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the Emperor. Crocus (1500 ?-1550), rector of the Amsterdam Gymnasium, is one of the first
and most important Neo-Latin poets and humanists of the Northern Netherlands. Erasmus
praised his brilliant and pure Latin. Mark of Steelsius on the back of last leaf. # Nijhoff &
Kronenberg (omitting our copy); # USTC 403965; # Pettegree & Walsby 9134; # not in
Soltész, Adams, Machiels (other ed.).
(4).
PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius
.- Aulularia Plautina, comoediarum lepidissima [...]. Apud
Michaëlem Hillenium, 1531, xliii-[1] lvs (tear in lf. XVIII without lack).
Extremely rare
edition
(1
st
Antwerp ed. : 1514) given by Martinus Dorpius of Plautus' best-known play. The
5
th
act was completed by the Italian humanist Urco Codro. Title in an ornemental border
with the mark of Hillen van Hoochstraten in the lower part; text decorated with some dotted
initials. # Nijhoff & Kronenberg 3740 (mentions only our copy); # USTC 441716 (no known
surviving copy); # not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész.
(5).
LUCIANUS Samosatensis
.- Dialogi
aliquot, per D. Erasmum versi, ac à Nicolo
Buscoducensi, succinctis pariter & eruditis
scholiis explanati, recens per eundem
diligenter recogniti [...]. (Apud Michaelem
Hillenium, 1533. Mense augusto). 27 [i.e.
26]-[2] lvs.
Rare edition of the translatin
by Erasmus
edited with additions of Nicolas
Van Broeckhoven of the satirical dialogues of
Lucianus. Erasmus worked on the translation
of the dialogues with Thomas More in the
first years of the 16
th
century. The first edition
of the translation was published in 1506,
the Erasmus' in 1517. Text decorated with
a few ornemental initials; printer's mark on
the back of last leaf. # Nijhoff & Kronenberg
3745; # USCT 419293; # Adams L-1628;
# Bibliotheca Erasmiana 475; # Pettegree
& Walsby 19707; # not in Soltész nor in
Machiels.
(6).
SCHOTTENIUS, Hermann
.- Vita
honesta, sive Virtutis : quomodo quisque
vivere debeat, omni aetate, omni tempore, &
quolibet loco, erga deum & homines. Cui novissime adiecimus instutionem christiani homini,
per Adrianum Barlandum aphorismis digestam [...]. Ex officina Joannis Steelsii (typis Joan.
Graphei), 1538, [48] lvs.
Rare second edition
edited by Adrianus Barlandus, professor of
philosophy and eloquence at Leuven, of this edifying moralistic work on the way a Christian
has to live his life and raise his children. We don't know much about Schottenius except he
was from Hessen and that he was in c. 1527 a schoolmaster in Köln and wrote some Latin
school plays. Text decorated with one dotted initial. # Nijhoff & Kronenberg 1878 (omitting
our copy); # not in USTC, Soltész, Adams, Machiels.
(7).
ERASMUS, Desiderius
.- De civilitate morum puerilium, ab auctore recognitus, et novis
scholiis illustratus per Gilbertu[m] Longolium [...]. Apud Guillielmum Vorstermannum, 1533,
[26] lvs (marginalia, foxing at the end). 4
th
Antwerp edition by Gisbertus Longolius of this
famous edifying text. Title in an ornemental frame; some ornemental initials. # Nijhoff &
Kronenberg 2863 (mentions only our copy); # USTC 437645 (no known surviving copy;
private collations); # Bibl. Erasmiana I-29; # Pettegree & Walsby 11490; # not in Soltész,
Adams, Machiels.
▲ Provenance : Philippe Amand (16
th
cent. ms. mention); André Charlart (?) (17
th
cent.
(?) ms. mention); George Dunn (1865-1912), famous English collector whose library was
auctioned in London in 1914-1917 by Sotheby's (ex libris); Eugène von Wassermann (ms.
mention; n° 992 of his sale, Brussels, 1921); Charles Van der Elst (ex libris, copy sold in