[VIRGIL.] RAMUS, Petrus (Pierre de la RAMÉE).
Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus illustrata, ad Carolum Lotharingum cardinalem.
Paris, André Wechel, 1564.
[bound with:]
—. Bucolica, P. Rami … praelectionibus exposita, quibus poetae vita praeposita est, ad Carolum Lotharingum cardinalem, editio secunda. Paris, André Wechel, 1558.
Two works in one vol., 8vo, pp. Georgics: [2], ‘11-367’ [i.e. 3-359], [1 (blank)], Bucolics: 184; woodcut printers device to titles, woodcut initials and headpieces, complete despite erratic pagination; lightly toned, small marginal dampstains to a few leaves, but an attractive copy; in contemporary calf, boards panelled in blind with gilt centre- and corner-pieces; corners and endcaps very skilfully repaired, superficial cracks to upper joint; a single philological marginal annotation (Bucolics p. 43) and index note to rear free endpaper in the same hand, nineteenth-century ink stamp ‘E. Drouin’ to front free endpaper.
Added to your basket:
Georgica, P. Rami … praelectionibus illustrata, ad Carolum Lotharingum cardinalem.
Second editions of Ramus’s extensive commentaries on Virgil’s two poems on country life, written in reaction to the dry doctrines of several French schools who based their teaching of nature on Aristotle’s Physics. Ramus wanted to keep in contact with the concrete realities of nature and in this spirit composed his commentaries, in which he often refers to Pliny and the Roman agronomers. The two commentaries were first published by Wechel in 1556 and 1555 respectively; a third edition of the Bucolics was issued in 1564.
Adams V-548 & V-537; Ong 480 & 474; USTC 198707 & 152391.
You may also be interested in...
OCCULTISM UNCUT CROWLEY, Aleister.
In Residence: The Don’s Guide to Cambridge.
First edition, uncut in publisher’s wrappers, of this amusingly eclectic collection of poems written by the occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) while an undergraduate at Cambridge.
QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Jacques-Louis d’ESTREBAY (editor).
Compendium libri secundi, tertii, et quinti institutionum oratoriarum.
Very rare third edition of this compendium of Quintilian’s oratory by Jacques-Louis d’Estrebay (or Estrebee, 1481–1550?), humanist, translator, professor of Rhetoric at Rheims and subsequently at the College of Sante-Barbe in Paris, and a proof-reader for the Estiennes. The title-page indicates that this is a third edition.; we have found one copy , at Châlons-en-Champagne, and a single copy of the 1557 second edition, at Lyon.