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Edité par Federicum Leonard, 1688
Vendeur : Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. amazinigly very intact full leather wity raised spine ribs pages all vg over 550 pages.
Hardback. Etat : Good. Mathey (illustrateur). First Thus. lxv, [1], 400, [2], 401-684pp, [2], 1-16pp, [152], contemporary full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, author/title label to second panel, remaining panels with triple fillet frames, small roundels to corners and central fleuron device, gilt roll to board edges. Chipped to spine ends with small amounts of loss exposing end bands, joints with Japanese paper repairs, rubbed to extremities, corners bumped and worn. Internally lightly browned and lightly foxed, but generally fairly clean. Engraved frontispiece and one engraved plate of nine medallions. Ausonius was a Roman poet and teacher, born in c.310. Though admired by contemporaries, his poetry is not generally well regarded. Gibbon for example proclaimed that 'the poetical fame of Ausonius condemns the taste of his age', but his works have retained interest for other reasons, including references to wine making (he was a native of Bordeaux) and the use of a water mill to cut marble (Wikipedia). The Delphin edition, with notes by Julien Fleury and Joannes-Baptista Souchay, text in Latin. Schweiger I:22; Moss I:216 and Brunet I:574 describing this as an "edition la plus estimee" Size: 4to.
Edité par Parisiis, Apud Federicum Leonard, Regis, Serenissimi Delphini, & Cleri Gallicani Typographum, via Jacobaea sub Scuto Veneto. M. DC. LXXXVIII. [1688]. Cum Privilegio Regis. Acheve d imprimer pour la primiere fois le 23 Juin 1688., 1688
Vendeur : Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto; size of binding: 7 ½ in. x 10 1/8 in. x 2 ¾ in. (thick), engraved frontispiece with arms, image of ship, bust of Apuleius; printed titlepage with woodcut printer s device, dedication page with woodcut arms: [48]pp., pp. 1-564 + (second part with separate titlepage, dated: 1688): [2]pp., pp. 565-848 + pp. 1-[254] (misnumbered: 256) of indexes. Small engraving of a device (sistrum) at p. 64; typographic illustration (Incongruae/Suppares), at p. 638; engraved, circular illustration of the directions of the winds (Libonotus note), at p. 722. Some pages are misnumbered and have been re-numbered in ink or pencil; some margins show early inked notes in Latin, a few small underlines in text. Bound in full, old sprinkled calf, with five raised bands on the spine, and later red and green leather title labels, gilt-lettered: APULEIUS DELPHINI + PARISIIS 1688., with floral tools in spine compartments, gilt & blindstamped tooling across spine, double-line, blindstamped borders around covers, with blindstamped device in the corners, gilt borders on cover edges; headbands present; all edges are sprinkled red. Former owner's printed book label on the lower front paste-down, remains of light, early ink inscription on this paste-down and on the back one, small inked location mark on back of the engraved frontispiece, with some of this visible on the front. Top-edge of spine shows some leather chipped away, darkening to spine leather, cover edges & corners show rubbing and some wear; some pages show age-related tanning. The interior is generally, a crisp, wide-margined copy. Considered one of the finest of the "Delphine Classics" (ad usum Delphini) that were prepared for the use of Louis de France (1661-1711), the Dauphin, and only son of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa; who was called the Grand Dauphin after his death. With notes by Julianus Floridus (Fleury). The scan shows the spine and part of the front cover. "Une de meilleures editions qui soient dans la collection des Ad usum" [Delphini]. Brunet, Manuel, 1860; Vol. 1, p. 363. Weight: 4 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. (Latin text with Greek).