Arrian of Nicomedia (Flavius Arrianus). De rebus gestis Alexandri regis. Translation from Greek into Latin by Bartolomeo Facio.

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The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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(SONCINO PRESS)

Arrian of Nicomedia (Flavius Arrianus). De rebus gestis Alexandri regis. Translation from Greek into Latin by Bartolomeo Facio.

<<FIRST LATIN EDITION.>> Marginal notations in an early hand. ff. 100. Few stains, some foxing, neat marginal repairs, signature excised in ink on title. 19th-century gilt- and blind-tooled straight-grain morocco, rubbed, spine sunned. Sm. folio. Housed in Valmadonna-custom fitted slip-case. Adams A-2011; Manzoni, Annali Tipografici dei Soncino 33.

Pesaro: Hieronymi Soncinatis (i.e. Gershom Soncino) 1508

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

Arrian’s second-century Anabasis of Alexander the Great, narrating in seven books Alexander’s military campaigns. Added here is an eighth book consisting of Arrian’s Indike, describing India and relating the voyage of Alexander’s friend, Nearchus, in the Persian Gulf. In his preface, the editor, Sigismundus Golphus praises the Jewish printer Hieronymi Soncino for his skill: He is “second to none in printing Hebrew and Chaldaic, and quite experienced in printing Latin”.