HERODOTI HALICARNASSEI HISTORIAE LIBRI IX et de Vita Homeri Libellus; Illi, ex interpretatione Laurentio Vallae adscripta, hic ex interpretatione Conradi Heresbachii: utraque ab Henrico Stephano recognita ..
PlacePub
Frankfurt Germany
Publisher
Daniel & David Aubrius & Clement Scheich
Date
1620
Illustrations
Woodcut printer's mark of Pegasus & Caduceus, cornucopia and clasped hands [very similar to Wechel's printer's mark].
Description
Octavo laced through vellum with yapp fore-edge manuscript title to spine (3" split to one hinge/tips bit worn/marked]. Titlepage + verso =p2 (laudatory) poem by Stephanus +3-71p +696p +[86p=index] +errata. Ownership Jonas Hellwik + label donating the book to the Linkoping Library in memory of her husband by his widow Hedeviga Paleen. Also modern bookplate of Sigurd Persson-Unger. Repair to titlepage where ?shelf mark was cut out and replaced by "N.48" lacks part of 5 lines of Greek verse on back. A few neat underlingings throughout and neat manuscript additions to the printed side notes a few pages edge dusted and a few corners turned down but a neat tight clean copy of this important Greek history. *Latin edition of Herodotus History translated by Lorenzo Valla and Ctesias Life of Homer, translated by Konrad Heresbach.
Booknumber
V69985
Price
Price: GBP 275.00 or USD 509.00
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