‎COMMIRE Jean‎
‎Opera Posthuma‎

‎Opera Posthuma, Figuris Aeneis Illustrata. Quibus Praefixa Est Ejusdem Vita a Seipso Scripta.‎

‎1697 (1st ed.) [2], 10, 187, [1] p., 19 engraved pls, engraved portrait, engraved frontispiece (depicting three sleeping leopards under a tree and in front of a stone with inscription ''Importu Dormiunt''), roy. 4to (24 x 36 cm), contemporary blindstamped calf (edges and extremeties worn, covers detached, needs rebacking). Three (two old) ex libri/bookplates. Frontispiece placed in front of the plates at the end of the book. Some very slight scattered foxing, and a unobtrusive small waterstain in the upper margin of the plates and title-pages. Rare first edition (A. & J. Churchill, London)!Marcello Malpighi (1628-94), Italian physician and anatomist, was professor of physic at Pisa, Bologna, and Messina, and was physician to Pope Innocent XII. Malpighi was the founder of histology and one of the greatest microscopists. In 1660 he was the first to see the capillary anastomosis between the arteries and the veins, thus helping the completion of Harvey’s work on the circulation. He was a great embryologist; his name is perpetuated in ''Malpighian bodies'', ''Malpighi’s layer'' of the epidermis, ''Malpighi’s (splenic) Corpuscles''» (Garrison & Morton, n. 66, p. 10).‎

‎"Opera Posthuma Chronologica , &c. viz. De Serie et Successione Primorum Romae Episcoporum Dissertationes Duae ; Quibus praefiguntur Annales Paulini , et Lectiones in Acta Apostolorum. [...] Cujus etiam accessit De eâdem Successsione usque ad Annales Cl. Cestriensis Cyprianicos, Dissertatio Singularis."‎

‎" Londini ( London ) , Typis S. Roycroft, LL. Orientalium Typographi Regis ; Impensis R. Clavell , in Coemeterio D. Pauli. 1688 ( 1687) , in-4°, (12) nn pp + 318 pp + (6)nn pp + 226 pp + (24)nn pp (index) + 75 pp (Annales Paulini) + (1)(bl). [complete]. Bound in contemporary vellum, leather title label on spine. Title printed in red & black. With a printed ex-libris tipped on to the first paste down . Nice copy. First and only edition of the postumous works of the Cambridge scolar and theologian John Pearson. It comprises '' Two Dissertations on the Succession and Times of the First Bishops of Rome '' and '' Annales Paulini''. These studies were edited by Henry Dodwell."‎

‎Opera posthuma (oeuvres posthumes) tome 3‎

‎sans date Bookelis Broché, 664p. Bon état, une page de notes collé sur la première page.‎

‎tome 3 seul : Correspondance, index des oeuvres posthumes. Traduction de JP. Guastalla. ‎

‎Opera varia [avec] Opera Reliqua & Opuscula Posthuma‎

‎Lugduni Batavorum & Amsterdam, Janssonios Vander Aa & Jans. Waesberg, 1724-1728, in-4, 4 vol, portrait, 114 pl, Vélin rigide du XVIIIe s, Collation : - Opera varia, Volumen primum et secundum: Portrait, titre, [14]-776-[18] pp. en numérotation continue (+ deux feuillets de faux-titre pour les part. 2 et 3) et 56 pl.; - Opera Reliqua, Volumen primum et secundum : 10-[4]-315-[20] pp. (+ 1 carton paginé 7-8 aux feuillets liminaires du T. I) et 15 pl.; [22]-226-[2]-184 pp. et 43 pl. Première édition collective des oeuvres mathématicien, astronome et physicien néerlandais Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). Ces oeuvres furent publiées sous la direction de s'Gravesande. Elles sont présentées ici en reliure uniforme du temps, tomées Opera varia 1 - 2 et Opera Reliqua 1 - 2. Le premier volume des Opera varia comporte la description complète de l'horloge à pendule décrite pour la première fois en 1656 ; ce volume est entièrement consacré à l'horlogerie. Les deux volumes des Opera Reliqua comprennent les deux tomes des Opuscula posthuma et le fameux Traité de la lumière dans lequel Huygens proposa pour la première fois une théorie ondulatoire de la lumière. Reliures salies, charnière intérieur du T. 1 des Varia ouverte, mais les plats restent maintenus solidement . Bon état intérieur, en dépit de quelques feuillets brunis. Baillie, 163. DSB VI, 612. Houzeau & Lancaster, 3428. Poddendorff, I, 1164-65. Couverture rigide‎

‎Bon 4 vol., portrait, 114 pl.‎

‎Pauli G.F.P.N. Merulae J.C. (...) Opera varia posthuma, De sacrificiis Romanorum, De sacerdotibus Romanorum, De legibus Romanorum, De comitiis Romanorum, De Praemiis etc. Romanorum. Juxta autographum cum amplissimo indice edita & recensita. ‎

‎Leiden (Lugd. Batavorum), Ex officina Petri à Meersche, Joannis de Vivié, 1684. ‎

‎4to. (XV),(1 blank),144,(4 index),(1),(1 blank); 55,(1 blank),(1 index),(3 blank); 49,(1 blank),(3 index),(1 blank); 288,(4 index) p., frontispiece, portrait. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 066935423; Graesse 4,501; Sandys 2,306) (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece by A. de Blois, it depicts an allegorical scene: in the centre a monument for Paul(l)us Merula, featuring a small bust of him surrounded by a laurel border; a winged Fama hovers on top, blowing her trumpet; left of the monument probably Rome, a woman in royal robe, crown on her head & scepter in her right hand; at the left a priestress, a full moon on her breast, behind her an elephant; in the background several scenes and statues. Engraved printer's device of Du Vivié on the title-page, showing a radiant sun above a Dutch landscape, motto: 'Ab Uno vita'. There are also copies that have a printer's mark with the motto 'Laurea Vincenti'. A fresh and beautiful folding portrait of 44 year old Merula by the Dutch engraver Jacob Maetham, 1571-1631; he is also known as Jacob Matham; the portait shows Merula three quarters, within an oval frame; at the bottom of the frame the date of the engraving: 1602, mens. octobr.'; above his head the adagium: 'Vincenti Laurus', 'the wreath of laurels for the winner'; this was according to Johannes Meursius in his famous 'Athenae Batavae', the motto of Merula. (Athenae Batavae, Leiden 1625, volume 1, p. 159) The motto is without doubt a reference to Matthew 24,13: 'Qui autem perseveraverit usque in finem, hic salvus erit'. On the pedestal below the portrait 4 lines of verse by the Dutch classical scholar and neolatin poet Daniël Heinsius: Hospes Batavi Merulae Vultum vides, / Qui sceptra Leidae sacra Musarum gerit. / Orbem dat Orbi; restat Externis nihil. / Terram Batavi fabricant, subdunt Mare. The plate with portrait measures 20,9x14,5 cm, the whole leaf is 24,5x18. A digital copy may be found on 'rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-27.285X '. Ma(e)tham was an apprentice of the famous engraver Goltzing, who married Jacob's mother) (Condition: Cover somewhat soiled. Else a good copy in a good condition) (Note: The Dutch historian and classical scholar Pau(l)lus Merula, 1558-1607, the Latin form of Van Merle (or Maarle), was born in the city Dordrecht. In 1593 he was appointed professor of History at the university of Leiden. His colleague there was the famous scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger, 1540-1609. His opinion of Merula: Cest un pauvre esprit et jugement, comme tous ces Hollandais, au reste bon homme. Several of Merula's works were published after his death. This edition of 1684 contains Merula's treatises: 'De sacrificiis Romanorum, De sacerdotibus Romanorum, De legibus Romanorum, De comitiis Romanorum' and 'De praemiis'. They were collected and edited by C.A. Maersche J.C. This is probably the jurist Cornelis van der Maerschen, ca. 1652-1721. (See for good information about Merula ' regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl/biografisch-woordenboek/paullus-merula/ ') On the title page of Merula's edition of Ennius' Annals of 1595, as on this title of 1684 the initials G.F.P.N. pop up between the Christian name and surname. In several 'Alba Amicorum' Merula signed as 'Paullus G.F.P.N. Merula', i.e. 'Guilielmi Filius Paulli Nepos Merula') (Provenance: Label on front pastedown: 'Ex libris Edm. De Deijn, Ninove'. In ink on flyleaf an old price: Constat 50 assi. Edmond De Deyn was mayor of the Flamish city of Ninove from 1895 till 1911. (See Wikipedia s.v. Ninove) He was interested in the history and archaeology of Flanders. He was a member of the 'Oudheidkundige Kring'. He bequaethed his collection of archaeological finds and objects to the Stedelijk Museum Oud-Hospitaal, Aalst) (Collation: *-2*4 (portrait after leaf *4); A-S4, T2; chi1, 2A-G4 (leaf 2G4 verso blank), 2H2 (leaf 2H1 verso blank, leaf 2H2 blank); 2chi1; 3A-F4, 3G1, 3O2; 4A-2N4, 4O2) (The third part mentioned on the title, 'De comitiis', was bound after the treatise 'De legibus', which is last mentioned) (Photographs on request) ‎