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Carter Beats The Devil

VELLEIUS PATERCULUS Marcus or Gaius Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC. c. 31 AD.; Pieter BURMAN the elder 1668 1741. B. C. A. D.ABAA

C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt ex Historiae Romanae Voluminibus Duobus. Cum integris scholiis notis variis lectionibus et animadversionibus doctorum. Curante Petro Burmanno.

1719LV2044Lugduni Batavorum Leiden Netherlands:: Apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1719. 1719. 8vo. xl 748 118 pp. Engraved half title plate by F. Bleyswyk Bleyswyck red and black title with printerâ€™s device woodcut decorative initials and tailpieces index; occasional light foxing. Original gilt and blind-stamped full calf five raised bands with gilt-stamped maroon spine piece; worn joints cracked but reinforced with painted Kozo paper. Ownership blind emboss stamps on first and last few leaves including title. Binding worn internally very good. This Compendium of Roman History by Velleius is an early edition of Dutch classical scholar Pieter Burman the elder. His history written in a rhetorical style covered the period from the end of the Trojan War to the death of Livia in 29 A.D. and most useful for the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. to the death of Augustus in 14 A.D. Bryan Michael. Bryanâ€™s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Volume 1. G. Bell 1903. p. 145. "Velleius Paterculusâ€™ short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments Velleiusâ€™ work is uniquely important. It is a critical counter to the later accounts of Tacitus Suetonius and Cassius Dio not simply because it offers a different view of Tiberius but because Velleius saw continuity where later authors saw only radical change which destroyed the Republic and put monarchy in its place. For other reasons too Velleius occupies a unique position in Roman historiography." â€“ See: Eleanor Cowan ed. Velleius Paterculus: Making History Classical Press of Wales 2011. Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1719. hardcover books

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Suisse125,00 $US≈ 105,76 €

YUANWU KEQIN or in Japanese: ENGO KOKUGONABAA

Bukka Engo Zenji Hekiganroku or Hekiganroku or Hekiganshu Emerald or Blue Cliff Record

7036Printed in Chinese with Japanese reading marks. 11 columns per page 21 characters per column. 79; 59; 51; 49; 67 folding leaves. Ten parts in five vols. 8vo 240 x 149 mm. orig. brown wrappers new stitching. Japan: mid-Muromachi ca. 1440-50. An extremely rare and important "mid-Muromachi" Gozan-ban edition of The Blue Cliff Record in Chinese: Pi yen lu a collection of Chan Buddhist koan. These were verbal tests used to practice or test a student's progress in Zen compiled in the Song Dynasty and expanded by the great Northern Song Chan master Yuanwu Keqin 1063-1135 abbot of Tianning Wanshou Chan Monastery in Beijing. The text was first printed in China in 1125 or 1128 and has long been celebrated for both its startling beauty and profound complexity. Around 1140 one of Yuan Wu's successors Ta Hui destroyed the printing blocks and copies of the Pi yen lu because the work's rapid and widespread popularity made him fear that its beauty of expression would distract its readers from seeking enlightenment directly within themselves. The text was brought back from China by Dogen 1200-53 the Japanese Buddhist priest who was a founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. He had studied in China for four or five years and returned to stay at the Kenninji temple where he introduced many texts. This text was first printed in Japan about 1336-50 early-Nanbokucho by Gyokuho Shorin at the Kenninji; there is a copy at the National Diet Library. Our edition is a reprint of that first Japanese edition using the same woodblocks with minor changes. A later edition appeared in the Donald and Mary Hyde sale lot 65. "For some time Chan monks had been in the habit of extracting snippets from the 'records' yulu of past masters isolated them as 'ancient precedents' and commenting on them sometimes in verse sometimes in prose. By the mid-eleventh century the core situation was known as a 'case to be investigated' or a gong'an. The process was incremental and difficult to stop. Yuanwu's Emerald Cliff Record for example took a previous eleventh-century collection entitled Master Xuetou's verses on a hundred old cases and added an introduction and extensive commentary to each 'case' sometimes also dropping in comments on the appositeness or more usually inappositeness of the relevant verse so becoming in his turn 'magistrate.' A gong'an collection therefore reveals many layers all of them dedicated to undercutting the stability of language while at the same time playing a complex game of competing authorities. Herein lies their fascination."-Richard Bowring The Religious Traditions of Japan Cambridge U.P. p. 301. "Gozan-ban is a general term embracing all those books published by monks of the Zen sect chiefly at the five Zen monasteries at Kamakura and the five at Kyoto over a period of more than 200 years between mid-Kamakura and late Muromachi. The appearance of the printed page in most Gozan editions follows a distinctly Chinese style. The effect is somewhat dense and crowded caused by packing the Chinese characters tightly together with more regard for economy of space than for aesthetic effect. In this the Gozan editions differ markedly from all other early Japanese printed books which are more generously spaced. The reasons for this are twofold: the books tend to be chiefly reprints of Chinese song and Yuan editions and during the fourteenth century many Chinese blockcutters came over from the continent and practised their craft of a semi-commercial basis and on a fairly large scale."-K.B. Gardner "Centres of Printing in Medieval Japan: late Heian to early Edo period" in British Library Occasional Papers 11. Japanese Studies ed. by Yu-Ying Brown London: 1990 p. 164. PROVENANCE: This copy has the seals of Hirokata Yashiro 1758-1841 "Shinobazu Bunko"; Awa no Kuni Bunko; and Goroza Uchino b. 1873 "Kyotei Bunko". It later belonged to the great collector and bibliographer of early Japanese books Kazuma Kawase 1906-99 and has his seal. The chitsu has Kawase's manuscript title label stating in trans.: "Gozan-ban. Hekiganroku. Mid-Muromachi edition. Shinobazu Bunko provenance. Kazuma put the title on this label" also with his seal. There are four Prefaces: the first is undated the second dated 1300 the third dated 1305 and the fourth is dated 1304. Two leaves of manuscript probably written by Yashiro have been inserted at the beginning of Vol. I. They provide a commentary and a sort of title-page the work was issued without a title. Following Part I there are another two leaves of manuscript relating to this text. Following the tenth part are five Afterwards dated 1125 undated 1302 1317 and 1317. In fine condition all contained in a modern wooden box. The top of the box has been covered in a most attractive silk brocade. A few natural paper flaws and minor staining. Berkeley has an edition of this text but because of the very vague WorldCat cataloguing it is impossible to tell which exact edition it is. ❧ Kornicki Language Scripts and Chinese Texts in East Asia p. 245. unknown books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis85 000,00 $US≈ 71 918,50 €

Gold Robert L.ABAA

Boderland Empires in Transition: The Triple - Nation Transfer of Florida.

196960665bdCarbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1969. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters 258 pp. Fine in a Very Good mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear and sunned spine. From dust jacket: With the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 Great Britain emerged from the Seven Yearsâ€™ War as proprietor of the worldâ€™s most extensive colonial empire. England had expropriated the French claim on the North American continent and had forced Spain to barter her holdings in Florida for the return of vanquished Havana. Thus the Treaty of 1763 permanently shattered French ambitions in North America and severely curtailed Spanish colonial power for twenty years the period of British control in Florida. During the years necessary to accomplish the exchange of colonial rule in Florida the imperial rivalry among France Spain and England reached its denouement in the struggle for the Mississippi Valley and the Florida gulfcoast. Perhaps the most dramatic result of the exchange of colonial power was the removal of the entire Spanish population to Cuba and New Spain. Remarkably the evacuation of St. Augustine required only ten months. Although the relocation of the Spanish Floridians facilitated imperial transfer the displaced colnists suffered in their exchange of homelands. Mr. Gold traces the distress and eventual ruin of the major resettlement at Ceiba Mocha east of Havana in the Matanzas province. Florida in migrantes in Cuba and New Spain were confronted with similar hardships of relocation and economic duress as the Spanish exodus carried them abroad. Along with relating the exchange of colonial rule in terms of the population of Florida Mr. Gold examines and evaluates cultural religious and political changes. Southern Illinois University Press, (1969). First Edition. hardcover books

Lighthousebooks, ABAA · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

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