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DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS

Ta Euriskomena, Istorika Te Kai Retorika, Syngrammata [Greek] / Scripta, Quae Extant, Omnia, Et Historica Et Rhetorica

Leizpig
Weidmannus
1691

€160 - €240

2 parts in 1 vol. in-folio (37 x 23 cm), (16), 792, 169, (1); (12), 280, 94 pp, title printed in red and black, large engraved title vignette. Text printed in two columns: GREEK and Latin. Age-toned, damp staining. Vellum PRIZE BINDING with the gilt coat of arms of the city of MIDDELBURG on both covers (above Pallas Medioburg), and on the spine, closing ties gone

Prov.: Bibl. Hageveldensis. Cf. Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding, II B, p. 663. Thucydides was very popular among Roman rhetoricians and historians. Dionysius (born c. 60 BC and died after 7 BC) presented himself as a critical historian of Thucydidean historiography