De Tournes, printer.- Polyaenus. Stratagematum libri octo. Adiecta est etiam Latina versio, editio princeps, edited by Isaac Causabon, parallel Latin and Greek text, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some spotting and light staining, lightly browned, later vellum, yapp edges, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1569; and Obsequens, De Tournes, 1553, 16mo (2)
⁂ 'Isaac Casaubon was the first who gave us the Greek text of Polyaenus, from a very imperfect Ms., which he procured at a great expense. The preface affords an idea of the labour and trouble with which the work was composed.' (Dibdin).
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