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"Historiarum libri qui supersunt ; Translated by I. Casaubon. Edited and annotated by J. Gronovius"

Amstelodami
ex off. J. Janssonii à Waesberge & J. van Someren
1670

€160 - €300

2 (on 3) vol. in-8vo, each part with a different engraved title. Parallel text in GREEK and Latin. Damp staining in the first quire of vol.
2. Without vol.
3. It is very rare to find all 3 volumes together. Contemporary calf bindings, spines richly gilt, corners bumped, mottled edges

Ref. Dibdin II, 352 ; Brunet IV, 790.
Provenance:
small stamp 'Pinto'. 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 Military history