Live auction - Lot 1165

[Greek poetry - Geography]

DIONYSIUS ALEXANDRINUS

De situ orbis liber interprete Andrea Papio Gandensi, ut et Aristophanis Plutus, cura Sigeberti Havercampi.

Leiden, G. Potvliet, 1736


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8vo: [8]-111-[1 bl.]-128-32 pp. (some toning or spotting).

Contemp. marbled boards, flat spine (rubbed, head & tail def.). Good copy.

Ed. by the Leiden scholar Sigebertus (Siwart) Havercamp (1684-1742) of Dionysius’ treatise on geography, with the Latin verse translation of Andreas Papius (1552-1581), a nephew of L. Torrentius, 1st publ. by Plantin in 1575. In addition Aristophanes’ Plutus (in Greek and Latin) and Theocritus’ Thyrsis (in Greek).
Ref. STCN. - Hoffmann II:104.
Joined: Musaeus - Musaei Grammatici de Herone et Leandro carmen. Cum scholiis Graecis [...]. Leiden, D. (I) Haak, 1737. 8vo (dampstained, worming in final ff.). Contemp. vellum (soiled). Scholarly ed. of the famous Greek poem, with Andreas Papius’ Latin translation. Engr. front., engr. coin ill. on title. Ref. STCN. - Hoffmann III:107. (2 vol.)

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Lot 1165

De situ orbis liber interprete Andrea Papio Gandensi, ut et Aristophanis Plutus, cura Sigeberti Havercampi.

DIONYSIUS ALEXANDRINUS

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