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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° (292 x 194mm). Collation: AA-RR8 SS4 (AA1r title in Greek and Latin with 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. (Some leaves slightly soiled, AA4 with marginal wear from removal of gloss, a few with marginal waterstains.) 18th-century mottled calf, gilt arms and initials PS on covers (rebacked with 19th-century calf in compartments, rubbed), g.e. Provenance: arms of a ? Spanish cardinal on covers; William Viscount Bateman (armorial bookplate)
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Renouard p.35; Isaac 12782; Adams H-394; Hoffmann II, 229.
Aldine 2° (292 x 194mm). Collation: AA-RR8 SS4 (AA1r title in Greek and Latin with 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. (Some leaves slightly soiled, AA4 with marginal wear from removal of gloss, a few with marginal waterstains.) 18th-century mottled calf, gilt arms and initials PS on covers (rebacked with 19th-century calf in compartments, rubbed), g.e. Provenance: arms of a ? Spanish cardinal on covers; William Viscount Bateman (armorial bookplate)
EDITIO PRINCEPS. Renouard p.35; Isaac 12782; Adams H-394; Hoffmann II, 229.