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QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. Institutionum Oratorium libri XII diligentius recogniti M D XXII. Index capitum totius operis. Conversio dictionum Graecarum, quas ipse author in latinum non transtulit. Venice 'In Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri' (Andre d'Asola & sons), January 1521.
Second Aldus edition - 'revised', but almost exactly re-printed page-for-page - of the complete text of the <I>De Oratoria</I>, on the teaching of speaking and writing, by Quintilianus (ca. 35 in Spain - 95 AD).Quintilian's father, a well-educated man, sent him to Rome to study rhetoric early in the reign of Nero. In ca. 60 Quintilian returned to Spain, possibly to practice law in the courts of his own province. However, in 68 he returned to Rome as part of the retinue of Emperor Galba, Nero's short-lived successor. After Galba's death, and during the chaotic Year of the Four Emperors which followed, Quintilian opened a public school of rhetoric. Among his students were Pliny the Younger, and perhaps Tacitus. Quintilian retired from teaching and pleading in 88 and he spent his retirement writing his <I>Institutiones Oratoriae</I>. This is the only extant work of Quintilian, dealing not only with the theory and practice of rhetoric, but also with the foundational education and development of the orator himself. For Quintilian, the ideal orator or rhetorician was skilled in speaking and also a moral man (vir bonus dicendi peritus). The <I>Institutiones </I>can therefore be described as a treatise on education, a manual of rhetoric, a reader's guide to the best authors, and a handbook of the moral duties of the orator. Although much of what he writes is similar to Cicero, Quintilian emphasizes teaching. He was recognized by his contemporaries and exerted a strong influence possibly in the schools the Romans spread throughout the Empire. The influence continued until the fifth century. It was revived briefly in the twelfth century in France. The Humanists at the end of the fourteenth century renewed interest in Quintilian, especially after Poggio found a complete manuscript of the text in 1416 in the monastery in St. Gall. The <I>editio princeps</I> of Quintilian was edited by Ant. Campanus and printed in Rome in 1470 by Philippus de Lignamine. In the same year the second edition was printed by Schweynheym & Pannartz, edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi; both edition were based on corrupt copies of the manuscript found by Poggio. A year later Jenson printed the third edition, skilfully edited by Omnibonus Leonicensis. The present book, beautifully printed in italics, is the second edition of Quintilian by Aldus Manutius. The first edition was published in August 1514. The text is edited by Andrea Navagero (1483-1527), one of the young poets from the Paduan circle, who was working for several years on the texts of Cicero, Lucretius (1515), Virgil (1514, Terence (1517), and the notoriously difficult text of Quintilian in close collusion with Aldus himself. Working in the famous Venice printing House of Aldus, he emerged as one of the ablest Latin editors of his time and, as librarian of the Marciana in Venice, he played a great part in the re-organization of the long-neglected manuscripts.On the verso of the title-page (unlike the first edition, mentioning the full title above Aldus's printer's device; the date '1522' is probably a mistake as the colophon mentions 'January 1521' as the date of printing) , is the dedication by Aldus to the Italian editor and compiler Giambattista Ramusio (1485-1557), the author of the monumental <I>Delle navigationi e viaggi</I>, a collection of geographical accounts of explorations. After the contents of the twelve books on two leaves, the fourth leaf contains the translation into Latin of the Greeks words Quintilian had left un-translated (in the first edition this leaf is blank).
Good copy in nice binding, with the armorial book-plate of Joseph Romilly and ownership's entry on fly-leaves and title-page: 'J. Boys'.- (First four lvs. sl. soiled, binding skilfully restored, re-backed).
Renouard, p. 93, nr. 14;<I> UCLA</I> 208; Adams Q-56; <I>STC Italian</I> 546; M. Lowry, <I>The world of Aldus Manutius </I>(1979), p.204, 233.

4to. Seventeenth-century (?) red morocco with refined gilt centre-piece within double gilt ruled border with gilt corner pieces on both sides ('Style le Gascon'), gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, (later) matching red morocco spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, g.e. Aldus' famous printer's device (53 mm.) on the first and last leaves. (4), 230 lvs. (Collation *4, a-z, A-E8, F6).

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DE BRY, Theodor (1528-1598) - Jacques LE MOYNE (c.1533-1588): [Le Moyne's Florida] Der Ander Theyl der Newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae

Frankfurt: bey Johann Feyerabendt, 1591. Folio. (13 x 9 inches). Title pages to both the text and the plates with pasted on paper panels bearing the titles, the title page to the text with an additional small slip with the publishing details in German, all within an engraved surround (as issued), engraved arms on dedication leaf, final blank O6. 1 folding engraved map [Burden 79], 43 half-page engraved illustrations (42 after Le Moyne), 7 woodcut headpieces, all finely hand coloured by a contemporary hand. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century French red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet border, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt hatching, lettered in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration of small tools around a central flower-spray tool, marbled endpapers, red stained edges. A rare contemporary hand-coloured copy of the De Bry first edition in German of Le Moyne's Florida: the first eyewitness pictorial record of the region. Copies with contemporary hand-colouring are of the utmost rarity and were no doubt intended for the highest echelons of society, either as commissions or gifts. With the publication of this work, together with Hariot's Virginia, De Bry launched what would later become known as his Grand Voyages. These first two works are without question the most important of the series both in terms of their contemporary influence and their historical and ethnographic value to modern scholars and collectors. The text of this work describes the earliest French settlements of what are now portions of the United States and are here united by De Bry with engravings based on watercolours by a member of the expedition to the New World. To most of the Old World, this work presented the first accurate eyewitness depiction and account of Native Americans. In the mid-1560s two French expeditions led by Jean Ribault and Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere sought to establish a Hugenot settlement in Florida. Among those accompanying Laudonniere was Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: born in Dieppe, France in about 1533, he was appointed artist to the expedition which sailed in April 1564. Arguably the first western artist to visit the New World, Le Moyne recorded the scenery of Florida and the lives of the Timucua Indians in great detail, as well as charting the coastline of Florida and much of present-day South Carolina.. The nascent French colony was seen as a threat by the Spanish, the dominant European power in the region, and in September 1565 a force led by Pedro Menendez massacred the French colonists at Fort Caroline. Le Moyne and several others, however, made a miraculous escape. The story of their struggles was not published until 1588, when, at the instigation of Richard Hakluyt, Laudonniere's journal was published in Paris. Later that year, master engraver and publisher Theodor De Bry traveled to London, and met with Le Moyne in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain illustrations of the region to accompany a new edition of Laudonniere's journal. Following Le Moyne's death the following year, De Bry returned to London and purchased the watercolours from his widow. It was on this trip to London that De Bry met Hakluyt, who informed him of the British expeditions to Virginia, shared with him both Hariot's journal and White's watercolours from the expedition and suggested the publication of a series of illustrated voyages to America, beginning with Hariot/White and Laudonniere/Le Moyne. De Bry returned to Frankfurt and in 1590 published the former in Latin, German, French and English; the following year he published the latter in Latin and German, presumably having found that there was only a small market for the other languages. Le Moyne's extraordinary illustrations of the Florida Indians, which appear on forty-two leaves of this work in their first published form, rank with those of John White as the best visual record of Native American before the 19th century. They show all aspects of Indian life, including settlements, ceremonies, wars, agriculture, hunting, and preparation of food. They also show scenes of the French settlement and their involvement with the Indians. These images were widely copied for centuries, and many later supposedly original illustrations of American Indians are actually copies of Le Moyne's illustrations. A full list of the plates appears in Church. The map, which appeared for the first time with this text, is one of the most elaborate of the Florida peninsula to appear in the 16th century, giving the names assigned by the French and Spanish. Cumming provides an elaborate description, and John Matthew Baxter describes it as " the most remarkable and important map, which has been preserved from the sixteenth century maps, of that part of the East Coast which lies between Cape Hatteras and Cape Florida [It is] the first French map to show Florida [and is] considered the most important map of Florida." Sabin writes that according to the Russian prince Serge Sobolewski, the noted collector of De Bry whose voluminous collection was purchased by James Lenox and is now at the New York Public Library, the German editions were "made with more care and better typographical arrangement than the Latin." In addition, the German-language editions of Le Moyne are considerably more scarce than the Latin. The contemporary hand colouring of this copy is extraordinary and of the utmost rarity. Le Moyne's Florida is a monument of early Americana and among the earliest and greatest of all illustrated works depicting Native Americans in the United States. Cf. Brunet I, 1320; Burden Mapping of North America 79; Church 179; Cumming & De Vorsey 14; cf. Sabin 8784; cf. Schwartz & Ehrenberg pp.64-7

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Perrier, Jean-Louis, Yann le Pinchon, et al. Art of the 20th Century: A Year-by-year Chronicle of Painting, Architecture and Sculpture, Chene / Hachette 1999

Book Condition: Very Good. 2842772210 Ex College library with book plate, stamps, and usual imperfections. Wrapper now protected in clear acetate. A massive (1006pp) look at the artistic output of the twentieth century. Includes biographical notes of artists, glossary, detailed bibliography and various indexes. 100 chapters, one for each year of the century, double-age chronologies of each decade, a concise lexicon of the various artistic movements. With 1500 illustrations, 100 in full colour Hardback with Dust Wrapper.

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C. H. Herford (Author), Mohit K. Ray (frwd) Illustrator: NA: The Age of Wordsworth, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. 2003 ISBN: 9788126902927

New Hardcover NA Since its first publication in February 1897 HerfordaEUR s The Age of Wordsworth has remained and continues to remain a basic book on European Romanticism in general and the English Romanticism in particular. The second edition was printed in the same year a few months later, in November 1897, and the third edition (revised) was brought out in the year 1899. Since then the book has been reprinted many times, and that is a standing testimony to the immense popularity and usefulness of the book. In the Preface to the first edition Herford wrote in December 1895, about a year before the actual publication of the book: aEURoeThe task of presenting this vast and complex literature with some semblance of order and unity has been no light one.aEUR But the enormous popularity of the book for over a century is a glowing testimony to his remarkable success in performing the arduous task he had set upon himself. His analysis of Romanticism, which is the organizing conception of this book is as sharp as it is illuminating and offers a clear idea of the various phases of European Romanticism, a movement that swept over Europe from roughly the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. What deserves special mention is the fact that all along Herford assiduously maintains the distinction between literary history and biography. While the book is indispensable for any student of English literature, the students of the History of Thought and Culture Studies will also find this luminous book delightfully readable and interesting. Printed Pages: 288. 5th or later edition

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