Thomaeus, Nicholas Leonicus | The 1555 Gryphius edition of De Varia Historia Libri Tres

Thomaeus, Nicholas Leonicus
De Varia Historia Libri Tres. Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1555

16mo (114 x 54 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title [Baudrier 2bis], woodcut initials, italic type, guide-letters, 3 decorative initials, 31pp. index at rear. Eighteenth-century French green morocco, triple gilt borders, spine gilt with burgundy morocco lettering pieces, edges gilt, marbled endpapers.

The 1555 Gryphius edition, first published in 1532

Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus, a Venetian scholar, was the Aristotelian Professor of Philosophy in Padua who taught a young Copernicus, and who was highly praised by Erasmus. This work largely concerns the history of the Mediterranean and the bordering countries in antiquity. Among the topics discussed are Sardinia, the influences of Greece, Northern Africa, the tribes of Numidae, the Balearic Islands, the story of the tyrant of Syracuse.

Sebastianus Gryphius, the book's publisher, was a German bookseller, printer, and humanist. He mostly published law and administration works in Gothic script, as well as Latin classics, and translated Greek to Latin.

REFERENCE
Adams L-505; Baudrier VIII 280; OCLC 614503521

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.