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In Latin. 'Commentatio quam ad Summos In Philosophia Honores rite impetrandos.' Lane was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1846 from Harvard, and from 1847 to 1851 studied at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg, and Göttingen. In 1851, he received his doctorate at Göttingen for his dissertation Smyrnaeorum Res Gestae et Antiquitates and upon returning to America was appointed University Professor of Latin at Harvard College. Once listed, this will be the Only copy of the book for sale anywhere on the Internet. It was published in 1851. It is the First edition (NAP). MDCCCLI is on the title page. It is Signed by the author on the second front end paper (see photo). Above the signature he wrote something in Latin and English, different quotes, not inscriptions. My effort to translate failed. I'll leave it to the more scholarly to decipher. There's still more adding to the uniqueness of this particular book: I learned from Lane's Wikipedia profile that his book Latin Grammar was completed and published by a Professor Morris H. Morgan. 'Morris Hicky Morgan was a professor and chair of classical philology at Harvard University. He was praised by his fellow classicists as an interpreter of Vitruvius. His translation of Vitruvius's The Ten Books of Architecture, based on an older translation by Valentine Rose remains in print today, more than 100 years after Morgan translated it.' Professor Morgan owned this book. His bookplate is affixed to the front inside cover, and he penciled what looks like 'M. Hick '88' on the blank verso of the first front end paper. Inside the book, when I purchased it, was a sheet of paper with some handwriting on it, hard to know whose. I've provided a photo. The writing is in English. It starts out 'And only the master shall praise us'. At the top, in the same handwriting, it says 'Found in his working copy of Vitruvius' (?) Or does it say Petronius or some other name. Hard to say. Happily, it's very easy to read the gilt lettering on the spine. And you can see that the half-binding covers (blue leather spine and corners have held up rather nicely. They are clean. They do have some spots of scuffing and rubbing. That's the case on the edges and corners as well. The book is square and solidly bound. There are a few binding imperfections, none affecting the solidity of the book. There's light surface paper loss at the gutter between the front inside cover and front end paper with a crack over only the first 1/2 inch off the bottom edge. The front cover is very sturdily bound. The 'marbled' first front end paper has a thin straight vertical tear (not at the gutter) going down about 2/3rds of the way, also there is a very thin reinforcing green strip at the gutter between the title page and the facing blank page. After that, the pages are perfectly bound and the binding between the rear inside cover and rear end paper is fine. The pages are in excellent condition, supple, very clean (only a few spots), no corner creases, and no foxing. Four pages have a tiny tear off their top edge, far from the print. There are no markings. The bookplate is the only attachment. NOT ex-library. And the author's signature and quotes are the only writing. Georgius Martinus Lane was not only an American scholar. In 1855, while living at Cloverden in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he wrote the song "The Lone Fish Ball." After decades as a staple of Harvard undergraduates, it was modernized into the popular hit "One Meat Ball." In 1944, the song was revived by Tin Pan Alley songwriters Hy Zaret and Lou Singer in a more bluesy format and the recording by Josh White became one of the biggest hits of the early part of the American Folk Music Revival. Over the years, it was also recorded by the Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Savo, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lonnie Donegan, Dave Van Ronk, Ry Cooder, Washboard Jungle, Tom Paxton, Shinehead, Ann Rabson, and Calvin Russell. Seller Inventory # 002666
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