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39. Propertius, Sextus Aurelius: [Broekhuizen, Joan van, ed.:] Elegiarum, libri quatuor:
ad fidem veterum membranarum sedulo castigati. Accedunt notae, & terni
indices; quorum primus omnes voces Propertianas complectitur. Amstelaedami
[Amsterdam]: Henricum Wetstenium & Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios, 1702
[46433] £200
Small 4to. (240 x 180mm), pp. [xxviii], 423, [ci]. Title-page in red and black with engraved vignette.
Library inkstamps to title-page and preliminary blanks, small closed tear to fore-edge margin p.61
not affecting text, top of head margins a little toned. Contemporary vellum, gilt tan calf label to spine,
edges faintly sprinkled red. Smudged and a little darkened in places, front joint and corners a bit worn,
paste-downs loosening, some loss to head of f.f.e.p. (apparently to remove an inscription), edges dusty.
Metropolitan Special Collections Southwark library inkstamps, plus remains of library label to front
paste-down. Leaf of Latin notes in an old hand loosely inserted to rear.
Described by Dibdin as a ‘very valuable’ edition. The first major work of Joan van Broekhuizen (1649-
1707), initially an army-man, where he became friends with Graevius (who reportedly arranged for his
pardon for duelling, through Nicholas Heinsius). After retiring from the army he turned to scholarship,
also producing an edition of Tibullus and composing poetry in Latin.
Dibdin (4th edn.) I 384; Brunet IV 904.
40. [Serviez, Jacques Roergas:] (James, George, trans.:) The Lives and Surprising Amours
of the Empresses, Consorts to the First Twelve Caesars of Rome, Containing all
the Passages of Chief Note in Roman History: and Particular Characters and
Descriptions of the Most Celebrated Favourites, Courtiers, Poets, Orators, etc in
Those Reigns. Taken from the Ancient Greek and Latin Authors. With Historical
and Explanatory Notes. London: sold by T.Cooper, n.d. [c.1735]. [48857] £80
8vo., pp. [vi], 352, [xxxii]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Bottom 25mm of title-page excised,
foxed, a little toned. Contemporary tan calf, gilt spine, raised bands, small gilt crest centrepiece, edges
sprinkled red. Endcaps worn with some loss, spine label lost, joints cracking but sound, a little scuffed but
still very good. Armorial bookplate of Cosmo George, Duke of Gordon and Gordon Castle library label to
front paste-down.
First published in France in 1718, and first published in English in 1723. This is a reissue, with a slightly
sexed-up cancel title-page (the amours, formerly just that, are now ‘surprising’), of that 1723 edition,
and a rare variant, with ESTC recording only four copies, in Cambridge, the British Library, Princeton,
and the University of Miami.
ESTC T113171.
41. Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius; St. Ambrose: Epistolarum Libri Decem. Lugd.
Batavorum [Leiden]: imprimi fecit Gerhard Wingendorp, 1653. [46581] £300
12mo., pp. [x], 19-461, [iii] + engraved title-page featuring a portrait of the author. Several leaves
unopened. Early 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled edges. Joints a little worn, some scratches
but very good.
A pocket edition of Symmachus’s letters, first printed in 1510 (partially; later editions tripled the
number of included letters).
Schweiger II, 991; Graesse V, 539; Willems 1678.
42. Tacitus, Publius Cornelius: (Grovonius, J., ed.:) Opera Quae Exstant, integris Beati
Rhenani, Fulvii Ursini, M. Antonii Mureti, Josiae Merceri, Justi Lipsii, Valentis
Acidalii, Curtii Pichenae, Jani Gruteri, Hugonis Grotii, Joannis Freinshemii,
Joannis Frederici Gronovii, & selectis aliorum commentariis illustrata [...] Trajecti
Batavorum (Utrecht): Jacobum à Poolsum & Johannem Visch, 1721. [48030] £350