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DIOGENES LAERTIUS; et al. De vitis, dogmatis et apophthegmatis clarorum philosophorum libri X [with Hesychius, De iisdem philosophis, and Pythagoreorum philosophorum fragmenta]. Greek text with Latin translation by Ambrogio Traversari, Hadrianus Junius, and Willem Canter, and notes by Isaac Casaubon and Junius. 16, 884, 7-88, 120, [4], 47, [23] pages, including blanks Z7-8; lacks blank 4E4 and the 169-page final part containing the text of Eunapius, De vitis philosophorum et sophistarum. 8vo, 170x107 mm, contemporary brown calf gilt with arms of Thomas de Morand, Baron du Mesnil-Garnier (1584-1622; Olivier 2134), spine ends damaged, rear cover corners wormed; light marginal dampstaining through most of volume, occasional browning. Geneva: Samuel Crispin, 1616
Enlarged reprint of Henri Estienne's 1570 edition of the first history of early Greek philosophy, an important source for the lives and thought of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and others, first published circa 1472. The original Greek text first appeared in 1533. Hoffmann I, 565.
