1715 · Lugduni Batavorum
by Herodotus
Lugduni Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans, 1715. Folio, pp. [20], 1000, [56] (final page blank); prefatory matter largely in Latin, Greek and Latin text in parallel column; inserted allegorical engraved title page showing a map of the Aegean Sea and the Peloponnese, printed title page in red and black; double-page engraved plate, woodcut initials, engraved tail-pieces, woodcut device on title; attractive contemporary binding of full blindstamped and embossed vellum, spine in 7 compartments, manuscript title in 1; slight cracking of the front joint at the top and bottom; in all a very good to fine copy. Dibdin, Introduction to...the Greek and Latin Classics (1827) II, pp. 22-23. Ebert 9547: "A new recension after a Florentine MS., which was certainly a good one, but which Gronovius followed so strictly, that he received its manifest errors into the text. Valla's translation, often altered, sometimes deteriorated. Gronovius's notes contain almost nothing but the most vehement and unbecoming sallies against his predecessors. As to the rest, it is well printed and not common."
(Inventory #: 49354)