Continental Books, Manuscripts and Science

Chancery folio (309 x 208mm.), 38 leaves, 40 lines plus headline, Roman letter, 3- to 7-line initial spaces with printed guides, woodcut printer's device at end, boards covered with a musical manuscript painted black, occasional light staining

de die natali [edited by philippus beroaldus, with other works by lucian, cebes, epictetus, plutarch and st basil]. bologna: benedictus hectoris faelli, [12 may] 1497

The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Eight:  Theology, Philosophy, Law, and Economics

Ibid. Enchiridion latinis versibus adumbratum. Per Edvardum Ivie. Oxford: e teatro Sheldonianio, impensis H. Clements, 1715, parallel Greek and Latin text, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette of the Sheldonian on title-page

Ibid. Enchiridion latinis versibus adumbratum. Per Edvardum Ivie. Oxford: e teatro Sheldonianio, impensis H. Clements, 1715, parallel Greek and Latin text, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette of the Sheldonian on title-page Ibid. Epictetus his morals, with Simplicius his comment. Made English from the Greek by George Stanhope. London: W.B. for R. Sare, 1721, some spottingIbid. Epicteti manuale, Cebetis Thebani tabula... Græce et latine, notis illustrati a Josepho Simpson. Oxford: e Teatro Sheldoniano, 1739, 2 parts in one volume, parallel Greek and Latin text, general title-page printed in red and black, engraved vignette on others title-pages  together 4 volumes, 8vo, bindings: eighteenth-century calf, bindings slightly rubbed

enchiridion: unà cum cebetis thebani tabula... omnia hieronymo wolfio interprete. london: j. flesher for w. morden, 1670, 2 parts in one volume, parallel greek and latin text, first title-page printed in red and black, [wing e3146]

4to (290 x 223mm.), [18], xli, [1], 505, [11]pp., illustration: woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, binding: contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled edges, morocco lettering-piece

all the works... which are now extant; consisting of his discourses, preserved by arrian, in four books, the enchiridion, and fragments. translated from the original greek by elizabeth carter. with an introduction, and notes, by the translator. london: s. richardson for a. millar, john rivington, r. and j. dodsley, 1758

8vo (157 x 96mm.), ff. [216], *, A-BB8, BB6-7 blank, BB8 with device on verso, binding: seventeenth-century calf, gilt spine

arrianou epikthtov. arriani epictetus [the encheiridion of epictetus with the essays of arrian, edited by v. trincavelli]. (venice: b. zanetti for g.f. trincavelli, september 1535)

Music, Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts

VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. L'Eneide tradotta in versi italiani da Clemente Bondi. Parma: Bodoni, 1790, 2 volumes, 8vo (216 x 140mm.), medallion-portait vignette on titles, flat spines gilt with cartouches and medallions, red- and green-gilt labels, fore-edges painted red and black, spine slightly defective on volume 1

VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. L'Eneide tradotta in versi italiani da Clemente Bondi. Parma: Bodoni, 1790, 2 volumes, 8vo (216 x 140mm.), medallion-portait vignette on titles, flat spines gilt with cartouches and medallions, red- and green-gilt labels, fore-edges painted red and black, spine slightly defective on volume 1LONGUS. Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e di Cloe... tradotti dalla lingua greca nella nostra toscana dal Commendatore Annibal Caro. Parma: Bodoni, 1794, 12mo (150 x 95mm.),  corners rubbedEPICTETUS. Εγχειριδιον. Parma: Bodoni, 1793, 12mo (151 x 100mm.), text in Greek and Italian, tears to lower coverTHEOCRITUS, MOSCHUS and BION. Ειδυλλια παντα. Parma: Bodoni, 1792, 2 volumes in one, 8vo (212 x 135mm.), vignette portrait to title, gilt edges, tears to covers, spine worn at footMANFREDI, Eustachio. Poesie... con un ristretto della sua vita. Parma: Bodoni, 1793, 8vo (213 x 138mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece together 6 volumes in marbled calf, four with spines gilt in compartments, red and black labels, silk markers

a collection of five small format works in six volumes from the bodoni press, all in contemporary marbled calf, comprising:

Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts, including Science and Medicine

Theocritus. Eidullia kai epigrammata swzomena. [?Geneva: Crespin, c. 1570], 24mo, eighteenth-century red morocco gilt, 2 leaves loose, wormhole in lower margin

Theocritus. Eidullia kai epigrammata swzomena. [?Geneva: Crespin, c. 1570], 24mo, eighteenth-century red morocco gilt, 2 leaves loose, wormhole in lower marginHierocles. Opera. London: Roger Daniel, 1654-55, 2 volumes, 8vo, eighteenth-century red morocco gilt, [Wing H1934 & H1935]Tatian. ProV EllhnaV. Oxford, at the Theatre, 1700, 8vo, nineteenth-century blue morocco giltMenander. Reliquiae. Amsterdam: Thomas Lombrail, 1709, 8vo, nineteenth-century red morocco giltLongus. Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. Bouillon: Société Typographique, 1776, 12mo, engraved plates, contemporary red morocco giltCollection des moralistes anciens. Paris: Didot and De Bure, 1782-3, 2 volumes (of 18), 12mo, (non-uniform) contemporary red morocco gilt together 9 volumes

manuel d'epicete, en grec, avec une traduction française. paris: ph.-d. pierres, 1783, 16mo (133 x 78mm.), printed on vellum, nineteenth-century blue morocco gilt, [van praet, vélins du roi, iii, 34], binding slightly rubbed

Egcheiridion (Graece).  Parma, Palazzo Regal, co' tipi Bodoniani, 1793

Egcheiridion (Graece).  Parma, Palazzo Regal, co' tipi Bodoniani, 1793 4to. Greek and roman type; lacks initial blank. Cream boards.

epictetus

Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts

4to (210 x 145mm.), woodcut headpiece and initials, woodcut printer's device at end, with final blank leaf, nineteenth-century crushed brown morocco gilt by Ramage, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, in crushed green morocco folding box made by James Brockman in 1982, upper joint slightly rubbed

ενχειριδιον [with the commentary of simplicius]. (venice: giovanni antonio nicolini da sabbio and brothers, july 1528)

The Discourses... translated by G. Long. 1902, 2 volumes, one of 250 copies, small 4to, finely bound in twentieth century pictorial brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut--Herodotus. The History... translated by G. Rawlinson, revised. Nonesuch Press, 1935, small folio, number 449 of 675 copies, maps and illustrations, original blue vellum-backed cloth gilt--Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928, 8 volumes, 8vo, number 497 of 500 copies, original black cloth--Bunbury, E.H. A History of Ancient Geography. 1883, 2 volumes, 8vo, maps and plates, contemporary polished calf gilt, arms to sides, upper joints split, bindings somewhat worn (13)

classical literature and history--epictetus.

Bibliotheca Brookeriana VIII

POLIZIANO, ANGELO AMBROGINI, CALLED. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice videre licet. Ed: Alexander Sartius. Herodianus: Historia de Imperio post Marcum; Epictetus: Enchiridion; Alexander Aphrodisaeus: Problemata; Plutarchus: Narrationes amatoriae; Athanasius: Stilus et character psalmorum. Angelus Politianus. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, July 1498

POLIZIANO, ANGELO AMBROGINI, CALLED. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice videre licet. Ed: Alexander Sartius. Herodianus: Historia de Imperio post Marcum; Epictetus: Enchiridion; Alexander Aphrodisaeus: Problemata; Plutarchus: Narrationes amatoriae; Athanasius: Stilus et character psalmorum. Angelus Politianus. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, July 1498 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF POLIZIANO'S WORKS, CONTAINING THE FIRST USE OF HEBREW TYPE BY ALDO. Poliziano (1454–1494) was tutor to the sons of Lorenzo de' Medici (the work is dedicated to Piero de' Medici) before becoming chair of Latin and Greek at the Florentine Studio, and was renowned for his mastery of the Greek language. He had begun preparing his letters and other writings for publication himself, with the assistance of the Bolognese humanist Alessandro Sarti, but when the intended Bolognese printer, Platon Benedetti, died in 1496, Aldo stepped in and completed the project. "Although not a classical author, Poliziano was nonetheless admired by Aldus for the elegance of his writing, and this publication may have been intended to serve as a model of elegant Latin and Greek composition" (Grolier/Aldus). This copy was owned early on by Ludwig Baer (or Ludovicus Ursinus, 1479–1554), who was Professor of Theology and rector of the university at Basel until 1529 when, on the election of the reform party, he moved to Freiburg. Erasmus praised Baer for his ability to exercise his academic duties as a theologian "without the slightest hostility towards classical and biblical scholarship" (Contemporaries of Erasmus, ed. Bietenholz, I:86). Super-Chancery folio (307 x 195 mm). Roman and Greek types, with a few Hebrew characters on H8r, 38 lines plus headline. Collation: a–p8 q–r10 s–t8 A–I8 K4 L–P8 Q–R10 S8 T10 V6 X–Y10 Z8 &10 aa10 iteru[m] aa–iteru[m] bb8 bb–hh8 ii6 kk10: 450 (of 452) leaves (lacking aa4.5). Numerous three- to nine-line initial spaces with guide letters, initials (some modestly elaborate) supplied and rubricated throughout in red and blue. (Occasional soiling, some innocuous wormholes.) Binding: French eighteenth-century green morocco (314 x 215), covers with border of three gilt fillets with gilt circle at points of intersections, spine gilt-tooled in six compartments, second and sixth with red morocco labels, respectively lettered with author & title and printer & date, marbled endpapers, gilt-rolled turn-ins, gilt edges. (Some very light scuffing, two small wormholes, lower joint with minor repair.) Provenance: "Ex libris Canoni Lugulis in Harbach," partially effaced fifteenth/early-sixteenth-century inscription on title- page — Ludwig Baer (1479–1554), inscription, dated 1502, on title-page — possibly "Domus S. Antonii Isenheim," crossed out inscription on title-page with note that the volume was added to catalogue in 1780 — William Nanson Lettsom (1796– 1865), inscription on verso front free endpaper, dated 4 December 1821; Sotheby's, 20–23 November 1865, lot 1278; purchased by — unidentified owner (£4 6s) — clipping from a nineteenth-century dealer's(?) catalogue tipped to front pastedown describing this copy "as clean as the day it was printed" and attributing the binding to Derome — John Roseberry Monson, 10th Baron Monson of Burton (1907–1958), small rectangular label "Lord Monson" at foot of lower pastedown — Trustees of the 10th Baron Monson's Residuary Trust; Sotheby's London, 5 June 2013, lot 228 (the Trust designated as the consignor); purchased by — unidentified owner (£13,750). Acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 2015. References: UCLA 26; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 27; BMC V 559 (IB 24475); Goff P886; Grolier/Aldus 14; GW M34727; ISTC ip00886000; Renouard 17/4

View 1 of Lot 253: Poliziano, Omnia opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, July 1498, French eighteenth-century green morocco by Derome

poliziano, omnia opera, venice, aldo manuzio, july 1498, french eighteenth-century green morocco by derome

Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern

Bible. New Testament. English. Tyndale's version

Bible. New Testament. English. Tyndale's version [The Newe Testament of oure Saveour Jesus Christ translated by M. Wil. Tyndall... ?London, 1549] 8vo (141 x 85mm.), 35 lines of text plus headlines, woodcut initials, h1_h8 present in two versions (one version reset with a different type in 34 lines of text), P2-T7 misbound after L1, with a leaf from another work bound at end (see footnote), nineteenth-century blind-tooled black morocco, metal corner-pieces, two clasps, lacking 18 leaves of preliminaries (before Tyndale's preface to the Christian reader on A1), text leaves T1_8, b1_8, h3_6 and all after y6 (48 leaves), generally soiled, some fraying throughout, upper hinge broken, lacking one strap and one corner-piece on upper cover TYNDALE'S NEW TESTAMENT. William Tyndale's influential translation of the Bible into English cost him his life; he was burned at the stake in Antwerp in 1536 on the orders of Charles V and with the approval of Henry VIII. Tyndale, in the manner of Erasmus (and indeed using Erasmus's editions of the Greek text), had based his text on the Greek rather than the Vulgate to ensure greater fidelity to the original meaning. His New Testament was first printed in 1526 in Worms as it could not be printed or even owned in England (book burnings were organised at Smithfield by the bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall, a close friend of Erasmus), but the number of reprints show that there was certainly sufficient demand for copies. Tyndale revised his text for an edition printed in Antwerp in 1534, in which his preface "to the Christian reader" appears for the first time. There are numerous early editions recorded of Tyndale's New Testament, many of them recorded in few copies and with only small differences between them. This is one of the editions considered to have been issued in London in 1549, with the young Edward VI on the throne and a more positive political climate towards English Bibles. The type used in the reset pages in quire h indicates the likely involvement of the printers John Day and William Seres, who also issued a folio Bible in this year. Herbert thought that the bulk of the book was probably printed in Antwerp in 1534 and that it was subsequently reissued in London with these new leaves and a dated title-page. Tyndale's influence on the English language can be considered equivalent to that of Martin Luther on German through his contemporaneous bible translations. Tyndale's contribution, however, was less visible; his language was used in later English Bibles but without acknowledgement. Bound in at the end is a leaf containing a poem, "The Poesie of Epictetus... Sustaine and Refraine", by James Sanford, printed in 1567, leaf f5 (STC 10423). The section lacking at the end contains most of Revelation (the only illustrated section of this edition), the start of which appears on y6 verso, and the table of Epistles and Gospels for Sarum use. LITERATURE: DMH 79; ESTC S12202 (listing 13 copies); STC 2856 PROVENANCE: "Presented to Dr Vaughan Hughes by Mrs Grimshaw as being a very favorite volume with the late Revd T.S. Grimshaw, June 1837", inscription on flyleaf; by family descent

View 1 of Lot 108: Bible in English, New Testament, translated by Tyndale, [?London, 1549], later black morocco

bible in english, new testament, translated by tyndale, [?london, 1549], later black morocco

Music and Continental Books & Manuscripts

Hesiod. Opera omnia. [Parma: ex regio parmensi typographio, 1785], 4to, contemporary speckled calf, gilt--Theocritus. Mosxou, kai biwnos eidullia panta [Greek]. [Parma: in aeidbus Palatinis, 1792], 4to, later calf gilt--Theophrastus. Characterum ethicorum. [Parma: ex regio typographeo, 1786], 4to, vellum--Anacreon. Odaria. [Parma: Bodoni Press, 1791], 8vo, red morocco gilt--Epictetus. Egkeiridion [Greek]. [Parma: Bodoni, 1793], 8vo, half vellum

Hesiod. Opera omnia. [Parma: ex regio parmensi typographio, 1785], 4to, contemporary speckled calf, gilt--Theocritus. Mosxou, kai biwnos eidullia panta [Greek]. [Parma: in aeidbus Palatinis, 1792], 4to, later calf gilt--Theophrastus. Characterum ethicorum. [Parma: ex regio typographeo, 1786], 4to, vellum--Anacreon. Odaria. [Parma: Bodoni Press, 1791], 8vo, red morocco gilt--Epictetus. Egkeiridion [Greek]. [Parma: Bodoni, 1793], 8vo, half vellumand 6 others, together 11 volumes

a collection of 11 volumes with greek text, including:

Classical Literature. A collection of 18 volumes, Limited Editions Club:

Classical Literature. A collection of 18 volumes, Limited Editions Club: Aristotle. Politics & Poetics. Lunenburg: Stinehour Press, 1964, plain plates by Leonard Baskin-Horace. Odes and Epodes. New York: Thistle Press, 1961, 2 volumes, facsimile illustrations, slipcase worn-Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica. Athens: Printing Shop Aspioti-Elka, 1957, illustrations by A. Tassos-Longus. The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe. New York: Porter Garnett, 1934-Virgil. The Eclogues, translated by C.S. Calverley. New York: A. Colish, 1960, illustrations by Vertes; The Aeneid. Brattleboro: E.L. Hildreth, 1944, illustrations by C. Petrina; The Georgics. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1952, illustrations by B. Bramanti, dust-wrapper-Homer. The Odyssey, translated by T.E. Shaw. West Hatfield (Mass.): Hampshire Typotetae, 1981, illustrations by B. Moser; The Odyssey, translated by Alexander Pope. Haarlem: J.E. en Zonen, 1931; The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope. Haarlem: J.E. en Zonen, 1931, spine faded and slightly rubbed, bookplate removed, owner's name on front free endpaper; various sizes, all limited to between 1200 and 1500 copies, most signed by designer, editor, artist or printer, original bindings, slipcases, a few spines faded, a few slipcases rubbed or faded; and 7 others by Aristophanes, Epictetus, Plato, Xenophon and Sophocles (18)

classical literature. a collection of 18 volumes, limited editions club:

Books &amp; Manuscripts

Fine group of 7 titles, 1813-1927, in excellent condition, as follows:

Fine group of 7 titles, 1813-1927, in excellent condition, as follows: Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand. Lettres de … à Horace Walpole … auxquelles sont jointes des Lettres de Madame du Deffand à Voltaire … Paris: chez Treuttel & Würtz, 1812, 4 volumes, 8vo (7 7/8 x 4 ¾ in.; 200 x 120 mm), engraved frontispiece, half-title and title in each volume, contemporary quarter leather and marbled  boards, yellow edges; light wear to extremities. Walpole maintained a close and interesting correspondence with her for fifteen years. — Hippocrates of Cos. Aphorismes d’Hippocrate, Latin-Français, traduction nouvelle par E. Pariset. Paris: chez Méquignon-Marvis, 1813, 12mo, contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco, gilt roll-tooled leafy border, spine gilt, dentelles, by Meslant. — Laurent Tailhade. A Travers les Grouins. Paris: P.-V. Stock, 1899, 8vo, frontispiece, maroon three-quarter morocco, original wrappers bound in, ALS by his friend the poet Jean Rameau (1858-1942) discussing Tailhade inserted in pocket on front pastedown. First edition. — Epictetus. Manuel d’Épictète Suivi de l’Entretien de Pascal avec M. De Saci sur Épictète et Montaigne. Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1920, 8vo, gilt-ruled mottled calf, top-edge red, original printed wrappers bound in. — Ernest Renan. Dialogues Philosophiques. Paris: chez Claude Aveline, 1925, 8vo, title printed in red and black, woodcut half-title with portrait, letterpress half-title, copy no. 376 of 650 trade copies, green three-quarter morocco, original printed wrappers bound in. — Arthur (“Abbé”) Mugnier. J.-K. Huysmans à La Trappe. Paris: Le Divan, 1927, 4to, half-title, no. 70 of 1000 copies on Alfa, three-quarter morocco, top-edge gilt, original printed wrappers bound in. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Petites Collection Guillaume. Hermann et Dorothée. Paris: [Edouard Guillaume for] E. Dentu, 1893. 8vo (5 1/8 x 2 7/8 in.; 130 x 73 mm). Steel engraved vignette facing half-title, frontispiece on verso of half-title, vignette on title, steel-engraved text illustrations including some full-page, by Ludex Marold. Publisher's teal cloth, gold-stamped flower on upper cover, gold-stamped title and imprint on spine, original wrappers bound in; some light wear to extremities. In all, 7 works in 10 volumes.

french literature and translation

L13406

HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus. Opera. Parma, 1791, large folio, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, [Brooks 417], booklabel of Ulrico Hoepli, Milan

HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus. Opera. Parma, 1791, large folio, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, [Brooks 417], booklabel of Ulrico Hoepli, Milan HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus. Opera. Parma, 1793, 8vo, contemporary straight-grained green morocco gilt, flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece, uncut, [Brooks 494], booklabel of Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum EPICTETUS. Εγχειριδιον. Parma, 1793, 4to, contemporary half blue morocco, spine gilt in compartments, uncut, [Brooks 489] TASSO, Torquato. Aminta, favola boschereccia. Parma, 1789, 4to, contemporary boards, in later matching slipcase, uncut, [Brooks 379], bookplate of Giorgio Fanan, extremities slightly rubbed HESIOD. Opera omnia. Parma, 1785, 4to, near-contemporary calf-backed boards, green edges, [Brooks 290] HESIOD. Opera omnia. Parma, 1798-1797, 4to, contemporary marbled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, [Brooks 689] BOETHIUS. De consolatione philosophia. Parma, 1798, 4to, near-contemporary half green morocco, uncut, [Brooks 724]; sold as a collection not subject to return

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