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HERODOTUS. Libri Novem. Basel, 1557.

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Basel: Officina Hervagina [Joannes Hervagius and Bernardus Brand, March, 1557]. Folio (309 x 200 mm). Printed in Greek, woodcut initials and printer's device on verso of final leaf. Old vellum. Condition: repair to title page, old inscription erased, marginal 19th century ink notations to title, other old notations throughout; intermittent toning; covers detached but holding with old linen tape, rebacked, spine worn. Provenance: 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). [Bound with:] Thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis et utilibus....Basel: Officina Hervagiana, 1540. Printed in Greek, woodcut initials and printer's device on verso of final leaf. The two works in one volume.

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