Humanismn & Philosophy.- Scaliger (Joseph) Opus de emendatione temporum

Humanismn & Philosophy.- Scaliger (Joseph) Opus de emendatione temporum, half-title, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, Roman, Greek, Hebrew and Latin type, tables, title with repair to lower margin (not affecting text), some toning and water-staining, mostly marginal, Geneva, Pierre de La Rovière, 1629 § Mirabella (Vincenzo e Alagona) Ichnographiae Syracusarum antiquarum explicatio, ut & numisnatum, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved title, letterpress title with engraved vignette, 20 engraved plates and maps, Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1723, titles printed in red and black, scattered spotting and a few small tears, later library cloth, rubbed and bumped with a few marks; and others similar, largely 16th-19th century Latin, v.s. (22) *** In the first-mentioned work, first published in 1598, Scaliger revolutionised the study of ancient chronology.

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