Estienne, Henri

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Estienne, Henri
Concisiones sive orationes Graecis et Latinisque historicis excerptae. [Without place [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570. in-folio (314 x 203 mm) of 10 ff.n.ch., 278 pp. [recte 288], 2 ff.n.ch., 194 pp. Mottled vellum, spine ribbed (17th century binding). Renouard, Estienne, 132:3; Schreiber, 175; Adams, C-2486. Original edition. "The Greek texts are accompanied by Latin translations (the majority by Estienne himself, others by Valla, Iobus Veratius, Politianus, et al.). The Greek historians include Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Arrian, and Herodian; among the Roman historians are Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Quintus Curtius, and Ammianus Marcellinus" (Schreiber) Copy having belonged to Nicolas de Bauffremont (1520-1582), baron of Sennecey, or to his son Claude (1542-1596), president of the nobility at the Estates General of Blois in 1588 and ardent Catholic. Light wetness. Provenance: Bauffremont (note at the bottom of the title page, 'Virtutem comitatus in honore Senesce', dated 1572) - Académie de Macon (wet stamp).
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