Lot pagina - Van De Wiele Auctions

HERODOTOS - SCHWEIGHAEUSER, Johannes (ed.)

Herodoti Musae sive Historiarum Libri IX

Londoni
T. Davison / Richard Priestley
1824

€80 - €140

8 vol. in-8vo, with a steel-engraved portrait and an engraved world map in vol. 1. Vol. 6 contains the Lexicon by Aemilius Portus, vol. 7+8 contain the History of Herodotus literally translated into English. English leather bindings from the period (spines damaged, hinges broken), sprinkled edges

Follows the edition from Strasbourg, 1816. Cf. Dibdin II, 26-27: ""We have here perhaps the very best edition of Herodotus extant""; Hoffmann II, 232; Schweiger I, 139. ""Bonne édition (donnée par le célèbre helléniste alsacien Jean Schweighaeuser), qui peut tenir lieu de presque toutes celles qui l'ont précédée."" (Brunet III, 124) Prov. heraldic bookplate, with the motto Tenax et fidelis

Classics Humanism