Author: Epictetus; Cebes of Thebes: (Berkel, Abraham van, ed.:)
Title: Enchiridium una cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Graec. & Lat. cum notis Wolfii, Casauboni, Caselii & aliorum: Abrahamus Berkelius textum recensuit, & suas quoque addidit. Accedit Graeca Enchiridii Paraphrasis, Iacunis omnibus, codicis Medicei ope, à Jocobo Gronovio repletis.
Description: Delphis Batavorum [Delft]: Gerardi de Jager, 1683. Second edition. 8vo., pp. [xxxii], 280 + impressive engraved folding plate by R. De Hooghe. Additional engraved title-page, woodcut device to printed title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Two-column parallel text in Greek and Latin. Closed tear to title-page through printer's details, very faint toning towards outer edges of margins but generally very clean. Vellum prize binding with certificate intact, spine gilt with title in ink, gilt borders, gilt centrepiece and corner pieces with arms of Amsterdam, edges sprinkled blue. A few faint smudgy marks, boards slightly splayed, ties lost, but still a very good copy overall. To ffep verso, ownership inscription possibly with the name Greve dated 1782. Prize certificate inscribed with the names Abr[aham] Quina a Tongeren and Jos. Theod. Schalbruch, dated 1702. Recommended by Dibdin as reputedly 'the best of the octavo variorum editions', combining the work of Berkel, Wolf, Casaubon and Caselius along with the notes and corrections of Gronovius. Dibdin I, 515 (for the Leiden/Amst. edition of 1670); Schweiger I, 106; Spoelder, 5.

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