![[CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY] – TERENTIUS AFER, P. Comoediae Sex, Ad fidem duodecim amplius Msstorum Codicum, et pluscularum optimae notae Editionum recensitae, et Commentario Perpetuo illustratae [..]. [Edited by A.H. Westerhovius]. [Vol. I-II].](https://gcp-la8-storage-cdn.lot-art.com/public/upl/15/CLASSICAL-ANTIQUITY-TERENTIUS-AFER-P-Comoediae-Sex-Ad-fidem-duodecim-amplius-Msstorum-Codicum-et-pluscularum-optimae-notae-Ed_6410948bccfe8-full-38503100_1678808204.jpg "[CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY] – TERENTIUS AFER, P. Comoediae Sex, Ad fidem duodecim amplius Msstorum Codicum, et pluscularum optimae notae Editionum recensitae, et Commentario Perpetuo illustratae [..]. [Edited by A.H. Westerhovius]. [Vol. I-II].")
[CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY] – TERENTIUS AFER, P. Comoediae Sex, Ad fidem duodecim amplius Msstorum Codicum, et pluscularum optimae notae Editionum recensitae, et Commentario Perpetuo illustratae [..]. [Edited by A.H. Westerhovius]. [Vol. I-II].
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Hagae-Comitum[=The Hague], Apud Petrum Gosse [..], 1726. 2 Vols.: [10],LXXXIX,[5],859,[1 blank] and [2],[861]-1240,244,[379 index] pp. With 2 ident. engraved frontispieces by P. van Cuyck & 1 engraved portrait (of Terence). Large 4to (ca. 24 x 18,5 cm.), early 18th-cent. unif. overlapping vellum.
Footnote
¶ Dibdin II, p. 475 (“This is a sumptuous and valuable edition”). Schweiger II, p. 1068. Moss II, pp. 673-674 (“A very splendid and valuable edition, containing the Commentaries of Donatus, Eugraphius, and Calphurnius, with the Variorum Notes and some of the editor’s own”). Brunet V, 717 (“Édition fort recherchée à cause des commentaires et du bon index”). Complete set of a rare early 18th-cent. scholarly edition of the Latin comedies by the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer (ca. 195-ca. 159 BC) edited by the German-Dutch classical scholar Arnold Heinrich Westerhoff (ca. 1677-ca. 1737) comprising i.a. notes by the German philologist Friedrich Lindenbrog (1573-1648) & extensive indices (incl. concordance). Vol. I contains a bibliography of printed editions of Terence’s plays (published between 1469 and 1724). ¶ Both vols. with an early 19th-cent. Danish letterpress book-plate (“Skjenket til Fyens Stiftsbibliothek af Biskop Dr. Fr. Plum. 1834”) mounted on upper paste-down. A few minor imperfections (bindings sl. stained/ soiled, both titles with removed library-stamps (repaired with paper), both vols. sl. marg. waterstained, occ. sl. foxed/ browned), but nevertheless an acceptable set.
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Hagae-Comitum[=The Hague], Apud Petrum Gosse [..], 1726. 2 Vols.: [10],LXXXIX,[5],859,[1 blank] and [2],[861]-1240,244,[379 index] pp. With 2 ident. engraved frontispieces by P. van Cuyck & 1 engraved portrait (of Terence). Large 4to (ca. 24 x 18,5 cm.), early 18th-cent. unif. overlapping vellum.
Footnote
¶ Dibdin II, p. 475 (“This is a sumptuous and valuable edition”). Schweiger II, p. 1068. Moss II, pp. 673-674 (“A very splendid and valuable edition, containing the Commentaries of Donatus, Eugraphius, and Calphurnius, with the Variorum Notes and some of the editor’s own”). Brunet V, 717 (“Édition fort recherchée à cause des commentaires et du bon index”). Complete set of a rare early 18th-cent. scholarly edition of the Latin comedies by the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer (ca. 195-ca. 159 BC) edited by the German-Dutch classical scholar Arnold Heinrich Westerhoff (ca. 1677-ca. 1737) comprising i.a. notes by the German philologist Friedrich Lindenbrog (1573-1648) & extensive indices (incl. concordance). Vol. I contains a bibliography of printed editions of Terence’s plays (published between 1469 and 1724). ¶ Both vols. with an early 19th-cent. Danish letterpress book-plate (“Skjenket til Fyens Stiftsbibliothek af Biskop Dr. Fr. Plum. 1834”) mounted on upper paste-down. A few minor imperfections (bindings sl. stained/ soiled, both titles with removed library-stamps (repaired with paper), both vols. sl. marg. waterstained, occ. sl. foxed/ browned), but nevertheless an acceptable set.
