Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291
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Sale 2291 - Lot 15

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ARRIANUS, FLAVIUS. De expedit[ione] Alex[andri] Magni, Historiarum Libri VIII [and other texts]. Greek text with Latin translation by Bonaventura Vulcanius. [12], 198 [i. e., 200]; 68 [i. e., 70], [12] pages, including blank d6. Folio, 342x215 mm, 17th-century calf gilt with Laurin arms on covers, minor restoration at top of spine; contents clean apart from minor spotting on title. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1575
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first vulcanius edition of the principal early history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, written in the 2nd-century A.D. Also included are the author's Indica, a continuation dealing with India and the voyage from there to Persia by Alexander's officer Nearchus, and writings on Alexander by Plutarch. Hoffmann I, 377; Schreiber 195. This copy may have been bound for Count Henri-Florent Laurin (1618-62), whose large engraved obituary portrait by Pieter de Jode II after Abraham van Diepenbeke is mounted on the front pastedown. Cf. Jonghe d'Ardoye, Armorial Belge du Bibliophile, page 788.