1644 2nd Edition , Vellum

GRAECORUM RESPUBLICAE AB UBBONE EMMIO DESCRIPTAE

By Ubbo Emmius

Illustrated By: N/A

Format: Hardcover, Vicesimo-quarto or “twenty-fourmo” (24mo 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 110 x 70),Pages 719

Language: Latin

Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Ex Officina Elzeviriana [Elzevir], Lugduni Batavorum

Synopsis: Parts 1 & 2 bound together in 1 volume, pt 1 engraved title page dated 1632, pt 2 printed title page dated 1644, 413,[3],300,[3]pp, 24mo (small 16mo) - pocket sized

Part 1 covers in four chapters Athens/Attica (chapters 1 & 2) and Sparta/Laconia (chapters 3 & 4).

Part 2 treats in 19 chapters the other Greek states (in Greece, as well as in Italy and Asia Minor): Carthago, Crete, Argos, Thebes, Corinth, Syracuse, Corcyra, Samos, Chios, Rhodos, Achaean Confederacy, Aetolia, Acarnania, Epirus, the Amphictyonic Confederacy, Massalia / Marseille, Locris (Calabria, Italy) and the Lycian Confederacy).

Ubbo Emmius [1547 - 1625] was born in East Frisia. He was a historiographer who became in 1614 the first rector of the Academy of Groningen in the Netherlands. He had studied at the Rostock University and later in Geneva with the Calvinist Theodorus Beza, by whom he was greatly influenced.

SKU: BTETM0001995

Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg