POSTHIUS - EGENOLFF (ED.). GNOMIC ANTHOLOGIES... 1579.

POSTHIUS; J. - EGENOLFF, C. (ed.). Anthology of gnomics. Illustres veterum graecae comoediae scriptorum sententiae... Francofurti ad Moenum, apud Georgium Corvinum, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendij, 1579.
Small's 8th (c. 147x90 mm., binding 154x100 mm.). (8), 1-190 (1 blank, lacks last blank) ll. Fullpage armorial woodcut (mended lower outer corner), 171 (of which 158 different) fullpage woodcut illustrations by J. Amman and 2 woodcut printer's devices.
Contemporary vellum, richly gilt spine in six compartments, red edges, new last endpaper and inner doublure on lower board. Partly close cut in upper margin, some foxing and spotting.

ET AL 16, E 579.
A collection of Greek one-liners (i.e. by Menander), with Latin translations by H. Estienne, C. Egenolff and J. Posthius (and others?). Second augmented edition of the extracts by H. Stephanus (= Henry Estienne), Comicorum graecorum sententiae (Paris, 1569). Illustraciones mostra personificaciones de os sevens artes liberales (Gramática, Dialectica, Rhetoric, Música, Arithmetic, Geometría y Astronomia), la coat de armas de i.a. Johannes Posth (ius), Friedrich Albrecht von Hessenburg zu Schnolzenbach und Haiwinden and the printers Sigismund and Johannes Feyerabend and numerous empty shields surrounded by various figures.

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library, which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 16th century to the late 18th century. His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.Show more

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