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NICETAS AKOMINATUS CHONIATES - LXXXVI annorum historia. First Edition. Greek text with Latin translation by Hieronymus Wolf. Printer's woodcut device of Arion riding the dolphin and playing his harp. Two volumes in one. Touch discolored. 18th-century calf-backed marbled boards, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn. FOlio. Basle: Joannes Oporinus 1557 A work of 12th-century Byzantine history, that is, an account of the Eastern Roman Empire, commencing with an account of the 1204 sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.