180. TACITUS. [Opera quae exstant. I. Lipsius quartum recens - Lot 180

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180. TACITUS. [Opera quae exstant. I. Lipsius quartum recens - Lot 180
180. TACITUS. [Opera quae exstant. I. Lipsius quartum recensuit. Idemque Notas ad oram addidit, rerum indices. Antwerp (Leiden), C. Plantin (Fr. Raphelengius), 1588 (Bound with:) Iusti Lipsi Ad C. Cornelium Tacitum curae secundae. Leiden, C. Plantin (F. Raphelengius), 1588. In-8, [7] f., 718 p., [1] f.v., [11] f. (index), [8] f., 160 p. Bound in the 17th century, brown calf binding, spine decorated with a fleur-de-lis pattern, lace on the boards framing a fleur-de-lis pattern. Arms in the center of the boards. A copy that lacks the title page for the first work but well conforms to the collation of Adams and de Voet for the edition of Christophe Plantin (1520-1589). The collection contains: Annales (pp. 1-398), Historiae (pp. 399-628), Germania (pp. 629-652), Agricola (pp. 653-681), Dialogus Quinctiliani (pp. 682-718). This is the fourth edition given by the philologist and humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), the first to have made a critical work on the works of Tacitus. This first edition does not contain the commentaries of Lipsius as such, but, as Voet notes, with many more marginal notes than in the previous editions of 1581 and 1585. J. Ruysschaert tells us that this edition was already in circulation at the end of 1587 (Juste Lipse et les Annales de Tacite, p. 13). The second work bound afterwards is the rare first and only separate edition of the critical notes of Justus Lipsius. The manuscript was sent to the printer around April 1588 and printed in June. It was on sale at the September Fair in Frankfurt that year (cf. J. Ruysschaert, Justus Lipsius and the Annals of Tacitus, p. 13). Part of the edition had already reached Plantin in Antwerp in July 1588, for he was able to send a copy to N. Oudartius on the 14th of that month. A part of the material used for these Curae secundae was sent to Lipsius by two young French scholars, Josias Mercier and Jérôme Groslot. The copy is in a remarkable binding with the arms of Thomas II de Morand (1584-1651), baron of Mesnil-Garnier, lord of Eterville, Courseulles and Soulles, treasurer of Spain, commander and grand treasurer of the King's orders, and Conseiller d'Etat (OHR, 2134-2). Provenance: Alexandre Lesdos (1813-1865) merchant in Cherbourg, local historian and member of several learned societies, attested by his wet stamp in the lower margin of the first leaf. He died in Bordeaux. Binding rebacked, a little rubbed and stained, corners rubbed or dulled, 3 slight leather chips, 4 stains on the lower spine, start of spine split over 2 cm on the upper spine, modern white endpapers added, many passages formerly underlined, upper margin sometimes a little short and biting on the running title, other minor defects. (Adams, II, 252-34; Voet, 2280 & 1564).
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