HISTORY by Herodotus, 1715

Herodotus.  HERODOTI HALICARNASSEI HISTORIARUM LIBRI IX MUSARUM NOMINIBUS INSCRIPTI. GR. & LAT. CUM INTERPRETATIONE LAURENTII VALLAE. EX MS. MEMBRANA ,EDICEA POST ALDI MANUTII, JOACH. CAMERARII, HENR. STAPHANI, GOTH. JUNGERMANNI, TH. GALE IN EDENDO OPERAS NON TANTUM ADJUTIS LOCIS, UBI AB VIRIS DOCTIS FENTIEBATUR CORRUPTELA, FED ETIAM GRAECISMO PER FINGULAS FERE PAGINAS REMOLLITO INDUSTRIA JACOBI GRONOVII, CUJUS ACCEDUNT NOTAE … EIUSDEM NARRATIO DE VITA HOMERI GR. LAT. INTERPRETE CONR. HERESBACHIO.  ACCEDUNT EXERPTA EX XENEPHONTE, STRABONE, DINONE, HERACIIDE CYMAEO, CLEARCHO, AGATHOCLE, CHERETE, PLUTARCHO, NYMPHODORO, DE PERSICIS, AEGYPTIIS, & INDICIS … Leiden: Apud Samuelem Lughtmans, 1715, (20) + 1000 + 53 pp, folio.  Frontispiece, one folding plate, one illustration in text, many head and tail pieces and decorative initials.  Title-pages printed in red and black.  Text printed in two columns, Greek and Latin.  Contemporary full calf, richly gilt spine, 6 raised bands, edges rubbed, but still an excellent, sold, and clean copy.  

Herodotus (Ca. 484 - 425 B.C.), Greek historian, called the Father of History, was born at Halicarnassus, Asia Minor. He traveled along the coast of Asia Minor to the northern is lands and to the shore of the Black Sea; he also at some time visited Mesopotamia, Babylon, and Egypt. By 447 B.C. he was in Athens, and in 443 he seems to have helped to found the Athenian colony of Thurii in Southern Italy, where he probably spent the rest of his life completing his history. That classic work, the first comprehensive attempt at secular narrative history, is the starting point of Western historical writing. Herodotus was the first writer to evaluate historical, geographical, and archaeological material critically. The focus of the history is the story of the Persian Wars, but the extensive and richly detailed background information puts Greece in its proper historical perspective. He discusses the growth of Persia into a great kingdom and traces the history and migration of the Greek people. Among his grand digressions are fascinating histories of Babylon, Egypt, and Thrace, as well as detailed studies of the pyramids and specific historical events. The value of the work lies not only in its accuracy, but in its scope and the rich diversity of information as well as the charm and simplicity of his writing - Columbia Encyclopedia. Estienne (Etienne) (Latinized as Stephanus) was a great family of Parisian and Genevan printers of the 16th and 17th century, distinguished through five generations in scholarship as well as in their craft. Henri Estienne (Stephanus), Jr. (1531? - 1598), was the greatest scholar of the family. He inherited his father's (Robert) press on the express condition that it should not be moved from Geneva. He was a well-trained scholar and devoted years to searching for manuscripts. Although humanism was far advanced, he, nevertheless, discovered numerous works of classical authors of which he issued first editions. His editions of Greek and Latin works are remarkable for their accuracy and textual criticism.

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