PETAVIUS, DIONYSIUS. (DENIS PÉTAU).

Rationarium temporum in partes Duas, Libros tredecim tributum. In quo aetatum omnium sacra profanáque historia Chronologicus probationibus munita summatim traditur. Editio Ultima. Nonnullis accessionibus auctio facta, & ab Auctore recognita.

Paris, Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1641. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Handwritten title to spine. remains of ties. Wear to backcover around lower corner. Light marginal browning. (24),703,(101),(4),291,(7) pp. With the name of the wellknown Danish historian C. paludan-Müller on front free endpaper.

Denis Pétau was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned age. Carrying on and improving the chronological labours of Joseph Justus Scaliger, he published in 1627 an Opus de doctrina temporum, which has been often reprinted. An abridgment of this work, Rationarium temporum, was translated into French and English, and has been brought down to the year 1849.

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