- 3121
Crusius, Martin (1526-1607).
Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description
- Turcograeciae libri octo. Basel: Leonhard Ostein, [1584]
folio (314 x 199mm.), [44], 68, 73-538 (i.e. 534), [2]pp., parallel Greek and Latin text, illustration: woodcut printer's device on title-page and verso of final leaf, woodcut portrait of Crusius on verso of title-page, woodcut illustrations, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, binding: eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf, brown morocco lettering-piece, worming (affecting a few letters), staining, binding worn
Literature
Blackmer 428; Göllner 1770; VD16 C6153
Catalogue Note
Crusius was professor of Greek at Tübingen between 1559 and 1607. He corresponded with a number of Greeks in Constantinople and his Turcograeciae is a valuable witness to the life of the Byzantine Greeks under Turkish domination. The appendix is not present in this copy.