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Published by Wentworth Press 8/26/2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1362844683ISBN 13: 9781362844686
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Publication Date: 2022
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Published by typis Andreae ad Hoogenhuysen, Vesaliae, 1675
In-8° antico (cm. 19,4x11,3), pp. 24 (da p. 1117 a p. 1140), fascicolo DA RILEGARE proveniente da scorporo, con evidenti tracce di gore diffuse, ma carta robust e croccante, Dedicatoria al principe Carlo, datata Lovanio 1602. "Quid nobis dignius, qui libros assidue tractamus?".11 capitoletti, le biblioteche egizie, quella di Alessandria, di Pisistrato, di Aristotele, la Bizantina; Attalica di Eumene, romane private, la pubblica di Asinio Pollone, Ottavia, palatina, ecc. Capitolia, Tiburtina, in Baleis, in agris; gli ornamenti in avorio e vetro, "armaria, Foruli, Plutei, Cunei,; de Museo Alexandrino. JUSTUS LISPIUS fu a Roma per uno studio approfondito dei manoscritti tacitiani custoditi nella Biblioteca Vaticana (da pubblicare), frequentò assiduamente le biblioteche e perfezionò sui codici latini la sua cultura classica. Fascicolo proveniente da scorporo, DA RILEGARE, evidenti tracce di gore, ma carta croccante, Esemplare da studio, senza legatura e sciolto, Così com'è.
Published by typis Andreae ab Hoogenhuysen, Vesaliae, 1675
In-8° (cm. 19,4x11), complessive pp. 66 (da p. 1427 a p. 1492). I. De MAGISTRATIBUS. 19 capitoli in 35 pp . II. De vetere Latinorum SCRIPTURA. 4 pp. III. De PECUNIA. 4 capitoli in 6 pp. IV. De NOMINIBUS. 4 capitoletti in 4 pp. V. De RITU CONVIVIORUM. 4 pp. VI. De CENSURA et CENSU. 6 pp. VII. De ANNO ejusque ratione et interclatione. 7 pp. Fascicolo proveniente da scorporo, con fogli staccati, DA RILEGARE. Carta robusta ma vistosamente brunita. Es. da studio. Così com'è.
Published by typis Andreae ab Hoogenhuysen, Vesaliae, 1675
In-8° antico (cm. 19.4x11), pp. 86 (da p. 1341 a p.1426) + 1 TAVOLA di cm. 21,4x19,4 con veduta a volo d'uccello di LOVANIO) + 1 tavola a piena pagina nel testo (tomba di Wilhelmus de Rode e Mabilia de Calitris) + 1 TAVOLA di cm. 21,4x19,4 con veduta a volo d'uccello di HEVERLEA. Fascicolo proveneiente da scorporo, DA RILEGARE, carta robusta ma brunita. Alla città di Lovanio dedica 13 capitoletti in 34 pagine; all'Università dedica 18 capitoletti in 31 pagine. Alla città con l'Università decica 22 pagine. JUSTUS LISPIUS fu a Roma per uno studio approfondito dei manoscritti tacitiani custoditi nella Biblioteca Vaticana (da pubblicare), frequentò assiduamente le biblioteche e perfezionò sui codici latini la sua cultura classica. Fascicolo proveniente da scorporo, DA RILEGARE, evidenti tracce di gore, ma carta croccante, Esemplare da studio, Così com'è.
Published by Typis Andreae ab Hoogenhuysen, Vesaliae, 1675
Fascicolo in-8° antico (cm.19,3x11,2), pp. 48 da p. 1069 a p. 1116), con 21 ILLUSTRAZIONI in 10 INCISIONI in rame (perlopiù MONETE, ma anche una tavola a piena paina con 3 sculture raffiguranti un monile e le "vittae" e una lunga iscrizione; e una che mostra come i raggi del sole possano accendere dei rami secchi se concentrati da una lente a triangolo rettangolo). Ben 15 capitoli + 2 pagine di ISCRIZIONI. Miti e leggend, l'antico culto di Vesta e, sua diffusione, confusa talora con Venere, tempio rotondo consacrato da Numa, cui di notte l'accesso era vietato a maschi, un tempio augusteo, la cooptazione delle Vestali, compiti, premi e privilegi, jus testandi, ornamenti e insegne, poenae cum peccassent, ecc. ecc, JUSTUS LISPIUS fu a Roma per uno studio approfondito dei manoscritti tacitiani custoditi nella Biblioteca Vaticana (da pubblicare), frequentò assiduamente le biblioteche e perfezionò sui codici latini la sua cultura classica. Fascicolo proveniente da scorporo, DA RILEGARE, evidenti tracce di gore, ma carta croccante, Esemplare da studio, Così com'è.
Published by Hagae Comitum : apud Henricum Scheurleer, 1712
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
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First Edition. Poor copy in the original leather boards; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; xvi, 208, [15] pages. Subjects; Latin poetry History and criticism ; Early works to 1800. 1 Kg.
Published by Hagae Comitum : apud Henricum Scheurleer, 1712
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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First Edition. Poor copy in the original leather boards; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; xvi, 208, [15] pages. Subjects; Latin poetry History and criticism ; Early works to 1800. 1 Kg.
Published by Typis Andreae ab Hoogenhuysen, Vesaliae, 1675
2 fascicoli provnienti da scorporo, ma cuciti insieme, in-8° antico (cm. 19,4x11), compòessive pp. 105 (da p- 11235 a p. 1340). Muniti di proprio occhiello, di propira dedicatoria, di proprio indice. 1) HALLENSIS, 36 capitoletti in 57 pagine, con 1 TAVOLA incisa in rame a piena pagina (la Cappella gotica con la Statua della Vergine ecc. e una bella VEDUTA di HALLE a mezza pagina. I primi 6 capitoli descrivono la città e i criteri di attendibilità dei ben 30 capitoli seguenti, che riferiscono ciascuna uno o più MIRACOLI (tra cui "per truduum mortuus, & sepultus, reviviscit", e poi annegati, tratti da un pozzo, soffocati, "furiosi" ecc, ecc. 2) SICHEMIENSIS (cioè di Sittichenbach). 46 capitoletti in 48 pagine, ognuno relazione su uno più MIRACOLI (tra cui "caecus ab utroque oculo illuminatur" e un vasto campionario di malattie guarite, In fine in caratteri corsivi, prima dell'indice, e con quanche citazione in greco, 3 polemiche pagine di "REJECTIUNCULA SANNIONIS cukusdam BATAVI".La Batavia è una regione storica dei Paesi Bassi (nella provincia di Gheldria). JUSTUS LISPIUS, umanista filologo classico, fu a Roma (dove conobbe Paolo Manuzio ecc.) per uno studio approfondito dei manoscritti tacitiani custoditi nella Biblioteca Vaticana (da pubblicare), frequentò assiduamente le biblioteche e perfezionò sui codici latini la sua cultura classica. Esemplari da studio in carta robusta appena brunita a tratti. Così come sono, i due saggi uniti.
Seller: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Griesheim, Germany
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0. *** Selten. *** Am oberen Rand etwas gebräunt, ansonsten gute Erhaltung. Sprache: Deutschu.
Published by Heger, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], 1640
Seller: ANTIQUARIAT.WIEN Fine Books & Prints, Wien, Austria
Pergamentband der Zeit, 12 °, [6] Bl., 523 S., [12] Bl. : Kupfertitel de 250 Buch.
Published by Typis Andreae ab Hoogenhuysen, Vesaliae, 1675
"Opera Omnia", tomus secundus [su 4; con tutte le epistolae selectae]. In-8° ant. (19,7x11,5), pp. 1086, (36). Piena perg. coeva, 5 nervi, tass. pelle con tit. oro, solidissima pur con un capitello parz. sfilato. Tagli spruzzati. Tarli marg. agli ultimi 4 fogli. Leggere brunit. e fior. a molte pp. Gli altri voll. recavano Elegeia funebris, Vita, Epigrammata, De Militia romana, Politicorum. Filologo ed umanista belga, calvinista (ma nel 1591 abiurò) frequentò a Roma gli umanisti (tra cui Paolo Manuzio). "Interessante il suo epistolario", che rimane ancora "in gran parte inedito o disperso" (Diz. Eccl. Utet, II, p. 700), di cui qui c'è comunque una vastissima selezione (il volume è stampato in caratterii nitidissimi, ma piccoli e vale molti volumi moderni). Tra i destinatari ital., i card. Baronio, Sforza, Aldobrandini, Borromeo, Bellarmino, l'umanista Fulvio Orsini ecc.
Published by Antverpiae : Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1648
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
2nd Edition in this form. Minor generalized textual wear with preliminary browning and insignificant worming. Finely bound in aniline calf over marble boards; raised bands with a redd gilt-blocked Morocco label. An exceptional example. Scans and additional detail on request. ; 1 pages; Physical desc. : 3 pts ; 39 cm. Subject: Rome - History - The five Julii, 30 B. C. -68 A. D. Reprinted from the 1627 edition; title and ornaments differ. Title in red and black. Printer's device on each title page & verso of final leaves. Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginal notations. 4 Kg.
Published by Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, Leiden, 1586
Condition: Buono (Good). Small 8vo. (16), 377, (4) pp. A-Z8, a8 (-a8, a blank). With the printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary vellum over boards.Adams, L-815; Bibliotheca Belgica, III, p. 933; Voet, no. 1544. SECOND EDITION (there are also extant copies with Antwerp as printing place) dedicated to the magistrates of the city of Utrecht (Leiden, November 13, 1585).This is one of the very first books printed by Frans van Ravelingen (1539 -1597), Christopher Plantin's son-in-law, who managed the Plantin office in Leiden. He also held the chair in Hebrew at Leiden from 1587, and had knowledge of Arabic and Persian. He wrote an Arabic-Latin lexicon, which was published posthumously in 1613. This was said to be the first proper dictionary of the Arabic language. He collaborated on the Antwerp Polyglott Bible, and became the official printer to the University of Leiden. His scholarly printing qualities were one of the attractions that drew Joseph Justus Scaliger to Leiden in 1593.The present edition contains the same one-hundred letters of the edition princeps (Voet 1543), but has the two laudatory poems by Frans van Ravelingen and by Theodor Esych printed at the end. Added is the imperial privilege of February 21, 1565 granting Christoph Plantin the exclusive rights on the book within the borders of the empire. Although the edition is announced to have been ?amended', these emendationes have only been very slight (cf. J. de Landtsheer, Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, and the Edition of his ?Centuriae miscellaneae, 1586-1605; some Particularities and Practical Problems, in: ?Lias?, 25, 1998, p. 75). Born near Louvain in the town of Overlise, Justus Lipsius distinguished himself as a student of the classics first at the Jesuit college at Cologne and subsequently at the university in Louvain. Shortly after completing his studies, he published a precocious volume of Variae Lectiones (1569), a collection of philological observations on classical texts. Written in a polished Ciceronian style and dedicated to no less a figure than Cardinal Granvelle, chief minister of Philip II in the Low Countries, the volume quickly captured the attention not only of the powerful prelate but also of Europe's scholars.This initial work had significant and lasting effects on Lipsius' career; the most immediate was his appointment as Latin secretary to Granvelle, who took the young man to Rome, where he was introduced to international power politics as well as to the treasures of Italian libraries, including the Vatican's. An equally significant result of the cardinal's patronage was the opportunity it afforded Lipsius to make the acquaintance of Marc-Antoine Muret, the French scholar who was perhaps the most famous Latinist of his age.A recent convert to the anti-Ciceronian movement, Muret in turn made a convert of Lipsius. The first fruit of this interest was Lipsius' famous edition of Tacitus (1575), and its culmination was Politicorum libri sex (1589), a compilation of classical political wisdom directed explicitly at the social and religious crises of the sixteenth century. These works won him a reputation as a ?politician', or student of prudentia, which was never equaled or corrected, at least in Italy, by the fame of his later works.A corollary interest was the style and philosophy of Seneca. Lipsius' most famous and influential work, De constantia (1584), is a synthesis of Christianity and Stoic philosophy. The crowning achievement of his career are two studies of Stoicism, Manuductio ad stoicam philosophiam and its sequel Physiologia stoicorum (both 1604), and his monumental edition of Seneca (1605).After two years in the service of the cardinal, Lipsius returned briefly to Leuven, only to leave again in 1571, apparently fearing the strife that had broken out anew between his countrymen and their Spanish rulers. He went to the Viennese court of Maximilian II, where he met such renowned literary figures as Ogier Busbecq, Joan. Book.
Published by Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum 1603-07, Antuerpiae (antwerp), 1603
Flexible covers. Condition: Very Good. Contemporary full vellum with hand-lettered title on spine and leather ties (one tie has half missing). Internal & external hinges intact. Text Is tight & intact with age toning to some sections & rare spotting through text. 1/2" tear on top edge of rear cover. Rear endpaper has 1" tear on front edge, Early owner's signature on first title page & initials are embossed into bottom edge. 5 works in one volume. Each has illustrated title page, publisher's woodcut device at end & varying number of historiated letters. (*1*) : DIVA VIRGO HALLENSIS. Beneficia eius & Miracula fide atque ordine descripta. 1605. [8, 86pp, 10]. 2 full-page engravings by Cornelis Galle and Adrian Collaert : (Interior of the chapel & siege of Hallae Opidum). (*2*) DIVA SICHEMIENSIS SIUE ASPRICOLLIS: Noua eius Beneficia & Admiranda. 1606. [8, 69pp, 11]. (*3*) DE VESTA ET VESTALIBUS SYNTAGMA. 1603. [8, 50pp, 6]. (*4*) EPISTOLARUM SELECTARUM CENTURIA QUARTA MISCELLANEA POSTUMA. 1607. [12, 83pp, 5]. (*5*) EPISTOLARUM SELECTARUM CENTURIA QUINTA MISCELLANEA POSTUMA. 1607. [12,112pp, 6]. Latin text. Religion. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages.
Published by Antverpiae : Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1648
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2nd Edition in this form. Minor generalized textual wear with preliminary browning and insignificant worming. Finely bound in aniline calf over marble boards; raised bands with a redd gilt-blocked Morocco label. An exceptional example. Scans and additional detail on request. ; 1 pages; Physical desc. : 3 pts ; 39 cm. Subject: Rome - History - The five Julii, 30 B. C. -68 A. D. Reprinted from the 1627 edition; title and ornaments differ. Title in red and black. Printer's device on each title page & verso of final leaves. Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginal notations. 4 Kg.
Published by Antwerp, Christoph Plantin, Antwerp, 1586
First Edition
Condition: Buono (Good). 8vo. (16), 254, (2) pp. *8, A-Q8. With the printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary vellum over boards. Adams, L-815; Biblioteca Belgica, L-221; Voet, no. 1543; T. Deneire, ?Laconicae cuspidis instar? The Correspondence of Justus Lipsius: 1598. Critical Edition with an introduction, annotations and stylistic study, (Thesis: Louvain, 2009), p. 13; A. Gerlo, M.A. Nauwelaerts & H.D.L. Vervliet, eds., Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, (Bruxelles, 1978-1983), I, p. 20. FIRST EDITION (there is also extant a variant with Leiden as printing place, where the volume was actually printed). On October 6, 1585 Lipsius asked Plantin's advice about the dedicatory letter to the volume. Personally he thought of Dirk van Leeuwen, ?senator' of the Court of Holland and his close friend, but perhaps Plantin had someone else in mind. The work was finally dedicated to the magistrates of the city of Utrecht (Leiden, November 13, 1585). The volume contains 86 letters by Lipsius and 14 addressed to him (cf. J. Papy, La correspondance de Juste Lipse: genèse et fortune des ?Epistolarum Selectarum Centuria?, in: ?Les Cahiers de l'Humanisme?, 2, 2001, pp. 223-236). ?[.] Juste Lipse, qui fut aussi, comme tous les grands humanists, un épistolier des plus zélés. Plus de 4.300 lettres écrites par Lipse ou lui adressées ont été conservées. Environ 800 lettres d'entre elles ont été publiées de son vivant? (A. Gerlo & H.D.L. Vervliet, Inventaire de la correspondance de Juste Lipse 1564-1606, Antwerp, 1968, p. 5). ?There is an obvious problem with publishing a letter that was originally destined only for one recipient. Lipsius criticized Coornhert for publishing their correspondence; ?among the good it is the custom that letters written between two [men] perish with two. This sentiment, expressed by a man whose Centuriae of published correspondence spawned an entire genre, encapsulates the paradoxical rhetoric of Renaissance letter-writing and the friendship which it sustained; it was a seemingly private language geared (often) toward public consumption and use. And this unease is apparent in the preface of his first Centuria, where Lipsius professed to be ?somehow willing unwilling' to publish the work. The publication of his later Ad Hispanos et Italos (1601), the first Centuria to appear after his reconciliation, was justified on account of the possible loss of the original letters - in other words, they were still published with the original recipient in mind. Lipsius also claimed that his letters offered general advice; ?we offer counsel, warning, precautions, especially to young people, who I have always attempted to lead not just to pleasantries, [but] to usefulness, and to place them in mind and vigour above the common people'. The main aim of Lipsius' Centuriae, however, was to offer the reader a chance to get to know its author. Lipsius insisted on his sincerity: ?not only (I am telling you the truth) do I not write twice, I hardly read them [my letters] twice. They emanate from me through a certain transparent channel straight from an open heart; they are as my mind or body is at the moment I write' ? (J. Machielsen, Friendship and Religion in the Republic of Letters; the Return of Justus Lipsius to Catholicism, 1591, in: ?Renaissance Studies?, September 2011, pp. 4-5). ?From April 1583 to August 1585 Christopher Plantin had been living in Leiden and had established a second branch of his Officina. As soon as he was back in Antwerp, he realized that the political situation made it impossible to import or sell any works originating from the Leiden presses. On April 15, 1586 Plantin contacted Willem Breugel, member of the Council of Brabant and related to Lipsius. His Leiden partners had send him a few copies of Lipsius' Centuria prima, which he had submitted for approval to the responsible ecclesiastical book censors in Antwerp. Since they found no offence, he presented the Centuria to the States of Brabant, asking Breugel to insist that they too should allow the book's sale. To press home his petition, he stressed that neither the theologian Benito Arias Montano or his acquaintances in Spain, nor the Antwerp bishop Torrentius had any objections. The Council's answer must have been negative, for in the next letter to Breugel (dat. May 4) Plantin showed his appreciation for his efforts and regretted that Lipsius' whereabouts were an invincible stumbling block for the grant of a privilege. Thus he asked permission to sell the work on condition that the address on the title was changed: Lugduni Batavorum, ex officina Plantiniana would become Antverpiae, apud Christophorum Plantinum, thus indicating that he did not print, but was only selling the book in his Antwerp shop. Or should he perhaps totally refrain from the book's divulgation? In any case, he would do nothing against the express wish of the Chancellor or any councilor's advice. In these letters to Breugel Lipsius' name was avoided by using a formula as mon bon Signeur et amy [?] Finally, Plantin was allowed to sell the book with its new address, but he was not granted a privilege. This implied a serious financial risk, for the printer could not claim the monopoly of the book's publication and sale within the Southern Netherlands or within the reign of the Spanish King. In those ?Antwerp copies' - yet printed on Leiden presses! - letter 67, in the editio princeps addressed to Cornelius ab Egmont Nieuwenburghius, was replaced by one to the French lawyer Jacques Cujas. The Index Nominum was altered as well? (J. de Landtsheer, Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, and the Edition of his ?Centuriae miscellaneae, 1586-1605; some Particularities and Practical Problems, in: ?Lias?, 25, 1998, p. 74). Valerius [Wouters], Cornelius. Isque, November 20, 1575 (p. 1) Giselinus, Victor. Isque, October 5, 1576 (p. 3) Dousa, Janus. Leuven, April 3, 1577 (p. 5) Falkenburgius, Gerardus. Isque, August 1, 1575 (p. 6) Pighius, Stephanus [Wynants, Étienne]]. Wien, June 13, 1572 (p. 9) Scalig.
Published by Antwerp: "Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum," 1599., 1599
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 4to (252 x 178mm). Engraved printer's device on title, repeated in woodcut at the end, initials and ornaments, 19 engraved illustrations, including one full-page and two on the same sheet (heavily browned throughout, a few dark spots). Later vellum, title in manuscript on spine, new endpapers.This edition not in OCLCOCLC Number: 27970415 for the French edition of the same year.
Published by Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, Leiden, 1591
Condition: Buono (Good). Two works in one volume, 8vo. I. EPISTOLICA INSTITUTIO: 44, (4) pp. A-C8 (C7 and C8 are blank). With the printer's device on the title page. Contemporary vellum with inked title on spine. Green & Murphy, p. 275; Gueudet, pp. 370-371; J. Rice Henderson, Humanist Letter Writing: Private Conversation or Public Forum?, in: ?Self-presentation and Social Identification. The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times?, T. Van Houdt, J. Papy, G. Tournoy & C. Matheeleussen, eds., (Leuven, 2002), p. 37. ORIGINAL EDITION (a quarto edition with different pagination was simultaneously issued by the same printer) of Lipsius' letter-writing manual originated from a lecture held in June 1587. To Lipsius' treatise is appended a bi-lingual edition of Demetrius' description of the classical familiar letter. The work was reissued in 1601, again in quarto and in octavo, and in 1605, in quarto only. These editions are the only printings of the work during the author's lifetime that he supervised. Until the end of the century the work was also printed in other countries, evidently without Lipsius' authorization, first at Frankfurt/M. (1591) and then at Lyon (1592, 1596), Magdeburg (1594), Cologne (1596, 1597), and Paris (1599) (cf. Justus Lipsius, Principles of Letter-Writing: A Bilingual Text of ?Justi Lipsii Epistolica Institutio', R.V. Young & M.T. Hester, eds., Carbondale, IL, 1996, pp. xlviii-il). ?In 1591 Lipsius allowed Raphelengius to publish his Epistolica Institutio, which in its sixteen printed leaves completed the liberation of epistolography from the rules of rhetoric. His recommendations are generally models of brevity and lucidity, composed according to the principles established by his predecessors, in particular Vives, whose interest in the psychology of the writers of letters and their recipients found a sympathetic response in Lipsius. He did not need the rules of Francesco Negri, nor even of Erasmus and Vives? (M. Morford, Lipsius' Letters of Recommendation, in: ?Self-presentation and Social Identification. The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times?, T. Van Houdt, J. Papy, G. Tournoy & C. Matheeleussen, eds., Leuven, 2002, p. 189). ?Lipsius clearly devoted the first ten chapters of his Institutio to the epistolary ars; the last three may be regarded as personal admonitions to the artifex [.] ?graded' for the youthful, the more mature, and the adult student, and departing progressively from Ciceronian basis recommended to the first group. There are also admonitions for keeping a notebook or commonplace book in the Renaissance manner. Such material belongs under the caption of artifex and thus entitles the 0 to placement in the isagogic category by its principle to structure as much as by its address to the young [.] Lipsius attempted to drive a sharp wedge between the letter, properly so called, and other written communications which had long borne the name of letter incorrectly. He made a threefold division of letters according to subject matter: ?materies seria', ?materies docta', and ?materies familiaris'. The first dealt with public or private matters of gravity, the second with technical or learned questions. If I interpret him correctly, he regarded the first essentially an oration, the other essentially a treatise. He then turned to the genuine letter, the ?materies familiaris' designating it by the adjective ?propria'. Of this type of subject his says: ?Denique familiarem dico, quae res tangit nostras aut circa nos, quaeque in assidua vita. Ea propria et creberrima Epistolae materies: &, si verum fateri volumus, germanaem illius una'. Having limited the genuine letter to the familiar kind, Lipsius proceeded to detach it more definitely from oratorical associations evident in the Renaissance epistolary manuals. In Chapter VI of the Institutio, for all practical purposes, he rejects for the letter the first two parts of traditional rhetoric, viz. inventio and dispositio (the latter he calls ordo). Why, he asks, should he burden the reader with rules of invention or the selection of ideas? One who writes a letter, a genuine letter, always comes to his task bearing a message. As for ordo or dispositio, the less it is evident, the more charming the letter? (E.C. Dunn, Lipsius and the Art of Letter-Writing, in: ?Studies in the Renaissance?, 3, 1956, pp. 148-149 and 151-152). P. Martín Baños (El arte epistolar en el Renacimiento europeo 1400-1600, Bilbao, 2005, pp. 631-637) argues that Lipsius in the Institutio epistolica was not influenced by Hermogenes' Ideas, as some scholars claim, but that Pedro Juan Núñez in his Institutiones rhetoricae (1585) has. Martín Baños considers this influence a unique case in Renaissance epistolary theory. II. EPISTOLARUM CENTURAE DUAE: 304 (i.e 312) pp. A-L8, M4. With the printer's device on the title-page. J. de Landtsheer, Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, and the Edition of his ?Centuriae miscellaneae', 1586-1605; some Particularities and Practical Problems, in: ?Lias?, 25, 1998, p. 78; A. Pettegree & M. Walsby, eds., Netherlandish books: books published in the Low Countries and Dutch books published abroad before 1601, Leiden, 2011, II, p. 842, no. 19328. RE-ISSUE of the first edition of 1590 (it was reprinted at Frankfurt/M in 1591, Lyon in 1592 and 1596, London in 1593, and Paris in 1599). ?The second part is a new Centuria of letters dedicated to Baron Cecil Burghley, Governor of den Briel [dated April 11, 1590], who has shown great courage and skill both in pace and in wartime. The whole collection was written by Lipsius, with the exception of two letters that came from Josephus Justus Scaliger and his father Julius Caesar [.] This new Centuria got Lipsius into trouble, for three letters [13, 14, 15] inserted, which Lipsius had written during his sojourn in Oldenburg [Westphalia] and in which he had poked fun at the way of life he was confronted with. When [.] the collection was dispersed all over the em.
Published by Leiden, Ex officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, Leiden, 1591
Condition: Buono (Good). 8vo. 304 (i.e 312) pp. A-L8, M4. With the printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with the arms of the Dukes of Württemberg on the panels. J. de Landtsheer, Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, and the Edition of his ?Centuriae miscellaneae', 1586-1605; some Particularities and Practical Problems, in: ?Lias?, 25, 1998, p. 78; A. Pettegree & M. Walsby, eds., Netherlandish books: books published in the Low Countries and Dutch books published abroad before 1601, Leiden, 2011, II, p. 842, no. 19328. RE-ISSUE of the first edition of 1590 (it was reprinted at Frankfurt/M in 1591, Lyon in 1592 and 1596, London in 1593, and Paris in 1599). ?The second part is a new Centuria of letters dedicated to Baron Cecil Burghley, Governor of den Briel [dated April 11, 1590], who has shown great courage and skill both in pace and in wartime. The whole collection was written by Lipsius, with the exception of two letters that came from Josephus Justus Scaliger and his father Julius Caesar [.] This new Centuria got Lipsius into trouble, for three letters [13, 14, 15] inserted, which Lipsius had written during his sojourn in Oldenburg [Westphalia] and in which he had poked fun at the way of life he was confronted with. When [.] the collection was dispersed all over the empire, it stirred up bad blood among the Westphalians. One of them, Johannes Domannus, had his retort ready at the Frankfurt September book fair of 1591, an angry pamphlet to defend his country's honour. Lipsius did not feel tempted to start a paper war, but he apologized in letters to two German acquaintances, men of influence, viz. the Silesian humanist Jacobus Monavius and Henricus Ranzovius, a nobleman and governor of Schleswig-Holstein: he had never had the intention to trample on the Germans' feelings, and definitely not to offend the Emperor; his jokes and their phrasing might have been somewhat ill-considered? (J. de Landtsheer, op. cit., pp. 75-77). (Centuria I, which contains mostly the same letters as the editio princeps of 1586, excepted the following:) (letter) VII from Scaliger, Julius Caesar is replaced by one to Pithou, Pierre, Louvain, January 17, 1577 (p. 19) IX to Giselinus, Victor is replaced by another letter to him, August 31, n.y. (p. 28) X to Ellinger, Andreas is replaced by one to Lernutius, Janus, Leiden, September 12, 1582 (p. 28) XI from Muret, Marc-Antoine is replaced by one to Gulielmius, Joannes, Leiden, August 11, 1580 (p. 29) XVII from Busbecq, Ogier [Ghislain de] is replaced by one to Grotius, Jan, Leiden August 2, [1586] (p. 37) XXIV from Rataller, Georgius is replaced by one to Camden, William, Leiden, July 29, 1586 (p. 53) XXIX from Scaliger, Julius Caesar is replaced by one to Teeling, Theobald, Leiden, August 14, n.y. (p. 61) XXX to Florentius, Nicolaus is replaced by one to Biesius, Nicolaus, [June, 1572?] (p. 61) XXXIV from Busbecq, Ogier [Ghislain de] is replaced by one to Lernutius, Janus, October 1, 1585 (p. 67) XXXVIII from Gulielmius, Joannes is replaced by one to Jonston, John, Leiden, March 22, 1588 (p. 72) XLV to Giselinus, Victor replaced by one to Schott, Andreas, July 7, 1582 (p. 82) XLVI from Roeland, Gabriel is replaced by one to Pollio, Everhart, Leiden, August 8, 1581 (p. 83) IL from L'Escluse, Charles de is replaced by one to Vivien, Jean, Leiden, 1584 (p. 86) LIII from Muret, Marc-Antoine is replaced by another letter to him, Leiden, November 29, 1581 (p. 107) LVII from Marnix, Philip is replaced by one to Burch, Adrian van der, Leiden, January 28, [1586] (p. 112) LXVII to Egmond [Nieuwenburg], Cornelis van is replaced by one to Cujas, Jacques, Leiden, October 5, [1586] (p. 130) LXIX to Dammius, Adrianus is replaced by one to Lydius, Martinus, Leiden, June 28, 1585 (p. 132) LXXVI to Dunellus [Doneau], Hugues is replaced by one to Cujas, Jacques, Leiden, April 5, 1585 (p. 140) LXXXIV from Pincaeus, Renatus is replaced by one to Canter, Theodor, Leiden April 5, 1585 (p. 152) XCI from Dudith, Andreas is replaced by one to L'Escluse, Charles de, Leiden, October 26, n.y. (p. 165) XCVI from Torrentius [Beken, van der], Laevinus is replaced by one to Dousa, Janus, Leiden, September 1, 1585 (p. 172) (Centuria II:) Turnèbe, Adrien. [Leiden], March 16, [1585] (p. 189) Giselinus, Victor. Leiden, May 18, 1581 (p. 190) Thou, Jacques Auguste de. Leiden, February 11, 1586 (p. 191) Villiers, Pierre de, the Younger. Leiden, April 1, 1586 (p. 192) Corbinelli, Jacopo. Leiden, 1586 (p. 193) Burch, Lambert van der. Leiden, January 16, 1586 (p. 194) Raphelengien, François, the Younger. [Leiden], November 16, 1586 (p. 196) Wilt, Hendrick van. [Leiden], April 16, 1586 (p. 197) Lernutius, Janus. [Leiden], May 18, 1581 (p. 198) Villiers, Pierre de. Leiden, April 1, 1586 (p. 200) Groslot, Jérôme. Leiden, April 26, 1586 (p. 201) Leoninus, Elbert. Oldenburg, October 7, 1586 (p. 201) Dousa, Janus. [Oldenburg], October 5, 1586 (p. 203) Hout, Jan van. Oldenburg, October 30, 1586 (p. 203) Heurnius, Joannes. Emden, October 15, 1586 (p. 204) Colvius, Petrus. [Oldenburg], October 7, 1586 (p. 207) Pollio, Everart. February 27, [1589] (p. 207) Junius, Franciscus. Leiden, [1588] (p. 209) Lampsonius, Dominicus. June 19, 1587 (p. 210) Leeuwius, Theodorus. January 2, 1587 (p. 213) Cujas, Jacques. Leiden, March 16, 1587 (p. 213) Lernutius, Janus. [Leiden], August 31, 1587 (p. 214) Rosendael, Aemilius. Leiden, June 30, 1587 (p. 215) Savaria, Adrianus. March 23, 1588 (p. 216) Scaliger, Jusephus Justus. Leiden, April 21, 1588 (p. 217) Regemorter, Petrus. Leiden, January 24, [1588] (p. 218) Baudier, Dominique. May 5, 1587 (p. 219) Clusius, Carolus [L'Ecluse, Charles de]. January 14, 1588 (p. 221) Arcerius, Joannes. Leiden, January 13, 1588 (p. 222) Stuck, Johann Wilhelm. August 22, 1590 (p. 223) Mylius, Abraham. Leiden, June 1, [1585] (p. 224) Plantin, Christoffel. Leiden, August 29, [1585] (p. 226) Marcilius, Theodorus. Leiden, May 29, 1587 (p.227) Melissus [Schade], Paul. Leiden, June 1, 1587 (p. 228) Mer.
Published by Christopher Plantin, Leiden, 1589
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [PLANTIN] - LIPSIUS, Justus (1547-1606). De Constantia libri duo. Quarta editio. 1589. [Bound with:] Epistoloarum centuriae duae, 1590, two parts, separately titled. [With:] Saturnalium sermonum libri duo, 1590. [With:] De Amphitheatro liber, 1589, two parts, separately titled, all identically published Leiden: Christopher Plantin. Together 6 parts in four works, bound in one volume, 4to (194 x 155mm). Titles with woodcut Plantin devices, the Saturnalia with 4 large folding engraved plates and 12 plates lettered A-M; De Ampitheatro with 4 large folding engraved plates front the Saturnalia plus plates A-C misbound in part 2 of De Ampitheatro. 18th-century Dutch half- sheep and brown paste-paper boards, a cut-out of pink pastepaper on front cover, spine gilt, green calf gilt lettering label, marbled edges, pink pastepaper endpapers; (few names on first title marked out, few headlines just barely shaved, occasional browning, marginal staining to 2 or 3 plates, one large folding plate partially backed, minor worm damage to binding). Christopher Pirckheimer, purchase inscription dated 1590 on title verso, illegible armorial inkstamp to title. Rare and interesting Sammelband of works by the Flemish humanist and philologist, bringing together his stoic dialogue De Constantia, the First Edition of his collected correspondence with the leading scholars of the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, and contemporaneously illustrated editions of two of his popular antiquarian treatises, the Saturnalium Sermonum (important treatise on gladiatorial combats) and De Ampitheatro (on amphitheaters and coliseums). Adams L773; L816; L807; L768.
Condition: Buono (Good). Two works in one volume, 8vo. I. LIPSIUS: (16), 231 pp. ?8, A-O8, P4. With the printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary limp vellum. Bibliotheca Belgica, L-489; Voet, no. 1554; A. Gerlo, M.A. Nauwelaerts & H.D.L. Vervliet, eds., Iusti Lipsi Epistolae, (Bruxelles, 1978-1983), I, p. 14; G. Tournoy, J. Papy, & J. de Landtsheer, eds., Lipsius en Leuven. Catalogus van de tentoonstelling in de Centrale Bibliotheek te Leuven, 18 september - 17 oktober 1997, (Leuven, 1997), p. 59, no. 11a. FIRST EDITION of this collection of letters (mostly fictitious) with critical comments on a great number of passages from Titus Livius and other classical Greek and Latin authors. The work is divided into five books, containing respectively 22, 26, 24, 28 and 26 letters. It was reprinted in 1585. The work is dedicated to Joannes Scheyf, chancellor of Braband (Leuven, August 18, 1576). ?On 10 February 1576, Plantin told Pithou that he had been invited by Lipsius to attend the latter's promotion to doctor in Louvain. At this occasion Lipsius had spoken with him about his plans for the publication of several works, including Quaestiones epistolae[.] In a letter of 1 July 1576 to Pulmannus, Lipsius himself declares he is working hard on the publication. A month later, however, he had some doubts whether, owing to the troubled time, Plantin would be able to publish his book? (L. Voet, The Plantin Press (1555-1589). A bibliography of the works printed and published by Christopher Plantin at Antwerp and Leiden, Utrecht, 1980-1983, III, p. 1382). (Liber Primus:) Cujas, Jacques (p. 1) Scaliger, Joseph Justus. July 29, 1575 (p. 3) Sigonio, Carlo (p. 4) Camerarius, Joachim (p. 6) Lernutius, Janus (p. 7) Muret, Marc-Antoine (p. 14) Carrio, Ludovicus (p. 14) Scaliger, Joseph Justus (p. 17) Pighius [Wynants], Stephanus (p. 18) Giselinus, Victor (p. 20) Roaldus, Franciscus (p. 21) Torrentius [Van der Beken], Laevinus (p. 22) Langius [Delanghe], Carolus (p. 23) Lernutius, Janus (p. 25) Pithou, Pierre (p. 26) Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de (p. 28) Plantin, Christoph. Köln, March 5, 1574 (p. 29) Puteanus [Dupuy], Claudius (p. 30) Danieli, Petrus (p. 33) Oiselius [Loisel], Antonius (p. 34) Scaliger, Joseph Justus (p. 36) Pithou, Pierre (p. 37) (Liber secundus:) Laurin, Marco & Laurin, Guido (p. 41) Carrio, Lodovicus (p. 45) Susius, Jacobus (p. 46) Bryardus, Nicolaus (p. 48) Orsini, Fulvio (p. 49) Giselinus, Victor (p. 50) Fabrus [Faber], Petrus (p. 52) Meetkercken, Adolf van (p. 53) Pulmannus [Poelman], Theodoor (p. 54) Giselinus, Victor (p. 56) Sigonio, Carlo (p. 58) Nansius, Franciscus (p. 59) Pantinus [Pantin], Pierre (p. 60) Schetus [Schetz], Gaspar (p. 61) Berot, Jean (p. 63) Giselinus, Victor (p. 64) Brisson, Barnabé (p. 66) Schott, Andreas (p. 67) Falkenburg, Gerard (p. 70) Cruquius [Cruyck], Jacobus (p. 71) Goltius, Hubertus (p. 72) Bryardus, Nicolaus (p. 74) Turconius [Lannoy, Philippe de] & Maldeghemius [Maldegem, Philippe] (p. 78) Carrio, Lodovicus (p. 79) Giselinus, Victor (p. 83) Leunclavius, Joannes (p. 86) (Liber tertius:) Susius, Jacobus (p. 89) Pithou, Pierre (p. 90) Lernutius, Janus (p. 92) Sigonio, Carlo (p. 94) Carrio, Ludovicus (p. 95) Scaliger, Joseph Justus (p. 96) Crato, Joannes (p. 98) Divaeus [Dieve], Piet van (p. 100) Giselinus, Victor (p. 101) Camerarius, Joachim (p. 102) Falkenburg, Gerard (p. 104) Modius, Franciscus (p. 106) Fleming, Joannes (p. 107) Muret, Marc-Antoine (p. 108) Carrio, Ludovicus (p. 110) Valerius [Wouters], Cornelis (p. 112) Falkenburg, Gerard (p. 113) Breugel, Willem (p. 115) Hunnaeus [Huens], Augustin (p. 116) Giselinus, Victor (p. 118) Delrio, Martino Antonio (p. 120) Pighius [Wynants], Stephanus (p. 121) Carrio, Ludovicus (p. 123) Giselinus, Victor (p. 125) (Liber quartus:) Arias Montanus, Benedictus (p. 129) Sambucus, Joannes (p. 131) Raphelengien, Francicus (p. 133) Ortelius, Abraham (p. 134) Pighius [Wynants], Stephanus (p. 136) Bryardus, Nicolaus (p. 137) Livinaeus [Lievens], Jan (p. 138) Giselinus, Victor (p. 140) Florentius, Nicolaus (p. 142) Scaliger, Joseph Justus (p. 144) Manuzio, Paolo (p. 146) Lernutius, Janus (p. 147) Pithou, François (p. 148) Laurin, Guido (p. 150) Muret, Marc-Antoine (p. 155) Borssele, Maximiliaan van (p. 156) Giselinus, Victor (p. 158) Carrio, Ludovicus (p. 160) Falkenburg, Gerard (p. 162) Giphanius, Obertus (p. 163) Giselinus, Victor (p. 166) Scheyf, Joannes (p. 170) Schott, Andreas (p. 173) Giselinus, Victor & Lernutius, Janus (p. 174) Canter, Theodor (p. 176) Dousa, Janus (p. 178) Wamesius, Joannes (p. 185) Divaeus [Dieve], Piet van (p. 187) (Liber quintus:) Sigonio, Carlo (p. 190) Orsini, Fulvio (p. 191) Lernutius, Janus (p. 193) Estienne, Henri (p. 194) Papius [Pape], André de (p. 195) Carrio, Ludovicus (p. 197) Tayus, Jacobus (p. 198) Schott, Andreas (p. 199) Pamelius [Pamele], Jacques de (p. 201) Susius, Jacobus (p. 203) Divaeus [Dieve], Piet van (p. 205) Giselinus, Victor (p. 206) Falkenburg, Gerard (p. 209) Modius, Franciscus (p. 210) Muret, Marc-Antoine (p. 212) Lannoy, Philippe de (p. 215) Valerius [Wouters], Cornelis (p. 217) Ramus, Joannes (p. 219) Pithou, Pierre (p. 219) Vliegerus, Aegidius (p. 220) Pighius [Wynants], Stephanus (p. 222) Raphelengien, Franciscus (p. 224) Sturio, Nicolaus (p. 225) Lernutius, Janus (p. 226) Giselinus, Victor (p. 227) to the Reader (p. 228) Born near Louvain in the town of Overlise, Justus Lipsius distinguished himself as a student of the classics first at the Jesuit college at Cologne and subsequently at the university in Louvain. Shortly after completing his studies, he published a precocious volume of Variae Lectiones (1569), a collection of philological observations on classical texts. Written in a polished Ciceronian style and dedicated to no less a figure than Cardinal Granvelle, chief minister of Philip II in the Low Countries, the volume quickly captured the attention not only of the powerful prelate but also of Europe's scholars. This initial work had significant and lasting.