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Lucain (en latin Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), né le 3 novembre 39 à Cordoue, en Hispanie ultérieure, et mort le 30 avril 65, est un poète latin dont la seule uvre conservée, La Pharsale, est une épopée sur la guerre civile ayant opposé Jules César à Pompée entre 49 et 48 av. J.-C. Il se suicide à 25 ans, sur l'ordre de Néron. Merci de nous contacter à l'avance si vous souhaitez consulter une référence au sein de notre librairie.
Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1728.
4to. 2 volumes: (LXXIV),966 (recte 968);(CIVC, indices) p.; folding map. Vellum 26 cm 'A valuable edition, containing the ancient scholia, select notes of ancient and modern editors' (Ref: STCN ppn 238571637; Schweiger 2,564; Dibdin 2,186; Moss 2,242; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,146/47; Brunet 3,1200; Graesse 4,273; Ebert 12349) (Details: Backs with 5 raised bands. Boards blind tooled. Title in red and black. Luchtman's woodcut printer's mark on the title, it depicts Pallas Athena leaning on her shield, the aegis; the motto: 'Tuta sub Aegide Pallas'. Folding map of the ancient world. 3 engraved text illustrations) (Condition: Vellum somewhat soiled. The front joint of volume 1 has a crack of 4 cm. Ownership's inscription on the title. Bookplate removed from the front pastedown. Some slight foxing. Frontispiece removed) (Note: When the first three books of the only surving work of the Roman poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, 39-65 A.D., the epic 'Bellum Civile' or 'Pharsalia', were published in 62 or 63, the emperor Nero was not amused, because it was great poetry, and because it contained eloquent denunciations of tyranny. The epic was on the civil war between Caesar and Pompeius, a war that ended the Roman republic. Lucan soon joined the conspiracy of Piso against the emperor Nero, and was forced to commit suicide on its disclosure, spring 65. The remaining books of the 'Pharsalia', the last, book 7 being unfinished, were published posthumously after the death of Nero. 'Beginning with the causes of the war between Caesar and Pompey, it carries the story beyond the death of Pompey until it breaks off with Caesar's occupation of Pharos in Egypt. The battle of Pharsalos is related in book 7. (...) All the resources of rhetoric are enlisted to impress the reader; vehement declamation and brilliant epigrammatic utterances (sententiae) are everywhere in evidence. There are numerous digressions, many of them making a display of curious learning'. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 620) Lucan made Pompey a tragic hero and evoked sympathy for him and his lost republican cause. The climax of the story is the battle at Pharsalos. According to Rose, the 'Pharsalia' contains 'some of the finest rhetoric ever written in verse'. (H.J. Rose, A handbook of Latin literature, London 1967, p. 380) The philosophy of the Pharsalia is Stoic. Lucan was during the Middle Ages a popular school-author, he survives in ca. 300 manuscripts. His afterlife is interesting. At the beginning of the Renaissance he was placed by Dante alongside Homer, Horace and Ovid. 'For the Renaissance, Lucan provided an important precedent for composing epics about comparatively recent historical events, and more remarkably (...) for epics whose sympathies favor the losing side'. Lucan's republicanism made him in the 17th century unsuitable for incorporation in the series 'editions for the Dauphin', the crown prince of France, while on the other hand the poet was admired by Voltaire for his libertas. This edition of 1728 was produced by the Dutch classical scholar Franciscus Oudendorp, 1696-1761, who was, according to Sandys, the last of the great latinists of his age. For the last 20 years of his life he was professor of Eloquence and History at the University of Leiden. He consulted for his edition 17 manuscripts and also old editions, adding his own remarks and annotations, and he published the very useful old scholiasts of Lucanus, the 'Adnotationes super Lucanum', a series of short notes on Lucan's Pharsalia dating from the Middle Ages, here for the first time. Oudendorp restored many places with the help of the 'Adnotationes', often offering them as his own ideas and conjectures, 'mori aetatis suae indulgens'. (Adnotationes super Lucanum, edidit I. Weber, Leipzig, 1909, p. V) Nevertheless, the English scholar A.E Housman observed in the introduction to his Lucan edition of 1926 that Oudendorp's edition is the most solid and valuable, though not in all respects the most important. He was, according to Housman, 'in common sense, sobriety of judgment, and fairness of temper, (...) the best of Lucan's annotators') (Provenance: On the title in ink: 'Bibliothecae FF Min. Hib. Conventus Pontanensis, 1895'. This book once belonged to the library of the monastery of the Fratres Minores (Friars Minor) in the Irish city of Drogheda. See for the long and turbulent history of this monastery highlanes.ie/Content.aspx?PageID=71. There we read that a new friary (residence) was opened on St. Laurence Street in 1840. At that time the Franciscan community consisted of four priests assisted by two tertiaries. The conventus of the friars became in 1860 a Noviciate, that is, a training school or university for members of religious orders, and remained so until 1877. The scholarly interest of the friars did not wane, as is shown by the entry of this book in 1895) (Collation: Volume 1: +6 (minus leaf +6), 2-3+4; *-6*4, folding map, A-3R4, 3S4 (after leaf 3S1 leaf chi1, the half title of the second volume), 3T-6E4, 6F4 (minus blank leaf 6F4); a-2a4, 2b2 (minus blank leaf 2b2)) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs)
LUCAIN (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) / AMAR DU RIVIER (Jean-Auguste, corr.)
Reference : 123
(1822)
Parisiis Lefèvre 1822 2 vol. grand in-32° (121 x 82 mm), veau crème, dos à 4 nerfs orné, encadrement d'un filet sur les plats avec large décor aux fers, filet sur les coupes, triple-filet intérieur avec fer en écoinçons, tranches dorées (HERING. & MUL[LER], reliure de l'époque).
Édition imprimée sur grand raisin vélin satiné dans une fine reliure des relieurs Hering & Muller Belle édition imprimée sur grand raisin vélin satiné dans une fine reliure des relieurs associés parisiens Hering & Muller. Cette édition fait partie de la collection intitulée « scriptores latini principes » dont elle forme les tomes XVI et XVII. Cette collection fut imprimée par Pierre Didot l'Ainé dans le souci d'en faire la remplaçante et l'égale par sa perfection typographique des éditions de petits formats exécutées par les Elzévirs au XVIIème siècle. Elle donne aussi l'un des textes les plus corrects, confié au bon soin de Jean-Augustin Amar du Rivier (1765 - 1837), homme de lettres, professeur émérite et traducteur, il enseigna les belles-lettres dans plusieurs collèges, notamment au lycée Henri IV, et fut nommé en 1803 conservateur de la bibliothèque Mazarine. La collection se compose de 45 volumes publiés de 1821 à 1826 regroupant les principaux auteurs latins : Tacitus, Sallustius, Nepos, Florus, Plinius secundus, Cicero pour les prosateurs et Terentius, Lucresius, Virgilius, Prospertius, Horatius, Ovidius, Phaedrus, Lucanus pour les poètes. Lucain (en latin Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, 39 - 65 ap. J.-C.) est un poète latin fécond, neveu du philosophe Sénèque, dont seule une oeuvre nous est parvenue : le Bellum civile (La Guerre civile), que la tradition a pérennisé sous le titre de Pharsale, une épopée en 10 chants, demeurée inachevée, sur la guerre civile ayant opposé César à Pompée au Ier siècle avant notre ère. Pharsale fut la ville où César vainquit Pompée. Dos légérement passé, rousseurs à la fin du tome Ier et au tout début du tome II ; Ramsden -103 - Fléty - 91.
Ad 1: Zweibrücken (Biponti), Ex typographia Societatis, 1807. Ad 2: Zweibrücken (Biponti), Ex typographia Societatis, 1790.
8vo. 2 volumes in 1: XLVIII,277,(1 blank); XXXVI,252 p. Half calf 21 cm (Ref: Ad 1: Burkard p. 91/93; Schweiger 2,566; Dibdin 2,188: 'elegantly executed book'; Moss 2,243: 'a very neat and correct edition'; Ebert 12355; Graesse 4,274; Ad 2: VD18 11361557; Burkard 125/27; Schweiger 2,725; Dibdin 2,278: 'neat edition, and useful for presenting us with a valuable Notitia literaria'; Ebert 16527; Graesse 5,240) (Details: Back ruled gilt, and with a red morocco shield. Ad 1: The preliminary pages contain a 2 short biographies of Lucanus (p. I-IX), and a 'notitia literaria, including a long and up to date critical bibliography of editions, and translations, the 'index editionum' (p. X-XLVIII); the Pharsalia take up p. 1-265, followed by the 1st century A.D. Latin verse panegyric in praise of a member of the Piso family, 'Laus Pisonis' (p. 267-277). This panegyric has been attributed to Lucan, but also to Ovid, Bassus and Statius. Ad 2: The preliminaries contain a 'Live' of Petronius (p. III-VIII), followed by a 'Notitia Literaria', or a critical bibliography of important editions (p. X-XXXVI). The Satiricon fills the p. 1-214, the 'Petronii fragmenta' p. 215-225. At the end a collection of fragments of ancient Latin poets, the 'Veterum poetarum catalecta' (p. 227/52). An engraved vignette adorns the title, depicting a man and woman on a 'chaise longue', and a girl and boy standing beside them) (Condition: Binding slightly scuffed)(Photographs on request)
Leiden (Leidae), Apud Conradum Wishoff, Danielem Goetval et Georg. Jacob. Wishoff, fil.Conrad., 1740.
4to. (LII),735,(1 blank) (160 indices) p. Marbled calf. 26 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 239852117; Schweiger 2,565; Dibdin 2,186; Brunet 3,1200; Moss 2,242: 'A very excellent and critical edition, and by far the best which has yet been published'; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,147/48: 'ceteris praeferenda'; Ebert 12350; Graesse 4,273/74; Spoelder p. 642/3, Middelburg 4) (Details: Prize copy. Backstrip ruled in gilt. Red morocco shield on the back. Gilt coat of arms of Middelburg on both boards. Gilt palmette motifs along the borders of the boards. Title in red and black. On the title also a large engraving of a battle scene, the battle of Actium, designed by J. de Groot, and engraved by J. v.d. Spyk) (Condition: The back has been repaired expertly. The front flyleaf, with on it the prize, was removed and replaced by a flyleaf of a lesser quality paper, and has chipping edges. Some foxing) (Note: This edition of Petrus Burmannus, 1668-1741, professor of Latin at the University of Utrecht from 1696, and at Leiden from 1715, is highly praised by Dibdin. He remarks that this is a valuable edition. It is sometimes preferred to the edition of Oudendorp of 1728, he says. The text of Burman's edition is founded on that of Cortius. This edition is important, because Burmannus prints and discusses in the commentary for the first time the many variant readings from more than 25 manuscripts that were collated by the great Dutch scholar Nicolaas Heinsius, 1620-1681, and were jotted down in the margins of a Lucan edition of 1542 that he (Heinsius) once owned. (Praefatio p. *2 verso) As an editor Burman was an industrious manufacturer of Variorum Editions. He confined himself to the Latin classics, and edited Phaedrus, Horace, Claudian, Ovid, Lucan, and the Poetae Latini Minores, Petronius, Quintilian and Suetonius. (Sandys 2 p. 343/5) The genius Housman is more critical in the praefatio of his edition of Lucan. 'An edition of much less value than either of the foregoing (Oudendorp of 1728, Cortius of 1726) was put forth in 1740 near the end of his long life, by the elder Burman. The notes are desultory, diffuse and often trivial, (...). But his familiarity with Latin poets was great, (...) so that he resolved some difficulties which had baffled others, and achieved at v 137 one most admirable emendation'. (Housman, Lucanus 1926, p. XXXII) (Provenance: Bookplate of Helena Heyse: 'Ex libris Helenae Heyse'. Helena Elizabeth Zoraide Heyse was born on the 12th of June 1907 in the Dutch town of Middelburg. In 1931 she married P.E. Scholtz, professor of Afrikaans & Netherlands at the University of Cape Town. She died in 1996. The bookplate was designed in 1930 by the Dutch artist Roline Maria Wichers Wierdsma. (See catalogus.meermanno.nl/detail.aspx?parentpriref=)) (Collation: *-6*4, 7*2, A-5V4) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs)
N.d. 1977.
XXX,409 p. Wrs. 24 cm (Diss.)
Paris, Dubochet et cie. 1837 749pp., 27cm., dans la "Collection des auteurs latins, avec la traduction en français, publiés sous la direction de M. Nisard", bilingue: latin-français, reliure toile avec dos en cuir (titre et décorations dorés au dos), cachet, bon état, K51807
Paris, Dubochet et cie. 1837 749pp., 26cm., dans la "Collection des auteurs latins, avec la traduction en français, publiés sous la direction de M. Nisard", bilingue: latin-français, reliure toile avec dos en cuir (titre et fleurons dorés au dos), peu de rousseurs, bel état
Lucain [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus], Brebeuf (M. de) (en vers français par)
Reference : 3281
(1682)
1682 1682 Chez Jean Cochart, à Paris, 1682. 1 volume in-12 plein veau d'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, [1f.]blanc, [1f.]frontispice, [1f.]titre, [8ff.] épitre et avertissement, [1f.], 359 pp., 3 pp. de privilège, 10 figures in-texte. Coiffes arasées, mors fendu sur 1 cm, quelques épidermures, intérieur frais.
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Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1927 - 1930.
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Den Haag, Nijhoff, 1982.
72 p. Wrs. 20 cm (OiN 246; Nieuwe Vormen)
Vandoeuvres, Fondation Hardt, (1970).
342 p. Hardb. 23 cm (Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique 15; Marti, Grimal, Bastet, Le Bonniec, Steen Due, Rutz, Von Albrecht)
Stuttgart, B.G. Teubner, 1969.
XII,447 p. Cloth. 21 cm (BT, Bibliotheca Teubneriana) (Reprint edition 1909) (A new reprint hardcover costs 100 Euro)
Amst., Gieben, 1991.
(7). 464 p. Wrs. 24 cm (Diss.; t. & c.)
Amsterdam, Gieben, 1991.
(7),464 p. Stiff wrappers 24 cm (Dissertation; text & commentary; some pencil)
Hildesheim, Olms, 1965.
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Berlin, New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
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LUCAIN (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) - MARMONTEL - GRAVELOT (1699-1773)
Reference : 33437
(1766)
A Paris chez Merlin, 1766. 2 tomes in-8 reliés plein veau, titre doré sur pièces de basane verte, tranches marbrées, encadremments sur les plats, LXXIX-304 pages et 415 pages, 2 feuillets d'Approbation, illustrés de onze belles gravures par Gravelot (graveur), dont le frontispice. Menus défauts d'usage. Complet, et en bon état dans une reliure d'origine.
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Bon exemplaire de la Pharsale de Lucain, en belle reliure d'époque. Epopée inachevée, la "Pharsale" évoque la guerre civile opposant César à Pompée à la fin de la République romaine, moins d'un siècle avant la rédaction de l'ouvrage par le poète stoïcien Lucain. Oeuvre pessimiste, la sagesse et la maîtirse de Caton d'Utique s'y oppose à l'ambition effrénée de César.
Novissime autem a viro docto expolita: & emendata: Scribentibus Ioanne Sulpitio: & Omnibono Vicentino... Additis insuper de novo Grecis: que ubique deerant... Una cum figuris... in aedibus Guilielmi de Fontaneto Montisferrati, (Venetiis), XVIII Februarii 1520. In-4 p. (mm. 304x202), legatura in mz. pelle coeva (restaur.) con piatti in legno (manca il fermaglio in pelle), dorso a cordoni, 4 cc.nn., CCVI cc.num., incluso il frontespizio stampato in rosso e nero entro bella cornice ornamentale tratteggiata; testo inquadrato dal commento (in carattere tondo), ornato da pregevoli grandi capilettera per lo più su fondo nero, e con 10 bellissime vignette nel t., tutto xilografato.Cfr. Essling,854: Bois de l'édition 4 juin 1511 avec les différences suivantes: Livre III, Combat devant Dyrrachium / Livre VII, Soldates assaillis par des serpents - Sander,II,4021 - Adams,I, p. 671 - Choix de Olschki,IV,4757. La "Farsalia", poema epico di Marco Anneo Lucano (Cordova 39 d.C. - Roma 65 d.C.) in dieci libri, è rimasto incompiuto. L'argomento dei primi 8 libri è la guerra tra Cesare e Pompeo, negli ultimi due v'è il racconto delle imprese d'Africa e d'Egitto.. Più che di Cesare, che egli dipinge uomo settario, avido di guerre e stragi, Lucano è fervido ammiratore di Pompeo che eleva a simbolo della libertà repubblicana. Nei suoi ottomila versi la "Farsalia" riesce opera a vero carattere storico.. e vi attinsero anche storici posteriori, tanto più che le decadi di Livio corrispondenti a questa guerra civile sono oggi perdute. Così Diz. Opere Bompiani,III, p. 301.Ultima carta restaur. per strappi e picc. manc. (non di testo); con uniformi arross. più o meno lievi e fiorit. ma complessivam. un discreto esemplare.
Chez Dufour, Libraire Amsterdam 1765 2 parties reliées en 1 volume in-12 ( 165 X 100 mm ) de 491 pages, plein veau fauve marbré, dos à nerfs orné de caissons et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin olive, tranches marbrées ( reliure de l'époque ). Ex-libris sur une garde, bel exemplaire.
Paris Saillant 1768 un volume in-8 (200 x 222mm), VIII 118 pp. Reliure en veau porphyre fauve, triple filet doré sur les plats, dos à faux nerfs orné, tranches marbrées (reliure époque). (reliure frottée, charnières fendillées, coiffes manquantes, coins émoussés, présence de pâles rousseurs). Bandeaux et cul-de-lampe. Relié à la suite : 1- Timée de Locres " De l'Ame du Monde ", Saillant, 1768, (4) 130 pp. ; 2- ARISTOTE " Lettres d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le Système du Monde ", Saillant, 1768, (4) 150 pp. errata. Avec aussi la traduction de l'Abbé Batteux pour ces deux textes.
Editio secunda, auctor et emendatior, praemittitur notitia literaria studiis Societatis Bipontinae, 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage bradel demi-percaline marron, Ex Typographia Societatis, Argentorati, 1807, XLVII-277 pp.
Bon état.
1922 (1st ed.) viii, 226 p., 4 figs (maps), 1 plate, hcloth boards (original covers laid on). Library stamps. With author's dedication.