Search Results: Old and Rare books from Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

Venice, (Venetiis), Apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1569. 8vo. (XVI),543,(1 blank) p. 18th/19th century half vellum 16 cm (Ref: Edit16, CNCE 20612; Not in Schweiger, Didbin, Moss, Ebert, Graesse, Brunet or Fabricius/Ernesti) (Details: Evidently a rare book. Not a single copy in Rare Book Hub (Americana Exchange). KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog) refers only to copies in Italian libraries. Marbled boards. Printer's mark on the title, depicting a winged leopard (a kind of griffin) carrying a winged orb or ball. Woodcut initial at the beginning of each of the 20 books. Printed almost completely in italics. At the end is a 35 page list of Greek passages found in the text with their translation into Latin, called dictionum graecarum interpretatio) (Condition: Cover slightly worn, especially to the extremes; back slightly spotted and soiled with some faint pencil stripes. Ownership entry on the lower part of the title erased. A pinpoint wormhole in the right upper corner of the last 4 leaves, far away from… Read More

Paris (Parisiis), Ex officina Adriani Turnebi Typographi Regij, 1552. 12mo. (VIII),1-211,(1) p. 18th century calf 16.5 cm (Ref: Wartelle p. 2. Hoffmann I,32: 'Eine schöne und seltene Ausgabe'. Dibdin 1,237: 'beautifully printed'. Moss 1,7: 'a beautiful edition'. Brunet I, 77. Graesse 1,29. Ebert 180. Gruys p. 31/46; Mund-Dopchie p. 45/83) (Details: Back with 5 raised bands, the compartments with gilt floral motives. Red morocco shield in the second compartment. Triple fillet gilt borders on both boards. Gilt inside dentelles. Bookblock with gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's mark on the title) (Condition: Some wear to the extremes of the binding. Some foxing. Marginal repairs in 3 leaves) (Note: The Greek tragedian Aeschylus, 525/4-456 B.C., is the earliest of the surviving tragic playwrights. He 'can be considered the 'inventor' of tragedy as we understand it'. (The Classical Tradition, N.Y., 2010, p. 10) He became an instant classic in… Read More

Leiden (Lugduno Batavorum), Apud Johannem Luzac, 1739. 8vo. 2 volumes in 1: (VIII),XXXI,(3),264; (VIII),249,(15 index),(2 blank) p. Vellum 20.5 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,125; Brunet 1,239; Ebert 536; Graesse 1,105) (Details: Six thongs laced through the joints. Both titles printed in red & black. Engraved printer's mark on title, designed by F. v. Bleyswyck, depicting a ship heading for Scylla and Charybdis; its motto: 'nec dextrorsum, nec sinistrorsum', or 'Neither to the right nor to the left', referring to Deuteronomium ch. V,32/33: 'Custodite igitur et facite quae praecepit Dominus Deus vobis: non declinabitis neque ad dexteram, neque ad sinistram: sed per viam, quam praecepit Dominus Deus vester, ambulabitis, ut vivatis, et bene sit vobis, et protelentur dies in terra possesionis vestrae') (Condition: Vellum age-tanned and slightly soiled. Small name on the title. Old ink inscription on the front flyleaf. Front hinge cracking, but strong; paper of pastedowns cracking)… Read More

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Sam. et Joan. Luchtmans, 1774. 8vo. XXXII,304,(19 index),(1 blank) p. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 238037584; Hoffmann 193: 'Am Ende befindet sich ein bedeutender Excurs: De dialectis in Antonino Liberal. obviis'; Ebert 752; Graesse 1,154; Brunet 1,330: 'cette édition était la meilleure avant celle de 1832'; Spoelder, p. 490: Amsterdam 9) (Details: Greek text, with facing Latin translation. Prize copy, including the printed prize for Janus Fredericus van Beeck Calkoen. 6 thongs laced through joints. Backstrip panelled in gilt with repeated floral motives. Gilt borders and cornerpieces. Gilt coat of arms of Amsterdam in centre of the boards. Still having 3 green ties, the 4th tie is broken but still there. Engraved printer's mark on title: 'Tuta sub Aegide Pallas') (Condition: Vellum soiled, vellum on the upper board slighty wrinkled and damaged. Paper foxed and somewhat warped. At the end are some small stains in the gutter)… Read More

Paris (Parisiis), Apud Marcum Orry, via Iacobaea, sub signo leonis salientis, 1600. 8vo. (VIII),282,(2 animadvertenda),(4 blank) p. Limp vellum 18 cm (Ref: Hoffmann 1,239; Graesse 1,204; Ebert 1065) (Details: Among bibliographers and librarians there is confusion about the date of this book. The date on the title of this second edition of the letters of Aristaenetus is indicated as MVIC. We found in KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog) records of this title dated 1594, 1596 and 1600. 1594 is definitely wrong, for the Parisian printer Orry published the first edition of this title in 1595, indicated by him as MDLXXXXV, and he repeated it the next year, now with MDXXXXVI. The third edition was published in 1610, with the date MCX. As the second edition cannot preceed the first edition of 1595 (and its repetition of 1596), this second edition comes between 1596 and 1610, so these very unusual Roman numerals MVID (1000, 6, 500) might well mean 1600. § 2 thongs laced through the joints. The boards and… Read More

Harlingen (Harlingae), Ex officina Volkeri van der Plaats, 1744. 8vo. (XXIV),484,(25 index),(3 blank) p. Vellum 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 15383420X; Hoffmann 1,260; Dibdin 1,306; Moss 1,97/98; Brunet 1,456: 'édition estimée'; Ebert 1099; Graesse 1,208) (Details: Greek text accompanied by scholia and commentary. Short title in ink on the back) (Condition: Vellum age toned and soiled. Small paper label pasted on the back. Front joint partly split. Paper yellowing. Pinpoint wormhole in the lower part of the first 130 p., sometimes nibbling at a letter) (Note: Of the Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, ca. 455-385 BC, born in the radical democracy of Athens, survive 11 plays. In a less free society his genre became obsolete in his own time, and was later replaced by the harmless plays of Menander. 'Aristophanes' comic mode- a dramatic free form with an almost improvisational feel, great poetic and linguistic inventiveness, highly topical satire (public figures being named and… Read More

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Joannis Maire, 1624. 12mo. (XXIV),935,(1),56 (recte 60) p. Contemporary boards 14 cm (Ref: Breugelmans 1624,2, with a note on the date, he suggests a date after 1626; Hoffmann 1,254, a very elaborate description; Dibdin 1,299; Smitskamp, The Scaliger Collection 5; Brunet 1,453; Moss 1,94: 'a beautiful edition'; Graesse 1,207; Ebert 1090) (Details: Greek text and Latin translation. Binding: marbled paper over boards. Back ruled gilt, and with a red letter label. Edges dyed red. Printer's device on the title: a shoveling farmer, above his head the motto 'fac & spera'. 6 woodcut initials) (Condition: Binding worn at the extremities. Paper on both joints split. Back rubbed. Front flyleaf gone. Inner hinge a bit weak. The title leaf shows two small tears in the gutter) (Note: This edition has been praised by some critics; it contains a few short but useful notes by the famous French scholar Joseph Scaliger, 1540-1609. § Of the Greek… Read More

Frankfurt (Francofurti), Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli, Claudium Marnium & Iohannem Aubrium, 1596. 8vo. (XXIV),992 (recte 984) p. Vellum. 17 cm. <Important edition of the Physics, one of Aristotle's principal works> (Ref: VD16 A 3554; Hoffmann 1,286: 'Durch d. Vergleich v. Heidelb. Mss. hat d. Ausg. krit. Werth'; Cranz, 'A bibliography of Aristotle editions, 1501-1600', no. 108.745'; cf. Neue Pauly, Supplementband 2, p. 73 where Pacius' edition of the complete Aristotle, Geneva 1597, is mentioned) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints, 2 of them are broken. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting the winged horse Pegasus gracefully arched over a caduceus and 2 intertwined cornucopiae. Edges dyed gray/blue. The Greek text and the opposing Latin translation, the first 336 pages, are printed in 2 columns) (Condition: Vellum scuffed, spotted and worn to the extremes. Upper joint split for the greater part. Back somewhat damaged. Occasional… Read More

Heidelberg (Heidelbergae), 1560. (Colophon: 'Heidelbergae, Excudebat Lodovicus Lucius, Universitatis typographus, Anno salutis humanae 1560, Mense Septembri) 8vo. (VIII),567(recte 571),(1 colophon),(4 blank) p. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. 17.5 cm (Ref: VD16 A 3403; Hoffmann 1,291; Schweiger 1,52; cf. Dibdin 1,326 & Moss 1,126 for the edition of 1555; cf. Graesse 1,212; Cranz, A bibliography of Aristotle editions, 1501-1600, no. 108.398; J. Lewis, 'Adrien Turnèbe (1512-1565), a humanist observed', Genève, 1998, p. 127/28) (Details: Nice contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. Back with 3 raised bands. Boards decorated with a row of blind-tooled rolls, comprising floral motives and heads in medallions. The central panel is adorned with floral motives and palmets. The blind-stamped year 1565 or 1563 is vaguely visible at the bottom of the central panel on the upper board. Greek text with facing Latin translation, printed in 2 columns) (Condition:… Read More

Rotterdam (tot Rotterdam), By Hendrik Beman, 1776. 4to. (LIV),288 p., frontispiece, portrait and 12 plates. Half calf. 23 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 189763396)(Details: Back with 5 raised bands, and divided by gilt double fillets. The nice allegoric frontispiece was designed by Jan Wandelaar and engraved by Simon Fokke, it depicts Abraham together with Fides (True Faith) before an altar on which a goat is being burned; Fides' offer helps Abraham to conquer Vice; Obedience, depicted as a yoked woman (who else?), binds wings to Abraham's feet, to help him accept the yoke of Virtue; Abraham holds with his right hand 3 chained figures, Instability, Idolatry and Vanity. § Title printed in red and black. Engraved printer's mark on the title depicting Athena, who rests on a pile of books; at her feet a putto reading a book.The portrait of Arnold Hoogvliet, dated 1745, is made after a lost painting of the Dutch artist Dionys van Nijmegen, and is executed by J. Houbraken. Preceding each of the 12… Read More

Paris, Chez les Frères Barbou, 1794 - 1795 (L'An III de la République Française) 12mo. (IV),384 p. Modern half calf. 18.5 cm (Ref: This edition not in Schweiger and Brunet; however cf Schweiger 2,366; cf Brunet 2/2,1312; cf Ebert 7698) (Details: Latin text with facing French translation. Back with five raised bands; marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Only the upper margin has been cut) (Condition: Small bookplate on the front pastedown. Small waterstain in the right lower corner and the left inner corner of the first 30 p. Paper yellowing) (Note: This is the chief work of the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus, who lived at the beginning 2nd century AD. It is an abridgement (epitome) of Roman history with special reference to the wars waged up to the age of Augustus. Florus 'shows a certain literary gift, marred, however, by a strong tendency to rhetoric. His brevity often entails obscurity, though he sometimes produces a felicitous epigram. (...) As an historian he… Read More

Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1689. 12mo. 2 volumes in 1: (XXIV),238,(2 blank); (XII),132 p. Vellum. 15 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 842282777; Brunet 5,127; Graesse 6/1,265; Ebert 20262) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. 2 titles, printed in red and black, each with the same woodcut printer's mark on it, depicting a celestial sphere. After the preliminary pages of the first volume come Sannazaro's Latin poems, p. 1/158, followed by explanatory notes, p. 159/238. The second volume contains the Latin poetry of the Amalthei brothers) (Condition: Vellum age-toned, back soiled. Bookplate pasted on the front pastedown. Old ink inscription in English, on the verso of the flyleaf at the end) (Note: We learn from the 'Praefatio' of the 'Opera omnia' edition of Sannazarius, Amsterdam 1728, that the editor and commentator of this edition of 1689 is the Dutch scholar Janus Broukhusius. Already on the first page of that 'Praefatio' of the Sannazarius of… Read More

Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud viduam Gerardi onder den Linden, 1728. 8vo. (II),(XVI),(II errata),632,(20 index & errata) p., frontispiece, 1 engraved plate, 1 text engraving. Green vellum. 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 189042265; Brunet 5,127: 'Bonne édition'; Graesse 6/1,265; Ebert 20263) (Details: This book has 2 different title pages. This anomaly tell us about a publisher's death, and the efforts of his widow to continue the firm. The very first title, bound before the frontispiece, is printed in black, has no printer's mark, and shows the impressum: 'Amstelaedami, Apud Gerardum Onder de Linden, 1727'. The second title, bound after the frontispiece, is printed in red and black, has a printer's mark, but is now dated 1728, and published 'apud Viduam Gerardi Onder de Linden'. Gerard Onder de Linden died in 1727, leaving Vlaming's Opera edition of Sannazarius unfinished. In the 'Boekzaal der geleerde waerelt' volume 25, of december 1727, the public… Read More

Amsterdam, Ter Boekdrukkerij van P.E. Briët, 1815. 4to. Frontispiece, (VII),(1 blank); 688 p. Half calf 24.5 cm (Ref: Geerebaert 143,35; Not in OiN) (Details: Back ruled gilt. Engraved title, designed and executed by L. Portman, depicted is the Muse Terpsichore, who holds in her left arm a 'cithara', in her right hand she holds a laurel wreath, with which she crowns a bust of Vergil that stands on a pedestal. The translation is preceded by a 5 page verse dedication to William I, the new king of Holland. After each of the 12 books of the Aeneid follow a few pages with 'Aanteekeningen' (notes)) (Condition: Binding very scuffed. Back rubbed and chafed. Head of the spine damaged. Paper on the boards gone. Front endpapers and title slightly soiled. Tip of both corners of the title torn off. Lacking, as more copies, the 8 page list of subscribers to this edition, which was separately supplied by the publisher) (Note: This verse translation into iambic hexameters and heptameters was… Read More

Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1708. 4to. (XX, including frontispiece),476,(73 index),(1 blank) p., 9 full page engravings. Calf. 23.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 186442033; Schweiger 2,1093; Graesse 6/2,157; Ebert 22968; Brunet 5,856) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Red shield in the second compartment. Edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraved after a design of Joseph Mulder, by Willem (de) Broen, who is also the engraver of the 9 plates. The frontispiece shows left a shepherdess, probably Delia, Tibullus first love, and the subject of book I; she leans on a fountain, holding a staff; she reaches out towards a shepherd at the left, in the distance 3 nude women (the three Graces) dancing with 3 putti; a ploughing farmer in background, sheep in foreground. Title printed in red and black. Engraved printer's mark on the title, with Wetstein's motto: 'Terar dum prosim'. Commentary in 2 columns below the text. P. 409/441 contain the 'libellus… Read More

Amsterdam (t'Amsteldam), By Pieter Mortier, Boekverkooper, 1701. 4to. (VIII),334,(40 index) p., frontispiece; 26 engraved plates. Vellum. 29 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 843242159; Schweiger 2,685; Geerebaert 122,26,b; OiN 273) (Details: Large paper copy. Third volume of 3 only. Back with seven raised bands. Boards blind stamped. The frontispiece, made by J. Goeree and J. van Vianen, depicts Ovid in despair being sent into exile by the emperor Augustus. Engraved plates of gods & goddesses and the like in the translation of the Fasti.) (Condition: Vellum age-toned, soiled & spotted. Paper partly yellowing. 3rd and last volume only) (Note: This third volume of a set of three contains a Dutch prose translation of part of the works of the Roman poet Ovid, 43 B.C. - 17 A.D. It contains a translation of the 'Tristia', 'Epistulae ex Ponto', 'Fasti', 'Ibis', 'Nux', 'Consolatio ad Liviam Elegiae', 'Medicamina Faciei Femineae'. § Ovidius 'is… Read More

Nijmegen (Noviomagi), (Ex typographia Ahasuëri van Goor filiique), 1790. 4to. (IV),244,(4 index) p. Contemporary wrapppers 22 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 190386835; Gheprint te Nymeghen 45.1) (Details: Uncut) (Condition: Wrappers chafed. Paper on the back gone. Paper of 9 gatherings browned. Waterstain, sometimes almost invisible, in the upper inner corner) (Note: The city of Nijmegen, in the Dutch province of Gelderland, is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. In the first century BC the Romans built a military limes-camp on a place of great strategic value because of the surrounding hills, which gave a good view over the Rhine valley. By 69 a village called 'Oppidum Batavorum' had formed near the Roman camp, where 'Legio X Gemina' was stationed. The settlement around the camp received in 98 A.D. Roman city rights. In 104 the Emperor Trajan renamed the town 'Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum', better known as 'Noviomagus'. In the 8th century Nijmegen was part of the… Read More

Strasbourg, (Argentorati), Impensis Lazari Zetzneri, 1604. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. (XVI),385,(36 index),(1 blank); 639,(23 index) p. Modern half vellum. 16 cm (Ref: VD17 3:006921C & VD17 3:006920V) (Details: Boards marbled. Woodcut printer's mark on both titles, depicting the head of the goddess Athena in profile, the motto is 'Scientia immutabilis'. Occasional woodcut initials) (Condition: Vellum at the head of the spine stained. Small stamp on the verso of the title. Paper yellowing) (Note: The French scholar Dionysius Gothofredus, or Denis Godefroy, 1549-1622, is best known as the editor of the monumental 'Corpus iuris civilis', Lyon 1583, an edition with commentary of the complete collection of fundamental works in Roman jurisprudence (Digest, Institutions, Codex, Novellae) issued on order of the emperor Justinian at the beginning of the sixth century. Gothofredus' edition made history. He did not only coin the title 'Corpus Juris Civilis', but it was issued… Read More

Köln (Coloniae), Apud Ioannem Crithium, Sub signo Galli, 1612. 12mo. (IV),650,(14 indices) p. Overlapping vellum 14 cm (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Woodcut printer's mark of the Jesuit Order on the title) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned. All four ties gone. Outer edge of the first and last two leaves are slightly thumbed) (Note: The Portuguese Jesuit theologian and Biblical scholar Manuel de Sá, 1530-1596, (the latinized form is Emanuel Sa) has written three important works, which were repeatedly published in most European countries well into the seventeenth century: 'Scholia in Quatuor Evangelia', 'Notationes in totam Scripturam Sacram' and the 'Aphorismi confessariorum'. In 1557 he was appointed professor at the Roman College at Rome, where he lectured on the prophecies of Osee, one of the minor prophets, and the 'Summa' of Thomas Aquinas. Pope Pius V appointed De Sa as a member of the commission in charge of preparing an authentic… Read More

Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1709. 8vo. Frontispiece, (XXXVI),(II blank),277,(43 index) p. Contemporary vellum. 19.5 cm. (Ref: STCN 182901963; Schweiger 2,8; Ebert 792; Brunet 1,343; Graesse 1,160; J.D. Vehling (Apicius bibliography) no. 9) (Details: Frontispiece designed and engraved by J. Goeree, depicting a Roman kitchen, a staff of 5 is preparing a meal; on the work surface rests an anachronistic codex recipe book. The preliminary pages contain a dedication, a preface, M. Lister to the Reader, and 'Judicia et Testimonia' of Apicius. The ten books of Apicius, with the notes of Lister, Humelberg 'et alii' occupy p. 1-277. Then 18 pages with 'Variae Lectiones' from a manuscript in the Vatican, and an index of 24 pages) (Condition: Binding age-tanned and worn at the extremes. Two black spots on the back. Paper severely browned) (Note: In 1705, Martin Lister, who was chief physician to Queen Anne of England from 1709 till his death in 1712, published an… Read More