Lot 82
Xenophon
Ta euriskomena
The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician
Auction: 23 October 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
[graece]. Quae exstant opera … Graece multo quam ante castigatius edita … Latine tertia nunc cura ita elucubrata … opera Joannis Leunclavii. Frankfurt: apud Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium, et Joan. Aubrium, 1596. 2 volumes in 1, folio (34.9 x 21.8cm), late 17th- or early 18th-century calf, gilt spine, gilt stamp on boards showing the arms of François Lefebure de Caumartin (1668-1733), Bishop of Blois, with his bookplate to front pastedown, printer's woodcut device to title-page and verso of final blank (4E6), Greek and Latin text in parallel columns, shallow loss to head and foot of spine, boards and joints a little rubbed with two small areas of skinning to front board [Adams X15; USTC 707510]
Provenance
François Lefebure de Caumartin (1668-1733), Bishop of Blois.
Footnote
Caumartin was a scholar of Jansenist leanings and passionate about books. Although he himself produced nothing, he left behind a library containing nearly 10,000 manuscripts and printed works. His library was sold in Paris in 1735, with a published catalogue entitled Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de feu Monseigneur Jean-François-Paul le Febvre de Caumartin, Evêque de Blois, &c.: dont la vente se fera en détail, le lundy 10 janvier 1735 & jours suivans, depuis deux heures de relevée jusqu'au soir, au Couvent des Grands Augustins (Paris, 1734).