Heraclidae Pontici De politiis libellus cum interpretatione Latina / edente Nicolao Cragio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heraclides Lembus.

Contributor:

Krag, Niels, approximately 1550-1602.

Aristotle.

Saint-André, Pierre de, 1555-1624, printer.

Jay I. Kislak Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De politiis

Language:

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Greece--Politics and government--Early works to 1800.

Greece.

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Penn Provenance:

Kislak, Jay I. (donor)

Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617 (armorial binding) (former owner)

Barbançon, Marie de (armorial binding)

Becu, Teodoro, 1890-1946 (bookplate)

Kay, Arthur, 1861-1939 (bookplate)

Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869 (former owner)

Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince de, 1715-1787 (former owner)

Virgin, Thore, 1886-1957 (autograph)

Viroli, Giorgio di (bookplate)

Physical Description:

35 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Heraclidae Pontici De politiis libellvs cvm interpretatione Latina

De politiis libellus cum interpretatione Latina

Fingerprint:

cae- t.us s-M. **** (3) 1593 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Geneva] : Apud Petrum Santandreanum, MDXCIII [1593]

Language Note:

Greek and Latin on opposite pages.

Notes:

Extracts from the Politiae of Aristotle by Heraclides Lembus, formerly ascribed to Heraclides Ponticus.

Pierre de Saint-André was the son of Genevan printer Antoinette Commelin who may have used his name to front her own publications. Cf. H.J. Bremme, Buchdrucker und Buchhändler zur Zeit der Glaubenskämpfe (Geneva: Droz, 1969), p. 141, 225-226.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c².

Woodcut title vignette, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Kislak Collection copy bound with: Nicolaus, of Damascus. Ex Nicolai Damasceni vniuersali historia, seu, De moribus gentium libris excepta. [Geneva] : Apud Petrum Santandreanum, MDCXCIII [1593] -- Krag, Niels. Nic. Cragii Ripensis De republica Lacedaemoniorum libri IIII. [Geneva] : Apud Petrum Santandreanum, MDXCIII [1593].

Kislak Collection copy has early ms. shelf-mark ("3.C.P.T.4.B.6.") of the library of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, on front pastedown; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper.

Presented to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts by Jay I. Kislak in 2014.

Kislak Collection copy has dated 20th-century autograph ("Thore Virgin London 21.7.1956") of Thore Virgin in brown ink at head of front pastedown.

Kislak Collection copy has illustrated bookplate ("AK") of Arthur Kay with ms. identification ("Arthur Kay") in pencil in tail margin affixed to front pastedown; bookplate ("ex Libris Giorgio Di Veroli") of Giorgio di Veroli (1890-1952) affixed to front pastedown; gold-stamped red leather bookplate ("EX LIBRIS TEODORO BECU") of Teodoro Becu affixed to front pastedown.

Kislak Collection copy has modern ms. sale note ("1849. Feb. 20. M. Libris Sale at Sotheby's") recording the purchase of this copy at a sale of Guillaume Libri's books held at Sotheby's on February 19-23, 1849, in pencil at head of front free endpaper. Cf. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of the very fine, important, and valuable books, selected from the library of an eminent literary character (London: 1849), no. 1207(?).

Kislak Collection copy bound in full contemporary red morocco; boards triple-ruled in gold with gold-stamped supralibros of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) in center (containing his arms and those of his first wife, Marie de Barbançon, and their joint monogram, IAM); 5 raised, gold-ruled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels, one with title ("HERACL NICOLAI DE REP. LACED. NCRAG."), the rest with IAM monogram of de Thou and his wife; all edges gilt.

Related Work:

Aristotle. Politica. Latin & Greek.

OCLC:

15151010