PHILES MANUEL De animalium proprietate 1730 ANTIGONUS of C

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PHILES, MANUEL. De animalium proprietate. Greek text with Latin translation by Gregor Bersmann and notes by Jan Cornelis de Pauw. [16], 347, [4] pages * ANTIGONUS of Carystus. Historion paradoxeon synagoge . . . Historiarum mirabilium collectanea. Greek text with Latin translation by Wilhelm Xylander and notes by him and others. xii, 284 pages. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, 197x151 mm, contemporary vellum boards, spine darkened with shelf label removed, stains on covers, contents relatively clean; and 208x172 mm, 19th-century boards, modern morocco back and corners, endpapers renewed, contents toned. Signature of the space medicine pioneer Constantine Generales, M.D., in the second work. Utrecht: Willem Stouw, 1730; Leipzig: Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1791

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Book-length poem on the characteristics of animals by a Byzantine author of the late 13th-early 14th century, and a collection of anecdotes about curiosities of natural history by an Athenian writer of the third century B.C. Hoffmann III, 61, and I, 182.