Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
DIODORUS SICULUS. Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Greek text with Latin translation and commentary by Lorenz Rhodoman. [32], 350, 351-54, 351-361, [62]; [12], 1013, [1] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 348x217 mm, modern tan calf with red morocco lettering piece; contents toned with occasional heavy foxing, mainly at beginning and end, general title trimmed along fore and bottom edges, rust hole through several leaves toward beginning causing slight text loss, blank upper outer corner of †6 restored, scattered ink blots. Bookplate of the Hackley Public Library on front pastedown, their stamp and accession number on title verso. Hanau: typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Joannis Aubrii, 1604

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first rhodoman edition of the extant portions of a 1st-century B.C. world history comprising books 1-5 on ancient Egypt, Assyria, Ethiopia, and Greece, and books 11-20 from the Persian invasion of Greece to 302 B.C. Hoffmann I, 558.