- Lacks frontisp.; vol. 1 w. manuscript index on first free endpaper; all vols. occas. sl. foxed; all but one vol. w. piece of paper attached to upper pastedown. Bindings sl. chafed; sl. worn along extremities; some vols. joints starting.
= Rare, monumental edition of Cicero's works. Schweiger p.108; Brunet II, p.11.
= Second (first complete) edition of Le Clerc's highly important work on classical scholarship. Graesse IV, p.137.
= Later edition of the correspondence of the Dutch scholar and minister Jaques de la Croix (1579-1635).
- Title-p. partly loosening, sl. waterst. and w. large (blank) portion restored; sl. foxed; partly waterst. in upper margin. Binding sl. chafed and rubbed.
= Adams D501.
- Lacks upper free endpaper; first ±45 lvs. w. sm. wormhole in lower (mostly blank) margin, occas. affecting letters; trifle yellowed; 19th cent. owner's entries on upper pastedown. Binding worn/ rubbed; joints splitting; leather of backstrip dried and cracked/ dam.
= Schweiger p.157.
- Sl. browned; partly waterstained.
= Important, extensively annotated ed. of Horace by the Antwerp humanist bishop L. Torrentius (1525-1595). Simoni H180.
- Trifle foxed. = LARGE PAPER COPY. Geerebaert CXI, 40; Riedel Horatiana O, no.2.
- Partly sl. waterst.; occas. sl. (damp)stained. Extremities sl. worn.
= Printed w. the ancient and humanist commentaries of i.a. H. Acron, P. Porphyrion and A.G. Parrasio and scholia of i.a. A. Poliziano and A. Manuzio. Rare ed. Adams H933; EDIT16 22754 (online).
- Modern owner's entry on title; yellowed and occas. sl. waterstained.
= From the library of H.A. Schultens (1749-1793), Dutch rector of the Leyden University w. his owner's entry in pen and ink on title. Dibdin II, 96; Graesse III, 352.
BOUND WITH: Lucilius, C. Satyrarum quae supersunt reliquiae. Ed. F. Dousa. Ibid., idem, 1597, (24),139,(1)p.
= Editio princeps. Graesse IV, p.286; Schweiger p.571; Adams L1642.
- Bookplates on upper pastedown; first and final lvs. sl. foxed. Attractive copy.
- Portion of upper outer blank margin of engraved title cut off (not affecting image); all vols. first blank upper corner cut off; title w. (erased) owner's entries and a few sm. holes. Vol.3 upper joint split; all vols. spine-ends worn.
= Willems 405; Rahir 392; Schweiger p.533; Dibdin p.167. "L'édition de 1634 est celle que les amateurs préfèrent, parce qu'elle est la mieux imprimée. On y joint parfois le volume des notes de Gronovius, édition de 1645." (Willems). First Elzevier edition.
- Good copy w. ample margins. Binding partly sl. worn along extremities. = Schweiger III, p.576.
- Owner's entry on title-p.; occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed. Spine-ends dam.; joints starting; shelftickets on spine; corners showing.
= Rare collected introductions to Mabillon's work on the lives of Benedictine Saints.
- Contents fine. Vellum sl. duststained; lower joint starting.
= Not in the usual reference works.
- Browned; upper hinge broken.
= Collection of numerous essays dealing with scriptural, religious and historical matters.
- Vol. 2 upper hinge broken; a few quires loosening; 2nd part of "Blad-wyser" erroneously bound at the end of vol. 3. Spine-ends sl. worn; vol. 2 spine dam. Good set.
= De Rynck/ Welkenhuysen p.273; Geerebaert CXXII, 26a, calling for 125 plates. The binder's index calls for 124 plates. Rare copy containing all (and several extra) plates. All plates bound in vol. 2, as a result of which this vol. is much more sizeable than the others. For this reason an extra title-p. (vol. 2, part 2) was issued, so the vol. could be split into 2 parts (this title bound at the beginning of vol. 3 in our set).
- Library stamp on title and textp.; owner's entry on upper pastedown; final ±50 lvs. (vaguely) waterst. in lower half. Covers wormholed; foot of spine worn/ dam.; top of spine w. remnants of libr. ticket.
= Not in Schweiger and Dibdin.
Curtius Rufus, Q. De rebus Alexandri Magni recte tandem captui juventutis accomodatus, Oder: Deutliche und nach dem Begriff der Jugend endlich recht eingerichtete Erklaerung des Quinti Curtii (...). Ed. E. Sincerus. Ibid., Heirs J.J. Lotter, 1745, 5th rev. and enl. ed., (66),865,(159)p., double-p. letterpress title, engr. frontisp., contemp. calf.
- Section of first free endpaper and letterpress title cut/ torn off; lacks final free endpaper; library stamp on letterpress title and textp.; (sl.) foxed. Joints split(ting).
= Schweiger I, p.323.
- Lacks the 3rd part (Panegyricus) and Index; both vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown; vol. 1 lacks final free endpaper. Bindings sl. worn; top of spines chipped.
= Rare ed. Gaskell 208; Schweiger p.807.
AND 1 other.
- Bookplate and stamp on prelim. lvs.
= Geerebaert CXXVII, II.m. The nice illustrations depict i.a. a whale-hunt and a dodo. Rare edition.