Continental books
Collection of editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th century
£756
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-titles, ownership inscriptions of Anthony Murray to title-page, titles include:
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Tragoediae. J. F. Gronovius recenusuit. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1661. 8vo, contemporary vellum, engraved title-page (with amended imprint ‘Amstelodami, apud Judocum Pluymer MDCLXII’ on tipped-in slip-cancel), engravings in text, contemporary annotations to endpapers and margins, frequent underlining;
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolarum libri xvi. ad familiares. Amsterdam: apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1689. Large 12mo, engraved additional title-page, front free endpaper with early ownership inscription ‘Ce livre est à Abraham Janssen’ and 11-line macaronic manuscript poem;
Aphthonius. Progymnasmata. Amsterdam: apud Joannem à Maanen, 1665. 12mo, engraved additional title-page;
Sallustius, Caius Crispus. Opera omna quae exstant. Leidein: ex officina Hackiana, 1677. 8vo, engraved additional title-page;
and 6 others similar (Ovid, Operum, Leiden: Hackiana, 1670, 3 volumes, 8vo; Terence, Comoediae sex, Leiden: Hackiana, 1669, 8vo, ownership inscription ‘Anthony Murray Lug. Bat. 1701’; Cicero, Orationum, Venice, 1672, 3 volumes, 12mo; Lucan, De Bello Civili, 2 copies, Leiden, 1669, 8vo, and Amsterdam, 1627, 12mo; Ottaviano Mirandula, Illustrium Poetarum Flores, Cologne, 1616, 16mo, these not collated) (15)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.