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HERODOTUS. Historiarum Libri IX. Edited by P.Wesseling, T.Gak, J. Gionovius, and L.C.Valckenaer. Amsterdam: Peter Schouten, 1763.
2 (405 x 238 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plate and several vignettes. Contemporary English red morocco gilt, broad gilt borders to covers, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (slightly rubbed). Provenence: Sophia Streatfeild (bookplate); Joseph M. Gleason (bookplate).
SOPHIA STREATFEILD'S COPY, WHOSE LIBRARY WAS MUCH ADMIRED FOR ITS FINE BINDINGS BY DR. JOHNSON. 'dition fort bien imprime, et une des meilleurs que l'on ait de cet historien' (Brunet, III, 123).
2 (405 x 238 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding plate and several vignettes. Contemporary English red morocco gilt, broad gilt borders to covers, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (slightly rubbed). Provenence: Sophia Streatfeild (bookplate); Joseph M. Gleason (bookplate).
SOPHIA STREATFEILD'S COPY, WHOSE LIBRARY WAS MUCH ADMIRED FOR ITS FINE BINDINGS BY DR. JOHNSON. 'dition fort bien imprime, et une des meilleurs que l'on ait de cet historien' (Brunet, III, 123).