Christophori Cellarii orthographia latina ex vestustis monumentis hoc est nummis, marmoribus tabulis, membranis veterumoque grammaticorum placitis, nec non recentium ingeniorum curis excerpta, digesta novisque observationibus illustrata.
Halae Magdeburgicae [Halle]: Sumtu lo. Bielckii (Typis Chr. Henckelii), nd [early 1700s?]. Early edition. Small 8vo (16 cm). (4), 156 pp. Many editions were published in the 18th-century, through the 1790s; the earliest dated edition there was published in 1702 (Stanford & Syracuse in the United States). Bound with: Grossgebauer, Philipp. Hodegeta Linguae Latinae Teuto-Grammaticus Das ist: Grammatikalischer Leiter und Wegweiser Zur Lateinischen Sprache / Wie dieselbe Ohne weitlaufftige und grosten theils unnothige auch zum theil der Jugend nachtheilige Lehr-Satze Deutlich / leicht und kurtzlich zu erlernen Nebst einem vierfachen Anhang von den Grammatikalischen Zeichen oder /Signaturen / Figuren / Construction / Unterschied etlicher im Teutschen zweiffelhaftigen Worten / zierlicher Wort-Fug- und Verwechselung. Auf vielfaltiges Begehren der studierenden Jugend zum merchlichen Vortheil verfasst. Jena: Joh. Bielcken, Buchhandlern, 1692. First edition. (4), 203, (1) pp. OCLC locates two copies (Goettingen, Rostock). Bound with: Bendelers, Johann Philipp. Joh. Phil. Benderlers ... Ord. In kurtzere Form verfaster teutscher Syntaxis die constructionem derer octo partium orationis grundlich u. der Gestalt lehrend ... samt beygefugter apologia ... Aschersleben: G. E. Struntz, 1699. First edition. 23, (12), 50 pp. OCLC locates two copies (Berlin, Leibniz Bibliothek). Bound with: Reyher, Andreas. Manuductio Poetica Qya Tyroni rtio, Orationem Solutam Quamvis Carmine Latino Reddendi, Paucis iisque perspicuis Regulis Singulari Artificio traditur. Goethe: Typis Reyherianis, 1666. Edita quartum. 40 pp. OCLC locates one copy of this edition (Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt Gotha), one each also for 1642 and 1654 editions. Bound with: Rabener, Justus Gotofredus. Styli elegantioris ration quinque regulis compendiosissime commonstrata. Lipsiae: Joh. Christiani Wohlfartus, 1694. Editio altera auctior multo & correctior (first published Freiberg, 1681). (70) pp. Folding table. OCLC locates three copies of this edition (Lancaster Theological Seminary, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland). Cellarius (1638-1707), a classical scholar, Grossgebauer (1653-1711) and Bendelers (1654-1709), both musicologists, Reyher (1601-1673), a lexicographer, and Rabener (1634-1699), an author best known for his fables, make their presentations for various aspects of the use of language. Very good copy of a Latin-German sammelband of five scarce works dealing with orthography, grammar, and other language topics. 18th-century vellum (some darkening), manuscript spine title. (9860). Item #63111
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