1570 SPEECHES of GREEK & LATIN HISTORIANS antique Estienne edition VELLUM FOLIO

img{max-width:100%} Estienne, Henri, ed. (1528 or 1531-1598)Conciones sive Orationes ex Graecis Latinisque Historicis Excerptae.[Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1570.A digest of speeches from the works of Greek and Latin historians and intended as an oratorical manual. Estienne supplied most of the Latin translations of the Greek texts, which were selected from Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Arrian and Herodian. The Roman historians include Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Quintus Curtius, and Ammianus Marcellinus. First edition, folio, woodcut printer's device to title, text printed in Greek and Latin.ex libris Congregation of Saint-Maur with two ink inscriptions to title, along with shelfmarks; with Bibliothèque de M. Delasize and Froissart bookplates inside front board; manuscript ex libris of Robert Fawtier; bound in full original limp vellum; bottom half (blank) of the last leaf of the index trimmed away; lacks endpapers; textblock detached from binding at rear, Size 12 1/2 x 8 i