Pitiscus samuel 1637 (4 résultats)

[16], [1] - 792, [2], 815 - 956, [32] pp. Index last 16 leaves. Engraved title. Illustrated with 7 inserted copperplate engravings (after M1, R2, Bb4, Ff4, Kk1, Xx3 [folding], Zz2 [folding]). Tailpieces on Gg1b, Yyy4b, Nnnn4b, Vvvv3a, Ppppp4b, Vvvvv1b, Aaaaaa1a, & Ccccc4b. 4to: * - ** A - 5F Ggggg & Hhhhh, Iiiii - Gggggg (Gggggg4 a blank). VG (bit of splay to boards/lacking ties/contemporary presentation inscription on blank front fly/early po annotations on Ll1 - Ll3, Tt4 - Vv1). Contemporary vellum [professionally repaired front joint] with embossed amorial design [castle] on front & rear board Editio postrema, ab innumerabilibus erroribus repurgata. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes, quarto; size of bindings: 8 in. x 10 ½ in. x 2 in (thick), Volume 1: engraved title page/frontispiece, title page printed in red and black with engraved device. Frontispiece; [48]pp., pp. [1]-724; Volume 2: bookbinder's leaf (in Latin & Dutch); title page in red and black with device; pp.[725]-1344, including printed inscriptions & indexes; pp. 786 + 787, 790 + 791 are blank, and the text and notes of these four pages have been carefully written out in manuscript (by early owner, Charles Mason, who has also added a few notes to some of the plate or vignette margins). Illustrated with 28 plates (29 with the engraved title page), plus engraved headings and numerous vignettes after Arnold Houbraken (1660-1719), engraved by Matthys Pool (1670-1732), featuring Roman scenes: for Julius Caesar, heading at page [1], Houbraken vignette at p. 156 (combat in front of funeral pyre); Octavius, heading, p. 157, vignette, at p. 383 (preparing an inscription); Tiberius, heading at p. [384]; Caligula, heading, p. [513], vignette at p. 629 (offering sacrifice in a temple); Claudius, heading at p. [630], vignette at p. 724 (water-wheels); (Vol. 2) Nero, heading at p. [725], vignette at p. 841 (Seneca); Galba, heading at p. [842]; Otho, heading at p. [879], vignette at p. 902 (Otho carried in triumph); Vitellius, heading at p. [903], vignette at p. 935 (military procession with Vitellius); Vespasian, heading at p. [936]; Titus, heading at p. [986], vignette at p. 1007 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus); Domitian, heading at p. [1008], vignette at p. 1058 (naval battle in flooded arena). Plates present: Titlepage of mythological & other figures (A. Houbraken/M. Pool ) [1] 12 coins (Schynvoet), p. 1; [2] Adlocutio Cohurtium, p. 63 (address to military ranks); [3] Ludi circenses, folding (Pool), p. 73 (chariot races); [4] Ordo Pompae Circenis, folding, p. 128 (processions with vehicles, animals, etc.); [5] Thensae Deorum, folding, p. 128 (procession of statues of classical gods, in horse-drawn vehicles); [6] Triumphus Romanorum Imperatorum, folding, p. 136 (military procession); [7] Sacrificium ante Templum Jovis, p. 136 (burnt sacrifice in front of Temple of Jove); [8] 12 coins, p. 157; [9] Delineatio Romae a Romulo Positae (J. Luiken), p. 169 (sacrifice with agricultural & military figures in background); [10] Balneum, p. 325 (Roman bath); [11] Strigiles, p. 332 (figures with bathing implements); [12] Pila et Folliculus, p. 338 (exercising figures); [13] Apotheosis Imperatorum, p. 368 (elaborate funeral pyre); [14] Essedarii/Retiarii, p. 383/574 (gladiators with chariots & spears/shields, nets, tridents, etc.; [15] 12 coins, p. 384; [16] Ancilia/Sacerdotes Martes cum Ancilibus ex Templo Euntes, p. 393 (figures with shields); [17] 12 coins, p. 513; [18] 12 coins, p. 630 [Vol. 2] [19] 12 coins, p. 725; [20] Pyrricha, p. 745 (figures in military dress with swords & shields); [21] Mappa Missa, folding, p. 768 (sculptural detail with chariot & horses); [22] 12 coins, p. 842; [23] 12 coins, p. 879; [24] 12 coins, p. 903; [25] 12 coins, p. 936; [26] 12 coins, p. 986; [27] Hierosolyma una cum Templo a Tito Vespasiano capta et incense, folding, p. 992 (destruction of Jerusalem); [28] 12 coins, p. 1008. Bound in full, old speckled calf, with the spines replaced in more recent speckled calf, with the brown leather title labels remounted, the spines feature five raised bands, title labels gilt-lettered: SUETONIUS PITISCI TOM. I. (+ II.). with skillful leather repairs to the cover corners, edges. [Provenance]: 1. in ink at the top of the front endpaper: E Lib. Car. Mason. Trin. Coll. Cant. (Charles Mason of Trinity College College Cambridge, with his manuscript notes & his 4 pp. of text at pp. 786-7 & 790-91,); 2. engraved heraldic bookplate of John Lodge (Warwick, engraver, 145 Strand), on front paste-down; 3. large, engraved heraldic bookplate (C. Sherborn, 1896) of St. Marie College/Winchester College; and a more recent, printed book label. …

Original engraving ( Dutch, 18th c.), contemporary imprint. 17 x 11 cm, 5 mm margins, good imprint.

0. Selten. - Schönes Blatt, Papierränder etwas knittrig, kleine Einrisse hinterlegt. Sprache: Deutschu.