Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysii Halicarnasei Originum siue antiquitatum Romanarum. liber primus (-undecimus) -

      Taruisii per B. Celeriu 1480.II.24 (Bernardinus Celerius) - A somewhat defective copy of this first Latin edition of Dionysius, disbound and missing 30 of 300 leaves. Nevertheless a rare early printing, and the Editio Princeps. Four leaves loose and somewhat shaved down the gutter margin with no loss of text. Leaves 215-22 with small hole to upper margin (not a wormhole, more of a stabhole), not affecting text. Leaf 290 with bottom 1/3 excised. Last 20 or so leaves a bit dog-eared at bottom corner. Numbered by hand indistinctly in the top right hand corner, and starts at leaf 12. leaves 12-15, 19-20, 23-24, 26, 28-31, 34-290 only. No capitals in this copy. Internally fairly clean with the occasinal marginal blemish or small stain. Some faint light foxing. Some light waterstaining to corners of first and last few leaves but otherwise sound inside with no worming or loss except where noted above. We can send images of this book on request. Goff 250. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Halicarnassus c. 60 BC - after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin language and literature and preparing materials for his history. During this period he gave lessons in rhetoric, and enjoyed the society of many distinguished men. The date of his death is unknown. It is commonly supposed he is the ancestor of Aelius Dionysius of Halicarnassus. His great work entitled Rhomaike archaiologia (Roman Antiquities), embraced the history of Rome from the mythical period to the beginning of the First Punic War. It was divided into twenty books, of which the first nine remain entire, the tenth and eleventh are nearly complete, and the remaining books exist in fragments in the excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus and an epitome discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of Appian, and Plutarch's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius. [Attributes: Soft Cover]