Wernsdorf’s Minor Latin Poets Date of Publication_1836

Wernsdorf’s Minor Latin Poets Date of Publication_1836Wernsdorf, Johann Christian (ed.): Poetae Latini Minores [] Curavit Io. Christianus Wernsdorf. Altenburgi [Altenburg], Ex Officina Richteria (vol. VI, Helmstadii [Helmstadt] sumptu. C. G. Fleckeisen) 1780 1799 A comprehensive edition which is emphatically not a reprint of Burmanns, according to Brunet; it contains many additional authors. The volumes are divided thematically: Carmina de venatione; Bucolica et idyllia; Satyrici minores; Carmina

tipped into Cook’s Handbook for London

is dated 1541

and the decorative elements give a flavour of the region

was originally issued by Janssonius in the late 1650s

From the first edition of ‘The Holy Land’ which

aucta et emendata

Presumably it was seen as free advertising

Metellino (Mytilene

and Blaeu globes were carried on all VOC vessels

showing the European population (supposedly revised to 1846 but with the original figure given in 1840

explained in their different meanings

more accurately it reflects the territorial extent and ambitions of Napoleon’s French Empire