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Author:	Quintus Curtius Rufus
Title:	De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni
Publisher:	Elzevir
Country:	Netherlands
Date:	1650
Format:	Hardcover
Class Number:	878
Genre:	Biography, Literature, History
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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"History of Alexander the Great" in Latin, ed. Daniel Heinsius, cum emendatione Jan. Rutgerii.
10 unpaginated pages with dedication, testimonia, and foreword Ad Lectorem, 338 paginated pages, 21 unpaginated pages Index.

Originally released Lugduni Batavorum (= Leiden) 1633 with 364 paginated pages and a map; this is the second edition Amstelodamii (= Amsterdam) 1650 with only 338 paginated pages. There is also a third edition 1653 with 365 paginated pages.

Daniel Heinsius (Daniel Heins, 1580-1655) was a famous scholar of the Dutch Renaissance who edited many Classical authors. The text includes many emendations by Heinsius' brother-in-law, Janus Rutger(s)ius (Jan Rutgers, 1589-1625).

Ownership inscription on back flyleaves: Ex libris Edvardi Mardon (from the books of Edward Mardon) and Edvardus Mardon, Moreton (?).

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xiphophilos 25th Sep 2022		If I've deciphered the inscription on the very last page correctly, the former owner could be Edward Mardon, baptized in Moreton (Hampstead, Devon, England) on November 14, 1695 (father: Thomas Mardon). It is difficult to say for sure because there were a confusing number of men named Edward Mardon in that area of Devon in the 17th and 18th century.



23skidoo 17th Jul 2021		@xiphophilos I have a book that was printed in the mid-1700s and I can only imagine what history it has seen. Your book was an antique decades before the Declaration of Independence. It was 200 years old when Victoria was still in the early decades of her reign. Amazing. I'm sure you are already aware, but for anyone just browsing, as of the date of this comment this is the oldest privately owned book currently indexed here. (The only older one right now being a collection of Shakespeare sonnets that appears to belong to a library - xiphophilos contributed to that entry, so that's just for other browsers' benefit).



xiphophilos 1st Oct 2020		It's a neat little book. I treasure it, not least because it was given to me many years ago by a dear friend. I doubt it's very valuable because it is not the first edition from 1633, which came with a nice map, but only the less impressive (no map) and far less expensive second edition of this book from 1650. The leather covers are also quite worn. Still, I like it because it was clearly used and loved. The story of Alexander the Great's life is a gripping yarn, and I imagine it to be the kind of book a gentleman might have carried along in his vest pocket for entertainment while traveling.



ppint. ● 30th Sep 2020		a treasure - in private possession, or lent to, or now owned by, a museum or national library?



xiphophilos 30th Sep 2020		The flyleaves seem to be pages from a book by Claudius Berigardus (Claude Guillermet de Bérigard), Circulus Pisanus, seu de veteri et peripatetica philosophia in Aristotelis libris de ortu et interitu, Udine, 1643, an attempt to defend the teachings of the Ionian philosopher Anaxagoras against the later beliefs of Aristoteles.

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