Lipsiae E. B. Schwickert 1784 1 vol. relié 2 parties reliées en 1 fort vol. in-8, demi-basane fauve à coins, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés, pièce de titre rouge, tranches rouges (reliure postérieure), X + 585 + (21) + 228 + (44) pp, 2 index. Edition du texte grec avec index et notes en latin par Johann Gottlob Schneider (1750-1822). Compilation d'anecdotes sur les caractéristiques et les moeurs de plus de 300 animaux, dont un certain nombre inconnus ou fantaisistes, rédigées par Claude Elien dit Elien le Sophiste (175-235), historien et zoologiste romain de langue grecque. Reliure modeste mais solide du début du XIXe siècle.
Paris, Mercure de France, 1895. In-16, 87 pp., (4) ff., bradel demi percale bleue, tête dorée, plats de couverture conservés.
Belle impression, sur un joli papier vergé.
Leipzig, Engelh. Beniam. Svikerti, 1780. 8vo. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt back. Slightly rubbed. A small nick to top of spine. Small stamp on title. Engraved frontispiece. LIV,428(1),452 pp. Some engraved textillustrations (mostly portraits on coins). Internally clean and fine. Geek text with extensive Latin commentaries and notes.
Aelianus' (A.D. 170-235) Varia deals with human life and history with excerpts and anecdotes of moralizing character. - His Fragments is a collection designed to illustrate the workings of providence and divine justice. - Dibdin I:231. - Brunet I:p. 63. - Graesse I: p. 24.
Genève, P. Albertus 1616
Large in-12 (12x8 cm), dos lisse, plein velin du temps de 1088 pages; 50 feuillets d'index [Accessit Index Iocupletissmus], texte en latin et grec en miroir, reliure et papier en état exceptionnel.
Graece et latine cum priorum interpretum et svis animadversionibus edidit I0 GOTTLOB SCHNEIDER. Lipsiae. Schwickerti. 1784. Fort in-8 (21x12). X-585 pages- 14 pages (index genericus animalium)-228 pages-44 pages (index rerum memorabilium)
Texte grec et latin. Cité par Graesse, trésor des livres précieux, tome 1. (petites piqûres diffuses sur l'ensemble de l'ouvrage, quelques usures normales à la reliure).
Coloniae Allobrog. (Genf), 1613. 12mo. Contemp. full vellum. A piece (1 cm.) of vellum at upper part of spine, gone. (14),460,(17) pp. Greek and Latin text. Scattered brownspots.
Aelian's ""History"" deals with human life and history and anecdotes of moralizing character. ""Aelian's philosophical ideas, notably that of universal reason as manifested in the animal creation, derive from Stoicism"" he is espicially bitter against the Epicureans. His excerpts, largely derived from intermediate sources (Sostratus, Alexander of Myndos, Pamphilus, etc.), often supplement our knowledge of earlier writers...His works enjoyed great subsequent popularity, and were much drawn upon by Christian writers.""(Oxford Classical Distionary).
AELIANUS Claudius ( 170 - 240 ) - Abraham GRONOVIUS ( 1695 - 1775 ) a.o. :
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"10. Lugduni Batavorum ( Leiden ) , Luchtmans et J.A. Langerak, 1731, in-4°, 2 parts in one volume, halftitle + engraved frontispiece + title printed in red and black + (92)nn pp (praefationes ed dedicationes) + 680 pp ; titlepage (pars altera) + pp 681-1056 pp + (80)pp(index). Bound in contemporary full calf, smooth decorated spine with red leather title label, both covers with the coat of arms of the Dutch town Zwolle ( Zwollae ) within a triple gilt fillet border, one fillet being a floral one. Traces of green silk ties. Prizebinding of the town of Zwolle (without the prize). Nicely preserved although the front hinge was expertly repaired."