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HERODOTUS. Herodoti des aller fürnembsten unnd ältesten Geschichtschreibers Historia. German translation by Georg Schwartzkopff. [48], 449, [1] pages, including blank 4)(8. Folio, 333x201 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and one clasp (of 2), front cover additionally stamped A V K at top and 1593 at bottom, worn overall, rebacked with vellum; occasional browning and marginal dampstaining, scattered early underscoring and marginalia, minor restoration along fore and bottom edges of title. 19th-century signature of H. B. F. Mumhard. Frankfurt am Main: Nicolaus Basse, 1593
first schwartzkopff edition, the first complete version in German, loosely based on the Latin translation by Lorenzo Valla instead of the original Greek. Hoffmann I, 236.
