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Amsterdam: Wetstenium, 1757. G-. 637 pp + index & catalogue. Parallel Latin and Greek text, annotated. Vellum spine with red & gilt leather title label, marbled boards. Engraved frontispiece. Red & black title page in Latin, half-title page in Greek. Boards & spine scuffed, wear to board edges, spine grubby. Some light foxing to pages. Bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. Otherwise a good tight copy. Size: 8½ x 5½ Inches

Amsterdam: apud Wetstenium, MDCCLVII [1757]. First Raphael Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (206 x 127mm). xlviii, 637, [199] pages, 5 (ads.); including half-title in Greek and added engraved title in red and black. Full-page engraved frontispiece of the personification of Victory. Folding engraved map of Alexander’s expedition to Asia (p. 4). Greek and Latin text in double columns, extensive footnotes; the translation and notes by Georg Raphel (1673-1740), German Lutheran theologian and writer. Contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink: “ARRIANUS de Expedit. Alex: G. RAPHELII”; (spine lightly darkened, covers slightly warped; some marginal toning and foxing, otherwise sound with map fully in tact). Late 18th and 19th century armorial bookplates of antiquarians William Beloe, F.S.A. (1756-1817) and T. S. Gosset of Trinity College Cambridge, (fl. 1812 and later), to front pastedown and leaves. Rear armorial bookplate of R. P. L. Booker, an English bibliophile of the early… Read More