Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiae libri IX : et De vita Homeri libellus

Herodotus, Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457, Heresbach, Conrad, 1496-1576, Estienne, Henri, 1460?-1520, Sylburg, Friedrich, 1536-1596, Fisher, Sidney T. (Sidney Thomson), 1908-1992 (bookstamp) · 1595 · Francofurti : Apud Andreae Wecheli · 38 pictures

This is a Latin edition of Herodotus's nine books of histories with a life of Homer, printed in Frankfurt in 1595 by Andreas Wechel for scholars and readers of classical history. Its pictures are repeated woodcut initial letters, the large I and T set in dense scrolling foliage with rosettes and leaves, which a designer could take as a model for decorative capitals framed by vine and acanthus-like ornament.

History, Ancient

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