ISTOPION ?OGOI T� E?IGPAFOMENOI MOYSAI�Historiarum Libri IX Musarum Nominibus Inscripti Gr. & Lat. cum interpretatione Laurentii Vallae ... industria Jacobi Gronovii, cujus accedunt notae. etc
by HERODOTUS
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1715, 1715. Folio, in 4s. pp, [20], 1000, [55, 1bl]. Additional engraved title page (with date 1716), lacking half title. One double folding engraved plate. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Contemporary calf, spine with six raised bands. Six compartments decorated in gilt with French Royal arms of fleur-de-lys surrounded by a garland and surmounted by a crown. Brown morocco label to second compartment, lettered in gilt. Edges of boards decorated in gilt. All edges sprinkled red. In excellent condition with only very slight marking to the boards. Internally fine, beautifully crisp and fresh. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Thomas Hall and front free endpaper has ownership inscription "T.Hall C.C.C. Oxon. 1744". An immaculate copy of Luchtmans's handsomely printed Herodotus in the edition by the German scholar Johann Gronovius who was professor of Greek at Leiden where he was also the University Librarian.
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- Bookseller
- Voewood Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3926
- Title
- ISTOPION ?OGOI T� E?IGPAFOMENOI MOYSAI�Historiarum Libri IX Musarum Nominibus Inscripti Gr. & Lat. cum interpretatione Laurentii Vallae ... industria Jacobi Gronovii, cujus accedunt notae. etc
- Author
- HERODOTUS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1715
- Date Published
- 1715
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Holt, Norfolk
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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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