Herodotus.

Estimate

400 - 600 GBP

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Description

Libri novem, quibus musarum indita sunt nomina... Ad haec... Georgii Gemisti... de iis quae post pugnam ad Mantineam gesta sunt, libri II. Una cum Ioachimi Camerarii praefatione, annotationibus, Herodoti vita... Basel: Officina Hervagina (Joannes Hervagius and Bernardus Brand, March 1557), text in Greek, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on final verso, title-leaf torn and repaired (just touching text) and an inscription erased

Thucydides. Thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis et utilibus... Accessit praeterea diligentia Ioachimi Camerarii, in castigando tum textu, cum commentariis, una cum annotationibus eius. Basel: Officina Hervagiana, 1540, text in Greek, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on final verso, small repair to title-leaf (not affecting text)

2 works in one volume, folio (316 x 205mm.), old vellum, manuscript annotations throughout, occasional light browning, rebacked, both joints broken (hinges intact)

Provenance

Elias Taddelius (1601-1660, professor at Rostock), inscription on title-page; H.B. Swete (1835-1917, biblical scholar and regius professor of divinity at Cambridge University), armorial bookplate dated 1890; Edward White Benson (1829-1896), gift from William Wigan Harvey, inscription on title-page dated 1851 at Trinity College Cambridge, and later armorial bookplate as archbishop of Canterbury

Literature

VD16 H2508 & T1113