Published in 2vols.
Searched Sep-09-2005
Opera
Caesar
Bookseller: Ximenes Rare Books Inc., ABAA, ABA, ILAB
(Kempsford, Gloucestershire, , United Kingdom)
Book Price: US$ 1418.46
Description: Caii Julii Cæsaris opera omnia. London: sumtibus [sic] editoris excudebant M. Ritchie & J. Sammells; veneunt apud T. Payne, 1790. (2)422; (2)441(1) pp. + an engraved portrait and two double-page engraved maps in Vol. I. Two vols., large 8vo, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt, spines gilt, gilt Greek-key turn-ins, a.e.g. (a trifle rubbed).First edition as edited by Henry Homer; a large-paper copy in a handsome binding of the period. Henry Homer was a talented classicist who studied wth Samuel Parr at Cambridge; this edition of Caesar's work was published a year before his death at the age of 38. "This edition, which is very beautifully printed, and of which there are some sumptuous copies on large paper, is deserving of a place in the student's library, from its extreme correctness." -- Dibdin I, 364. With the early armorial bookplates of John Keate, who in 1809 became one of the most celebrated headmasters of Eton; an inscription here in Keate's hand indicates that this set was presented to him in 1792, when he was 19 and studying at Cambridge ("E dono -- children"). In excellent condition, complete with a portrait and two double-page maps. An uncommon book in any form, and rare on large paper.
Publisher: London 1790.
Binding: Hardcover
Library reference: CtY searched Sep-10-2005
Author: Caesar, Julius.
Uniform title: [Commentarii. 1790]
Title: Caii Julii Caesaris Opera omnia.
Published: Londini : Sumtibus editoris excudebant M. Ritchie & J. Sammells : Veneunt apud T. Payne, 1790.
Description: 2 v. : ill., maps, port. ; 24 cm. (8vo)
Location: LSF-Request for Use at Beinecke Rare Book Library
Call Number: Gnc20 A790H
Status: Not Checked Out
Library has: 1-2
Notes: Edited by Henry Homer.
Includes the supplementary commentaries ascribed to Hirtius and others.
"Nomenclator geographicus ... excerptus ... potissimum e Thesauro geographico Abrahami Ortelii": v. 1, p. [335]-350.
"Josephi Justi Scaligeri ... Notitia Galliae": v. 1, p. 351-371.
"Nomina populorum, oppidorum, fluviorum, &c. quae apud Caesarem reperiuntur, a S. Clarkio ordine alphabetico digesta": v. 1, p. [376]-385.
"Dissertatio Henrici Dodwelli de lib. oct. B. Gall. & Alex. Afric. atque Hisp. auctore": v. 1, p. [416]-422.
Colophon of v. 2: Typis Jacksonianis.
Vol. 1 has three folded leaves of plates, v. 2 one.
Subjects (Library of Congress): Gaul--History--58 B.C.-511 A.D.
Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
Also listed under: Homer, Henry, 1753-1791.
Hirtius, Aulus.
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Synonymia geographica.
Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609. Notitia Galliae.
Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729.
Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711. Dissertatio de auctore libri octavi de bello Gallico.