrelevant to the Pack Memorial Library's purposes namely North Carolina history. </p>Jacob Tonson the printer is mentioned in Howe's <i>List of London Bookbinders 1648 – 1815. </i>"From his will it appears he was a bookbinder a stationer and a printer as well as a bookseller d. 1735." Lowndes Vol. IV 2663b "Of this translation Addison in the Lover remarked 'it was the best extant of any ancient author in the English Language.' " Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespeare’s Head, over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, hardcover books
17543721907Paris.: JEan Thomas Herissant. 1754. Hardcover. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 16 cm. 287 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal en plena piel con tejuelo y nervios decorados. Idioma francés . Cubierta deslucida. Literatura.82 82 JEan Thomas Herissant. hardcover
17436108Glasguae Glasgow: In Aedibus Academicis. Excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus 1743. 8vo. pp. ii 53 i 52. Greek text followed by Isaac Casaubons Latin translation. Contemporary calf rebacked corners renewed. Foulis was elected University Printer on March 31st 1743 and this is the first book where he styles himself Academiae Typographus. Peter Needhams excellent edition was first published in 1712. 1744 dated ownership signature E Libris Bagnall on the free endpaper with two 20th century inscriptions beneath: R.J. Mockridge St Johns Oxford in 1908; gift to D Hughes from the Rev R. Mockridge then at Harwicke Rectory August 1958. Booksellers ticket R. Saywell to pastedown. Theophrastuss moral character sketches are listed in English in a 19th century hand on the lower pastedown. Gaskell Foulis: 40; ESTC N475398. Book In Aedibus Academicis. Excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus unknown
1883001982Poitiers Imprimerie Oudin 1883
1754118025Paris herissant 1754 A Paris, Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1754, 1 volume in-12 de 90x150 mm environ, XXIV, 287 pages. Pleine reliure racinée, dos long portant titres et fers dorés, roulette dorée sur les coupes, gardes blanches. Coiffe de tête accidentée, coiffe de queue absente, des frottements sur les coins et les mors, rares rousseurs sinon intérieur frais, bon état général.
1754128701754 Paris, Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1754, in 12 de XXIV-287 pp., rel. d'ép. plein veau brun granité, dos à nerfs orné de fers dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranche rouge, usure à la coiffe inférieure, bon ex.
1779TK0066Frankfurt & Leipzig:: 1779 1779. 8vo. IV 246 20 pp. Engraved frontispiece title-vignette showing a bunch of grapes woodcut head & tailpieces index; title & final leaf each reinforced at hinge with white tape frontispiece is mounted on the adjoining newer free endsheet; waterstains. Later quarter vellum boards vellum tips; some staining to upper cover upper joint cracked. Good. Paracelsus' Natural Magic Magazine: containing as an extract from his writings all sorts of things for pleasure and benefit but especially economic arts and proven cures for humans and animals published for the general benefit. / This is an alchemical recipe book of concoctions for a myriad of needs some agricultural for using specific plants for medicinal cures treatments etc. each based on the writings of Paracelsus. A random sampling: p. 46 On the problem of caterpillars and how to prevent them from eating away your fruit trees. p. 36. How to catch large and small mice. p. How to fatten geese to give them large livers to make foie gras. p. 132. To remove stains from clothes. p. 150. How to give wine a sweet taste. p. 194 How to cultivate/make wine in the autumn. p. 210. Against the red aphid and fire. p. 162 The Queen's lemonade. p.---. How to make paper. p. 80. How to make beer pp. 176 more. A lot of attention is given to colors farben. / "Das Buch ist eine Sammlung von allerlei Zauberkunsten Recepten fur Menschen u. Thiere gegen Ungeziefer Hausmitteln u. s. w. auch sympathetischen Mitteln". - Spatere Ausgabe erstmals 1771 erschienen. – Erste u. letzte Bll. im Zuge der Neubindung im Falz verstarkt in den Randern gebraunt feuchtfleckig Titel starker u. zudem angestaubt insgesamt wohlerhalten. PROVENANCE: Koller auction 18 March 2015 lot 275. REFERENCES: Graesse Bibl. magica 49; Sudhoff 465. 1779 hardcover
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
194427667AB8 Bde. St. Gallen, Vlg. Zollikofer, 1944-1949. 8° Halblederbände mit Rückenschild. Rücken mit Farbabweichungen (verbleicht?).
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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
1926RO80094602KIEFFER René. 1926. In-4. Broché. Etat passable, 1er plat abîmé, Dos satisfaisant, Non coupé. 333 pages + une suite d'environ 50 / 60 planches. Exemplaire n°18 / 50, tiré sur papier Japon, contenant une suite à part des gravures tirées en sanguines, une aquarelle originale et 5 dessins originaux de Georges Bruyer. Nombreuses vignettes, dans le texte, illustrées en une couleurs. Couverture contre-pliée. Déchirure d'une quinzaine de cm sur le 1er plat de couverture. Charnières partiellement fendues.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle
176627675Paris Imprimerie De La Gazette De France 1766 3 Volumes Petit In-4 Rare et précieuse table Alphabétique de la très Fameuse Gazette L'ancien Possesseur ( Monsieur Duvivier ? ) a établi une autre table manuscrite en signalant ( après avoir souligné discrètement à l'encre les lieux concernés dans le texte ) tous les lieux dans chaque volume qui concernent les Ardennes dans la dite Gazette. Il manque la page de titre au tome 2 . 415 pp + 418 ( sans page de titre ) 364- 16 pp Manque en coiffe pour le premier volume
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
2658in 12 reliure plein vélin d’époque à rabats,titre manuscrit à la plume.Titre,XXIII-351 pages,43 pages index 1 ;2 ;3 1 page d’errata.1 page excudebat Guichardus Jullieron Typographus Rgius Lugduni,1599 Lugduni Antonium de Harsy 1599 cum privilegio regis Très bon état Isaac CasaubonPhilologue français(Genève 1559–Londres 1614). Calviniste, il enseigna le grec à Genève, à Montpellier, à Lyon, puis, à partir de 1600, à Paris, où Henri IV l'avait appelé. Son œuvre comprend des éditions, des traductions, des commentaires d'une vingtaine d'auteurs anciens, grecs surtout (Diogène Laërce, Théophraste, Théocrite, Perse, Polybe, Aristote, Suétone, etc.). On lui doit également des Éphémérides, chronique de sa vie quotidienne publiée en 1850, et une Correspondance, document essentiel sur les relations intellectuelles dans les milieux humanistes de la Renaissance.
