Author: [(Gale, Thomas, ed.:)]

Title: Opuscula Mythologica. Physica et Ethica. Gr?ce et latine. Seriem eorum sistit pagina pr?fationem proxime sequens.

Publication: Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1688.

Description: 8vo., pp.[xxx], 7-752, [viii]. Additional engraved title-page, printed title-page in red and black, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Occasional tiny marginal notes, some fore-edges unopened. Top of head margin very faintly toned. Vellum prize binding, spine gilt, gilt centrepiece of arms of Leiden to each board, edges sprinkled red. Spine a little grey, some smudgy marks, centrepiece stamped to front board so emphatically it has gone through the vellum in a few spots, silk ties lost except one, which is tucked into the rear endpapers, pastedowns lifted and a little creased, still very good.

The better second edition, revised and expanded from the 1671 first, of Thomas Gale's most important collection of fragments and small works by classical authors including Eratosthenes, Heraclitus, Heraclides, Theocritus, and Timaeus, with facing Latin translations.

Bibliography: Brunet IV, 198 ("Bonne ?dition"); Graesse V, 31; Schweiger I, 133 & 221.

Reference Number: [55094]

Price: £450

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