The history of Diodorus Siculus, containing all that is most memorable and of greatest antiquity in the first ages of the world, until the war of Troy

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The history of Diodorus Siculus, containing all that is most memorable and of greatest antiquity in the first ages of the world, until the war of Troy

Diodorus Siculus , Gent, H. C. [Cogan, Henry]

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Diodorus Siculus , Gent, H. C. [Cogan, Henry]Published 1653

Folio. pp. [10], 271, [1] (blank). Signatures: A-P4, Aa-Uu4. Printer’s device on title page. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. First edition in English of books 1-5 [represented as 1-6 in early editions, as book 1 is in two parts] of Diodorus Siculus’s Bibliotheca historica, treating the mythic history of the non-Hellenic and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy. The books describe the history and culture of Ancient Egypt (1), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia (2), of North Africa (3), of Greece (4), and Europe (5). See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), D 1513. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102574" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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