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Logoi kai Epistolai [Greek] / Orationes et Epistolae Editio tertia

[Genève]
Samuel Crispin
1609

€160 - €240

8vo, [72], 844, [41] pp, woodcut printer's device. Dedicated to Marcus Fugger by Henri Estienne. The translator Hieronymus Wolfius has also written a biography of the author. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Old manuscript annotations. Foxing, wormholes in quire q. Contemporary vellum binding, soiled

Scarce edition, only 4 copies in USTC.

Provenance:
ms. ex libris Joannes Natalis Paquot ; J.H. Bormans. The work contains a.o. a collection of the orations directed to the rulers of Salamis on Cyprus, in which he advises rulers on how to rule best. Isocrates had a great influence on Cicero

Greek