GOLIUS, Theophilus.
Educationis puerilis linguae Graecae.Including: AESOP. Fabellae quaedam Aesopi Graecae, ad puerilem educationem selectae.
Frankfurt, [printed by Erasmus Kempfer?] for Nikolaus Stein, 1618-1619.
With: (2) [GOLIUS, Theophilus]. [Grammaticae, sive educationis puerilis linguae Graecae. ... Pars altera].
3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, the first with woodcut printers device. Contemporary vellum (made from one leaf from a 14th or 15th century moral manuscript, rubricated in red and blue), red edges. [50], [38]; 512, [32] pp.
€ 1,500
Second copy located of the 1618 edition of a selection of 36 fables by Aesop, printed in two columns: left Greek and Latin right, included as integral part of a well-known and very influential Greek grammar by the Strasbourg professor Theophilus (Gotlob) Golius (1528-1600) for use in the Strasbourg Gymnasium.
With an owners inscription from "one of the most beautiful libraries in the world": the library of the Monasterium Premostratense (the Strakov Library) in Prague: "Bibliotheca Monserratensi Pragae". Manuscript annotation on title-page: "Fabellae quaedam Aesopi Graecae, ad puerilem educationem selectae". First few pages slightly browned. Otherwise in good condition. KVK & WorldCat (1 copy of parts 1 & 2 only?); cf. Kuiper, De Hollandse "schoolordre" van 1625 (1958), pp. 122-129 and 216-217 (other eds.).
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