Beschreibung:

The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, in Fifteen Books. The First Five, contain the Antiquities of Egypt, Asia, Africa, Greece, the Islands, and Europe, the Last Ten, an Historical Account of the Affairs of the Persians, Grecians, Macedonians, and other Parts of the world ... made English, by G. Booth, 1st edition, 1710, 3 maps of which 2 folding ('Antient Sicele according to the Description of Philip Cluevius'; 'The Map of Antient Greece expressing especially the places mentioned in Thucydides by Tho. Hobbes'; 'Asia, veteribus cognitae tabula'), bookplate neatly removed from front pastedown, main title browned, marked and chipped, variable spotting and browning, Sicily map spotted, short closed tear to inner margin of Greece map, 'The Last Ten Books' divisional title misbound after 4X2, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, sides slightly worn, folio in fours, together with a copy of the 'second edition', 1721, title page printed in red and black, engraved bookplate, small tide-mark to bottom edge of Sicily map, map of Greece substantially torn away, Asia map clean, contemporary calf, rubbed, extremities worn, joints cracked and held by cords, folio in fours Wing D1512; the accompanying 'second edition', published in 1721, is really 'a reissue of the 1700 edition with a cancel title page' (ESTC). Booth's translation was the first complete edition in English of the Bibliotheke, which is an important source for the Middle East in antiquity. (2)