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JULIUS CAESAR |
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C. Julius Caesaris. Quae extant omnia Cum Animadversionibus integris dion. Vossi, J. Davisii Coll. Regin. Cantab. Socii, Aliorumque variis Notis. Ut & qui vocantur Julius Celsus de Vita et Rebus Gestis. C. Julii Caesaris, Ex Museo Joannis Georgii Graevii. |
| Description |
Engraved title, printed title in red and black; Octavo, pp. xiv, 862; Indexes (50); (separate title page to the Life of Caesar), 224; 3 folding engraved maps, engraved medallion portrait, 11 engraved plates. Contemporary full vellum; double gilt rules on upper and lower cover; gilt-stamped emblem of unicorn supporting arms incorporating hunting horn at centre of each cover; six double gilt rules on back; five gilt-stamped rosettes between each rule; title in manuscript; two holes at edges of each cover, for silk ties (missing); speckled page edges. A handsome volume. £675
Johann Georg Graevius (1632-1703). German classical scholar and critic. Destined for a career in law, but on a visit to Deventer, he met Johann Friederich Gronovius, and under his influence abandoned law for philology, and went on to study under Daniel Heinsius at Leiden. In 1656, at the request of the Elector of Brandeburg, he took the chair of rhetoric in the University of Duisberg, but two years later, on the recommendation of Gronovius, he succeeded him at Deventer, and in 1662 he moved to the University of Utrecht. He enjoyed fame amongst the Courts of Europe, being visited by Lorenzo Magalotti, was specially recognized by Louis XIV and became a particular favourite of William III of England, who made him Historiographer Royal. His editions of the classics marked a significant advance in scholarship.
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