Title in Greek: Herodoti Libri nouem quibus Musarum indita sunt nomina Musarum nomina Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Tersichore, Erato, Polymnia, Vrania, Calliope

by Herodotus

$9,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Venetiis: in domo Aldi mense Septembri, 1502. Editio princeps of Herodotus's history of the Persian Wars, folio approx. 303 xz 200 mm. , 138 of 140 leaves, collating AA-RR⁸ -II1, -II7 SS⁴; Greek type; woodcut anchor & dolphin device on title page and verso of final leaf, initial spaces, with guide letters; 18th-century calf, gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments, label missing in 1; pastedowns loosening, calf split along the fore-edge of the upper

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