[Polybiou tou Lukorta megapolitou Historiôn ta sôzemena.] Polybii Lycortæ Megalopolitani Historiarum libri qui supersunt . interprete Isaaco Casaubono. Iacobus Gronovius recensuit, ac utriusque Casauboni, Ful. Ursini, Henr. Valesii, Iac. Palmerii & suas notas adjecit. Accedit ... Æneæ, vetustissimi tactici, commentarius de toleratione obsidione, cum interpretatione ac notis Isaaci Casauboni.
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3020405
Summary
Bibliographic description
3t. (t.1: [16],908p.; t.2: [10],909-1816p.; t.3: 462,77,[1]p.) . ill.. . 8vo. Vol. 3 has title-page and preliminaries not present in Belton House copy: 'Polybiou tou Lykorta Megalopolitou Historion tomos tritos. = Polybii Lycortae f. Megalopolitani Historiarum tomus tertius, .'. Vol. 3 pagination: [8], 462 p. (pp. [4]-[5] of the preface are blank except for a printed line at the head of the pages). Vol. 3 imperfect: wanting final 77, [1] p. Former shelfmarks: Kk/4 (in pencil), Kk.7.4-6 (ink).. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (after 1754) in each vol.: Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754].. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf bindings; double blind fillet border; gilt dotted roll on board edges. Rebacked in blind and gold-tooled calf.
Makers and roles
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE) Aeneas Tacticus Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614) Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716)