Shelfmark
Fb.9.10
Author
Uniform title
[Varia historia. Latin & Greek]
Title
Aeliani Variae historiae libri XIIII. : Item, rerumpublicarum descriptiones ex Heraclide. Cum Latina interpretatione Iusti Wlteij Wetterani, vtriuq[ue] è regione accommodata, & ad Græcu[m] exemplare multo quàm antehac emendatius, nunc denuò quàm diligentissimè recognita.
Varying form of title
Variae historiae libri XIIII
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Lyon]. : Apud Ioan. Tornaesium, typogr. reg. Lugd., M.D.XXCVII. [1587]
Physical description
[16], 460, [20] p. ; 16mo.
Language
Greek text with parallel Latin translation.
Note
Translation of Aelian by Justus Vultejus, of Heraclides by Niels Krag.
Note
"Ex Heraclide de politiis" [extracts from the Politiae of Aristotle by Heraclides Lembus, formerly ascribed to Heraclides Ponticus]: p. 428-460.
Note
Title information enclosed within a decorative woodcut border; head-pieces; initials.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Text in double columns.
Note
Printer's device on verso of final page.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Ownership inscription on t.p.: "Ric: [H?]ate-Warre".
Provenance
Ownership inscription on t.p.: "sum ex libris Ear. Lem.".
Binding
Contemporary dark brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet borders with oval centrepiece; blind tooled single fillet decoration on spine, with hatching on board edges at tail end next to spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters; pastedowns of printed material in gothic type.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Db.7.6, Db.7.3, Ef.8.20, Ef.8.19.
Subject
Political science Early works to 1800.
Subject
History, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Greece Politics and government Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Tournes, Jean de, 1539 - 1615 printer.
Added entry--name
Krag, Niels, ca. 1550 - 1602 translator.
Added entry--name
Vultejus, Justus, ca. 1523 - 1575 translator.
Added entry--name
Aristotle Politics.
Added entry--name
Heraclides Lembus. Lembus. De politiis. Latin & Greek.
Added entry--place
France Lyon.
Language code
grc lat grc
Identifier
B27887