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Anbieter: ASHER Rare Books, T Goy Houten, Niederlande
57, [26]; 23; [39]; [4], 36; 61; [2], 75, [1]; 28, 37, [3] pp.Six academic orations in Latin, all in their first (and at least mostly only) editions, delivered by Pieter Burman, or Petrus Burmannus (1668-1741), a Dutch classical scholar and one of the best classical philologists of the eighteenth century, known as the elder to distinguish him from his nephew Pieter Burman the younger, was born at Utrecht as the son of Frans Burman, professor of theology at Utrecht. Ad 1: Funeral oration delivered by Burman on 19 February at the University of Utrecht for the famous Johannes Georgius Graevius who had died on 11 January 1703. Ad 2: Public oration delivered on 20 February 1702 on slowness.Ad 3: Oration in Latin verse delivered in the Aula of the University of Utrecht on his dream of a new Arcadia.Ad 4: Oration on the old and notorious dispute between Church and School/University concerning theatre for youth, set off again by an attack on the indecency and harmfulness of the theatre, launched by the Utrecht Church Council against the magistrate of Utrecht. Pieter Burman took up the defence of the theatre as a useful tool in education.Ad 5: Oration delivered at Leiden University on the usefulness of the study of humanities.Ad 6: Oration more or less on the same subject: for the benefit of literary men and grammarians.Ad 7: Oration on the value of a doctoral degree by Joannes Conradus Rücker (d. 1778;), professor of law at Leiden University since 1734, delivered on the occasion of Daniel van Alphen, whom he had tutored, taking his doctoral degree on 13 December 1735.Ad 8: Funeral oration delivered by Johannes Jacobus Vitriarius (1679-1745;), professor of law at Heidelberg (1706), Utrecht (1708) and Leiden (1720) for prof. Antonius Schulting (1659-12 March 1734), prof. of law at Harderwijk (1691), Franeker (1694) and Leiden (1713).The present convolute belonged to one of the "Writers to the Signet" at Edinburgh, the famous psalmist Robert Boswell (1746-1804), who signed his name on the inside front cover.Occasional slight browning, first free endpaper somewhat loose; corners slightly bumped, but the whole still in good condition.l NNBW IV, p. 354f; Dekkers, p. 30; Sandys, pp. 443 ff.; for Rücker (ad 7): NNBW II, cols. 1240-41; for Vitriarius and Schulting (ad 8): NNBW III, col. 1316 & I, cols. 1462-4.
Verlag: Luchtmans
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
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Zustand: Used - Very Good. . Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans, 1719. 8vo., [xl], 748 pp., Index. First edition of Pieter Burman the Elder's variorum version of Velleius. Full calf, with some decoration in blind and in gilt. Spine with slightly raised bands. All edges gilt. Some wear at extremities, esp. at corners, but quite sound overall. Endpapers renewed. Dibdin (vol. 2 p. 525) calls this edition very excellent.
Verlag: Apud Guilielmum vande Water, 1718., Utrecht:, 1718
Anbieter: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Schweiz
Two parts in one volume. Octavo. [62], 398; 258, [70] pp. Elaborate engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette, head & tail pieces, index. Title printed in red & black. Internally generally clean and tight, with offsetting to title. Later full red straight grain morocco single-ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped and lettered spine with solid single gilt roll to edges, foot of spine gilt-stamped: TRAJ: AD RHEN [publisher]: 1718, all edges gilt, marbled endsheets; somewhat rubbed. Bookplates of Thomas M. Lowndes and Henry Drury. Very good. With a fore-edge painting depicting a scene of HAWICK, ROXBURGHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, after an engraving by John Greig (fl. 1800-1843) from an original study by Luke Clennell (1781-1840). The fore-edge painting is based on an engraving found in Sir Walter Scott's, Border Antiquities of England and Scotland (Longman & Co., 1814-1817). This well-painted scene is likely of 20th century vintage. / The Dutch scholar Peter Burman was professor of the art of rhetoric and the history of Utrecht, and also of Greek philology. In 1715, he succeeded Perizonius, receiving the chair of history and the Greek language and the art of rhetoric at the Lyon-Batava Academy. Later he was librarian and director of the Lyon-Batava Academy. This is his commentary on Phaedrus, which was originally issued in 1698. PROVENANCE: Thomas M. Lowndes â Â" Henry Drury [both pre-fore-edge] â Â" Jack Bartfield Fine Books, New York â Â" Randall J. Moskovitz, MD, Memphis, Tennessee.