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Title: [Opera - 2 volumes bound together] Author: Herodotus & Thucydides Place: Basil Publisher: Officina Hervagiana Date: 1557 & 1540 Description: Includes: Herodutus Libri Novem, quibus musarum indita sunt nomina... [20], 310, [2] pp. 1557. * Thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis et utilibus... [24], 225, [blank leaf], 178, [4] pp. Together, 2 volumes bound together. (folio) 12¼x8, old vellum. Sixteenth century editions of the two great Greek historians, with title-pages in Greek and Latin, prefaces in Latin, the main texts in Greek. With occasional old ink marginalia and underlinings, more extensive in the Thucydides, in an intriguing scholarly miniscule hand. Herodotus title-page with ms. notes in Greek, ownership signatures of Elias Taddelius and Edward W. Benson. With two bookplates. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers worn and discolored, joints cracked with earlier repairs; Herodutus title-page darkened and soiled, a few repairs including 2½x1" patch with portions relettered, some minor soiling and aging within, else very good. Item number: 184540