Justini historiarium & Trogo Pompeio Lib XLIV cum notis Isaaci Vossii.
POMPEY TROGUE.
Justini historiarium & Trogo Pompeio Lib XLIV cum notis Isaaci Vossii.
Leiden: ex Officina Elzeveriana, 1640
12mo. (125 x 76 mm). Engraved frontispiece title by Cornelius Claesz Duysent. Some Greek letter at end. Contemporary vellum over paper boards. A little very light dust-soiling to top edge, otherwise a fine copy in a contemporary vellum binding. Near-contemporary ink title to spine, all edges speckled blue. A tiny bit bowed, corners, head and tail a little bumped and a couple of small stains to lower cover, but still fresh and attractive. Late 18th century engraved armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to upper pastedown.
FIRST ELZEVIER EDITION, second issue. Isaac Voss was a Dutch philologist and manuscript collector, Fellow of the Royal Society and court librarian to Queen Christina of Sweden. He amassed what has been called ‘the finest private library in the world’, and was apparently only 18 when he wrote the notes to this edition.
Pompey Trogue was a 1st century B.C.E. Roman historian and near-contemporary of Livy. His father was secretary and interpreter to Julius Caesar and Trogue was himself considered a polymath.
W 502n; B 2073; R 497; Copinger 2564.
POMPEY TROGUE.
Justini historiarium & Trogo Pompeio Lib XLIV cum notis Isaaci Vossii.
Leiden: ex Officina Elzeveriana, 1640
12mo. (125 x 76 mm). Engraved frontispiece title by Cornelius Claesz Duysent. Some Greek letter at end. Contemporary vellum over paper boards. A little very light dust-soiling to top edge, otherwise a fine copy in a contemporary vellum binding. Near-contemporary ink title to spine, all edges speckled blue. A tiny bit bowed, corners, head and tail a little bumped and a couple of small stains to lower cover, but still fresh and attractive. Late 18th century engraved armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to upper pastedown.
FIRST ELZEVIER EDITION, second issue. Isaac Voss was a Dutch philologist and manuscript collector, Fellow of the Royal Society and court librarian to Queen Christina of Sweden. He amassed what has been called ‘the finest private library in the world’, and was apparently only 18 when he wrote the notes to this edition.
Pompey Trogue was a 1st century B.C.E. Roman historian and near-contemporary of Livy. His father was secretary and interpreter to Julius Caesar and Trogue was himself considered a polymath.
W 502n; B 2073; R 497; Copinger 2564.
POMPEY TROGUE.
Justini historiarium & Trogo Pompeio Lib XLIV cum notis Isaaci Vossii.
Leiden: ex Officina Elzeveriana, 1640
12mo. (125 x 76 mm). Engraved frontispiece title by Cornelius Claesz Duysent. Some Greek letter at end. Contemporary vellum over paper boards. A little very light dust-soiling to top edge, otherwise a fine copy in a contemporary vellum binding. Near-contemporary ink title to spine, all edges speckled blue. A tiny bit bowed, corners, head and tail a little bumped and a couple of small stains to lower cover, but still fresh and attractive. Late 18th century engraved armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to upper pastedown.
FIRST ELZEVIER EDITION, second issue. Isaac Voss was a Dutch philologist and manuscript collector, Fellow of the Royal Society and court librarian to Queen Christina of Sweden. He amassed what has been called ‘the finest private library in the world’, and was apparently only 18 when he wrote the notes to this edition.
Pompey Trogue was a 1st century B.C.E. Roman historian and near-contemporary of Livy. His father was secretary and interpreter to Julius Caesar and Trogue was himself considered a polymath.
W 502n; B 2073; R 497; Copinger 2564.