‎SARDI Gasparo‎
‎EPISTOLARUM LIBER.‎

‎Claudi Salmasii Viri Ill. Epistolarum liber primus. Accedunt de laudibus et vita ejusdem prolegomena. Accurante Antonio Clementio. ‎

‎Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex typographia Adriani Wyngaerden, 1656. ‎

‎4to. (VIII),72;294,(2 privilegium); 67,(3); 77,(3 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 24 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 840276850; Brunet 6,18777; Ebert 20119; Graesse 6/1,249) (Details: Nice and clean copy. Woodcut printer's device on the title, depicting a man who tries to clime a tree, the motto reads: 'Ardua quae pulchra', a variant of the wellknown Platonic Adagium of Erasmus 'Difficiliora quae pulchra'. (Adagia 1012,II,I,12) Beautiful engraved portrait of Salmasius, executed and engraved by J. Tangena and I. Snijderhoef. Woodcut initials. At the end of p. 294 has been pasted a slip with 15 lines of corrigenda) (Condition: Vellum age-toned. Back soiled) (Note: The French scholar Claude de Saumaise, latinized Claudius Salmasius, 1588-1653, was a prolific author, and he distinguished himself in his editions as a textual critic and erudite commentator. He was easy to get along with, but murderous on paper. In 1623 he was appointed as the successor of Scaliger at the University of Leiden, a city he was going to hate. When his Leiden colleague Daniel Heinsius, 1580-1655, published his 'Sacrae Exercitationes ad Novum Testamentum' in 1639, Salmasius saw an opportunity to take 'revenge on the man he viewed as the leader of the coterie opposing him at Leiden'. (P.R. Sellin, 'Daniel Heinsius and Stuart England', Leiden/Oxford 1968, p. 43) In the preface of his 'De Modo Usurarum' of 1639 Salmasius ridiculed Heinsius' description of the 'koinê' as 'lingua Hellenistica'. A flurry of polemics followed. In this quarrel the printer Maire sided with Salmasius in his attempts to destroy Heinsius' integrity. (Idem, p. 47) The next step in the ongoing quarrel between Daniel Heinsius, once the favourite of Scaliger, and Salmasius, came in 1643, when Salmasius attacked Heinsius anonymously in his 'Funus linguae Hellenisticae'. And with a still fiercer attack in 'De Hellenistica commentarius, controversiam de lingua Hellenistica decidens', published in the same year, 1643, Salmasius mounted a full-scale assault on Heinsius' position on the 'koinê'. In it Salmasius contended that the language of the Greek Scriptures was not a separate dialect, but the ordinary Greek of his time. (Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarhip, N.Y., 1964, volume 2, 284/86) The letters of Salmasius were collected and edited by the young promising Dutch student theology Anthony Clement (Antonius Clementius), 1533-1657. (NNBW 1,606/07, and his article in encyclopedievanzeeland.nl) The collection, consisting of 125 letters written before 1638, opens with a biographic eulogy and a bibliography of Salmasius of 72 pages. The recipients of the letters are amongst others Johannes Beverovicius, Johannes Dallaeus, Jacobus Golius, J.F. Gronovius, H. Grotius, I.F. Peireskius, P. Puteanus, and I.G. Vossius. At the end of the 125th letter (p. 294) the editor announces a second volume of letters, till 1640. The project was however delayed, he tells, due to the sudden departure to Germany of the publisher Wyngaerden. Nothing came of it, owing to the premature death of the editor. The editor added after letter 125 two long treatises disguised as letters: Salmasius' 'Epistola de regionibus et ecclesiis suburbicariis', first published in 1619; and 'Claudii Salmasii ad Aegidium Menagium epistola, super Herode infanticida V.C. Tragoedia, et censura Balsacii'. This second letter is of interest concerning Salmasius controversy with Heinsius. It was first published in Paris in 1644, and is a polemic against Daniel Heinsius', biblical tragedy 'Herodes infanticida' (the Massacre of the Innocents), a tragedy that he published in Leiden in 1632. This tragedy was attacked in 1636 by the French polemicist, poet and literary theoretician J.-L. Guez de Balzac; and in 1642 a French minister, Jean de Croï, published a reaction on Balzac's fierce attack in defence of Heinsius. Which reaction lead to a long letter, written by a raging Salmasius, to the French poet and classical scholar Gilles Ménage (Aegidius Menagius), '(...) super Herode infanticida V.C. Tragoedia, et censura Balsacii', in which he came to the rescue of Balzac, and fiercely attacked his enemy Daniel Heinsius) (Collation: *-10*4 (including the portrait); A-2O4 (leaf 2O4 verso blank) ;a-h4, i2, chi1; A-K4 (leaf K4, & K3 verso blank)) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎L. Annæis Senecæ Phlosophi Cordubensis ad Lucilium Epistolarum Liber.M. Ant. Mureti notis, Fred. Pinciani castigationibus, Erasmi Roterdami annotationibus, Ioan. Obsopoei collectaneis, Iani Gruteri et Fr. Iureti animadversionibus illustratus. Cum indice certissimo.‎

‎ Paris, Olivier Varennes, 1602 ; petit in-8 (11 x 16,5 cm), Titre - "épitre" de l'éditeur, "avertissement" d'Antoine Muret - privilège -824pp. - 24ff. n. ch. d'index.Demi-basane brune XIXème, dos lisse filets et roulette dorés, tranches jaspées. Notes manuscrites (anciennes) dans les marges et des extraits soulignés. Ex-libris manuscrit sur le titre et un autre (imprimé sur vignette) sur le contre plat sup. Mouillures légères et marginales. Malgré cette reliure modeste et ces quelques défauts, l'exemplaire est tout à fait correcte.‎

‎A la fin de l'ouvrage il est indiqué que Pierre Chevalier, typographe à Paris, a réalisé l'impression en novembre 1602. Antoine Muret, à qui l'on doit de nombreuses notes, était originaire de Muret en Limousin. (François Juret était, lui, né à Dijon).Il s'agit d'une bonne édition des Lettres à Lucilius, richement commentée et augmentée d'un important index. ‎

‎Plinius Minor. Plini Caecili Secundi Epistolarum Libri Novem. Epistolarum ad Traianum liber. Panegyricus‎

‎Recensuit Mauritius Schuster, editionem tertiam curavit Rudolphus Hanslik, Editio stereotypa editions tertiae (MCMLVII), 1 vol. in-8 reliure demi-chagrin à coins rouges, couvertures et dos conservés, Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana, In aedibus B.G. Teubneris [ Teubner ], Stutgardiae et Lipsiae, 1992, XXX-490 pp.‎

‎Bon exemplaire bien relié (petite brunissure en dos, ex-libris en garde)‎

‎Fr. Thomae Mariae Mamachii ordinis praedicatorum theologi Casanatensis Epistolarum ad Justinum Febronium jurisconsultum. De ratione regendae Christianae Reipublicae , deque legitima Romani Pontificis Potestate. Liber Primus ( - Liber Secundus) ( 2 vols.)‎

‎"7. Romae ( Roma ), ex typographia Salvioni, 1776 , 1777 , 2 vols in-8°, 408 pp ; 506 pp + (4)nn pp (of which one blank), uniformly bound in 2 full vellum bindings with gilt spines. Ex-library with small stamp on title page. Incomplete, lacks volume III. Well known attack by Mamachi on the heretic ideas of Justinus Febronius ( Johann von Hontheim ), bischop of Trier who opposed the worldly power of the pope. . Lacks unfortunately the third part."‎

‎Q. Horatii Flacci Odarum sive Carminum libri quatuor. Epodon liber unus, cum annotatiunculis quam antea auctoribus in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint. Nicolai Perotti libellus non infrugifer de metris Odarum Horatianarum. (Bound with:) Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolarum libri duo. Sermonum sive satyrarum libri duo, ad Mecaenatem. Ars poetica, ad Pisones. cum annotatiunculis quam antea auctoribus in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint. (And:) Iunii Iuvenalis Aquinatis Satyrae decem et sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint. (And:) Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae sex. Cum annotatiunculis in margine adiectis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint. ‎

‎Paris (Parisiis), Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1535 - 1541. (Ad 1 & 2: 1539. Ad 3: 1535. Ad 4: 1541) ‎

‎8vo. 4 volumes in 1: 96,75,64 & 12 leaves. 20th century red morocco. 8vo. 17.5 cm (Ref: Ad 1: Schweiger 2,420, reissue of the edition of 1533. Brunet 3,314: 'Texte d'Alde, édition correcte'. Dibdin 2,93. Moss 2,12. Graesse 3,350. Ebert 10154) Ad 2: Schweiger 2,426. Brunet 3,314. Dibdin 2,93. Moss 2,12. Graesse 3,350. Ebert 10154. Ad 3: Schweiger 2,503 & 508, reissue edition of 1528, Brunet 3,630. Dibdin 2,153. Graesse 3,519. Ebert 11224. Ad 4: Schweiger 2,709. cf. Moss 2,259. Dibdin 2,153. Graesse 5,212) (Details: Back ruled gilt, and with a black morocco shield. Each of the four titles shows Colinaeus' woodcut printer's mark: the Great Reaper, Tempus, swaying his scythe; 'Father Time', in the shape of a winged Satyr, moves on a broad pedestal, above which are shown flowers and grass cut down; behind this figure we read word 'Tempus'; upon the pedestal is the motto: 'Virtus sola aciem retundit istam'. All 4 copies printed completely in Italics. Dibdin on this Italic letter: 'To the curious, this will be an additional incitement to purchase the work, as Colinaeus is thought, perhaps not very justly, to have surpassed Aldus himself in the Italic type'. Woodcut initials) (Condition: Wear to the extremities. Back slightly rubbed. 3 small & old inscriptions on the first title, which is somewhat soiled; one of the names has been erased. Small wormhole in the first four leaves. Occasional old ink underlings and annotations) (Note: This convolute contains 4 titles that were published by Simon de Colines, who was one of the greatest typographers, printers and publishers of Renaissance Paris. He was active in Paris between 1520 and 1546, and cut lucid and elegant roman and italic types and a beautiful Greek type, superior to its predecessors. Colines was associated with the elder Henri Estienne I, and continued his work after his death in 1520. He married the widow of Henri Estienne, and was in charge of the press until Estiennes son Robert I entered the business in 1526, by which time Colines had set up his own shop nearby. In 1528 he began to use italic type. Colines published many Greek and Latin classics. In 2012 K. Amert published a monograph: 'The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris'. All four titles in this binding form more or less a unity, not only with respect to content, the best of Latin poetry, but also in appearance. Colines chose for all four good quality paper, the same type, and the same layout. Even the appearance and the wording of the title pages show similarity. Colines did not only have taste, but he had also a sharp eye for good scholarship. He chose to reissue editions of the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, whose books were amongst the best of his age, sometimes for centuries to come. The Horace volumes were first published by Colines in 1528. At the end Colines placed a short metrical treatise of the Italian humanist Nicolaus Perrotti, 1429-1480, his 'libellus de metris Odarum Horatiarum'. In the margins of his Juvenal Colines repeated the marginal notes that were printed in the Horace/Juvenal edition of 1524, published by the Basle publisher Valentin Curio. (In aedibus Valentini Curionis) In Blackwell's Companion to the ancient world, 'A Companion to Persius and Juvenal' edited by S. Braund & J. Osgood, Oxford 2012, chapter 'Renaissance scholarship on Juvenal and Persius', these marginal notes in the edition of Valentin Curio are erroneously attributed to the Italian humanist Celio Secondo Curione, in Latin Caelius Secundus Curio, 1503-1569. This misunderstanding probably arises from the fact that Caelius Secundus Curio published a folio edition of the satires with commentary of Juvenal & Persius in Basel (Froben/Episcopius) in 1551. (See Schweiger 2,509)) (Provenance: At the upper edge of the title: 'phi ign: pagart, no. 193'. We found a Philippe Ignace Pagart in 'Coutumes locales tant anciennes que nouvelles des bailliages, ville et echevinage de Saint-Omer', Paris 1744, p. 16. He is referred to as one of the 'Officiers du Roi au Bailliage de Saint-Omer'. On the internet we found further: 'messire Philippe-Ignace Pagart, sieur du Buis, 1969-1760, nommé conseiller au bailliage de Saint-Omer, 1723') (Collation: a-m8; a-i8, k3 (leaf k3 blank); a-h8; a8, b4) (Photographs on request) ‎