‎Dionysii Halicarnassei [Denys d'Halicarnasse]‎
‎Antiquitates Romanae. ‎

‎Caji Suetoniii Tranquilli Opera, et in illa commentarius Samuelis Pitisci, quo antiquitates romanae, tum ab interpretibus doctissimis, Beroaldo, Sabellico, Egnatio, Ursino, Grutero, Torrentio, Casaubono, Marcilio, Boxhornio, Graevio, Babelonio etiam explicatae, tum ab illis neglectae, ex auctoribus indoneis permultis, graecis & latinis, veteribus & recentioribus, perpetuo tenore explicantur. ‎

‎Utrecht (Trajecti ad Rhenum), Ex Officina Francisci Halmae, Academiae typographi, 1690. ‎

‎8vo. 2 volumes: (XL, including frontispiece),932; (II),924 p., 12 engraved portraits, and 28 plates, of which 1 folding, and 1 double page. Vellum 20 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 833699237; Schweiger 2,978; Didbin 2,442; Moss 2,632; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,459; Graesse 6/1,523; Ebert 21930: 'Beste Ausgabe für die Suite 'cum notis variorum'') (Details: 6 thongs laced through the joints. Frontispiece by G. Hoet and T. Mulder, depicting 'Roma triumphatrix'; she offers a crown to a seated emperor, in the foreground the Roman god Tiberinus and the she-wolf with Romulus and Remus. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, motto 'vivitur ingenio', 'one lives in one's genius'. The portraits are probably engraved by Mulder; the folding plate, a 'triumphus' and 3 other plates are the work of painter and etcher Jan Luyken) (Condition: Vellum soiled and age-toned. Old and small ownership entry on both titles. The book lacks one leaf of the preliminary pages, leaf ***3, with 2 short laudatory poems by the Rector and a Praeceptor of the Schola Latina of Zutphen, the school of which Samuel Pitiscus was once Rector. It seems that the binder forgot to insert a new leaf for a leaf which had been cancelled) (Note: The Roman historian Suetonius, born c. 69 A.D, is the most influential and best known biographer in the Latin language. He was appointed secretary to the emperor Hadrian, a job that gave him access to the imperial records and archive. He made good use of his sources, writing the 'Lives of the XII Caesars'; 'De vita Caesarum' gives the biographies of 12 emperors, from Caesar, the founder of the imperial line, to Domitian. 'Suetonius, like Plutarch, believed that a person's character could be revealed in small and insignificant details'. He 'organized his Lives by topics (per species) rather than chronologically'. (The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass. 2010, p. 912/13) Beyond simplicity and clearness he has no stylistic pretentions. He quotes verbatim from documents he knew, and shows critical ability. 'The great number of scurrilous anecdotes in most of the lives may be due to the nature of his sources'. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 1020/1) Of another of his works, 'De viris illustiribus', a collection biographies of famous Roman authors, of Lucan, Horace, Vergil and Terence have survived, and his 'Liber de illustribus grammaticis', and his 'De claribus rhetoribus liber'. Suetonius was read in the Middle Ages. The Frank Einhard wrote a biography of Charlemagne along the lines of a Live of Suetonius. From the Renaissance onward Suetonius was neglected, untill the great edition of 1672 of Graevius. Gibbon praised this Roman historian for his strict dedication to historical truth. His editor Samuel Pitiscus (Samuel Petiski), 1636-1727, a Dutch classicist of German origin, was rector at Zutphen and from 1685 of the Gymnasium Hieronymianum at Utrecht. He produced editions of Curtius Rufus (1685), Suetonius (1690), Aurelius Victor (1696), and Solinus (1689). He did also lexicographic work, and published a 'Lexicon Latino-Belgicum' (1725). He produced also in 1713 a 'Lexicon Antiquitatum Romanarum', and an edition in 1730 of Pomey's 'Pantheum Mythicum'. In this Suetonius edition Pitiscus also accepted some Lives nowadays ascribed to Suetonius, a 'Vita Juvenalis', 'Vita Persii' and 'Vita Plinii'. At the end we find also the fragments of Suetonius, followed by 17 pages with inscriptions concerning the 'Lives of the XII Caesars', and an edition of the 'Monumentum Ancyranum', with the learned commentary of Lipsius and Casaubon. Pitiscus was not a great scholar, but he skillfully excerpted, compared and contrasted his sources. His editions of Roman historians offer the 'textus receptus' accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists, taken from earlier useful, normative or renewing editions. Nevertheless he added much useful observations of his own. Dibdin is very positive, the edition is, he says, 'adorned with a vast number of beautiful cuts, which not only illustrate Suetonius's history, but likewise give a great light to the Roman antiquities. The same antiquities are also farther explained by Pitiscus's learned perpetual commentary on Suetonius, and extracts of nearly 900 ancient and modern authors, which he has collected for that purpose'. Or Moss: 'This is a very excellent and valuable edition, in which the industry as well as the learning of the editor has been fully displayed'. Ernesti is less positive about the ungrateful task which this hardworking schoolmaster has fullfilled: 'nihil est, praeter compilationes superiorum commentariorum, Lexicorum item et aliorum librorum de rebus antiquariis'. It is just how you look at it. However, this industry paid off. When he died Pitiscus left the fortune of 10.000 guilders for the poor of Utrecht. (Van der Aa 15,336/38)) (Provenance: Below the printer's mark an inscription that declares: 'Inservio Studiis Joannis Bernsavii'. In Wikipedia we found a lemma of one Johannes Bernsau, 1674-1750, who was mayor of Elberfeld. And on '30 Septembris' of 1690, the year this book was published, one Johannes Bernsaw, Johannis Bernsavii filius, Elverfelda-Montanus', matriculated at the University of Duisburg) (Collation: Vol. 1: *-2*8, 3*4 (minus leaf 3*3, cancelled), chi1; A-3M8, 3N2; Vol. 2: pi1, A-3L8, 3M6) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎Cajii Suetonii Tanquilli opera, et In illa Commentarius Samuelis Pitisci, Quo Antiquitates Romanae, tuù ab interpretibus doctissimis, Beroaldo, Sabellico, Egnatio, Ursino, Grutero, Torrentio, Casaubono, Marcilio, Boxhornio, Graevio, Babelonio etiam explcatea, tum ab illis neglegtae, ex Auctoribus idoneis permultis, Graecis & Latinis, veteribus & recentioribus, perpetuo tenore explicantur, Huic accedunt index Auctorum obiter explicitorum, & Rerum absolutissimus: Imperatorum, Imperatoresque arctissimo gradu contingentium icones : & figurae ex veterum monumentis ad historiam illustrandam depromptae in as eleganter incisa.‎

‎Trajecti ad Rhenum Utrecht, Ex Officina Francisci Halmae, 1690 2 volumes fort in-8 de (24)ff. incluant le frontispice et les trois premières planches, 932pp. - (4)ff., 924pp., maroquin tabac, dos à cinq nerfs, double filet doré sur les coupes, bordures décorées d'un large encadrement doré et à froid avec fleurons dorés aux angles, tranches dorées (reliures vers 1830).‎

‎"Belle édition de l'œuvre de l'auteur des Vies des douze Césars imprimée par François Halma et dirigée par son concitoyen d'Utrecht Samuel Pisctiscus (1637-1727). Premier tirage de l'abondante illustration: un frontispice et pas moins de 38 planches gravés dont une dépliante et légendée représente un triomphe. Des planches évoquant différents aspects de la vie romaine s'ajoutent ainsi à celles, placées au début des ""vies"", de portraits des césars et de leurs familles en médaillons. Sous l'effigie de Jules César et des empereurs ses successeurs, une petite composition dans un cadre évoque un épisode de leur existence qui généralement n'est autre que leur fin piteuse. Les Vitae Caesarum, les deux Libelli et les Sex Vitae sont suivis des Fragmenta operum, puis l'éditeur a adjoint au texte complet de Suétone les Inscriptiones antiquae illustriores de Caesaribus, le texte du monument d'Ancyre donné par Juste Lipse et commenté par Casaubon, enfin deux Vitae Suetonii tirées respectivement de Sicone Polentone et de Gérard Vossius. Très bel exemplaire en maroquin au monogramme du Reverend Theodore Williams doré au centre des plats avec sa devise: ""Deus alit me"". L'exemplaire figure au catalogue de la vente de sa bibliothèque (1827) sous le n°1655. Brunet, Manuel de l'amateur, V, 582."‎

‎CAJI SUETONII TRANQUILLI OPERA ET IN ILLA COMMENTARIUS SAMUELIS PITISCI QUO ANTIQUITATES ROMANAE TUM AB INTERPRETIBUS DOCTISSIMIS - TOMUS I.‎

‎EX OFFICINA FRANCISCI HALMAE. 1690. In-8. Relié plein cuir. Etat d'usage, 1er plat abîmé, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 932 pages - OUVRAGE EN LATIN - une gravure en noir et blanc hors texte dépliante - 20 gravures en noir et blanc hors texte dont une en frontispice (collationnées) - textes sur deux colonnes - 1er plat désolidarisé - dos à 5 nerfs - titre, tomaison et filets dorés sur le dos - dos fendu - 5 photos disponibles.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle‎

‎OUVRAGE EN LATIN . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle‎

‎Antiquitates Romanae è Rosino aliisque in compendium contractae, et juxta orinem alphabeti dispositae, bono juventutis opera et studio M. Friderici Hildebrandi,‎

‎Ienae, Georgii Seneuvadli, 1657. 90 X 155 mm. relié plein vélin de l'époque avec attaches. 218 pp. non mumérotées. Papier roussi, les attaches manquent.‎

‎MANUALE D'ARCHEOLOGIA ED ANTICHITA GRECHE E ROMANE COMPILATO IN RELAZIONE CON LE TABULAE QUIBUS ANTIQUITATES GRAECAE ET ROMANAE ILLUSTRANTUS DEL PROF. S. CYBULSKI‎

‎TORINO CARLO CLAUSEN 1897‎

‎Edizione del 1897 di questo manuale di archeologia e antichità greche e romane scritto di A. G. Amatucci. Volume compilato in relazione con le Tabulae quibus antiquitates Graecae et Romanae illustrantur del prof. S. Cybulski. All'interno: Antichita private dei greci e dei romani (matrimonio, figli e loro educazione, schiavi, suppellettili domestica dei greci e dei Romani, La vita quotidiana, Vesti, Funerali e sepolcri); Antichità religiose (Templi e sacerdoti, sacrifizi e feste, palestra ginansio stadio, ippodromo); Antichità civili Magistrati in Grecia, Antichità militari (L'esercito, Armi greche e romane, I varii corpi di milizie, L'esercito in ordine di battaglia, Mura e porte, Disciplina militare). Alla fine due appendici: Scrittura libri e librerie, Acquedotti strade ponti viaggi alberghi e porte. In buone condizioni. Copertina morbida coeva in buone condizioni con lievi usure marginali. Legatura in buone condizioni. Pagine in buone condizioni con rare fioriture. In 8. 21x14 cm. Pp. X+(2)+310+(2).Edition of 1897 of this manual of archeology and roman and greek antiquities written by A. G. Amatucci. Volume written in relation with Tabulae quibus antiquitates Graecae et Romanae illustrantur by prof. S. Cybulski. In good conditions. Soft coeval cover in good conditions lgihtly worn in the extremities. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in good conditions with occasional foxing.In 8. 21x14 cm. Pp. X+(2)+310+(2).‎