Herodotus – Historiarum Libri IX (Reiz Edition, 2 Vols, 1817 & 1820, Greek/Latin)

Oxford & London: J. Parker et al., 1817 & 1820. Two volumes. Full calf bindings with raised bands and gilt spine labels. Edited by Friedrich Reiz, this scholarly edition presents the full Greek text of Herodotus’s Histories, with Latin editorial matter and index.

Condition: Good. Bindings solid but worn; spine leather chipped with surface abrasions. Volume II has cloth tape reinforcement to the inner hinge and partial cracking to the back hinge. Light foxing to pages; text remains clean and legible with few pencil markings in the margins. Ownership inscription of Daniel T. Sullivan, San Francisco attorney (dated 1880).

A complete and important 19th-century scholarly edition of the “Father of History.”

Ships safely boxed.