Ausone & élien - Three Books Compiled - 1567 To 1575 -rare - Books 16th

1/ Ausonii Burdigalensis Viri Consularis Augustorum Praeceptoris
(The Works of Ausonius of Bordeaux, Consular Man and Tutor to the Emperors)

Lyon, printed by Antoine Gryphe (1527–1599)

1575

2/ Joseph Scaligeri
Iul. Caes. F. Ausoniarum Lectionum Libri Duo
(Two Books of Readings on Ausonius)

Lyon, printed by Antoine Gryphe

1574

3/ Aeliani De Varia Historia Libri XIIII
(Aelian’s Fourteen Books of Miscellaneous History)

Lyon, printed by Joannes Tornaesius

1567

Dimensions: 8 × 12.5 cm, thickness 5 cm.

Contemporary full vellum binding.

A rare first edition of Ausonius edited by Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609). In the second work, Scaliger explains the methods and principles he employed in preparing his edition of Ausonius.

The third work, Varia Historia (“Miscellaneous Histories”) by the historian Aelian (c. 175–235 AD), is particularly sought after for the numerous fragments and quotations from ancient authors that it preserves, including passages derived from writers such as Pliny and Aristotle.