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Maître Pascal BLOUET

572 - Scaliger, Josephus Justus, *Opus de emendatione temporum* … …
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Estimate €50 - €100
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Scaliger, Josephus Justus, *Opus de emendatione temporum* … — Geneva 1629, folio (344 x 226 mm). (6) f. LII pp., (2) 784 pp., (24)f., 59 pp. (fragments of ancient texts to elucidate sacred chronology). Red morocco leather with the Peiresc mark. On the cover, the inscription reads ‘Aux Capucins de St Honoré’; in the centre is Peiresc’s cipher, N, K, the initials of his first names in Greek, as explained in an attached autograph letter by Victorien Sardou (estate of Louis-Armand Calliat) Full title: *Opus de emendatione temporum: Hac postrema editione, ex auctoris ipsius manuscripto, emendatius, magnaque accessione auctius*. With selected fragments from the ancient Greeks, which elucidate certain of the most obscure passages of sacred chronology and the Scriptures: with notes by Scaliger himself. — Coloniae Allobrogum, Typis Roverianis, M.DC.XXIX. [Geneva, Rovere, 1629]. Incomplete work
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About the sale Original comic strips and comic books, antique and modern books – Afternoon sale at 2 pm
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Auction time 09/09/2026 at 2:00 PM
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