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Tacitus.
Leipzig, Koehler & Amelang, 1952.
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C. Cornelius Tacitus, accurante Matthia Berneggero.
Strassburg (Argentorati), Ediderunt Georgius Andreas Dolhopfius & Johannes Eberhardus Zetznerus, 1664.
8vo. (XVIII,1122,(2 blank)) p. Overlapping vellum 17 cm (Ref: VD17 547:695101K; Schweiger 2,1002; Dibdin 2,452; Moss 2,643; Graesse 6/2 9; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,398) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title, depicting an altar, left of which stands a Roman emperor, right a German warrior; on the surface of the altar the text 'Aeternitati', for Eternity; just above the altar hangs the globe, upon which stands an eagle with spread wings. This scene seems a combination of two Roman coins. It was perhaps made after the verso side of a coin struck by Constantine the Great in Trier in 321 A.D.; on this coin there is however no eagle; a scene consisting of a globe on which an eagle stands, is to be seen on a denarius of Caracalla, struck after 217 A.D. This frontispiece is purely propagandistic in its presentation. It depicts not so much the struggle between the Romans and the German tribes, that Tacitus tells about. It rather symbolizes the claim of the Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium, Heiliges Römisches Reich), that it was the legitimate successor 'for eternity' of the Roman Empire. The imperial banner of the Holy Roman Empire depicted a black eagle) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned and slightly worn & spotted. Head of the spine chafed. Front & rear joint starting to split for 1 cm. Some old ink underlinings. Paper browning. Bookplate on the front pastdown) (Note: The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus offered ammunition for many intellectual and political battles in 16th and 17th century Europe. The turmoil caused by the emerging new monarchies in England, France en Spain, civil and religious wars in Italy and Germany, and the plague, made Tacitus' account of the state of the early Roman Empire increasingly topical and relevant. The debate Tacitus provoked in intellectual circles was of course on Roman history, but also on literary style, in Latin and the vernacular, but more so on historical and political thought. Tacitus ideas were not original, but he brought them in a forceful lapidary way, oneliners ready for the use in debate. Tacitus became in a corrupted world 'the one true guide for those involved in the awful revolution of modern times: he "teaches well the mode of life under tyrants, just as he teaches tyrants how to establish tyranny'' '. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 921) The French humanist scholar Muretus (Marc Antoine Muret, 1526-1585) declared that 'Tacitus' descriptions of lost liberty, failed revolutions, vicious civil wars, and mad emperors amounted to a theater of our time'. (Op. cit., ibid.) The editor of this Tacitus edition, the German classical scholar Matthias Bernegger, 1582-1640, was the founder of the School of Roman history at Strassburg, where a protestant university was founded in 1621. The model of this school was the Flemish editor of Tacitus, Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, who was one of the most learned men of his day. His great Tacitus editions placed and still places Lipsius in the front rank of classical scholarship. Our Tacitus edition of 1664 is an exact reissue of Bernegger's Tacitus, that was first published in in Strassburg in 1638. It includes 'many excellent notes and emendations due to his pupil and son-in-law Johannes Casper Freinsheim (1608-1660), the foremost representative of this school'. (Sandys,J.E., 'A History of Classical Scholarship', N.Y., 1964, p. 367) The edition offers also a 144 page treatise 'Ioannis Freinshemii expositio locorum cornelianorum intactorum interpretibus, aut secus acceptorum' and an elaborate and exemplary 272 page 'Index in Tacitum confectus industria et labore Melchiore Freinshemii'. Lipsius praised Tacitus as a teacher of vital political lessons. In his Politica (Politicorum sive Civilis doctrinae libri sex, 1589) 'a brilliant textbook in mosaic form, composed of passages from the ancients, far more of them taken from Tacitus than from any other source - Lipsius showed how to make a version of Tacitus' analysis of empire fit the practical needs of the modern governing classes'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 921) Bernegger, professor of History, from 1613 till his death in 1640, produced a revised and augmented edition of Lipsius' Politica, which was published posthumously in Strassburg in 1642. It saw several reissues in that city and in Frankfurt. Bernegger was from his appointment in Strassburg in 1613 the starting point of the so-called Lipsian tradition, an historic-political school of thought in late humanist philology, which exercised well into the 18th century influence on the German protestant universities of Jena, Altorf, Marburg and Strassburg ('Justus Lipsius, Politica: Six Books of Politics Or Political Instruction', Edited with translation and introduction by J. Waszink, Assen 2004, p. 194/95) Bernegger lectured on Lipsius' Politica, and like Lipsius he considered Tacitus' view on politics the best guiding principle leading to 'prudentia' in the turmoil of his time.) (Provenance: Bookplate: 'Bibliothek Oberherrlingen, E.M. 1839'. Eugen von Maucler, 1783-1859, was a German politician and bibliophile. His library was located at 'Schloss Oberherrlingen' near Ulm; see for Eugen von Maucler, his library, a portrait, and a picture of the bookplate: Wikipaedia)(Collation: a8 (minus leaf a8), b2; A-4A8, 4B2 (leaf 4B2 blank)) (Photographs on request)
C. Cornelius Tacitus, accurante Matthia Berneggero.
Strassburg, (Argentorati), Ediderunt Haeredes Lazari Zezneri, 1638.
8vo. (XVIII,1123,(1 blank)) p. Vellum 17.5 cm (Ref: VD17 23:249104Z; Schweiger 2,1002; Dibdin 2,452; Moss 2,643; Graesse 6/2 9; Fabricius/ Ernesti 2,398) (Details: Fine contemporary vellum. 6 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved title, depicting an altar, left of which stands a Roman emperor, right a German warrior; on the surface of the altar the text 'Aeternitati', for Eternity; just above the altar hangs the globe, upon which stands an eagle with spread wings. This scene seems a combination of two Roman coins. It was perhaps made after the verso side of a coin struck by Constantine the Great in Trier in 321 A.D.; on this coin there is however no eagle; a scene consisting of a globe on which an eagle stands, is to be seen on a denarius of Caracalla, struck after 217 A.D.; this old eagle-and-globe symbol adorns since 1883 the escutcheon of the United States Marine Corps. This frontispiece is purely propagandistic in its presentation. It depicts not so much the struggle between the Romans and the German tribes, that Tacitus tells about. It rather symbolizes the claim of the Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium, Heiliges Römisches Reich), that it was the legitimate successor 'for eternity' of the Roman Empire. The imperial banner of the Holy Roman Empire depicted a black eagle) (Condition: A bookplate has been pasted on the front pastedown. A small piece of the blank margin of preliminary leaf a8 has been torn off, without loss of text, and was not successfully repaired. The lower margin of some gatherings is faintly waterstained) (Note: The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus offered ammunition for many intellectual and political battles in 16th and 17th century Europe. The turmoil caused by the emerging new monarchies in England, France en Spain, civil and religious wars in Italy and Germany, and the plague, made Tacitus' account of the state of the early Roman Empire increasingly topical and relevant. The debate Tacitus provoked in intellectual circles was of course on Roman history, but also on literary style, in Latin and the vernacular, but more so on historical and political thought. Tacitus ideas were not original, but he brought them in a forceful lapidary way, oneliners ready for the use in debate. Tacitus became in a corrupted world 'the one true guide for those involved in the awful revolution of modern times: he "teaches well the mode of life under tyrants, just as he teaches tyrants how to establish tyranny'' '. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 921) The French humanist scholar Muretus (Marc Antoine Muret, 1526-1585) declared that 'Tacitus' descriptions of lost liberty, failed revolutions, vicious civil wars, and mad emperors amounted to a theater of our time'. (Op. cit., ibid.) The editor of this Tacitus edition, the German classical scholar Matthias Bernegger, 1582-1640, was the founder of the School of Roman history at Strassburg, where a protestant university was founded in 1621. The model of this school was the Flemish editor of Tacitus, Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, who was one of the most learned men of his day. His great Tacitus editions placed and still places him in the front rank of classical scholarship. This Tacitus edition of Bernegger includes 'many excellent notes and emendations due to his pupil and son-in-law Johannes Casper Freinsheim (1608-1660), the foremost representative of this school'. (Sandys,J.E., 'A History of Classical Scholarship', N.Y., 1964, p. 367) The edition offers also a 144 page treatise 'Ioannis Freinshemii expositio locorum cornelianorum intactorum interpretibus, aut secus acceptorum' and an elaborate and exemplary 272 page 'Index in Tacitum confectus industria et labore Melchiore Freinshemii'. Lipsius praised Tacitus as a teacher of vital political lessons. In his Politica (Politicorum sive Civilis doctrinae libri sex, 1589) 'a brilliant textbook in mosaic form, composed of passages from the ancients, far more of them taken from Tacitus than from any other source- Lipsius showed how to make a version of Tacitus' analysis of empire fit the practical needs of the modern governing classes'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 921) Bernegger, professor of History from 1613 till his death in 1640, produced a revised and augmented edition of Lipsius' Politica, which was published posthumously in Strassburg in 1642. It saw several reissues in that city and in Frankfurt. Bernegger was from his appointment in Strassburg in 1613 the starting point of the so-called Lipsian tradition, an historic-political school of thought in late humanist philology, which exercised well into the 18th century influence on the German protestant universities of Jena, Altorf, Marburg and Strassburg ('Justus Lipsius, Politica: Six Books of Politics Or Political Instruction', Edited with translation and introduction by J. Waszink, Assen 2004, p. 194/95) Bernegger lectured on Lipsius' Politica, and like Lipsius he considered Tacitus' view on politics the best guiding principle leading to 'prudentia' in the turmoil of his time) (Provenance: On the front pastedown a bookplate: 'Ex libris Bibliothecarii Paul Scherrer - Bylund', with the text: 'Vita fluit pilumque ferit rapidum, tamen astra lucent in tenebris clarius atque manent' and also its translation: 'Unser Leben verrint und Pfeile verwunden doch immer, leuchten je dunkler es wird, heller die Sterne für uns'. The Swiss librarian and author Paul Scherrer-Bylund, 1908-1992, was 'Direktor der Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Universitätsbibliothek) und ... Direktor der Bibliothek der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. Schrieb u.a.: "Von der Macht und der Sendung des Buchdrucks" (1961), "Die Stellung des Bibliothekars in der modernen Gesellschaft" (1967), "Gottfried Keller - Wildling des Glaubens" (1969). (source: the German version of Who's Who) (Collation: a8, b2 (minus b2); A-4A8, 4B2) (Photographs on request)
C. Cornelius Tacitus ex I. Lipsii accuratissima editione.
Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.
12mo. (XX),786,(29 index),(1 blank) p., engraved title, 1 plate with 3 portraits. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 833597485; Willems 415: 'l'édition est fort belle et très recherchée'. Berghman 2145; Rahir 403; Copinger 4630; Schweiger 2,1001/1002: 'Sehr niedlicher Abdruck des Textes nach Lipsius'; Moss 2,643; Brunet 5,634; Graesse 6/2 9: 'Édition très jolie'; Ebert 22157) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Nice title engraved by C.C. Duysent, depicting the river god Tiberinus, who sits at the border of the Tiber, and holds in his arms a big jar from which water flows, and a cornucopia; behind him stands a woman who has a mirror in her hand. At the end of the preliminary pages a plate, also engraved by Duysent, showing within an oval frame 3 portraits, of Tiberius, Augustus and his wife Livia. Clear typography. Latin text only, no commentary or notes) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned, a bit soiled and slightly scuffed. Occasionally a small number has been written in ink in the margins) (Note: The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus offered ammunition for many intellectual and political battles in 16th and 17th century Europe. The turmoil caused by the emerging new monarchies in England, France en Spain, civil and religious wars in Italy and Germany, and the plague, made Tacitus' account of the state of the early Roman Empire increasingly topical and relevant. The debate Tacitus provoked in intellectual circles was of course on Roman history, but also on literary style, in Latin and the vernacular, but more so on historical and political thought. Tacitus ideas were not original, but he brought them in a forceful lapidary way, oneliners ready for the use in debate. Tacitus became in a corrupted world 'the one true guide for those involved in the awful revolution of modern times: he 'teaches well the mode of life under tyrants, just as he teaches tyrants how to establish tyranny''. ('The Classical Tradition', Cambr. Mass., 2010, p. 921) The French humanist scholar Muretus (Marc Antoine Muret, 1526-1585) declared that 'Tacitus' descriptions of lost liberty, failed revolutions, vicious civil wars, and mad emperors amounted to a theater of our time'. (Op. cit., ibid.) The Flemish latinist Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, one of the most learned men of his day, was invited in 1579 to come to Leiden to the recently founded university as a Honorary Professor of History. At that date he already had produced his great Tacitus-edition, published by Plantin, a work that placed and still places him in the front rank of classical scholarship. (Antwerp 1574) His main strength lay in textual criticsm and in exegesis. His emendations are considered to be very clever, and his commentary rich. Plantin published a second edition in 1581, with new emendations and variae lectiones. Lipsius's third edition, Antwerp 1585, offered a new recension. The fourth edition was published by the son in law of Plantin, Franciscus Raphelengius, in Leiden in 1588. Lipsius remained in Leiden for 11 years, a period of his greatest productivity. Lipsius praised Tacitus as a teacher of vital political lessons. In his 'Politics' ('Politicorum sive Civilis doctrinae libri sex', 1589) 'a brilliant textbook in mosaic form, composed of passages from the ancients, far more of them taken from Tacitus than from any other source- Lipsius showed how to make a version of Tacitus' analysis of empire fit the practical needs of the modern governing classes'. (Op. cit., ibid.) At the University of Leiden, the intellectual powerhouse of the new Dutch Republic, 'dozens of young intellectuals busied themselves in what they called the study of 'politics'. They studied and summarized in pointed, abrupt, witty Latin theses the Tacitean lessons about absolute monarchy'. (Op. cit., 922) By reading Tacitus' 'Annals' and 'Histories' the student could learn what constructive role the members of the social elite could play in the creation of a political and military system. Dutch students found ammunition especially in Tacitus' 'Germania', a detailed description of the peoples in Germany and the Low Countries. To show that the new Dutch Republic, founded in 1588, 'rested on solid historical foundations, they turned to Tacitus, who made clear that their ancestors, the Batavi, had resisted the tyranny of Rome, just as the modern citizens of Holland and Zeeland resisted that of Spain'. (Op.cit., 923)) (Collation: *10, A-2L12 (leaf 2L12 verso blank) (Photographs on request)
TACITUS, CORNELIUS (+) GROTNITZ VON GRODNAU, CARL MELCHIOR (translator).
Reference : 61325
(1657)
Des C. Corn. Tacitus Beschreibung 1. Etlicher der ersten romischen Keiser, und anderer denkwurdiger Geschichte (...) 2. Der Teutschen-Volcker Ursprunges, uralten Vaterlandes, Versezungen, Kriege, Sitten und Gebrauche (...) 3. Der Romer, weiland i... - [FIRST COMPLETE GERMAN TRANSLATION OF TACITUS]
Franckfurt, Georg Mullers, 1657. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. All edges marbled. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Margin of front board faded. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. First 20 ff. with damp stain in upper outer corner, otherwise a nice and clean copy. (34), 1266, (26) pp. + frontispiece.
The rare first complete German translation of Tacitus. Tacitus’ texts had a profound influence in Germany, more so than most other classical works. Tacitus’ works influenced German identity and nationalism by providing a romanticized view of ancient Germans, contributing to the development of a distinct cultural identity. Tacitus’s description of ancient Germanic tribes in Germania was idealized by many German intellectuals as depicting noble and pure ancestors. It created a romanticized image of Germanic virtues like bravery, simplicity, and freedom. From the 16th century onward, particularly during the Renaissance and the Romantic era, Germania was used to foster a sense of national pride and distinct identity. It played a role in the rise of German nationalism, especially in the 19th century leading up to the unification of Germany in 1871. In the 20th century - particularly under Nazi rule – ‘Germania’ was misinterpreted and misused to promote ideas of racial purity and Aryan superiority, contributing to the ideology that justified many of the regime's atrocities. “The first printed translation of Tacitus’ texts sees the light in 1535 in Mainz and offer a German version of A.[De vita Iulii Agricolae], the H.[Historiae], and the G.[De origine et situ Germanorum], by Jacob Micyllus. Although German inaugurates the European movements of translations of Tacitus, the initial momentum ceases immidialtely. We must wait until 1612 before a new version of A. and the H. are worked on by Ludwig Kepler. German readers do not gain access to the entirety of the works of Tacitus (without the D.[Dialogus de oratoribus]) until 1657 [the present], thanks to the translation of Carl Melchior Gronitz von Grodnau. For the first time, also the Ag. is translated in this language.” (The Tacitus Encyclopedia). During the 16th and 17th centuries, the works of the Latin historian Caius Cornelius Tacitus, who wrote in the irst century AD, became bestsellers in Europe. From Italy to France, and in England, the Netherlands, the German Empire, and the Spanish monarchy, Tacitus’s Annals, Histories, Life of Agricola, Germania, and even the Dialogue on Orators – which in that period was not consistently attributed to him – became privileged objects of reading. Soon, a wide array of derivative works appeared. Commentaries on the text, discourses based on selected passages, aphorisms, judgments or notes, and virtually any kind of book related to Tacitus’s texts in any possible form found a printer and readers” (Bermejo, Translating Tacitus).
C. Cornelius Tacitus ex I. Lipsii accuratissima editione
Lugduni Batavorum Ex Officina Elzeviriana 1634 Première édition. Contient toutes les oeuvres de Tacite selon l'édition définitive de Iustus Lipsius. Bel exemplaire. Reliure cartonnée de l'époque. Motifs estampés dorés au dos et étiquette de titre en cuir. La reliure est assez frottée, avec une usure des bords du dos avec une certaine perte de surface. Le dessin et le dos sont très décolorés. Titre gravé montrant une figure allégorique féminine tenant un miroir devant un dieu de la rivière avec une corne d'abondance. Une planche supplémentaire, par C. C. Duysent, montre un bouclier avec les portraits d'Auguste, de Livie et de Tibère. 16mo. Les feuilles de garde portent des marques et des signatures au crayon et à l'encre. Le coin de la première page de garde a été coupé pour enlever une signature. Le reste du livre est en très bon état, propre. Texte en latin. Un bel exemple de la typographie d'Elsevier. Pp. [xx]786 +[29] index. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, connu sous le nom de Tacite (v.AD 56 - v.120), était un historien et homme politique romain. Tacite est largement considéré comme l'un des plus grands historiens romains par les chercheurs modernes. 12.5cm x 8cm.
First edition Thus. Contains all the works of Tacitus according to the definitive edition of Iustus Lipsius. Nice copy. Contemporary hardback boards. Gilt embossed designs to the spine and leather title label. The binding is quite rubbed, with edgewear to the spine edges with some loss of surface. The Design and spine are very faded. Engraved title showing a female allegorical figure holding a mirror before a river god with cornucopia. Additional plate, by C. C. Duysent, shows a shield with portraits of Augustus, Livia, and Tiberius. 16mo. End papers have pencil and ink marking and signatures. The corner of the front end paper has been clipped to remove a signature. Rest of the book is in very good, clean condition. Text in Latin. A nice example of Elsevier typography. Pp. [xx]786 +[29] index. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known as Tacitus (c.AD 56 c.120), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. 12.5cm x 8cm. .
