Laertius Diogenis (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good+ to Near Fine in paperback with French flaps, pages show some darkening with age, parallel text, Ancient Greek on left, Modern Greek on right, we ship in boxes, not bags, LOC1.

Paris Firmin Didot et Sochs 1929, grand In-8 relié demi percaline verte à coins. 319 pages. Texte grec et latin. Bon état.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Lives & thought of the Ancient Greek philosophers, as expressed by Diogenes, for serious schoalars: in the original Greek, untranslated, with scholarly commentary in Latin. Two volume set, complete; in jackets, as pictured. Light wear to books, ink name & date in each volume, light foxing/spotting to top edges; jacketsshow light wear, some scuffing & tanning to the spines, second volume price-clipped. Text clean; xx, 246; xiv, [2], 247 to 597 pages; indexes. In untranslated Greek & Latin. Size: Duodecimo. Set.…

Hardcover. Quarto, two volumes. Bound in full tree calf, with gilt ornamentation to spine and edges. Paneled spine with labels and gilt lettering, with cracks and chipping. Spine leather has been archivally reattached to textblock. Boards have significant rubbing wear to extremities, and light bumping to corners, in some cases exposing the boards. Volume 1 front board is partially detached from the spine. Textblocks have light to moderate age toning, minor foxing throughout, and light soiling scattered throughout. Speckling to edges. Volume 1 has a library sticker and the bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden (1774-1844) on the front pastedown, and ink stains on pages 174-175, impacting some text. Volume 1 has light offsetting to some pages preceding plates. Text in Greek and Latin. CONTENTS: VOL I: ([14], 672 pages, plus an engraved titlepage and 25 engraved portrait plates), all plates appear to be present and pagination is continuous, but there is residue of apparent excised page between 58-59;--VOL II: Includes an added edition of the history of women philosophers [Historia Mulierum Philosopharum], ([8], 590, [56] pages). 1396039. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later edition. 2 vol. 4to. [16], 672; 590, [56] pp. Contemporary full parchment, spines in seven compartments, each spine with a maroon morocco label lettered in gold. Fore-edge and bottom textblock decoratively sprinkled red. Both volume's title pages printed in red and black. Volume one illustrated with twenty-five copper-engraved plates (portraits of select philosophers), and with an engraved title page. With the text in ancient Greek and Latin. Includes helpful annotations and notes from the Casaubonius brothers, and with notes from Aldobrandinius. The Latin corrected and completed by Marcus Meibomius. Volume two contains the Syntagma de Mulieribus Philosophis (a compendium of biographical notices of female philosophers and historical figures), volume two also has notes on the philosophers and notes on the life of Diogenes Laertius (including the notes of Kuhnius). With several indices. Brunet II 93. Dibdin 503-504. Graesse 396. Moss 400. Oxford Classical Dictionary 474-475. Brunet calls this edition the most complete and the most beautiful of Diogenes' Lives. Moss refers to it as a rare, elegant, and excellent edition, with the most correct and critical revision of the Greek text. Dibdin praises it as the best and most splendid extant edition of the author's works. Diogenes Laertius' Lives were likely composed around the middle of the third century A.C.E. Diogenes writes about philosophers from Ionia, the pre-Socratics, and about a few Stoic figures. His biographies span from Thales to Epicurus. He names his historical sources, and his work is quite copious in its list of quotations and its references to other writers. Diogenes' work on the Stoic philosophers and on Epicurus is particularly valuable from a historical perspective. A lovely edition of ancient Greek and Roman history, with some of Renaissance Europe's greatest classicists contributing to its production. The front flyleaf of volume two is slightly misaligned, and the second volume's rear hinge shows a tiny split and a repair, not affecting the integrity of the binding.…