Description
Nice edition of this work of proverbs (or sayings or individual verses) attributed to Seneca, and by the first century A.D. writer Publilis Syrius. Nice frontispiece intact as well as the vignette form the publisher on the red and black title page. Occasional nice woodcut chapter end, occasional decorative capital, very clean block but very dry binding. Works collected and annotated by Janus Gruterus, Flemish scholar and writer with Greek translations by Joseph Justus Scaliger, French historian. Good Condition: 12mo: (7 3/4” x 4 7/8”): 3/4 leather over board: spine dry and crumbling, banded with gilt decoration: head and tail damaged: front board off: chipped corners and exposed board at corners and edges: rear hinge cracked and missing leather: corners rounded, bent and exposed: spots and soiling to the boards: small evidence of insect activity at top of endpaper through first “testimonia”: woodcut chapter ends: occasional decorated capital: block has some shading, occasional spot, occasional small tear: “L. Annalise Senecae & P. Syri Mimi, Forsan et Ian aliorum, simulates sententiae, Centum aliquot vestibule ex Codd. Pall. & Frising, auctae & correctae, studio & opera Jani Gruteri. Cum Notis ejusdem recognitis & castigates. Accedunt Ejusdem Notae Postumae ut & Nova Versio Graeca Josephi Scaligeri Jul. Caes. F. Nunc primmer ex utriusque autographis adornate & in Lucem editae.” Batavorum: Johannem du Vivie: 1708. FORN-Shelf-566-RAREE1708AKLA
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