1668 Rare French Book ~ Histories of Alexander the Great ~ Quinte-Curce de la vie et des actions d'Alexandre Le Grand.
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Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus / Q. Curtii Rufi. (Claude Favre de Vaugelas, translator).
Title: Quinte-Curce De la vie et des actions d'Alexandre le Grand : de la traduction de M. de Vaugelas, 3ème édition sur une nouvelle copie de l'autheur qui a été trouvée depuis la première et la seconde impression, avec les supplémens de Jean Freinshemius sur Quinte-Curce, traduits par feu M. Du Ryer.
Language: Text in French
Publisher: A Paris, Chez Louys Billaine, 1668. 3rd Edition.
Size: 6 "X 4 ".
Pages: 584+ tables des matieres.
Binding: Attractive and very good original full calf leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, light foxing and staining - as shown, contemporary handwritten note in the margin of the "Jugement de Quinte-Curce" page - as shown, missing the last blank endpaper page - as shown).
Estimate : (USD 400 - USD 600)
The book: Rare and nice 17th-century French edition of Histories of Alexander the Great (Latin: Historiae Alexandri Magni) -- a biography of Alexander the Great written by Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, dating to the 1st century. More fully title is Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon".
The author: Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon." Much of it is missing. Apart from his name on the manuscripts, nothing else certain is known of him. This fact alone has led philologists to believe that he had another historical identity, to which, due to the accidents of time, the link has been broken. A few theories exist. They are treated with varying degrees of credibility by various authors. Meanwhile, the identity of Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian, is maintained separately.