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LIPSIUS, Justus (1547-1606) - A FINE COLLECTION OF HIS WORKS comprising:
Volume I
Dissertatiuncula apud principes: item C. Plini Panegyricus. Liber traiano dictus, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1604. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, with the final blank (title spotted, lightly browned) [bound with:]
Monita et exempla politica libri duo, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1605. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end (lightly browned).
Volume II
Epistolarum selectarum centuria prima [- tertia] ad Belgas, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1605. 3 parts, engraved device on title of part I and II, part III without title (lightly browned) [bound with:]
Epistolarum selectarum centuria singularis. Ad Italos & Hispanos, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1613. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, with final blank (lightly browned) [and:]
Epistolarum selectarum centuria singularis. Ad Germanos & Gallos, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1605. Engraved device on title (lightly browned and a few small wormholes).
Volume III
Epistolarum selectarum centuria prima [- V] miscellanea, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1605-1614-1611. 5 parts, engraved device in part I and II, woodcut device at end of part II, woodcut device on titles of parts III-V, woodcut device at end of part V (lightly browned) [bound with:]
Epistolica institutio excepta è dictantis eius ore, edition ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1614. Woodcut device on title (lightly browned).
Volume IV
Opera critica quae ad criticam proprie spectant, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1609. Engraved device on title and woodcut device at end (some wormholes throughout, some affecting a few letters of text, lightly browned).
Volume V
Sapientiae et litterarum antistitis fama posthuma. Editio secunda, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1613. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, engraved portrait of Lipsius by and after Theodorus Galleus (paper slip pasted over inscription on head of title, some light browning) [bound with:]
PUTEANUS, Erycius. Lipsiomnema anniversarum, sive Iusti Lipsi V. C. laudatio funebris, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1607. Woodcut device on title and at end (lightly spotted) [and:]
LIPSIUS, Justus. Inferiae Iosepho Scaligero vindiciae a Leydensibus academicis datae, [no place, no date]. Sectional title (a few light spots) [and:]
Musae errantes edidit Franciscus Sweertius, Antwerp: Ioannes Keerbergius, 1610. Engraved vignette on title (small wormhole throughout, some spotting and browning). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1629, L164.
Volume VI
Monita et exempla politica libri duo, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1613. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end (paper slip pasted over inscription on upper margin of title, first 2 lines of title cleanly torn, upper corner at beginning lightly waterstained, lightly browned and occasionally stronger spotting) [bound with:]
Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae libri sex, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. Engraved device on title (lightly browned) [and:]
Ad libros politicorum notae, et de una religione liber, [pt. II]: De una religione, adversus dialogistam liber, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. 2 parts, woodcut device on each title (lightly browned) [and:]
De Constantia libri duo, ultima editio, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1615. Woodcut device (lightly browned) BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L143.
Volume VII
De militia Romana libri quinque, editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1614. Engraved vignette on title, one folding engraved plate, 5 full-page illustrations (including one table), 3 engraved illustrations, woodcut illustrations (lightly browned). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L144; Cockle 620 [bound with:]
Analecta sive observationes reliquae ad militiam et hosce libros, [no place, no date]. Section title, pp. 370-[403], 5 engraved illustrations, woodcut illustrations (lightly browned) [and:]
Poliocreticon sive de machinis tormentis. Telis. Libri quinque, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1605. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, 37 engraved illustrations, 26 full-page and 11 half-page, with final blank. cf. Cockle 672 [and:]
De amphiteatro liber, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1598. 2 parts, engraved vignette on title woodcut device on title of pt. II and at end, 2 folding plates and 6 illustrations, 5 full-page (lightly browned) Adams L769 [and:]
Saturnalium sermonum libri duo editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1604. Engraved device on title, 4 folding engraved plates, 8 illustrations, 4 full-page, 4 half-page (lightly browned, a few small wormholes) BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L168.
Volume VIII
Diva virgo hallensis, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1616. Engraved vignette, woodcut device at end, 2 engraved plates (some worming affecting a few letters, lightly browned) [bound with:]
Diva sichemiensis sive aspricollis: nova eius beneficia & admiranda, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1606. Engraved vignette on title, woodcut device at end (gathering C quite browned, some worming affecting a few letters, lightly browned and spotted) [and:]
De cruce libri tres editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1606. Engraved device and woodcut device at end, 18 engraved illustrations, of which 2 are full-page, a few woodcut illustrations (some worming affecting a few lines of text, lightly browned) [and:]
Lovanium: id est, opidi et academiae eius descriptio libri tres, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. Engraved device on title and woodcut device at end, 2 folding engraved plates, one full-page illustration (one folding plate with long but clean tear, a few wormholes, browned).
Volume IX
Admirianda, sive de magnitudine Romana libri quattuor. Editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1617. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end (some browning). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L137 [bound with:]
Dissertatiuncula apud principes: item C. Plini Panegyricus liber traiano dictus editio secunda, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1614. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, with the final blank (lightly browned) [and:]
De vesta et vestalibus syntagma, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1603. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end. BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L146 [and:]
De bibliothecis syntagma, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1602. Engraved vignette on title (upper margin of A3-4 repaired). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L140 [and:]
Leges regiae et leges X. virales edition ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1601. Woodcut device on title (lightly browned) [and:]
Physiologiae stoicorum libri tres ... edition secunda, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, with the final blank (lightly browned) [and:]
Manductionis ad stoicam philosophiam libri tres, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. Engraved vignette on title (worming in upper margin at end, lightly browned) [and:]
De recta pronunciatione latinae linguae dialogus. Editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1609. Engraved device on title, woodcut vignette at end (wormtrack in upper margin, occasionally just affecting shoulder notes, some browning). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L145 [and:]
Dispunctio notarum mirandulani codicis, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1602. Woodcut device on title (small wormhole in upper margin, light stains on final leaf of text, lightly browned) BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L148.
Together 34 works in 9 volumes, 4° (vol. I: 255 x 177mm., vols. II-IX approx.: 251 x 172mm.), uniformly-bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, except volume I in limp vellum, covers of volumes II-IX lavishly stamped in blind, raised bands, paper labels on spines, spines numbered in manuscript (adhesive marks on tail of spines, vols. II, VII, and VIII lightly wormed). Provenance: "Bibliotheca Weisenauensis" (scored old manuscript inscription on first title); "Monasterii SS Petri et Pauli in Augia Minore" (scored old manuscript inscriptions); "Bibliothek SJ - Zürich" (library stamps); "Archivum V.-Prov. Helveticae" (library stamps); armorial bookplate with initials "B A Z W".
A comprehensive collection of Lipsius's work ranging from treatises on politics and ethics (De constantia, first published in 1584), on the army (De militia romana, first published in 1595), on the defence and attack of fortified towns (Poliocreticon, first published in 1596), a statistical work on the Roman Empire (Admiranda, first published in 1598) to an explanation and general outline of Stoic philosophy (Manductionis ad stoicam philosophiam libri III, first published in 1604) and an analysis of the theology, physics and cosmology of the Stoics (Pysiologiae stoicorum libri III, first published in 1604). Paul Lejay describes the last two works as "even to-day the most complete treatise ever written on Stoicism as a whole" (Catholic Encyclopedia). (9)
Volume I
Dissertatiuncula apud principes: item C. Plini Panegyricus. Liber traiano dictus, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1604. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, with the final blank (title spotted, lightly browned) [bound with:]
Monita et exempla politica libri duo, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1605. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end (lightly browned).
Volume II
Epistolarum selectarum centuria prima [- tertia] ad Belgas, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1605. 3 parts, engraved device on title of part I and II, part III without title (lightly browned) [bound with:]
Epistolarum selectarum centuria singularis. Ad Italos & Hispanos, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1613. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, with final blank (lightly browned) [and:]
Epistolarum selectarum centuria singularis. Ad Germanos & Gallos, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1605. Engraved device on title (lightly browned and a few small wormholes).
Volume III
Epistolarum selectarum centuria prima [- V] miscellanea, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1605-1614-1611. 5 parts, engraved device in part I and II, woodcut device at end of part II, woodcut device on titles of parts III-V, woodcut device at end of part V (lightly browned) [bound with:]
Epistolica institutio excepta è dictantis eius ore, edition ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1614. Woodcut device on title (lightly browned).
Volume IV
Opera critica quae ad criticam proprie spectant, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1609. Engraved device on title and woodcut device at end (some wormholes throughout, some affecting a few letters of text, lightly browned).
Volume V
Sapientiae et litterarum antistitis fama posthuma. Editio secunda, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1613. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, engraved portrait of Lipsius by and after Theodorus Galleus (paper slip pasted over inscription on head of title, some light browning) [bound with:]
PUTEANUS, Erycius. Lipsiomnema anniversarum, sive Iusti Lipsi V. C. laudatio funebris, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1607. Woodcut device on title and at end (lightly spotted) [and:]
LIPSIUS, Justus. Inferiae Iosepho Scaligero vindiciae a Leydensibus academicis datae, [no place, no date]. Sectional title (a few light spots) [and:]
Musae errantes edidit Franciscus Sweertius, Antwerp: Ioannes Keerbergius, 1610. Engraved vignette on title (small wormhole throughout, some spotting and browning). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1629, L164.
Volume VI
Monita et exempla politica libri duo, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1613. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end (paper slip pasted over inscription on upper margin of title, first 2 lines of title cleanly torn, upper corner at beginning lightly waterstained, lightly browned and occasionally stronger spotting) [bound with:]
Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae libri sex, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. Engraved device on title (lightly browned) [and:]
Ad libros politicorum notae, et de una religione liber, [pt. II]: De una religione, adversus dialogistam liber, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. 2 parts, woodcut device on each title (lightly browned) [and:]
De Constantia libri duo, ultima editio, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1615. Woodcut device (lightly browned) BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L143.
Volume VII
De militia Romana libri quinque, editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1614. Engraved vignette on title, one folding engraved plate, 5 full-page illustrations (including one table), 3 engraved illustrations, woodcut illustrations (lightly browned). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L144; Cockle 620 [bound with:]
Analecta sive observationes reliquae ad militiam et hosce libros, [no place, no date]. Section title, pp. 370-[403], 5 engraved illustrations, woodcut illustrations (lightly browned) [and:]
Poliocreticon sive de machinis tormentis. Telis. Libri quinque, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1605. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, 37 engraved illustrations, 26 full-page and 11 half-page, with final blank. cf. Cockle 672 [and:]
De amphiteatro liber, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1598. 2 parts, engraved vignette on title woodcut device on title of pt. II and at end, 2 folding plates and 6 illustrations, 5 full-page (lightly browned) Adams L769 [and:]
Saturnalium sermonum libri duo editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1604. Engraved device on title, 4 folding engraved plates, 8 illustrations, 4 full-page, 4 half-page (lightly browned, a few small wormholes) BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L168.
Volume VIII
Diva virgo hallensis, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1616. Engraved vignette, woodcut device at end, 2 engraved plates (some worming affecting a few letters, lightly browned) [bound with:]
Diva sichemiensis sive aspricollis: nova eius beneficia & admiranda, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1606. Engraved vignette on title, woodcut device at end (gathering C quite browned, some worming affecting a few letters, lightly browned and spotted) [and:]
De cruce libri tres editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1606. Engraved device and woodcut device at end, 18 engraved illustrations, of which 2 are full-page, a few woodcut illustrations (some worming affecting a few lines of text, lightly browned) [and:]
Lovanium: id est, opidi et academiae eius descriptio libri tres, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. Engraved device on title and woodcut device at end, 2 folding engraved plates, one full-page illustration (one folding plate with long but clean tear, a few wormholes, browned).
Volume IX
Admirianda, sive de magnitudine Romana libri quattuor. Editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1617. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end (some browning). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L137 [bound with:]
Dissertatiuncula apud principes: item C. Plini Panegyricus liber traiano dictus editio secunda, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1614. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, with the final blank (lightly browned) [and:]
De vesta et vestalibus syntagma, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1603. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end. BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L146 [and:]
De bibliothecis syntagma, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1602. Engraved vignette on title (upper margin of A3-4 repaired). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L140 [and:]
Leges regiae et leges X. virales edition ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1601. Woodcut device on title (lightly browned) [and:]
Physiologiae stoicorum libri tres ... edition secunda, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. Engraved device on title, woodcut device at end, with the final blank (lightly browned) [and:]
Manductionis ad stoicam philosophiam libri tres, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610. Engraved vignette on title (worming in upper margin at end, lightly browned) [and:]
De recta pronunciatione latinae linguae dialogus. Editio ultima, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1609. Engraved device on title, woodcut vignette at end (wormtrack in upper margin, occasionally just affecting shoulder notes, some browning). BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L145 [and:]
Dispunctio notarum mirandulani codicis, Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, 1602. Woodcut device on title (small wormhole in upper margin, light stains on final leaf of text, lightly browned) BM STC Low Countries 1601-1621, L148.
Together 34 works in 9 volumes, 4° (vol. I: 255 x 177mm., vols. II-IX approx.: 251 x 172mm.), uniformly-bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, except volume I in limp vellum, covers of volumes II-IX lavishly stamped in blind, raised bands, paper labels on spines, spines numbered in manuscript (adhesive marks on tail of spines, vols. II, VII, and VIII lightly wormed). Provenance: "Bibliotheca Weisenauensis" (scored old manuscript inscription on first title); "Monasterii SS Petri et Pauli in Augia Minore" (scored old manuscript inscriptions); "Bibliothek SJ - Zürich" (library stamps); "Archivum V.-Prov. Helveticae" (library stamps); armorial bookplate with initials "B A Z W".
A comprehensive collection of Lipsius's work ranging from treatises on politics and ethics (De constantia, first published in 1584), on the army (De militia romana, first published in 1595), on the defence and attack of fortified towns (Poliocreticon, first published in 1596), a statistical work on the Roman Empire (Admiranda, first published in 1598) to an explanation and general outline of Stoic philosophy (Manductionis ad stoicam philosophiam libri III, first published in 1604) and an analysis of the theology, physics and cosmology of the Stoics (Pysiologiae stoicorum libri III, first published in 1604). Paul Lejay describes the last two works as "even to-day the most complete treatise ever written on Stoicism as a whole" (Catholic Encyclopedia). (9)
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