[Rarebooks] Offering: 1652. Pliny the Younger. Panegyricus.

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering:

PLINY THE YOUNGER [C. Plini Caecili Secundi, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus]

PANEGYRICUS, Quem imp: Nervae Trajano optimo 
principi dixit sive scripsit: & as eum Justi 
Lipsii commentarius p.p. Cum eiusdem 
Dissertatiuncula apud principes Albertum & Isabellam.

Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Gisberti a Zijll & Theodori ab Ackersdijck. 1652.

12mo [135 x 80 mm]; contemporary vellum, red and 
green title labels on spine panel. 263 pp., 
engraved device on title page. Library stamp of 
Gloucestershire County Library on upper front 
pastedown, but no other library marks. Heraldic 
bookplate of Lewis Way, Stansted. A bright, fine 
copy. ¶ Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born 
Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 AD - 
ca. 112 AD), better known as Pliny the Younger, 
was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient 
Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped 
raise and educate him and they were both 
witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 
August 79 AD, the day of the elder's death. The 
Panegyricus Traiani is Pliny the Younger's only 
surviving oration. It was pronounced in the 
Senate in the year 100 and is a description of 
Trajan's figure and actions in an adulatory and 
emphatic form, especially contrasting him with 
the Emperor Domitian. It is, however, a relevant 
document that allows us to know many details 
about the Emperor's actions in several fields of 
his administrative power such as taxes, justice, 
military discipline, and commerce. Provenance: 
Lewis Way [1772 - 1840], with his bookplate on 
the front pastedown and inscription on upper free 
endpaper 'L. Way Etonae 1879 E dono G.M.' Lewis 
Way was notable for his advocacy of the 
conversion of the Jews; he was made very wealthy 
by an inheritance from a stranger (also called 
Way) and he founded a Protestant chapel in Paris. 
His son, Albert Way, was a Fellow of the Society 
of Antiquaries, and director from 1842 to 1846.

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$250.00 US, post extra. Trade discount allowed.

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