Vetus Graecia, . illustrata studio & operâ Ubbonis Emmii Frysii, ... Opus distinctum in tomos tres: I. Descriptionem habet regionum à Graecis habitatarum, cum adjunctis insulis: II. Complectitur res gestas Graecorum: III. Repraesentat statum ac formam praecipuarum ejus gentis rerumpublicarum: itemque iudicium amphictyonicum, & solemnes ludos, statis temporibus apud Graecos recurrentes.
Ubbo Emmius (1547-1625)
Category
Books
Date
1626
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3093272
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. . 8vo.. Vols. 1 and 2 bound in 1 v. Former shelfmarks: Ii/8 (in pencil), Q.6.12-13 (ink, on bookplates), Ii.4.10-11 (ink). manuscript price on vol. 3 front fly-leaf: "2 voll. 4s. 6d.".. Provenance: Armorial bookplate in both vols.: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770), younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770].. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border, with quarter double blind fillet; single gilt fillet on board edges; blind fillets and gilt title label on spine. Edges stained red.
Makers and roles
Ubbo Emmius (1547-1625) Wesselus Emmius