Abbey Antiquarian Books[Abbey Logo]

119 Northwick Business Centre
Blockley, Moreton-in-Marsh
Glos. GL56 9RF, UK

tel:  +44 1386 701133     e-mail:  books@abbeybook.com



Browse Books by Catalogue:
1. Antiquarian (before 1700)
2. Antiquarian (1700-1900)
3. Children's Books (before 1900)
4. Children's Books (after 1900)
5. Pop-ups and Movables
6. Paper Dolls
7. Bewick and Woodengraving
8. Fable and Emblem Books
9. Art and Collecting
10. Biography
11. Classics (Greek/Latin)
12. Cookery
13. Crime Fiction
14. English Topography
15. Fiction
16. History
17. Medical
18. Military
19. Natural History
20. Poetry
21. Plays
22. Royalty
23. Science and Technology
24. Sport
25. Travel
26. Foreign Language Books.
 
 
 

Catalogue of Antiquarian Books (before 1700)

Order this Book:  click here to make your purchase through our secure server now.

In our Catalogue this is Booknumber V69985

Author Herodotus
Title 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
Picture [No Picture Available]

Send us an enquiry about this Book:                     Visa MC

Order this Book:  click here to make your purchase through our secure server now.



Thank you for visiting www.abbeybook.com

John and Anne Adye