Polemon of Laodicea (c. 88-145) was a Sophist who won political influence at Smyrna by his eloquence. A historical work and certain speeches of his are lost but two surviving Declamationes printed here for the first time are evidence of his impassionist Asianist style. The Philostratus is the master work of Frederic and Claude Morel, the sons of Frederic Morel, the Royal Typographer and great Renaissance printer. Printed in very beautiful Greek type, it contains the collected works of the two Philostrati: Philostratus of Lemnos wrote the Life of Appolonius of Tyana, the mystic philosopher of the first century; the 'Images' of the younger Philostratus describe and explain 64 pictures, said to be collected in a gallery in Naples, and they exercised particular fascination for the Renaissance because of the possibility of iconographical, allegorical and emblematic interpretation. This copy is from the library of the famous Spanish bibliophile J. Gomez de la Cortina, Marques de Morante (1808-68).