VIBIUS SEQUESTER. - Lot 66

VIBIUS SEQUESTER. De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, paludibus, montibus, gentibus ; quorum apud poëtas mentio fit. Roterodami [Rotterdam]: Arnold Willis, 1711. - Small in-8, 159 x 96 : (30 ff.), 295 pp. Long-grained dark blue morocco, gilt fillets and gilt roulette on the boards, small gilt fleuron on the corners, richly decorated spine, gilt roulette on the inside, beige silk lining with gilt roulette, beige silk endpapers, followed by two laid paper endpapers and one in parchment, gilt edges (early 19th century binding). Esteemed and rare edition of this work by the 4th or 5th century Latin compiler Vibius Sequester, published and annotated by the philologist Franciscus Hesselius (1680-1746). It is a list of geographical names taken from the works of Latin poets, including Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Horace. These names are divided into seven categories: Flumina (rivers) - Fontes (springs) - Lacus (lakes) - Nemora (forests) - Paludes (swamps) - Montes (mountains) - Gentes (peoples). A very nice copy in morocco from the very beginning of the 19th century in the taste of Bozérian or Lefebvre. This binding was made for the bookseller and bibliophile Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), one of whose characteristics is to have two parchment endpapers. It was later owned by the English bibliophile Charles Butler (1821-1910) of Warren Wood, Hattfield. Slight rubbing from use at the headpieces and corners. Old annotations on pages 14 and 15. Provenance: Antoine-Augustin Renouard (Catalogue de la bibliothèque d'un amateur, 1819, IV, p. 10). - Charles Butler, with ex-libris.