Auction 77 · Lot 61
LXXXVI annorum historia.
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- $75
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
NICETAS AKOMINATUS CHONIATES
printer
Joannes Oporinus
Place
Basle
Publication
1557
Description
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.
summary
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.
Touch discolored. 18th-century calf-backed marbled boards, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn. FOlio.
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