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SCALIGER, JOSEPH JUSTUS. Opus de emendatione temporum. Some use of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Coptic type. [12], lii, [4], 784, [48], 59 pages, including half-title. Folio, 369x236 mm, contemporary stiff wrappers with spine title in ink, worn and shaken, top of spine chipped; occasional toning, half-title soiled, intermittent light dampstaining in upper margins; uncut. Armorial bookplate of Gaspare Negri, Bishop of Parenzo (1697-1778). Geneva: Pierre de la Rouvière, 1629
Later edition of Scaliger's pioneering 1583 treatise on historical chronology, the basis for the modern scientific study of the subject. Houzeau & Lancaster 12828.
