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Continental and Illuminations
Orationes Aeschines et Demosthenis in Ctesiphontem et de corona seu pro Ctesiphonte. Cum interpretatione Dionysii Lambini. Ingolstadt, ex officina typographica Davidis Sartorii, (1595.)
Printer's device on title-page, Greek and Latin text on facing pages.Sm. 8vo. (170 x 100mm.). [6]ff. 464pp. [1]f. blank. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, historiated outer roll with half-length portraits of biblical figures, clasps and catches intact, r.e.
A finely preserved Greek and Latin edition of the rival speeches Against Ctesiphon and On the Crown of Aeschines and Demosthenes, translated and edited by the great French scholar Denys Lambin (1520-1572), and found in a delightful contemporary binding.VD16 A401. Schweiger I, p. 5. BMSTC (German), p. 6. Adams A258.
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