Libaniou Sophistou Epistolai. = Libanii sophistae Epistolae. Quas nunc primum maximam partem e variis codicibus, manu exaratis, edidit, Latine convertit & notis illustravit Joannes Christophorus Wolfius. Accedunt in calce ejusdem Libanii epistolae a Francisco Zambicario olim conversae
Amstelaedami: apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1738. First edition, large folio (leaf 41.0 cm), pp. [20], 865, [1]; engraved vignette title page printed in red and black, text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns; woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1; upper joint cracked, lower joint starting, otherwise, a nice clean, and crisp copy. Bookplate Samuel James, Baron Waring. A collection of more than 1,500 surviving letters by Libanius (314-393/4), "a Greek Sophist and rhetorician whose orations and letters are a major source of information on the political, social, and economic life of Antioch and of the eastern part of the Roman Empire in the 4th century" (Britannica). Edited by Johann Christoph Wolf (1683-1739), a German Christian Hebraist, polymath, a collector of Oriental languages and literature, and the compiler of the Bibliotheca Hebræa (4 vols., Hamburg, 1715-33). (See Jewish Encly. XII, p. 549). Brunet III, 1050; Ebert 11937; Graesse IV,195. Item #73512
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