APPIANUS, [Alexandrinus]. Περι αναβασεως Αλεξανδρου, ιστοριων βιβλια η.
APPIANUS, [Alexandrinus].
Περι αναβασεως Αλεξανδρου, ιστοριων βιβλια η. De expedit. Alex. Magni, historiarum libri VIII.
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1575
[bound with]
ARRIANUS, [Flavius].
De Expedit. Alex. Magni. Romanae Historiae Ρωμαικα... Rom. historiarum... De bellis civilibus libri V. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1592
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1592.
Folio, 18th century patterned calf, six raised bands, decorated gilt devices in compartments; contrasting red leather label gilt to spine; all edges red; marbled endpapers; [ii, blank], [i, title], [xi], 92, [91-198, misnumbered]; 46, [ii, blanks], 47-55, [54-68, misnumbered]; [xii, index]; [iii, blanks]; one title page only, with woodcut Estienne device; woodcut initials and headpieces; internally a near-fine example, the odd crease and finger mark; the binding rubbed along all edges and spine, lower right hand corner of upper board dented; some gouges patched with leather.
The second, but first complete edition of Arrianus. Estienne had published the first in 1551 before the Iberica and Hannibalica sections had been found, and added 72 pages of annotations. “The editio princeps had been published by Charles Estienne in 1551. In this second edition Henri Estienne incorporates the Iberica ("Wars in Spain") and Hannibalica ("Hannibalic Wars"), which had not yet been discovered when the editio princeps was published, and which he himself brought back from Italy... In his preface to the Annotationes Estienne boasts that Appian owes his survival entirely to the Estienne family..." [Schreiber]
Appian, (circa A.D. 95 - circa 165) a native of Alexandria, compiled, in the second century B.C., an ethnographic history of Rome, which stretched from the Republic to the time of Augustus. Divided into twenty-four books, it gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire. It was written before the year 165, with the river Euphrates mentioned as the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, suggesting that it was completed during the reign of Antoninus Pius. It describes the wars against the Gauls, the sack of Rome in 387/386 BCE, and Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. Valued especially for its elucidation on period of the civil wars, Appian was, arguably, the only ancient author who recognised the social causes of the Roman civil wars. Little is known about the historian himself. His autobiography is reported to have been written, but is now almost completely lost, meaning that much of what we know about the Roman historian is gleaned from the writings of Cornelius Fronto, tutor of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius.
The Anabasis of Alexander, by Arrian of Nicomedia, is considered by some to be the best source on the campaigns of Alexander the Great. It gives a broadly chronological account of Alexander’s reign, including notable descriptions of the sack of Thebes in 335 and the battle of the Granicus in summer 334 BC. It also describes Alexander’s travels in Egypt, including his visit to the oracle of Zeus-Ammon at Siwah during the winter 332/331 BC, through to the King’s questionable death (324–323 BC).
Friend of the emperor Hadrian, who appointed him to the Senate, it was his time in Athens that Appian became a pupil of Epictetus. Appian later became known as the ‘young Xenophon’ - a consequence of the similarity of this relationship to Epictetus as Xenophon had been to Socrates. All that is known about the life of Epictetus is due to Arrian, and his Encheiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus' philosophy. Of his eight extant works, only the Indica and the Anabasis are the only works completely intact.
Two incredibly important Estienne histories.
APPIANUS, [Alexandrinus].
Περι αναβασεως Αλεξανδρου, ιστοριων βιβλια η. De expedit. Alex. Magni, historiarum libri VIII.
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1575
[bound with]
ARRIANUS, [Flavius].
De Expedit. Alex. Magni. Romanae Historiae Ρωμαικα... Rom. historiarum... De bellis civilibus libri V. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1592
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1592.
Folio, 18th century patterned calf, six raised bands, decorated gilt devices in compartments; contrasting red leather label gilt to spine; all edges red; marbled endpapers; [ii, blank], [i, title], [xi], 92, [91-198, misnumbered]; 46, [ii, blanks], 47-55, [54-68, misnumbered]; [xii, index]; [iii, blanks]; one title page only, with woodcut Estienne device; woodcut initials and headpieces; internally a near-fine example, the odd crease and finger mark; the binding rubbed along all edges and spine, lower right hand corner of upper board dented; some gouges patched with leather.
The second, but first complete edition of Arrianus. Estienne had published the first in 1551 before the Iberica and Hannibalica sections had been found, and added 72 pages of annotations. “The editio princeps had been published by Charles Estienne in 1551. In this second edition Henri Estienne incorporates the Iberica ("Wars in Spain") and Hannibalica ("Hannibalic Wars"), which had not yet been discovered when the editio princeps was published, and which he himself brought back from Italy... In his preface to the Annotationes Estienne boasts that Appian owes his survival entirely to the Estienne family..." [Schreiber]
Appian, (circa A.D. 95 - circa 165) a native of Alexandria, compiled, in the second century B.C., an ethnographic history of Rome, which stretched from the Republic to the time of Augustus. Divided into twenty-four books, it gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire. It was written before the year 165, with the river Euphrates mentioned as the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, suggesting that it was completed during the reign of Antoninus Pius. It describes the wars against the Gauls, the sack of Rome in 387/386 BCE, and Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. Valued especially for its elucidation on period of the civil wars, Appian was, arguably, the only ancient author who recognised the social causes of the Roman civil wars. Little is known about the historian himself. His autobiography is reported to have been written, but is now almost completely lost, meaning that much of what we know about the Roman historian is gleaned from the writings of Cornelius Fronto, tutor of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius.
The Anabasis of Alexander, by Arrian of Nicomedia, is considered by some to be the best source on the campaigns of Alexander the Great. It gives a broadly chronological account of Alexander’s reign, including notable descriptions of the sack of Thebes in 335 and the battle of the Granicus in summer 334 BC. It also describes Alexander’s travels in Egypt, including his visit to the oracle of Zeus-Ammon at Siwah during the winter 332/331 BC, through to the King’s questionable death (324–323 BC).
Friend of the emperor Hadrian, who appointed him to the Senate, it was his time in Athens that Appian became a pupil of Epictetus. Appian later became known as the ‘young Xenophon’ - a consequence of the similarity of this relationship to Epictetus as Xenophon had been to Socrates. All that is known about the life of Epictetus is due to Arrian, and his Encheiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus' philosophy. Of his eight extant works, only the Indica and the Anabasis are the only works completely intact.
Two incredibly important Estienne histories.
APPIANUS, [Alexandrinus].
Περι αναβασεως Αλεξανδρου, ιστοριων βιβλια η. De expedit. Alex. Magni, historiarum libri VIII.
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1575
[bound with]
ARRIANUS, [Flavius].
De Expedit. Alex. Magni. Romanae Historiae Ρωμαικα... Rom. historiarum... De bellis civilibus libri V. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1592
[Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1592.
Folio, 18th century patterned calf, six raised bands, decorated gilt devices in compartments; contrasting red leather label gilt to spine; all edges red; marbled endpapers; [ii, blank], [i, title], [xi], 92, [91-198, misnumbered]; 46, [ii, blanks], 47-55, [54-68, misnumbered]; [xii, index]; [iii, blanks]; one title page only, with woodcut Estienne device; woodcut initials and headpieces; internally a near-fine example, the odd crease and finger mark; the binding rubbed along all edges and spine, lower right hand corner of upper board dented; some gouges patched with leather.
The second, but first complete edition of Arrianus. Estienne had published the first in 1551 before the Iberica and Hannibalica sections had been found, and added 72 pages of annotations. “The editio princeps had been published by Charles Estienne in 1551. In this second edition Henri Estienne incorporates the Iberica ("Wars in Spain") and Hannibalica ("Hannibalic Wars"), which had not yet been discovered when the editio princeps was published, and which he himself brought back from Italy... In his preface to the Annotationes Estienne boasts that Appian owes his survival entirely to the Estienne family..." [Schreiber]
Appian, (circa A.D. 95 - circa 165) a native of Alexandria, compiled, in the second century B.C., an ethnographic history of Rome, which stretched from the Republic to the time of Augustus. Divided into twenty-four books, it gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire. It was written before the year 165, with the river Euphrates mentioned as the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, suggesting that it was completed during the reign of Antoninus Pius. It describes the wars against the Gauls, the sack of Rome in 387/386 BCE, and Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. Valued especially for its elucidation on period of the civil wars, Appian was, arguably, the only ancient author who recognised the social causes of the Roman civil wars. Little is known about the historian himself. His autobiography is reported to have been written, but is now almost completely lost, meaning that much of what we know about the Roman historian is gleaned from the writings of Cornelius Fronto, tutor of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius.
The Anabasis of Alexander, by Arrian of Nicomedia, is considered by some to be the best source on the campaigns of Alexander the Great. It gives a broadly chronological account of Alexander’s reign, including notable descriptions of the sack of Thebes in 335 and the battle of the Granicus in summer 334 BC. It also describes Alexander’s travels in Egypt, including his visit to the oracle of Zeus-Ammon at Siwah during the winter 332/331 BC, through to the King’s questionable death (324–323 BC).
Friend of the emperor Hadrian, who appointed him to the Senate, it was his time in Athens that Appian became a pupil of Epictetus. Appian later became known as the ‘young Xenophon’ - a consequence of the similarity of this relationship to Epictetus as Xenophon had been to Socrates. All that is known about the life of Epictetus is due to Arrian, and his Encheiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus' philosophy. Of his eight extant works, only the Indica and the Anabasis are the only works completely intact.
Two incredibly important Estienne histories.