1608 ISOCRATES Attic Orator ANCIENT Greek CLASSICS

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[ANCIENT GREEK], [ATTIC ORATORY], [RHETORIC], [CLASSICS], ISOCRATES. [Greek Title] Isocratis Orationes et Epistolae Cum Latina Interpretatione Hieronymi Wolfii, Ab Ipso Postremum Recognita.. Flexiae, [i.e. La Fleche]. Apud Jacobum Reze Typographum Regium, 1608. Editio Postrema. Small 8vo.[122], 688pp (with the index bound to front). Collated and complete, with signatures *8, a8, c8, i8, A-Zz8. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, lettered in manuscript to spine (small paper label to head, another removed from foot). Rubbed, marked to spine, loss to majority of yapp edges. A tight copy. Woodcut printer's device to title, numerous headlines, initial leters throughout. Occasional marking. Ink stamps (of the Seminaire Des Mission Etrangeres) and early ink inscription (F. Gonet?) to title, occasional marginal paper flaw or tear, flaw to leaf C, affecting a few words on three lines. Printing flaw to Ss3 due to paper folding, text transposed without loss. Worming to final leaf, affecting a single word to both recto and verso. The classical text printed in two columns, in the original Greek with parallel Latin translation/interpretation (by Hieronymus Wolfius (1516-80)). Isocrates (436-338), Ancient Greek rhetorician and one of the ten Attic Orators. His career progressed from courtroom logographer to presiding over his own school of rhetoric. This edition contains 28 of his orations and letters, all that remained from antiquity until the discovery of a further three orations in 1988, prefaced by Plutarch's Vita in parallel Latin/Greek and an extensive topical index. A scarce French regional imprint, with no copies located on COPAC. OCLC locates only three copies: at Bern, Rotterdam and the Bibliotheque Nationale. Payment Postage and Packing Payment can be made in various ways. From purchasers from the UK we accept Paypal, Postal Orders Personal Cheques in GBP £ Sterling. For welcome customers in the rest of the world, we accept Paypal. As experienced booksellers we have shipped books to many countries, and will be happy to quote costs for destinations and/or services other than the following for this heavy book - books are always packed well, please rest assured that they will arrive exactly as described. WE ARE OFFERING FREE WORLDWIDE POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.