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IULIANUS AECLANENSIS, Expositio libri Iob. Tractatus prophetarum Osee, Iohel et Amos. Accedunt operum deperditorum fragmenta post Albertum Bruckner denu collecta aucta ordinata auxiliante M.J. d'Hondt edidit L. De Coninck. Brepols, Turnhout, 1977. XXXIV,432p. Original gilt titled terra cotta cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Small sticker glued to paste-down endpaper. A few erasable pencil annotations on p.432. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina LXXXVIII. € 90.00 (Antiquarian)

IUSTINIANUS, Institutiones. Recensuit P. Krueger. Weidmann, Berlijn, 1908. 3rd ed. VIII,175p. Bound. Spine gilt titled. Corners cover slightly bumped. Back joints slightly cracked. Ex libris glued to free endpaper. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)

IUSTINUS, (JUSTINUS), Historiae Philippicae. Ex recensione Io.G. Graevii cum eiusdem et Joh.Frider Gronovii animadversionibus additus est praeter prologos Historiarum Philippicarum Trogi et excerptiones chronologicas J. Bongarsii Libellus Variarum Lectionum cum epistola S. Frider Dresigii super locis quibusdam Iustineis curante Ioh. Frider Fischero. In libreria Veidmania, Lipsiae, 1757. LXII,708,(175)p. Frontispiece. Leather bound with 5 raised bands. Title vignette to spine. Marbled edges. Head and tail spine worn and damaged. Edges and corners cover scratched and bit bumped. Leather to upper corner front cover damaged. Name and library mark on title page. € 95.00 (Antiquarian)

IVANKA, E., Hellenisches und christliches in frühbyzantinischen Geistesleben. Herder, Wien, 1948. 119p. Bound. Cover bit stained. € 15.50 (Antiquarian)

IVENS, W.G., A Dictionary of the Language of Sa'a (Mala) and Ulawa South-East Solomon Islands. Oxford University Press / Melbourne University Press, London / Melbourne, 1929. Rev.ed. XII,427p. Cloth. Small personal library mark on tail spine. Pencil annotations from KJD. Signature from a young KJD on free endpaper. (Rare). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)

IVENS, W.G., A Vocabulary of the Lau Language. Big Mala, Solomon Islands. Thomas Avery, New Plymouth, 1934. 129p. Wire stitched. Signature of KJD on free endpaper. Some pencil markings and annotations from KJD. Series: Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Vol.11. (Rare). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 49.50 (Antiquarian)

IWAMURA, SHINOBU, Manuscripts and Printed Editions of Marco Polo's Travels. The National Diet Liebrary, Tokyo, 1949. (147),23p. Bound / wire stitched. Stitches a bit rusty. No.781 of 800 copies only. (Rare). Of the Marco Polo Itinerarium, Antverpiae, 1485, reproduced in phototype from the original edition in possession of the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library), by the National diet Library, Tokyo, Japan. 'Il s'agit de la version la plus répandue (Benedetto P); on en connaît près de soixante-quinze manuscrits, de nombreuses impressions et un certain nombre de traductions en langues vulgaires. (Iwamura, Manuscripts and printed entions of Marco Polo's travers, Tokyo, 1949 (avec le fac-similé de l'édition de la traduction latine de Pippino, Anvers, 1485)). Fra Pippino, dominicain de Bologne, qui apparaît dans les documents de 1284 à 1325, fut chargé de traduire en latin la version vénitienne (VA) de Marco Polo au cours d'un chapitre général de l'ordre tenu en 1302 ou en 1315. L'oeuvre (…) est antérieure à la mort de Marco Polo. (…) Fra Pippino, qui a intitulé sa traduction De condicionibus et consuetudinibus orientalius regionum, a travaillé avec grand soin. Il a divisé le livre en trois parties: - présentation du livre et débuts du voyage; - le Grand Khan Kubilaï; - le livre sur les Indes et le retour. Il a introduit dans le détail l'ordre qui manquait parfois dans l'oeuvre laissée par Marco Polo et Rustichello. Sa traduction es fidèle en substance, mais le ton a été radicalement modifié. Pippino a imposé au texte sa mentalité de dominicain. Il accompagne toujours le nom de Mahomet d'épithètes dépréciatives et marque le profond mépris de toutes les croyances des Mongols. Son latin est soigné; sa phrase s'achève souvent par une terminaison rythmée et on trouve dans sa prose des échos bibliques.' (JACQUES MONFRIN in 'La tradition du texte de Marco Polo, p.519). € 175.00 (Antiquarian)

IWANOW, R., and G. von BÜLOW, Thracia. Eine römische Provinz auf der Balkanhalbinsel. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 2008. 118p. Richly ills. Bound wrps. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)

J.H.M. STRUBBE, and M.J. BAKKER, (eds.), Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Consolidated Index for Volumes XXXVI - XLV (1986 - 1995). Gieben, Amsterdam, 1999. VII,858p. Cloth. Lower corner cover as well as lower corner first and last pages bit bumped. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 95.00 (Antiquarian)

JACHMANN, G., Der homerische Schiffskatalog und die Ilias. Westdeutscher Verlag, Köln / Opladen, 1958. 342p. Cloth wrps. Series: Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Band 5. 'Surely the most valuable section of the book, pp.267-338, 'Die homerische Gleichnisbildung'. Jachmann maintains that the subject and the simile are essentially connected only by the 'tertium comparationis'. Let A be the main theme, B the object compared: the comparison will be found to be based on a specific (and often explicit) 'point of likeness'. Once that 'Vergleichspunkt' has been established, B may go his own way, however inappropriate to A. The point is fundamental top the understanding of the similes, and Jachmann proves it in the only possible way - by giving us text and discussion of a large number of examples. (...) Time after time he shows how the simlie, once the point of likeness has been established, goes its own way regardless of its startingpoint; how it may even develop into something wholly inappropriate to its context. Jacvhmann's verdict here seems to me final: let us all welcome the 'tertium comparationis' home from its long exile.' (D.L. PAGE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1960, pp.108). From the library of the late Professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 45.00 (Antiquarian)