[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
Amsterdam
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3188535
Summary
Bibliographic description
3t. (t.1: [16],908p.; t.2: [10],909-1816p.; t.3: 462,77,[1]p.) : ill. ; 8vo. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Section removed from added titlepage fore-edge. Price on endpaper in pencil: 3 vol - 1-10-0. Provenance: eighteenth-century sepia armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough [i.e.Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, (1767-1818)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century single panel calf binding; gold tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE) Aeneas Tacticus Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614) Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716)