HERODOTUS. Histoire des neuf livres. Plus un recueil de George Gemiste dict Plethon, des choses avenuës depuis la iournée de Mantinee. Le tout trad. en François par P. Saliat. Paris, C. Micard, 1580. 572 [= 472 lvs., (skipping lvs. 345-444 but text complete)]. Title within fine woodcut borders. 16°. Finely bound in 19th cent. gilt and panelled crushed red mor., both covers with corner fleurons within (double) fillet borders, gilt turn-ins and edges of covers, gilt and ribbed spine, edges and endpaper marbled. (Joints partly splitting (upper joint worse), upper edge of title and following few lvs. very professionally strengthened w. very thin paper, partly waterwrinkled/waterstained, but an acceptable copy of a charming booklet).
An attractive copy of a fine late 16th-century pocket-edition. The chapters are indicated by the names of the 9 Muses: Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsoicore, Erato, Polymnia, Urania and Calliope.€ 120
result € 160