1563 GREEK Works of Lucian of Samosata Satire Erasmus 3v Holy League Provenance

1563 GREEK Works of Lucian of Samosata Satire Erasmus 3v Holy League Provenance

Gilbert Cognatus Nozerenus, better known today as Gilbert Cousin, was a 16^th-century humanist and Greek translator. He was a student of Erasmus of Rotterdam, with whom he kept close ties throughout his career, certainly influencing Cousin’s translations and commentaries. He translated works of Plutarch, Aristotle, and Xenophon, as well as the satirical works of Lucian of Samosata.

Lucian of Samosata was a 2^nd-century Greek satirist who wrote a variety of works including comedies, dialogues, essays, and commentaries. He discusses mythological figures such as Hercules, Achilles, Zeus, Timon of Athens, Hermes, and others.

This 1563 edition of Cousin’s “Lucian” was published in Basel by Sebastian Henri Petri, bound in three original-vellum tomes.

Item number: #27457

Price: $995

BENOIST, Elie

Loykianoy Apanta = Luciani Samosatensis Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia

Basileae: per Sebastianum Henri Petri, 1563.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
  • I – [32], 903, [1]
  • III – 776
  • IV – 586, [116]
• Provenance:
  • Handwritten – Jacques Poille
    • Jacques Poille (1559-1623), was an advisor to the parliament of Paris, scholar, poet, and bibliophile. He was also a contemporary of Nicolas Rapin (1535–1608), a French Renaissance magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist, known for being one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée and an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Holy League during the Wars of Religion.
  • Stamp – De Prony
    • Possibly Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony (1755–1839), a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics.
  • Language: Greek / Latin in parallel
  • Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
  • Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (16.5cm x 11cm)

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