Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiographi libri novem, musarum nominibus inscripti, interprete Laurentio Valla. Accesserunt huic editioni plus minus nouem folia, quae in primo libro à Laurentio exemplaris fortè vitio praetermissa, iam primum à Conrado Heresbachio è Graeco suis locis sunt adiecta ... Item. De genere vitaque Homeri libellus, iam primùm ab eodem Heresbachio è Graeco in Latinum conuersus
Coloniae [Cologne], Apud Maternum Cholinum [Execudebat Godefridus Cervicornus] [Printed by Godefridus Cervicornus for Maternus Cholius], 1562 (first thus).
Folio, [24] (index), 274 pages.
Contemporary quarter vellum; early ink titles to the spine, and to the top and leading edges; covers worn; marginal pencilling, small worm hole throughout; some leaves tanned; occasional marginal stains; in very good condition (internally excellent).
A handsome Sammelband containing Lorenzo Valla's authoritative Latin translations of Herodotus' 'Histories' and Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War', also published by Maternus Cholius. The second title, bound before the Herodotus, is: 'Thucydides, Laurentio Valla interprete. Nunc postremò correctus, & ex Graeco innumeris locis emendatus, quemadmodum ex Praefatione in proxima pagina uidere licet'. Basileae [Basel], Impensis Henrici Petri et Materni Collini [Henricus Petrus and Maternus Cholinus], 1564. Folio, [xii], 370, [2] (integral blank) pages; in comparable condition. Provenance: Old ownership details to the first title page: 'Sum Jacobi a Wachtendunck 1616. Ex liberali donatione R.D. Wildhelmi Ludolfi V.C. Ex donatione Jacobi a Wachtendungk factus ex libris [name crossed out and illegible]'. VD16 H 2516 (Herodotus); VD16 T 1122 (Thucydides).
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