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LOT 16:
1545 SPEECHES OF DEMOSTHENES & AESCHINES IN LATIN ANTIQUE 16TH CENTURY
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1545 SPEECHES OF DEMOSTHENES & AESCHINES IN LATIN ANTIQUE 16TH CENTURY
Demosthenis et Aeschinis Mutuae accusationes de ementita Legatione, et de Corona, ac contra Timarchum quinque numero, cum earum argumentis, ipsorum oratorum vita, et Aeschinis Epistola ad Athenienses, ac indice copioso. Nuper a bene docto viro traductae.
Dictorum series versa pagina conintetur. Cum Privilegio Veneto.
by DEMOSTHENES & AESCHINES
Venice: Apud Hieronymum Scotum; 1545
Size 4.5 by 6.5"
First Italian edition in Latin
With woodcut title-page device, original limp vellum binding with manuscript title to the spine
223 lvs (446 pp.)
Very good interior, some soiling of the vellum
Text in Latin
Girolamo Franchi di Conestaggio (Latin: Hieronymus Conestagius) (1530 – c.1616) was a Genoese merchant and scholar.
A nobleman, he was also a merchant and spent time on business in Antwerp. He participated in the Accademia dei Confusi, a literary circle, headed by Stefano Ambrogio Schiappalaria.
Dell' Unione del Reyno de Portogallo alia Corona di Castiglia was a chronicle of the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580, and a work that provoked a number of replies, in particular from Jerónimo de Mendonça; it was considered pro-Spanish, but Philip II of Spain tried to have it suppressed.
History of the the union of Portugal and Spain, including details of Portuguese activities in India and Africa, and discussion of the English mercenary Thomas Stukely, who had commanded three galleys at the Battle of Lepanto.
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