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HERODOTUS (5th century B.C.). Libri Novem, quibus Musarum indita sunt nomina, in Greek. Ed. Aldus Manutius. Venice: Aldus Manutius, September 1502.
Aldine 2° (312 x 203 mm.). Collation: AA-RR8 SS4 (AA1r title in Greek and Latin and printer's woodcut device, A1v editor's letter to Johannes Calpurnius, AA2r text, SS4r register and colophon, SS4v printer's device. 140 leaves. Greek type. All pages within red rule-frames. (Small defect to MM3v, occasional staining, early manuscript marginalia faded.) Late 18th-century blue morocco gilt (worn). Provenance: George Becher Blomfield (bookplate).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Renouard p. 35; Isaac 12782; Adams H-394; Hoffmann II, 229.
Aldine 2° (312 x 203 mm.). Collation: AA-RR8 SS4 (AA1r title in Greek and Latin and printer's woodcut device, A1v editor's letter to Johannes Calpurnius, AA2r text, SS4r register and colophon, SS4v printer's device. 140 leaves. Greek type. All pages within red rule-frames. (Small defect to MM3v, occasional staining, early manuscript marginalia faded.) Late 18th-century blue morocco gilt (worn). Provenance: George Becher Blomfield (bookplate).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Renouard p. 35; Isaac 12782; Adams H-394; Hoffmann II, 229.