LXXXVI annorum historia.

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NICETAS AKOMINATUS CHONIATES

LXXXVI annorum historia.

<<First Edition.>> Greek text with Latin translation by <<Hieronymus Wolf.>> Printer's woodcut device of Arion riding the dolphin and playing his harp. Two volumes in one. Touch discolored. 18th-century calf-backed marbled boards, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn. FOlio.

Basle: Joannes Oporinus 1557

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $75

A work of 12th-century Byzantine history, that is, an account of the Eastern Roman Empire, commencing with an account of the 1204 sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.