DIODORUS SICULUS. Bibliothecae historicae libri XV, de XL. Quorum V. priores Aegyptia, Asiae, Africae, Graeciae, insularum & Europae, antiquitates continent... Studio & labore Laurentii Rhodomani Cherusci. (I-II.) Hanoviae (typis Wechelianus, apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Ioannis Aubrii) 1604. Folio (349x215 mm.). (32), 1-361, (63); (12), 1-997 (pp. 389-300 wrongly bound after pp. 312), (3 blank), 999-1013, (1) pp. 2 titles with woodcut printer's device, last page with full-page woodcut printer's device. Contemporary brown full calf, worn, gilt border and decoration on middle of covers, gilt spine in seven compartments, damaged at foot, traces of label in upper compartment. First endpaper loose. Pp. 825/26 with tear in lower part. Some faint marginal staining, minor foxing. A few leaves in the beginning creased. Signature of U. Celsing on inside of upper cover. Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily was a Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history Bibliotheca historica, much of which survives, between 60 and 30 BC. It is arranged in three parts. The first covers mythic history up to the destruction of Troy, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from Egypt, India and Arabia to Greece and Europe. The second covers the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. The third covers the period to about 60BC. The title Bibliotheca, meaning 'library', acknowledges that he was drawing on the work of many other authors. (Wikipedia). Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.
DIODORUS SICULUS. Bibliothecae historicae libri XV, de XL. Quorum V. priores Aegyptia, Asiae, Africae, Graeciae, insularum & Europae, antiquitates continent... Studio & labore Laurentii Rhodomani Cherusci. (I-II.) Hanoviae (typis Wechelianus, apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Ioannis Aubrii) 1604. Folio (349x215 mm.). (32), 1-361, (63); (12), 1-997 (pp. 389-300 wrongly bound after pp. 312), (3 blank), 999-1013, (1) pp. 2 titles with woodcut printer's device, last page with full-page woodcut printer's device. Contemporary brown full calf, worn, gilt border and decoration on middle of covers, gilt spine in seven compartments, damaged at foot, traces of label in upper compartment. First endpaper loose. Pp. 825/26 with tear in lower part. Some faint marginal staining, minor foxing. A few leaves in the beginning creased. Signature of U. Celsing on inside of upper cover. Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily was a Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history Bibliotheca historica, much of which survives, between 60 and 30 BC. It is arranged in three parts. The first covers mythic history up to the destruction of Troy, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from Egypt, India and Arabia to Greece and Europe. The second covers the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. The third covers the period to about 60BC. The title Bibliotheca, meaning 'library', acknowledges that he was drawing on the work of many other authors. (Wikipedia). Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.
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