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‎Annaei Lucani Pharsalia ‎

‎Marci Annaei Lucani. Pharsalia, cum supplemento Thomae Maii‎

‎1 vol. in-12 rel. plein veau marbré, toutes tranches doréees, Typis Barbou, Parisiis, M.DCC.LXVII ( 1767 ), X-421 pp.‎

‎Etat très satisfaisant (reliure épidermée, très bon état par ailleurs, avec intérieur très frais) pour cette édition latine.‎

‎Marci Annaei Lucani . PHARSALIA , Cum Supplemento Thomae Maii.‎

‎Typis Barbou Parisiis 1768 In-12 ( 160 X 90 mm ) de XV-557 pages, plein veau fauve marbré, dos lisse orné de filets et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin vieux-rouge, coupes filetées d'or, triple filet d'encadrement sur les plats, tranches dorées. ( Reliure de l'époque ). Frontispice de GRAVELOT gravé par de LONGUEIL, vignettes et un culs-de-lampe. Jolie impression , par Joseph Barbou , de la "Pharsale"de Lucian , dans l'édition donné par Jean Goulin avec le supplément composé par le poète anglais Thomas May. Usures aux coiffes, travail de vers à un mors, agréable exemplaire.‎

‎Marci Annaei Lucani Pharsalia, eiusdem ad Calpurnium Pisonem poemation. Praemittitur notitia literaria studiis Societatis Bipontinae. Editio secunda auctior et emendatior. (Bound with:) T. Petronii Arbitri Equitis Romani Satiricon, cum supplementis Nodotianis. Accedunt veterum poetarum catalecta. Praemittitur notitia literaria studiis Societatis Bipontiae. Editio accurata. ‎

‎Ad 1: Zweibrücken (Biponti), Ex typographia Societatis, 1807. Ad 2: Zweibrücken (Biponti), Ex typographia Societatis, 1790. ‎

‎8vo. 2 volumes in 1: XLVIII,277,(1 blank); XXXVI,252 p. Half calf 21 cm (Ref: Ad 1: Burkard p. 91/93; Schweiger 2,566; Dibdin 2,188: 'elegantly executed book'; Moss 2,243: 'a very neat and correct edition'; Ebert 12355; Graesse 4,274; Ad 2: VD18 11361557; Burkard 125/27; Schweiger 2,725; Dibdin 2,278: 'neat edition, and useful for presenting us with a valuable Notitia literaria'; Ebert 16527; Graesse 5,240) (Details: Back ruled gilt, and with a red morocco shield. Ad 1: The preliminary pages contain a 2 short biographies of Lucanus (p. I-IX), and a 'notitia literaria, including a long and up to date critical bibliography of editions, and translations, the 'index editionum' (p. X-XLVIII); the Pharsalia take up p. 1-265, followed by the 1st century A.D. Latin verse panegyric in praise of a member of the Piso family, 'Laus Pisonis' (p. 267-277). This panegyric has been attributed to Lucan, but also to Ovid, Bassus and Statius. Ad 2: The preliminaries contain a 'Live' of Petronius (p. III-VIII), followed by a 'Notitia Literaria', or a critical bibliography of important editions (p. X-XXXVI). The Satiricon fills the p. 1-214, the 'Petronii fragmenta' p. 215-225. At the end a collection of fragments of ancient Latin poets, the 'Veterum poetarum catalecta' (p. 227/52). An engraved vignette adorns the title, depicting a man and woman on a 'chaise longue', and a girl and boy standing beside them) (Condition: Binding slightly scuffed)(Photographs on request) ‎

‎M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia cum commentario Petri Burmanni. ‎

‎Leiden (Leidae), Apud Conradum Wishoff, Danielem Goetval et Georg. Jacob. Wishoff, fil.Conrad., 1740. ‎

‎4to. (LII),735,(1 blank) (160 indices) p. Marbled calf. 26 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 239852117; Schweiger 2,565; Dibdin 2,186; Brunet 3,1200; Moss 2,242: 'A very excellent and critical edition, and by far the best which has yet been published'; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,147/48: 'ceteris praeferenda'; Ebert 12350; Graesse 4,273/74; Spoelder p. 642/3, Middelburg 4) (Details: Prize copy. Backstrip ruled in gilt. Red morocco shield on the back. Gilt coat of arms of Middelburg on both boards. Gilt palmette motifs along the borders of the boards. Title in red and black. On the title also a large engraving of a battle scene, the battle of Actium, designed by J. de Groot, and engraved by J. v.d. Spyk) (Condition: The back has been repaired expertly. The front flyleaf, with on it the prize, was removed and replaced by a flyleaf of a lesser quality paper, and has chipping edges. Some foxing) (Note: This edition of Petrus Burmannus, 1668-1741, professor of Latin at the University of Utrecht from 1696, and at Leiden from 1715, is highly praised by Dibdin. He remarks that this is a valuable edition. It is sometimes preferred to the edition of Oudendorp of 1728, he says. The text of Burman's edition is founded on that of Cortius. This edition is important, because Burmannus prints and discusses in the commentary for the first time the many variant readings from more than 25 manuscripts that were collated by the great Dutch scholar Nicolaas Heinsius, 1620-1681, and were jotted down in the margins of a Lucan edition of 1542 that he (Heinsius) once owned. (Praefatio p. *2 verso) As an editor Burman was an industrious manufacturer of Variorum Editions. He confined himself to the Latin classics, and edited Phaedrus, Horace, Claudian, Ovid, Lucan, and the Poetae Latini Minores, Petronius, Quintilian and Suetonius. (Sandys 2 p. 343/5) The genius Housman is more critical in the praefatio of his edition of Lucan. 'An edition of much less value than either of the foregoing (Oudendorp of 1728, Cortius of 1726) was put forth in 1740 near the end of his long life, by the elder Burman. The notes are desultory, diffuse and often trivial, (...). But his familiarity with Latin poets was great, (...) so that he resolved some difficulties which had baffled others, and achieved at v 137 one most admirable emendation'. (Housman, Lucanus 1926, p. XXXII) (Provenance: Bookplate of Helena Heyse: 'Ex libris Helenae Heyse'. Helena Elizabeth Zoraide Heyse was born on the 12th of June 1907 in the Dutch town of Middelburg. In 1931 she married P.E. Scholtz, professor of Afrikaans & Netherlands at the University of Cape Town. She died in 1996. The bookplate was designed in 1930 by the Dutch artist Roline Maria Wichers Wierdsma. (See catalogus.meermanno.nl/detail.aspx?parentpriref=)) (Collation: *-6*4, 7*2, A-5V4) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs) ‎

‎Marci Annaei Lucani Pharsalia, Cum Supplemento Thomae Maii‎

‎1 vol. in-12 reliure plein veau marbré blond, dos lisse orné, coupes et chasses ornes, triple filet doré d'encadrement en plats, Typis Barbou, Parisiis [à Paris ], 1767, X-421 pp. et 1 f. avec frontispice de Gravelot (César franchissant le Rubicon, "Jacta est Alea").‎

‎Bon exemplaire de la Pharsale de Lucain, en belle reliure d'époque. Epopée inachevée, la "Pharsale" évoque la guerre civile opposant César à Pompée à la fin de la République romaine, moins d'un siècle avant la rédaction de l'ouvrage par le poète stoïcien Lucain. Oeuvre pessimiste, la sagesse et la maîtirse de Caton d'Utique s'y oppose à l'ambition effrénée de César. ‎