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POSSEVINUS, Antonio (1533-1611). Apparatus Sacer ad Scriptores veteris, & novi Testamenti ... Qua editione Mille, & Nonagenti Auctores partim indicantur, partim expenduntur. Quam item Alter similis labor in aliis aliquot millibus Scriptoribus mox consequetur. Venice: apud Societatem Venetam, 1603-1606.
2 volumes, 2o (310 x 210 mm). Title in red and black. (Some light old dampstaining.) Contemporary limp vellum, early manuscript titling to spines (ties lacking). Provenance: Gerhard Meyer (inscription, dated 1653); Duke of Arenberg, Nordkirchen (armorial bookplates).
FIRST EDITION. A fine, unsophisticated copy of this valuable and encyclopedic work by Possevinus: an Italian Jesuit, diplomat and scholar. 'Antonio Possevinus represented the literary, scientific, and diplomatic type of Jesuit, performing important political missions, establishing schools of science and letters, and applying himself to diplomatic protocols and classical authors with equal assiduity. ... His writings include "Moscovia" (Vilna, 1586), an important authority on Russian history; "Dell sacrificia della Messa" followed by an appendix, "Riposta a P. Vireto" (Lyons, 1563); "Il soldato cristiano" (Rome, 1569); "Notae verbi Dei et Apostolicae Ecclesiae" (Posen, 1586). His most celebrated works are the "Apparatus sacer ad Scripturum veteris et Novi Test." (Venice, 1603-06), where he records and analyses more than 8,000 books dealing with sacred Scripture; and the "Bibliotheca Selecta" (Rome, 1593), treating of the method of study, teaching, and practical use of various sciences; the second part contains a critical bibliography of various sciences. (2)
2 volumes, 2
FIRST EDITION. A fine, unsophisticated copy of this valuable and encyclopedic work by Possevinus: an Italian Jesuit, diplomat and scholar. 'Antonio Possevinus represented the literary, scientific, and diplomatic type of Jesuit, performing important political missions, establishing schools of science and letters, and applying himself to diplomatic protocols and classical authors with equal assiduity. ... His writings include "Moscovia" (Vilna, 1586), an important authority on Russian history; "Dell sacrificia della Messa" followed by an appendix, "Riposta a P. Vireto" (Lyons, 1563); "Il soldato cristiano" (Rome, 1569); "Notae verbi Dei et Apostolicae Ecclesiae" (Posen, 1586). His most celebrated works are the "Apparatus sacer ad Scripturum veteris et Novi Test." (Venice, 1603-06), where he records and analyses more than 8,000 books dealing with sacred Scripture; and the "Bibliotheca Selecta" (Rome, 1593), treating of the method of study, teaching, and practical use of various sciences; the second part contains a critical bibliography of various sciences. (2)