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APPIANUS Alexandrinus

Rhomaikon Historion Ta Sozomena [Greek] / Romanarum historiarum quae supersunt ... commodis indicibus instruxit Johannes Schweighauser

Leipzig (Strassburg)
Weidmanns Erben & Reich
1785

€200 - €300

3 vol. in-8vo, [6], XL, [2], 907 pp ; [4], 930 pp ; [2], 922, [140] pp, engraved frontispiece in vol.
1. Printed in GREEK, with Latin commentaries. Fine copy. Beautiful uniform polished calf bindings, mottled edges (small accident to upper end of spine of vol. 1 & 3), otherwise attractive

Provenance:
heraldic bookplates Rev. Fred. Ekins and Sir Lambton Loraine.
Ref. VD18 11082305. Appian of Alexandria (c.95 - c.165): one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians. ""The Civil Wars"" concern mainly the end of the Roman Republic and take a conflict-based view and approach to history. Despite the lack of cited sources for his works, these books of the Roman History are the only extant comprehensive description of these momentous decades of Roman history (Wikipedia)

Greek History