Greek Anthology.

Bosch, Hieronymus de. Observationes et notae in Anthologiam Graecam, quibus accedunt Cl. Salmasii notae ineditae. Ibid., 1810-1822, 2 volumes, with a duplicate of Q1 bound in the first volume (with different catchwords), engraved portrait of Bosch in volume 2



together 5 volumes, large paper copy, 4to (279 x 213mm.), engraved title-pages, early nineteenth-century half vellum, red morocco lettering-pieces on spines (misnumbered), partly uncut, some joints splitting

Jesuit library stamp from Lyon on title-pages; Daniel Jacob van Lennep (1774-1853), professor of Classics at the University of Amsterdam, sale, Amsterdam, 23 April 1855, according to pencil note on inside front cover of volume I

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The Anthologia graeca was published in several editions in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by leading publishers of the time such as Aldus, Giunta and Estienne. This is the first publication of the Latin verse translation by Hugo Grotius, the manuscript of which is now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, edited by Bosch.

Jérôme de Bosch's own marked-up copy with numerous annotations and emendations for a new edition. However, he never had the opportunity to see this completed, and the second volume of his Observationes (1822) was completed by Daniel Jacob van Lennep after Bosch's death in 1811. Bound in front of the title-page to the final volume are a few leaves headed "Hieronymi de Bosch descriptio edendae Anthologiae graecae, ab Hugone Grotio latinis versibus redditae", together with the first two pages of the anthology's text, which seems to be a pamphlet advertising Bosch's edition, as it includes the price of the book and the various European booksellers offering it for sale.

At the end of volume 3 is a printed sheet containing the title of each of the first 4 volumes, which presumably were intended to be cut out and used as paper spine labels for each volume.