313 / 444
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Rare and famous collection of short “biographies” of the Counts of Flanders, 1st publ. c. 1580.
On A2r a French poem by J. vander Noot.
Engr. ills
: title, arms of Archduke Mathias,map and
arms of Flanders and
40 portraits
, numbered 1-7 and 1-33. With
15 woodcut coats-of-arms
in text.
Ref.
Pettegree FB 36969 = NB 20666. BT 2058. Adams M-717.
1169
[Greek - Bruges imprint]
-
MEKERCHUS, Adolphus
- De veteri et recta pronuntiatione linguae
Graecae commentarius (...). Accessit Appendix de Graecorum accentibus, cum scholijs. Bruges,
H. Goltzius, 1565, 172-[2] pp. [bound with]
SYNESIUS -
Humnoi deka [Greek text and Latin
trsl. by Francesco Porto; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Odai tessares; Joannes Damascenus, Hymnus in
Theogoniam]. Paris, J. Bienné, 1570, [8]-155-[1] pp. (some minor spotting and soiling), 2 works in
1 vol., 8vo, cont. limp overl. vellum (ties gone), flat spine. Good copy.
€ 600/800
1.
1st ed.
(2nd Plantin 1576) of a typical humanist treatise on the
old pronunciation of classical
Greek
. A. van Meetkercke (1528, Bruges - 1591, London) was an active (calvinist) politician. H.
Goltzius, the “Flemish private printer” was active at Bruges 1562-1578. Woodcut mark on title
page and at the end.
Ref.
Pettegree NB 20942. BT 2072. Adams M-1051. Buisson 428. Le Loup
(Goltzius) 55.
2.
Rare ed. of the contemplative Greek Hymns of the Libyan bishop Synesius (373-
414), with a Latin trsl. by the Cretan humanist Fr. Porto (1511-1581). Pp. 1-118 in Greek. Woodcut
mark on title.
Ref.
Pettegree FB 87225. Renouard (Impr.) III:478:644. Adams S-2211. Hoffmann
III:654.
1170
[Greek literature]
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LUCIANUS
- [Opera, Greek text]. Hagenau, P. Braubach, 1535, 8vo, cont.
blindstamped calf (rubbed, ties gone), spine on 3 raised bands (def.), [2]-848 (= 843)-[1] pp. (title
lacking; some spotting and staining). Good copy.
€ 100/200
Pt 1 (of 2), textually complete,
entirely printed in Greek
, of Lucian’s works. Capital spaces with
guide-letters. A few cont. notes in 1st ff.
Ref.
VD-16 L-2920. Adams L-1606. Hoffmann III:30.
Joined
, 4 later eds of Lucian’s Dialogi:
Dialogi selectiores
(...) Graece et Latine. Leipzig, (H.
Lantzenberger for) G. Vögelin, 1601, 8vo, cont. green vellum, [2]-290-[2] pp. Woodcut marks.
Greek with facing Latin trsl. Numerous cont. reader’s notes.
Ref.
VD-17 1:084192E. Hoffmann
III:34. -
Colloquia
[ed. Tiberius Hemsterhuis]. Amst., Wetstein, 1708, 12mo, gilt calf, [8]-168-173-
[1]-122-[16] pp., engr. front. -
Idem.
Ibid., 1732, 12mo, vellum, same pp., engr. front; 1 folding pl.
(coins). -
Idem.
Leiden, Luchtmans, 1777, 12mo. S.w.a.f., no subject to return. (5 vol.)
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