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EUSEBIUS Caesariensis

De evangelica praeparatione a Georgio Trapezuntio e Graeco in Latinum traductus

Augsburg
Heinrich Gran, Johann Reynmann
1522

€800 - €1.200

4to, 354 pp, title in beautiful woodcut border, woodcut initials. Condition: marginal wormholes in the first lvs, pale marginal damp staining on some lvs, slightly age-toned. Modern vellum binding, red edges

Ref. VD16 E 4299. The translator George of Trebizond (1395-1486) was a Byzantine Greek humanist. This translation was first published in 1470. ""In this version the whole of the fifteenth book is omitted; yet it obtained great reputation, as was shown by its being reprinted nine or ten times during the 15th century

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