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Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiographi libri novem musarum nominibus inscripti interprete Laurentio Valla. Accesserunt huic editioni plus minus nouem folia quae in primo libro à Laurentio exemplaris fortè vitio praetermissa iam primum à Conrado Heresbachio è Graeco suis locis sunt adiecta . Item. De genere vitaque Homeri libellus iam primùm ab eodem Heresbachio è Graeco in Latinum conuersus
1562réf. 71711Coloniae Cologne: Apud Maternum Cholinum Execudebat Godefridus Cervicornus Printed by Godefridus Cervicornus for Maternus Cholius 1562. Hardcover. Very Good. Coloniae Cologne Apud Maternum Cholinum Execudebat Godefridus Cervicornus Printed by Godefridus Cervicornus for Maternus Cholius 1562 first thus. Folio 24 index 274 pages. Contemporary quarter vellum; early ink titles to the spine and to the top and leading edges; covers worn; marginal pencilling small worm hole throughout; some leaves tanned; occasional marginal stains; in very good condition internally excellent. A handsome Sammelband containing Lorenzo Valla's authoritative Latin translations of Herodotus' 'Histories' and Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War' also published by Maternus Cholius. The second title bound before the Herodotus is: 'Thucydides Laurentio Valla interprete. Nunc postremò correctus & ex Graeco innumeris locis emendatus quemadmodum ex Praefatione in proxima pagina uidere licet'. Basileae Basel Impensis Henrici Petri et Materni Collini Henricus Petrus and Maternus Cholinus 1564. Folio xii 370 2 integral blank pages; in comparable condition. Provenance: Old ownership details to the first title page: 'Sum Jacobi a Wachtendunck 1616. Ex liberali donatione R.D. Wildhelmi Ludolfi V.C. Ex donatione Jacobi a Wachtendungk factus ex libris name crossed out and illegible'. VD16 H 2516 Herodotus; VD16 T 1122 Thucydides. Apud Maternum Cholinum [Execudebat Godefridus Cervicornus] [Printed by Godefridus Cervicornus for Maternus Cholius] hardcover
