Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe Printed Area Measurement_48 x 59.5 cm

Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe Printed Area Measurement_48 x 59.5 cmLongus: [Greek title: Longou Poimenikon, ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen, biblia tettara] Daphnide et Chloe, Libri Quatuor. Petrus Moll Snecanus J. V. D. & Gr. ling. profess. ord. in Acad. Franek. Frisior. recensuit, in Latinum sermonem vertit, notis & animadversionibus illustravit. Franekerae [Franeker], Joannis Arcerii, 1660 This is a scholarly edition of Longus' influential pastoral prose romance. Condition & Materials 4to. pp. [xx], 148, [ii], 121,

who had recently become Bishop of Oxford

London and New York City

Velleius Paterculus covers Roman history from the earliest times to his own

shortly before his retirement in 1934

Hyde: Printed Maps of Victorian London

Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia

Contemporary Dutch vellum

Blome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speed’s ‘Theatre’

library sold at auction in 1902: #63 of the new contributions added by Einstein and  Goldstein to their 1918 edition of Fagan’s ‘Collectors’ Marks’)

although it was Stingemore who later reinstated it as a point of reference) was omitted

A few marginal pencilled annotations are probably in his hand

John Waters Coldicott also appears to be responsible for adding co-ordinates of the Saint Malo light by hand on page xv