Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe Printed Area Measurement_48 x 59.5 cm Contemporary Dutch vellum

Contemporary Dutch vellum

library sold at auction in 1902: #63 of the new contributions added by Einstein and  Goldstein to their 1918 edition of Fagan’s ‘Collectors’ Marks’)

Blome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speed’s ‘Theatre’

A few marginal pencilled annotations are probably in his hand

Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe Printed Area Measurement_48 x 59.5 cm Contemporary Dutch vellumLongus: [Greek title: Longou Poimenikon, ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen, biblia tettara] Daphnide et Chloe, Libri Quatuor. Petrus Moll Snecanus J. V. D. & Gr. ling. profess. ord. in Acad. Franek. Frisior. recensuit, in Latinum sermonem vertit, notis & animadversionibus illustravit. Franekerae [Franeker], Joannis Arcerii, 1660 This is a scholarly edition of Longus' influential pastoral prose romance. Condition & Materials 4to. pp. [xx], 148, [ii], 121,