<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. [1], 136, [4] (3 last blank). Signatures: [A]2 B-S4. Vellum boards. Leather lettering panel with gilded title. Marginalia on p. 1. Engraved initial. Bound with two other works. From the Fagel Collection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The present work is an appendix to Observationum ad Pomp[onium] Melam by Isaac Vossius (1618-1689), the Dutch manuscript collector and scholar-librarian to the queen of Sweden. The first section is a critique of Jacobus Gronovius' annotations of an edition of Pompeius Mela. Paul Colomiès' letter is in French. The work includes at pp. 58-72 a sniffy reply to the dissertation of Humphrey Hody (1659-1707), who for the first time systemically demolished the forged and widely reproduced Letter to Philocrates on the Septuagint by pseudo-Aristeas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See ESTC, R24581; D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), V704; E. Havens, “Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 42-44.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991040002099707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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