The Written And Printed Word

POLYBII LYCORTAE F. Megalopolotani HISTORIARUM QUAE SUPERSUNT, Tomus Secundus, Interprete Isaaco Casaubono cum utriusque Casauboni & aliorum Notis Accurante Jacobo Gronovio.
{Commentaries on Polybius by Isaac Casaubon}

Isaaco Casaubono, 1670
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This volume was printed in Greek and Latin; the title is in Greek. The title translates as: The Commentaries Of Polybius. The volume exhibited here is Volume Two of a three-volume set. It was printed and published in Amsterdam by Johannis Janssonii (of Waesberge) and Johannis van Someren in the year 1670.
Polybius was a witness to the Siege of Carthage (147-146 B.C.) and a tutor of Scipio Aemilianus.

The two images below show how the text is presented on each page in Latin in the innermost column and in Greek in the outermost.

The Written And Printed Word

POLYBII LYCORTAE F. Megalopolotani HISTORIARUM QUAE SUPERSUNT, Tomus Secundus, Interprete Isaaco Casaubono cum utriusque Casauboni & aliorum Notis Accurante Jacobo Gronovio.{Commentaries on Polybius by Isaac Casaubon}

Isaaco Casaubono, 1670{Width: 4-1/2"; Height: 8"; Thickness: 2"}

POLYBII LYCORTAE F. Megalopolotani HISTORIARUM QUAE SUPERSUNT, Tomus Secundus, Interprete Isaaco Casaubono cum utriusque Casauboni & aliorum Notis Accurante Jacobo Gronovio.
{Commentaries on Polybius by Isaac Casaubon}

Isaaco Casaubono, 1670
{Width: 4-1/2"; Height: 8"; Thickness: 2"}