Shelfmark
Fe.7.21
Author
Uniform title
[Works. Selections. French & Latin]
Title
La morale de Tacite. De la flaterie. Par le sieur Amelot de la Houssaie.
Varying form of title
De la flaterie
Publication, distribution, etc.
A la Haye, : Chez Adrian Moetjens, marchand libraire prés la Cour, à la Librairie françoise. , [1686?].
Physical description
[48], 250, [2] p. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Language
Extracts from Tacitus in Latin, with translations and commentaries in French.
Note
Contains selections from Tacitus, with the French versions of Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye and Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, and commentaries by Amelot de la Houssaye; in part a critique of N. Perrot d'Ablancourt's translation of Tacitus.
Note
With a half-title reading: La morale de Tacite.
Note
Title vignette; head and tail pieces, initials.
Note
See Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale, v. 181, col. 691.
Note
Another edition (issue?) has imprint: A Paris : Chez la veuve Edme Martin, & Jean Boudot ..., M.DC.LXXXVI [1686].
Citation/references note
Brunet, V, 638 (note)
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington inside back cover, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Early 18th-century mottled calf binding; gold-tooled spine compartments; five raised bands; red morocco spine-label.
Copy-specific note
Four lines of ms. annotations in pencil in an 18th-century English hand on front flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
Previously Cb.7.12.
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Flattery Early works to 1800.
Subject
Latin prose literature Translations into French History and criticism.
Subject
Latin prose literature Translations into French.
Subject
Toadyism Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Moetjens, Adriaen, fl. 1679 - 1715 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands The Hague.
Language code
lat fre lat
Identifier
B32287