Q. Curtii Rufi Historiarum Alexandri Magni: cum Notis Variorum

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by Quintus Curtius Rufus

Historia Alexandri Magni
QCurtiiRufiHistoriaAlexandriMagni1658TitlePage.jpg

Title page from Q. Curtii Rufi Historiarum Alexandri Magni, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Quintus Curtius Rufus
Editor
Translator
Published Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Iohannem Elsevirium ...
Date 1658
Edition Editio accuratissima
Language Latin
Volumes volume set
Pages [4], 751, [1], 93, [47]
Desc. 8vo. (18 cm.)
Location Shelf J-4
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Map of Alexander's territory.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Quintus Curtius varior. 8vo." Thomas Jefferson gave Wythe's copy to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. George Wythe's Library[1] on LibraryThing indicates this without suggesting a particular edition. The Brown Bibliography[2] lists a 1673 edition published in Amsterdam based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress in 1815.[3] Because we do not know the precise edition Wythe owned, the Wolf Law Library purchased an available copy of the 1796 London edition.

Signature, front fly-leaf.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bbound in period vellum with yapped edges, faint manuscript title to head of spine. Engraved title page colored by a contemporary hand. Signed "Henricus Gurphaas, van Eyck Anno 1701, ??? kal. Octobris" on front free endpaper. Front flyleaf inscribed " undio Wilhelm Christianides, vetus Sujus possessor, Mitto tibi navem, prora puppiq carentem deficiente pecu deficit omne nia, furtum ablatum est restituendum." Rear free endpaper inscribed "Symbolum, veritas primitur, non tamen opprimitur, Mitto tibi navem, prora puppiq carentem."

View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

See also

References

  1. ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on April 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012, rev. 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
  3. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:13 [no.27].

External Links

Read the 1673 Amsterdam edition of this book in Google Books

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