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ARRIANUS, FLAVIUS. Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem et Historia Indica. Greek text with Latin translation and notes by Georg Raphel. Folding engraved map. xlviii, 637, [199] pages, including half-title and engraved additional title. 8vo, 206x127 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink, spine darkened and discolored, covers slightly warped; some marginal toning and foxing. Bookplates of William Below, F.S.A., T. S. Gosset, A.M., of Trinity College, Cambridge, and R. P. L. Booker. Amsterdam: apud Wetstenium, 1757
first raphel 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 fragments from writings by Arrian preserved in the Bibliotheca of Photius (see lot 130). Hoffmann I, 377.
