DICTYS CRETENSIS ET DARES PHRYGIUS, DE BELLO ET EXCIDIO TROJAE, IN USUM SERENISSIMI DELPHINI, CUM INTERPRETATIONE ANNAE DACERIAE. ACCEDUNT IN HAC NOVA EDITIONE NOTAE VARIORUM INTEGRAE; NEC NON JOSEPHUS ISCANUS, CUM NOTIS SAM DRESEMII. NUMISMATIBUS & GEMMIS, HISTORIAM ILLUSTRANTIBUS EXORNAVIT LUD. SMIDS, M. D. DISSERTATIONEM DE DICTYE CRETENSI PRAEFIXIT JAC. PERIZONIUS.
Amstelaedami: Apud Georgium Gallet, 1702.
Full Leather. An early eighteenth century copy Dictys’ and Phrygius’ accounts of the Trojan War, De Bello Trojano and De Excidio Trojae. Dares and Dictys were the favored source for the history of the Trojan War throughout the Medieval period. (The Classical Tradition, p. 442). Bookplate of Charles Dunster, an eighteenth century miscellaneous author, on the front pastedown. Discreet library blindstamp, affecting the two frontispiece plates. Title in red and black; six plates; engraved frontispiece; additional title page, engraved. Boards detached; binding reinforced at the spine with three leather straps. Leather label and devices in gilt in compartments on the spine. Full calf. (Grafton, The Classical Tradition, p. 442).
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