Historiæ libri IX et de vita Homeri libellus - Herodotus 483 BC-424 BC; Valla, Lorenzo c. 1407-1457; Heresbach, Konrad 1496-1576; Estienne, Henri 1528-1598 (Frankfurt Wechel, 1584)
The Histories, also known as The History of Herodotus, is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written in 430 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, 'The Histories' serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Greece, Western Asia and Northern Africa at that time. The Histories were at some point divided into the nine books that appear in modern editions, conventionally named after the nine Muses.
Lorenzo Valla was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator, scholar, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis. He is sometimes seen as a precursor of the reformation; Konrad Heresbach was a German Reformer, Calvinist, humanist and educator; Henri Estienne (1528-1598) was a French printer, philologist, Hellenist and humanist who published one of the most important lexica of the sixteenth century, the 'Thesaurus linguæ græcæ' (1572)
Contains an index
Ex libris Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526-1586; supralibros with coat of arms)
Embossed leather cover, with illuminated initials
Illi ex interpretatione Laurentio Vallae adscripta, hic ex interpretatione Conradi Heresbachij: vtraq. ab Henr. Stephano recognita. Ex Ctesia excerptae historiae. Apologia Henr. Stephani pro Herodoto. Accessit in hac editione Spicilegium Frid. Sylburgij, ad Henr. Stephanum virum clariss.
Keywords: Homeros -- 9th Century BC-8th Century BC; Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); 16th Century (1501-1600); History; Geography; Politics