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Herodotus [Historiarum] Libri Novem,

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text in Greek, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, manuscript annotations, title torn and repaired, slightly affecting the text, Basel, Officina Hervagina colophon: Joannes Hervagius and Bernardus Brand, March 1557 bound with Thucydides. Thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis et utilibus... Accessit praeterea diligentia Ioachimi Camerarii, in castigando tum textu, cum commentariis, una cum annotationibus eius, text in Greek, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, manuscript annotations, small repair to title (not affecting text), Basel, Officina Hervagiana, 1540, together 2 works in one vol., old vellum, rebacked, both joints broken (hinges intact), folio.

***From the library of the archbishop of Canterbury. An interesting association copy, the provenance is as follows: Elias Taddelius (1601-1660, professor at Rostock, inscription on title-page); H.B. Swete (1835-1917, biblical scholar and regius professor of divinity at Cambridge University, armorial bookplate dated 1890); Edward White Benson (1829-1896, gift from William Wigan Harvey, inscription on title-page dated 1851 at Trinity College Cambridge, and later armorial bookplate as archbishop of Canterbury)..

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