Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 210
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
EUSEBIUS PAMPHILUS. Chronicorum canonum libri duo [with SAMUEL, Aniensis, Temporum usque ad suam aetatem ratio]. Latin translation by Yovhannes Zohrab and Angelo Mai. xxviii, 396; 111 pages, including collective half-title. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary 1/2 diced russia with gilt Signet Library arms on covers, artlessly rebacked, cover corners restored, endpapers renewed; contents clean. Milan: Regiis Typis, 1818

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first edition in latin of the early 4th-century A.D. Chronicon of Eusebius, "the greatest chronological work of ancient times" (Sarton), which had survived in its entirety only in Armenian. This edition also includes a Latin version of the 12th-century Armenian universal chronicle by Samuel of Ani. Sarton I, 357, and II, 448-49.