BURMAN the Elder, Pieter.
Oratio funebris in obitum viri clarissimi Joannis Georgii Graevii, Magnae Brittanniae Regis historici, politices, historiarum & eloquentiae professoris ordinarii. Dicta XI. Kal. Martias MDCCIII.
Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1703. Woodcut coat-of-arms of Utrecht on title-page.
(2) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro pigritia, publice habita. Ad diem XX Febr. M.DCCII.
[No place], 1702. Woodcut title-vignette.
(3) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Somnium, sive iter in arcadiam novam, publice narratum in majori Academiae Ultrajectinae Acroaterio. Ad diem IX. Septembris MDCCX.
[No place], [1710].
(4) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro comoedia, publice in auspiciis Academicarum recitationum, quibus Terentii fabulae explicantur, habita, a.d. XIV Septembris MDCCXI.
Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1711. Woodcut publisher's device.
(5) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio in humanitatis studia. Habita a.d. VIII. Februarii MDCCXX. Cum magistratu Academico abiret.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1720. Woodcut publisher's device.
(6) BURMAN the elder, Pieter.. Pro literatoribus et grammaticis oratio, habita a.d. VIII Februarii MDCXXXII. Cum magistratu academico abiret.
Leiden, Conrad Wishoff & Daniel Goedval, [1732]. Woodcut title-vignette, headpiece and tailpiece.
(7) RÜCKER, Joannes Conradus. Oratio de honoribus academicis, magno doctrinae praemio. Habita cum virum eruditissimum Danielem ... van Alphen, Lugduno Batavum, juris utriusque doctorem, more majorum renuntiaret. A.d. XIII. Dec. MDCCXXXV.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1735. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece.
(8) VITRIARIUS, Johannes Jacobus. Oratio funebris, in obitum eruditissimi ac celeberrimi viri, Antonii Schultingii, Joh. fil. ... Dicta Publice a.d. XII. April A. MDCCXXXIV.
Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, [1734]. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece.
8 works in 1 volume. 4to. Slightly later half calf (ca. 1765), gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, marbled sides with central gold vignette of the "Society of Writers to the Signet" on both boards. 57, [26]; 23; [39]; [4], 36; 61; [2], 75, [1]; 28, 37, [3] pp.
€ 1,750
Six academic orations in Latin, all in their first (and at least mostly only) editions, delivered by Pieter Burman, or Petrus Burmannus (1668-1741), a Dutch classical scholar and one of the best classical philologists of the eighteenth century, known as the elder to distinguish him from his nephew Pieter Burman the younger, was born at Utrecht as the son of Frans Burman, professor of theology at Utrecht.
Ad 1: Funeral oration delivered by Burman on 19 February at the University of Utrecht for the famous Johannes Georgius Graevius who had died on 11 January 1703.
Ad 2: Public oration delivered on 20 February 1702 on slowness.
Ad 3: Oration in Latin verse delivered in the Aula of the University of Utrecht on his dream of a new Arcadia.
Ad 4: Oration on the old and notorious dispute between Church and School/University concerning theatre for youth, set off again by an attack on the indecency and harmfulness of the theatre, launched by the Utrecht Church Council against the magistrate of Utrecht. Pieter Burman took up the defence of the theatre as a useful tool in education.
Ad 5: Oration delivered at Leiden University on the usefulness of the study of humanities.
Ad 6: Oration more or less on the same subject: for the benefit of literary men and grammarians.
Ad 7: Oration on the value of a doctoral degree by Joannes Conradus Rücker (d. 1778;), professor of law at Leiden University since 1734, delivered on the occasion of Daniel van Alphen, whom he had tutored, taking his doctoral degree on 13 December 1735.
Ad 8: Funeral oration delivered by Johannes Jacobus Vitriarius (1679-1745;), professor of law at Heidelberg (1706), Utrecht (1708) and Leiden (1720) for prof. Antonius Schulting (1659-12 March 1734), prof. of law at Harderwijk (1691), Franeker (1694) and Leiden (1713).
The present convolute belonged to one of the "Writers to the Signet" at Edinburgh, the famous psalmist Robert Boswell (1746-1804), who signed his name on the inside front cover.
Occasional slight browning, first free endpaper somewhat loose; corners slightly bumped, but the whole still in good condition. NNBW IV, p. 354f; Dekkers, p. 30; Sandys, pp. 443 ff.; for Rücker (ad 7): NNBW II, cols. 1240-41; for Vitriarius and Schulting (ad 8): NNBW III, col. 1316 & I, cols. 1462-4.
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