ZONARAS (John). •Chronicles, or Annals of John Zonaras Iadis - Lot 180

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ZONARAS (John). •Chronicles, or Annals of John Zonaras Iadis - Lot 180
ZONARAS (John). •Chronicles, or Annals of John Zonaras Iadis, who four hundred years ago served as Grand Drungaire of the Guard and First Secretary of Constantinople, in which are recounted all memorable events that have occurred in this world over the course of six thousand six hundred years and more: Arranged in three parts. The first of which deals with the state of affairs in Judea, Persia, Egypt, and Greece, from the creation of the world until the subversion and miserable conflagration of Jerusalem[…]. ••The Second Part[…] which includes the historical events of the Romans, from the founding of the city until the reign of Constantine the Great. •••The third part[…] in which the deeds of the Christian emperors are described, from Constantine the Great to the death of Alexius Comnenus. Translated by I. Millet de S. Amour. Lyon, by Barthelemy Molin & Macé Bonhome, 1560. 3 parts in one folio volume, light calfskin, double gilt fillet framing the covers, decorated ribbed spine (contemporary binding). •α4, a-v6 & x-y4 (y4 blank), ••A-V6 & X-Y4, •••Aa-Vv6. FIRST EDITION of all three parts of this “recommendable and long-awaited work,” translated by the Burgundian humanist Jean MILLET. Printer’s mark on the title pages; engraved illustrated initials. From the library of a certain Granot, with 16th-century annotations on two title pages and several blank pages, consisting mainly of mottos and maxims: “I shall end my life with honor,” “Everything through love and nothing through force,” etc.; & Canabelin. Restorations to the spine; cracked joints; marginal wormholes at the end of the second and third parts; reversed folios in quire v (Part I); ff. Mm2 & Mm6 missing and Mm3 & Mm4 duplicated (Part III). 19TH-CENTURY BOOKS
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