1838 · Paris :
by BUCHON, J. A. C. (Jean Alexandre C.) (1791-1846) (editor); POLYBIUS (20-118 BC); HERODIAN (170-240); ZOSIMUS (460-520).
Paris :: Auguste Desrez, 1838., 1838. Half-title: Pantheon Litteraire. Litterature Grecque. Histoire. Tall 8vo. XIV, [2], 768 pp. Text in double columns. Early quarter calf, spine stamped in ornate gilt design incorporating the title, marbled paper over boards, marbled endsheets, all edges marbled; extremities scuffed, short crack on upper hinge. Very good. An edition of "the first military writers of antiquity." Buchon studied in Bourges, and then became a tutor in England and in 1818 published a Voyage to Ireland. In 1822, he translated the volume of Greek Antiquities by Robinson.
(Inventory #: AH1435)