78 3073 Classical antiquity and neolatinism Heliodorus
- Endpapers lacking/ detached; a few lvs. sl. (ink)stained; partly sl. wormholed (mostly in margin). Binding in poor condition: leather dried; backstrip and top edge dam.; upper joint split (holding on cords); title in pen and ink on fore-edge.
= Schweiger p.131; Adams H 176; Graesse III, p.235: "L'éditeur s'est servi de quatre manuscr., à l'aide desquels il a ôté beaucoup de fautes et suppléé plusieurs lacunes. Toutes les éd. postérieures, à l'exception de celles de Coray, sont basées sur celle de Commelin." Rare bilingual edition of Heliodorus' Aethiopica, "the oldest and best of the Greek romances that have come down to us" (Encyclopaedia Britannica p.223), with the first Latin translation by S. WARSZEWICKI.
Gellius, A. Noctes Atticae. Geneva, J. de Tournes, 1621, (16),698,(124)p., woodcut title-vignette, later calf, sm. 8vo.
- Pastedowns detached; textlvs. from an Aristotle ed. used as free endpapers. Joints split(ting); dam. at backstrip and corners.
= With the owner's entry of Francis White (±1652-1715, fellow of Balliol College, Oxf. Univ.) on first blank. Schweiger p.378.