Polybiou tou Lykorta Megalopolitou Historiōn ta sōzemena. = Polybii Lycortae F. Megalopolitani Historiarum libri qui supersunt, /. interprete Isaaco Casaubono. Iacobus Gronovius recensuit, ac utriusque Casauboni, Ful. Ursini, Henr. Valesii, Iac. Palmerii & suas notas adjecit. Accedit Aineiou Taktikōn te kai poliorkētikon hypomnēma, peri tou, pōs chrē poliorkoumenon antechein. Aeneae, vetustissimi Tactici, commentarius de toleranda 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 3219271
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ; 8vo. Vol. 3 only. Vols. 1-2 shelved separately. 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)]; pasted over eighteenth-century early armorial bookplate of Richard Banner [Banner (b. 1696) of Little Aston Hall, sold library to Thomas Anson in about 1745]. Binding: eighteenth-century single panel calf binding; gold tooled spine; five raised bands; wants spine label.
Makers and roles
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE), author