Claius, Johannes & Aldus Manitius [Manuzio], the younger.

Prosodiae...Libri Tres, De cognoscenda Syllabarum quantiotate & carminum ratione qpud Latinos, Graecos, & Hebraeos.Wittenberg: Ex Officina Cratoniane,1595.[bound with:]Aldo Manitius.Purae, Elegantes, Et Copiosae, Latinae Linguae Phrases...Nunc primum in Germania editae.Leipzig:Michael Lantzenberger,1592.

      8vo. 2 vols. in 1. A-X8. a8,b4,A-T8. [348]. 27,[24]pp. Contemp. 1/2 blind-tooled pigskin over vellum, small piece cut from piskin on front cover, a few wormholes, stains on covers, edges speckled red, marginal wormhole, P1 small tear, some marginal dampstains at end of second work, else very good. Printer's device (Baptism) on t.p. of first work and Crucifixion on second. "Johannes Claius (1535-1592) was a native of Herzberg in Saxony, Rector at Goldberg, then at Nordhausen, and in 1574 pastor at Bendeleben in Thuringia. He was a Hebrew scholar, and made several translations intio that language, amongst others the Gospels...He is the first also who compiled a complete German grammar..." [Ferguson] He also wrote a work on Alchemy. His grammar was based on Luther's language gave it authority to became the standard. Aldus Manutius II (1547-1597) was the son of Paulo, the youngest son of Aldo the great Italian printer. Aldo, the younger hed a professorship in Venice before succeeding Sigonius in Bologna and Muretus in Rome. At the age of 11 he produced the "Elegancies of the Tusan and Latin languages." Claius: VD16 C4002. Manutius:VD16 M805.