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Herodotus, Valckenaer Lodewijk Caspar (ed.)
Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX Musarum Nominibus Inscripti”
Amsterdam, Sumptibus Petri Schovtenii, 1763.
Folio, pp. [20], 868, 177, [67].
Edited by Valckenaer Lodewijk Caspar, with notes of Petrus Wesseling. The plates engraved by Francoise van Bleyswick after Hieronymus van der Mey.
Title-page printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title-page, stunning frontispiece with a map of Greece.
Full-page engraved plate in pp. 167, chapter ornaments and engraved initials, engraved vignettes within text of the second pagination.
Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns.
Condition: general browning and spotting. Folio, vellum over boards, gilt decorated with attractive gilt coat of arms, Dutch. 420mm x 270mm.
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