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HERODOTE - Herodoti Halicarnassei historiae lib. IX, & de vi…
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HERODOTE - Herodoti Halicarnassei historiae lib. IX, & de vi…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
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HERODOTE - Herodoti Halicarnassei historiae lib. IX, & de vita Homeri libellus ; illi ex interpretatione Laur. Vallae adscripta, hic
ex interpret. Conradi Heresbachii, utraque ab Henr. Stephano recognita ; ex Ctesia excerptae historiae. Icones quarundam
memorabilium structurarum ; apologia Henr. Stephani pro Herodoto ; eiusdem H. Steph. de hac sua editione distichon, Herodoti Latium possederat hactenus umbram, nunc Latium corpus possidet Herodoti (Geneva), Henri Estienne, 1566. In-folio, (16) ff, 256, 12 pp, (12) ff, 3 folding plates, numerous old annotations by a contemporary, half marble carmine with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, boards of the old binding in vellum cons.
RENOUARD 128.8. ADAMS H-403. The three folding plates represent the fortress of Semiramis, the gardens and the tower of Babylon. Some copies have a fourth plate showing a general view of the city. First edition by Estienne of the translation by Lorenzo Valla (1405-1457). Also includes a Latin translation of the Life of Homer by the German humanist Konrad Heresbach (1496-1576), as well as a draft of the Apologie pour Hérodote published in French the same year in a much expanded version, intended to defend Herodotus from the accusations of falsehood long levelled against the historian.
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