THE LESSON HERE . . .  
is not MAINLY about ancient Greece!

This is a book that demonstrates why you want
to own bibliographies —
OR deal with professional booksellers who do!

Emmius, Ubbo.   Græcorvm respvblicæ ab Vbbone Emmio descriptæ. Lugd. Batavorum: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1632. 12mo. A–Z⁸Aa–Dd⁸; 426 pp., [3] ff.
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•  EVERYTHING promised on the "Contents" page is here. A full index is present; the book ends with a "Finis."

If anything ever looked complete, this does.

Yet Willems makes it clear that it is vol. I (of II) only of the first separate edition of Emmius's history of Greece.

•  The Græcorum respublica is in fact a reprinting of vol. III of the author's Vetus Græcia as published by the Elzevirs in 1626. The author was born in 1547 and led an academic life: He began his studies in Rostock and later moved to Geneva where he became intimate with Theodore Beza, the noted classicist and Biblical scholar. He returned to the Netherlands and took up a teaching-cum-administrative position at a small college; but religion and politics intervened against him. He eventually landed a good and secure position in Gronigen and remained there until his death in 1625.

•  Willems 364. Contemporary vellum over paste boards. A library's blind pressure-stamps; properly deaccessioned with no additional stamps. Antique library bookplate on the front pastedown.

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