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Auction archive: Lot number 197

Dionysii Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Jesu de Doctrina Temporum

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US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 197

Dionysii Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Jesu de Doctrina Temporum

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Dionysii Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Jesu de Doctrina Temporum Author: Petau, Denis and Jean Hardouin Place: Venice Publisher: B. Baronchelli Date: 1757 Description: 3 volumes. [ii], v-xlviii, 567, [7]; [ii], iii-viii, 362, [2]; [ii], iii-xii, 536 pp. Illustrated with title page engravings, and Vol. 3 with engraved portrait frontispiece. (Folio) 38x24 cm (15x10"), bound in later tan cloth, morocco spine labels with gilt lettering. Pétau was born at Orléans, and was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned age. Carrying on and improving the chronological labors of Joseph Justus Scaliger, he published in 1627 an Opus de doctrina temporum, which has been often reprinted. An abridgment of this work, Rationarium temporum, was translated into French and English, and has been brought down to the year 1849. Among his previous writings, Pétau had inserted some masterly dissertations on chronology; in 1627 he brought out his De doctrina temporum, and later theTabulae chronologicae This is the last combined edition of Petavius' chronological opus. this set from the Mt. St. Alphonsus Seminary Library of Esopus, New York. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear and soiling to bindings with rubbing to extremities, darkening to spines and wear to leather, library labels at heels of spines, some corner bumps; front endpapers of vols. 2 and 3 partially detached, vol. 1 possibly lacking a preliminary leaf, library pockets with cards affixed to rear endpapers, some library stamps to title pages, occasional dampstaining and darkening to textblock, interiors solid; very good. Item number: 279055

Auction archive: Lot number 197
Auction:
Datum:
17 Nov 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Dionysii Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Jesu de Doctrina Temporum Author: Petau, Denis and Jean Hardouin Place: Venice Publisher: B. Baronchelli Date: 1757 Description: 3 volumes. [ii], v-xlviii, 567, [7]; [ii], iii-viii, 362, [2]; [ii], iii-xii, 536 pp. Illustrated with title page engravings, and Vol. 3 with engraved portrait frontispiece. (Folio) 38x24 cm (15x10"), bound in later tan cloth, morocco spine labels with gilt lettering. Pétau was born at Orléans, and was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned age. Carrying on and improving the chronological labors of Joseph Justus Scaliger, he published in 1627 an Opus de doctrina temporum, which has been often reprinted. An abridgment of this work, Rationarium temporum, was translated into French and English, and has been brought down to the year 1849. Among his previous writings, Pétau had inserted some masterly dissertations on chronology; in 1627 he brought out his De doctrina temporum, and later theTabulae chronologicae This is the last combined edition of Petavius' chronological opus. this set from the Mt. St. Alphonsus Seminary Library of Esopus, New York. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear and soiling to bindings with rubbing to extremities, darkening to spines and wear to leather, library labels at heels of spines, some corner bumps; front endpapers of vols. 2 and 3 partially detached, vol. 1 possibly lacking a preliminary leaf, library pockets with cards affixed to rear endpapers, some library stamps to title pages, occasional dampstaining and darkening to textblock, interiors solid; very good. Item number: 279055

Auction archive: Lot number 197
Auction:
Datum:
17 Nov 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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