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Opera. Accedunt notae integrae Isacii Pontani, Joh. Meursii, Jacobi Gronovii.
Leyde Arnoldi Doude et Cornelii Driehuysen 1670 1 vol. Relié in-8, basane fauve mouchetée, dos à nerfs, caissons dorés, tranches mouchetées, 16 ff. n. ch. + 704 pp. + 34 ff. n. ch. Edition rare qui réunit les deux principaux traités de l'auteur : Le Songe de Scipion et les Saturnales. avec un beau titre gravé, quelques figures in texte et de nombreuses citations en grec. Un coin légèrement émoussé, sinon exemplaire très bien conservé en reliure d'époque.
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Opera. Accedunt integrae Isacii Pontani, Joh. Meursii, Jacobi Gronovii Notae & Animadversiones. Editio novissima cum Indice Rerum & Vocum locupletissimo
London, C. Drin (et) C. Harper, 1694. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, gilt spine (faint). Light wear to top of spine. Spine a bit rubbed.Engraved frontispiece. (28),491,(38) pp., a few textillustrations.
Macrobius was one of the leading popularizers of science in the Latin West, and his conception of the world geography as an equatorial and meridional ocean (depicted in the book) dividing the earth into four quarters, dominated scientific thinking on world geography in the Middle Ages. - His ""Saturnalia"" deals with Roman feasts in form of table-talk at a banquet in Rome, giving information of food and drink and their preparation.and is fascinatingly rich in philological, historical, antiquarian and scientific lore, throwing a clear light on the interests and taste of the period.
