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HYGINUS, (GAIUS JULIUS). (Opera) quae hodie extant, adcurante Joanne Scheffero..., qui simul adjecit notas, hic admodum necessarias, cum indice verborum locutionumque rariorum, & dissertatione, de vero hujus operis auctore. Accedunt & Thomae Munckeri In fabulas Hygini annotationes. Hamburgi (ex officina Gothofredi Schultzen, prostant & Amsterodami, apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge) 1674. 8:o. (38, last blank), (6), 7-338, (94); (32), 1-68 pp. Engraved extra title, 2 titles with engraved vignettes. Contemporary armorial gilt vellum, partly defective ties, darkened partly gilt spine, red edges. Withbound printed and manuscript premium leaf for Nicolao Vertilet 1686. Gaius Julius Hyginus (about 64 BC - AD 17, Latin author, a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis. Hyginus was a voluminous author: his works included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on Helvius Cinna and the poems of Virgil, and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping. All these are lost. Under the name of Hyginus there are extant what are probably two sets of school notes abbreviating his treatises on mythology; one is a collection of Fabulae ("stories"), the other a "Poetical Astronomy". (Wikipedia.) Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.