Lot 234
Themistocles. Epistolae ex Vetusto Codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae,, Rome, Lodovico Grignani, 1626.
Hammer Price: £200
Description
Themistocles. Epistolae ex Vetusto Codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae, woodcut arms of Pope Urban VIII on title, some light foxing and browning, some minor worming, mostly marginal, modern vellum, 4to, [Hoffmann III, 472; Schweiger I, 308], Rome, Lodovico Grignani, 1626.
⁂ First edition of the collected Epistolae by the brilliant Athenian general and controversial politician Themistocles, the hero of the battle of Salamis in 480, edited by Giovanni Matteo Cariofilo or Cariophyllis from Crete.
Description
Themistocles. Epistolae ex Vetusto Codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae, woodcut arms of Pope Urban VIII on title, some light foxing and browning, some minor worming, mostly marginal, modern vellum, 4to, [Hoffmann III, 472; Schweiger I, 308], Rome, Lodovico Grignani, 1626.
⁂ First edition of the collected Epistolae by the brilliant Athenian general and controversial politician Themistocles, the hero of the battle of Salamis in 480, edited by Giovanni Matteo Cariofilo or Cariophyllis from Crete.