The Enlightenment Books Project at Pomona College:
A Bibliographical Checklist of Eighteenth-Century Editions
Latin Quarter (1700 - 1725) total = 171
Rank | Number of Editions | Author, Title
1 |
26 | Pufendorf, De officio hominis et civis |
2 |
25 | Ovid, Metamorphoses |
3 |
21 | Cicero, Cato |
4 |
19 | Cicero, De Officiis
|
5 |
17 | Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis libri tres |
6 |
11 | Livy, History of Rome |
7 |
11 | Ovid, Heroides |
8 |
11 | Cicero, De Oratore |
9 |
5 | Virgil, Georgics |
10 |
5 | Virgil, Eclogues |
11 |
4 | Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews |
12 |
3 | Virgil, Aeneid |
13 |
2 | Cicero, De Natura Deorum |
14 |
2 | Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
15 |
1 | Bossuet, Discours sur l'histoire universelle |
16 |
1 | Spinoza, Tractatus theologico-politicus |
17 |
1 | Plato, The Republic |
18 |
1 | Leibniz, Essais de Théodicée |
19 |
1 | Josephus, Wars of the Jews
|
20 |
1 | Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration |
21 |
1 | Hobbes, De cive |
22 |
1 | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War |
23 |
1 | Cumberland, De legibus naturae |
Latin Quarter (1725 - 1750) total = 220
Rank | Number of Editions | Author, Title
1 |
30 | Ovid, Metamorphoses |
2 |
25 | Cicero, De Officiis
|
3 |
22 | Livy, History of Rome |
4 |
21 | Cicero, Cato |
5 |
18 | Pufendorf, De officio hominis et civis |
6 |
11 | Ovid, Heroides |
7 |
10 | Virgil, Eclogues |
8 |
8 | Cicero, De Oratore |
9 |
8 | Virgil, Georgics |
10 |
7 | Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis libri tres |
11 |
7 | Linnaeus, Systema naturae |
12 |
6 | Virgil, Aeneid |
13 |
5 | Cicero, De Natura Deorum |
14 |
4 | Cicero, De Legibus |
15 |
3 | Fénelon, Les Aventures de Télémaque |
16 |
3 | Milton, Paradise Lost |
17 |
3 | Plato, Apology |
18 |
2 | Plato, Crito |
19 |
2 | Aristotle, Poetics |
20 |
2 | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War |
21 |
2 | Plato, Phaedo |
22 |
2 | Aristotle, Rhetoric |
23 |
2 | Nicole, Essais de morale |
24 |
2 | Plato, Euthyphro |
25 |
2 | Plato, Lovers |
26 |
2 | Sophocles, Electra |
27 |
1 | Leibniz, Essais de Théodicée |
28 |
1 | Plato, Theages |
29 |
1 | [Plato], Second Alcibiades |
30 |
1 | Frederick II, Anti-Machiavel |
31 |
1 | Pascal, Pensées |
32 |
1 | Seldon, Table Talk |
33 |
1 | Swift, Gulliver's Travels |
34 |
1 | Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews |
35 |
1 | More, Utopia |
36 |
1 | Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
37 |
1 | Hobbes, De cive |
Latin Quarter (1750 - 1775) total = 230
Rank | Number of Editions | Author, Title
1 |
33 | Ovid, Metamorphoses |
2 |
22 | Cicero, De Officiis
|
3 |
17 | Livy, History of Rome |
4 |
16 | Virgil, Eclogues |
5 |
16 | Virgil, Georgics |
6 |
11 | Cicero, Cato |
7 |
9 | Virgil, Aeneid |
8 |
8 | Linnaeus, Systema naturae |
9 |
8 | Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis libri tres |
10 |
7 | Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum |
11 |
7 | Pufendorf, De officio hominis et civis |
12 |
7 | Cicero, De Oratore |
13 |
6 | Ovid, Heroides |
14 |
6 | Cicero, De Natura Deorum |
15 |
6 | Tissot, L'Onanisme |
16 |
6 | Milton, Paradise Lost |
17 |
5 | Polybius, Histories |
18 |
4 | Plato, Euthyphro |
19 |
4 | Plato, Crito |
20 |
4 | Plato, Apology |
21 |
4 | Plato, Phaedo |
22 |
4 | Linnaeus, Philosophia botanica |
23 |
2 | More, Utopia |
24 |
2 | Cicero, De Legibus |
25 |
2 | [Plato], Second Alcibiades |
26 |
2 | Plato, Lovers |
27 |
2 | Fénelon, Les Aventures de Télémaque |
28 |
1 | Leibniz, Essais de Théodicée |
29 |
1 | Aristotle, Poetics |
30 |
1 | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics |
31 |
1 | Voltaire, La Henriade |
32 |
1 | Josephus, Wars of the Jews
|
33 |
1 | Plato, First Alcibiades |
34 |
1 | Montesquieu, Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romaine |
35 |
1 | Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
36 |
1 | Hobbes, De cive |
37 |
1 | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War |
Latin Quarter (1775 - 1800) total = 266
Rank | Number of Editions | Author, Title
1 |
45 | Cicero, De Officiis
|
2 |
28 | Ovid, Metamorphoses |
3 |
26 | Livy, History of Rome |
4 |
19 | Virgil, Georgics |
5 |
16 | Cicero, De Oratore |
6 |
16 | Cicero, Cato |
7 |
10 | Virgil, Eclogues |
8 |
9 | Virgil, Aeneid |
9 |
9 | Cicero, De Natura Deorum |
10 |
9 | Ovid, Heroides |
11 |
7 | Cicero, De Legibus |
12 |
7 | Linnaeus, Philosophia botanica |
13 |
7 | Aristotle, Poetics |
14 |
5 | Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum |
15 |
5 | Plato, Phaedo |
16 |
5 | Plato, Crito |
17 |
4 | Plato, First Alcibiades |
18 |
4 | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War |
19 |
4 | Plato, Euthyphro |
20 |
4 | Plato, Apology |
21 |
3 | Tissot, L'Onanisme |
22 |
3 | [Plato], Second Alcibiades |
23 |
3 | Linnaeus, Systema naturae |
24 |
2 | Hobbes, De cive |
25 |
2 | More, Utopia |
26 |
2 | Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis libri tres |
27 |
2 | Plato, Menexenus |
28 |
1 | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics |
29 |
1 | Voltaire, La Henriade |
30 |
1 | Plato, Lovers |
31 |
1 | Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews |
32 |
1 | Josephus, Wars of the Jews
|
33 |
1 | Kant, Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten |
34 |
1 | Plato, Symposium |
35 |
1 | Voltaire, Histoire de Charles XII |
36 |
1 | Polybius, Histories |
37 |
1 | Kant, Prolegomena zu einer jeden kunftigen Metaphysik |