Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Mythologus oder gesammelte Abhandlungen über die Sagen des Alterthums. Nebst einem Anhang über das Geschichtliche und die Anspielungen im Horaz (Bd 2: über das Elektron; Horaz und Nicht-Horaz). 2 volumes.

Berlin: Mylius'sche Buchhandlung, 1828-1829. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound in one. 8vo. 352pp. 376pp. 3/4 cloth over marbled boards. Marbled page edges. Last published work of renowned philologist and researcher of Greek mythology, Philipp Karl Buttmann (see below). Work on Greek mythology. Illustrated with 2 fold-out maps at end of first volume. Age wear to binding, with binding starting to split alongside spine, but still firmly attached. Free front endpaper loose but present, with owner's writings on it. Both title pages are blind-stamped (ex library). Sporadic foxing throughout. Otherwise clean and tight. In German. Overall very good condition. vg. Item #18681

On the author (Source: 11th edition Encyclopedia Britannica):
BUTTMANN, PHILIPP KARL (1764—1829), German philologist, was born at Frankfurt-on-Main in 1764. He was educated in his native town and at the university of Gottingen. In 1789 he obtained an appointment in the library at Berlin, and for some years he edited Speners Journal. In 1796 he became professor at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin, a post which he held for twelve years. In 18o6 he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences, and in 1811 was made secretary of the Historico-Philological Section. He died in 1829. Buttmann's writings gave a great impetus to the scientific study of the Greek language. His Griechische Grammatik (1792) went through many editions, and was translated into English. His Lexilogus, a valuable study on some words of difficulty occurring principally in the poems of Homer and Hesiod, was published in 1818-1825, and was translated into English. Buttmann's other works were Ausfuhrliche griechische Sprachlehre (2 vols., 1819—1827); Mythologus, a collection of essays (1828—1829); and editions of some classical authors, the most important being Demosthenes in Midiam (1823) and the continuation of Spalding's Quintilian. Plant of Ranunculus bulbosus, showing determinate inflorescence.

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