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Hallbauer, Friedrich Andreas. Instructions for improved German oratory. Together with a preface on the shortcomings of school oratory. Third edition. Jena, J. B. Hartung, 1736. 8 p., 757 p., 17 p. 17.5 x 11 cm. - Accompanied by: The same. Introduction to the most useful exercises in Latin styli. Together with a preface on the means of true eloquence. Another edition. Ibid. 1730. 12 pp., 630 p., 9 pp. 17.5 x 11 cm. Uniform fine speckled leather bindings of the period with rich gilt spine and gilt-stamped parchment spine labels as well as paste-down color binding (spine somewhat faded, small chip at one capital). Two very beautifully and uniformly bound manuals on the art of oratory. - Hallbauer (1692-1750) was appointed professor of rhetoric and poetry in Jena in 1731, became director of the Latin Society in 1735 and professor of theology in 1738, as such an opponent of the Pietists. "He had a sense of humor as well as good taste" (Faber du Faur 1357, other work). - Register of both works with traces of worming in the lower binding, the first extended to the passage without touching the text, otherwise clean copies. VAT: *
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Hallbauer, Friedrich Andreas. Instructions for improved German oratory. Together with a preface on the shortcomings of school oratory. Third edition. Jena, J. B. Hartung, 1736. 8 p., 757 p., 17 p. 17.5 x 11 cm. - Accompanied by: The same. Introduction to the most useful exercises in Latin styli. Together with a preface on the means of true eloquence. Another edition. Ibid. 1730. 12 pp., 630 p., 9 pp. 17.5 x 11 cm. Uniform fine speckled leather bindings of the period with rich gilt spine and gilt-stamped parchment spine labels as well as paste-down color binding (spine somewhat faded, small chip at one capital). Two very beautifully and uniformly bound manuals on the art of oratory. - Hallbauer (1692-1750) was appointed professor of rhetoric and poetry in Jena in 1731, became director of the Latin Society in 1735 and professor of theology in 1738, as such an opponent of the Pietists. "He had a sense of humor as well as good taste" (Faber du Faur 1357, other work). - Register of both works with traces of worming in the lower binding, the first extended to the passage without touching the text, otherwise clean copies. VAT: *
