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Istorion ta sozomena. Polybij Lycortae F. Megalopolitani Historiarum libri qui supersunt. Isaacus Casaubonus ex antiquis libris emendauit, Latine vertit, & commentarijs illustravit.
Paris
Jérôme Drouart
1609
€200 - €300

In-folio (35,3 x 22 cm), [60] 1080 [32]; 151 pp, title printed in red and black, woodcut printer's mark on title. Parallel text in two columns: Greek and Latin. Latin translation by Isaac Casaubon. Some damp-staining (worse at the end of the volume) but a good copy. Manuscript note on the author on first fly-leaf. Boards in vellum with blind tooling, spine in calf, with 5 raised bands, lacking closing ties

Heraldic bookplate Edward Winnington. Réf. Brunet IV, 789 ; Dibdin II, p. 350: ""A most excellent edition"". Isaac Casaubon was one of the leading scholars of the era ; his second wife was the daughter of Henri Estienne, they had seventeen children

Greek History