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PHILIPPOT, P., Pénétrer l'art. Restaurer l'oeuvre. Une vision humaniste. Hommage en form de florilège. Edité par C. Périer-D'Ieteren en collaboration avec B.D'Hainaut-Zveny. Groeninghe Eds., Kortrijk, 1990. 507p. Richly ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs. Original gilt stamped terra-cotta cloth with pictorial dust wrps. With signature from Prof. Carl Deroux on free endpaper. Requires extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 2 - 5 Kg. (Rare). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 125.00 (Antiquarian)

PHILIPPSON, A., Das Mittelmeergebiet. Seine geographische und kulturelle Eigenart. Mit 9 Figuren im Text, 13 Ansichten und 10 Karten auf 15 Tafeln. Teubner, Leipzig/Berlin, 1914. 3rd rev.ed. 256p. ills. Folding maps. Cloth. Ex libris. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

PHILLIMORE, J.S., (ed.), Index verborum Propertianus. Oxford University Press / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1961. 2nd ed.(Photomechanical reprint ed.1905). (2),111p. Cloth. Endpages slightly rust stained. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

PHILLIMORE, J.S., (ed.), The Hundred Best Latin Hymns. Gowans & Gray, London / Glasgow, 1926. XXIII,174p. Nice privately rebinding using original cover. (Rare). Garland in the field of Latin Hymnody. ' The Latin of the Catholic Church, vernacular to no man, mother tongue of Christendom, is warm with a vitality of appeal and association that can match any of the national poesies - which by the way, owe so much to it. (...) In this case, besides the hall-mark of received opinion, one has to reckon with another sort of prescription, the honours of liturgical usage. And so we are doubly committed on that side. Probably of any alleged Hundred Best Hymns - let it be noted here that the word 'hymn' bears in this book its loose, popular acceptation, without distinction between hymn, trope, sequence, etc. - there might be fifty about which everyone on a jury of selectors would easily agree; and it was my first endeavour that no familiar masterpiece (unless disqualified by extreme length), no pious lyric canonized long sinde by the common sense, should here be missing. But, that much secured, one might indulge the hope of springing some agreeable surprises upon the reader (...). An assertion of persoanl taste has been ventured in giving prominence to poets little known (...) yet, if the case be judged sincerely on poetical merit. (...) The Humanist Renascence is our 'terminus ad quem': not that there were no more poets of any merit in Latin, but because the prevalence of the vernacular literatures (and, alas, the pedantry of scholars) reduced Latin to a medium of learned communication and graceful pastiche. (...) In all cases I have accepted the responsibility of emending, where necessary, according to the canon of probability; and this tacitly, since the book is meant for a pocket companion and not - like so many classical editions - an instrument for other editors. The spelling has been standardized for the sake of convenience.' (J.S. PHILLIMORE in the Preface, pp.I-XI). € 35.00 (Antiquarian)

PHILLIPS, E.D., The Royal Hordes. Nomad Peoples of the Steppes. Thames and Hudson, London, 1965. 144p. ills. Bound wrps. € 12.00 (Antiquarian)

PHILLIPS, E.D., Aspects of Greek Medicine. Charles Press, Philadelphia / Croom Helm, London (...), 1987. Reprint ed.1973. 240p. ills.(B&W photographs). Cloth wrps. Wrps with small tear, repaired with acid adhesive tape at the inside. Gift intention on free endpapers. Else fine. ‘Greek medicine’ is a welcome addition to the volumes of the series ‘Aspects of Greek and Roman life’, which have been appearing since the mid-1960s under the general editorship of Professor H.H. Scullard. As the title suggests, this volume is a survey of Greek medical thought during the approximately one thousand years which separate the incidental references to physicians and healing in the Homeric epics from the vast and professionalized medical corpus of Galen of Pergamum. The author’s intention, as he states in his Preface, is to rest ‘every particular statement made (…) directly on some piece of ancient evidence which will be found in the Notes’. This procedure has been carefully carried out and is particularly successful in the large section of the work which deals with the treatises of the ‘Hippocratic corpus’ (pp.38-121). (…) the book is a storehouse of information (…). E.D. Phillips has produced a work that is a concise and interesting introduction to the medical practices of the Greek world of antiquity for a wide and perhaps otherwise-occupied audience gathered from both classical and scientific fields.’ (A.E. HANSON in The British Journal for the History of Science, 1976, p.72). € 37.50 (Antiquarian)

PHILLIPSON, C., The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome. Volume I. Arno Press, New York, 1979. Photomechanical reprint ed.1911. XXIV,419p. Imitation leather bound. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. (Rare thus).From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 75.00 (Antiquarian)

PHILO JUDAEUS, Pogrom in Alexandrië. Gezantschap naar Caligula. Vertaald, ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door G.H. de Vries. Ambo, Amsterdam / Kritak, Leuven, 1999. 302,(3)p. Original black cloth with dust wrps. Reading ribbon. Dust wrps plasticized. 'De eerste pogrom in de geschiedenis vond plaats in de zomer van het jaar 38 in Egyptes grootste stad Alexandrië. Waarschijnlijk kostte deze slachtpartij duizenden Joden het leven. De beroemde Joodse filosoof Philo, een ooggetuige, heeft deze geweldsuitbarsting tegen Joden beschreven. Zijn verslag 'Pogrom in Alexandrië' is samen met 'Gezantschap naar Caligula' voor het eerst uit het Grieks vertaald door de historicus drs. G. H. de Vries. Philo's verslag is kort en bondig. Het geeft een goed beeld van wat er gebeurde: de aanleiding, het falen van de overheid, de anti-Joodse terreur en ten slotte de straf van God voor de man die het allemaal had laten gebeuren, de Romeinse gouverneur Flaccus. In zijn geschrift 'Pogrom in Alexandrië”'licht hij ons over dit alles in. (...) In een tweede geschrift, 'Gezantschap naar Caligula', vertelt Philo ons dat onder zijn leiding een Joods gezantschap naar keizer Caligula in Rome gaat. Het gezantschap wil bij hem de Joodse zaak bepleiten. Philo beschrijft de teleurstellende ervaringen die het gezantschap opdoet. (...) Deze twee geschriften zijn nu voor het eerst uit het Grieks origineel vertaald door de historicus drs. G. H. de Vries. Hij heeft zijn vertaling vergezeld laten gaan van een uitvoerige inleiding en allerlei aantekeningen. Daardoor worden wij breed ingelicht over de hoofdpersonen in beide geschriften en over Philo zelf. Verder ontvangen wij informatie over het verschijnsel van de Jodenhaat in de antieke wereld, de positie van de Joden in Egypte en in Alexandrië in het bijzonder en allerlei historische achtergronden. Dat maakt de vertaling van beide geschriften nog waardevoller.' (J. A. van der VELDEN in Reformatorisch Dagblad, 16 augustus 2000). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

PHILODEMUS, On Piety. Part 1. Critical Text with Commentary. Edited by D. Obbink. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. 1st ed. XII,676,8p. ills.(B&W photographs). Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps to spine a bit discoloured and a bit used. Newspaper article glued in. Journal article loosely inserted. € 250.00 (Antiquarian)

PHILOGELOS, Der Lachfreund. Von Hierokles und Philagrios. Griechisch-Deutsch mit Einleitung und Kommentar von A. Thierfelder. Heimeran, München, 1968. 319p. Original yellow cloth with dust wrps. Upper edge publisher's stained. Dust wrps to lower edge a bit creased and a tiny bit worn. Blind-tooling ex libris on free endpaper. Series: Tusculum. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)