Herodotus

Super-Chancery folio (317 x 204mm.), text in Greek, woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, ruled in red, early nineteenth-century diced calf, many leaves reinforced in gutter (occasionally causing some tearing), gutter somewhat stained, rebacked retaining worn parts of original spine

"Sum Adami Clerici & amicorum", inscription on old  flyleaf

Censimento 16 CNCE 22655; Renouard 1502:8; Texas 55; UCLA 50

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Editio princeps of Herodotus's history of the Persian Wars, issued by Aldus in the same year as his editio princeps of Thucydides, using the same paper stocks and typeface. Aldus's text is considered superior to Valla's Latin translation of 1474 (lot 198) because he had access to different manuscripts (he edited this work himself), and in his preface he states the validity of Herodotus as an historical source, despite its reputation as a text full of lies and errors.