Heliodorus (Emesenus, Bishop of Tricca) L'Histoire Ethiopique...contenant dix Livres traictant loyalles & pudiques Amours de Theagenes Thessalien, & Chariclea Ethio-pienne, translated by Jacques Amyot, collation: A-Z8 AA-RR8, woodcut head-piece and decorative initials, occasional spotting or very light foxing, gilt endpapers and pastedowns, 19th century dark green roan, gilt, flat spine in compartments with lattice decoration, covers with outer filet border and inner Greek key border, little rubbed, g.e., 16mo (book block 113 x 71mm.; binding 120 x 82mm.), Paris, Etienne Groulleau, 1560 [colophon: Acheué d'imprimer le Lundy treziesme iour de Nouembre 1559]. ⁂ A rare edition of this Greek novel. USTC lists only two copies (BL and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek). The BnF records an edition of 1599 by the same printer, but seemingly with only 123 ff.. Literature: Not in Adams. Provenance: 'Edward White, Bought at Sotheby's - 8/-' (pencil inscription to front free endpaper).
Heliodorus (Emesenus, Bishop of Tricca) L'Histoire Ethiopique...contenant dix Livres traictant loyalles & pudiques Amours de Theagenes Thessalien, & Chariclea Ethio-pienne, translated by Jacques Amyot, collation: A-Z8 AA-RR8, woodcut head-piece and decorative initials, occasional spotting or very light foxing, gilt endpapers and pastedowns, 19th century dark green roan, gilt, flat spine in compartments with lattice decoration, covers with outer filet border and inner Greek key border, little rubbed, g.e., 16mo (book block 113 x 71mm.; binding 120 x 82mm.), Paris, Etienne Groulleau, 1560 [colophon: Acheué d'imprimer le Lundy treziesme iour de Nouembre 1559]. ⁂ A rare edition of this Greek novel. USTC lists only two copies (BL and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek). The BnF records an edition of 1599 by the same printer, but seemingly with only 123 ff.. Literature: Not in Adams. Provenance: 'Edward White, Bought at Sotheby's - 8/-' (pencil inscription to front free endpaper).
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