Regles de poëtique, tirées d’Aristote, d’Horace, de Despreaux et d’autres célébres Auteurs.

12mo. XVI,505,(7) p. Calf 15 cm (Details: Back with 5 raised bands) (Condition: Calf very scuffed and dry; leather at the head and the tail of the spine chafed off. Corners bumped. Old paper shelf number on the back. Name and a shelf number on the title. Stamp on the verso of the title. Lower margin partly and very slightly dampstained. Paper yellowing) (Note: Denis, or Dionysius Gaullyer, 1688-1736, was professor at the College de Plessis-Sorbonne, and specialized in grammar and rhetoric. He died insane. At the end of the book is a list with 12 other titles by Gaullyer. He published on French and Latin grammar, edited the ‘Epistulae ad Familiares’ of Cicero, the poems of Gregorius Nazianzenus, Florus and Nepos, produced some school anthologies, and translated epigrams of Martialis. (Michaud Tome XVI, 1816, p. 578) (Provenance: Name on the title ‘ex libris P. Schols, 1784. This probably is the Dutch man of letters Petrus Egidius Schols, 1768-1847. He was a notary in Maastricht. After the occupation of the Netherlands by the French he refused to pledge allegiance, and consequently lost his position. From that time he applied himself on the study of classics, especially Cicero, Horace and Vergil. He wrote some Latin prose and poetry. (NNBW 9,992) § On the verso of the title an oval stamp of ‘Bibliotheca; Domus S. Caroli, Valkenburg (L.) Holland’) (Collation: à8, A-X12, Y4; (gathering Y bound in the wrong order Y1, Y3, Y4, Y2)) (Photographs on request)