DIODORUS, SICULUS.

(Opera). En damus Diodori Siculi Historici Graeci, quae nunc quidem extare noscuntur opera, nempe De Illustrium Regum Philippi, & Alexandri ... praeclare factis / Bartholomaeo Cospo Bononiensi interprete ; De fabulosis Aegyptiorum gestis ... / a Pogio Florentino latinitate donatos. Ioannis Monachi, ex libris historiarum suarum de vita Alexandri / ab eodem Bartholomaeo versum. Bocatii aliquot insignium foeminarum quarum apud varios autores crebro fit memoria, historias, ex eiusdem / Nunc denuo diligenter recognita, & à mendis quibus hactenus laborabant, studiosè uindicata.

Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1531.

Small folio. Contemp. full blindstamped vellum. Spine defective with old repairs (old leather pasted on spine, leather cracking). remains of ties. (24),363 (wrongly paginated 374),(1) pp. Printers large wood-cut device at last leaf verso. Many fine wood-cut initials throughout (Holbein ?). Very faint dampstain to a few leaves in Index, otherwise internally clean and fine, good paper, wide margins.

Early Diodorus-edition, printed by the famous Basel printer Henricus Petrus (1508-1579), best known as the printer of Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia".

VD 16. D 1827. - BM (German Books): 1306. m. 3. (I).

Order-nr.: 48423