[Bibliotheca historica, Books 1-6 [i.e. 1-5]]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">4to. ff. [iii] (blank), CXXIII [i.e. CXXIV], [vi], [i] (blank). Signatures: a-v⁸·⁴ x⁶ y⁴. Printer's mark (Renouard 890) on title page. Contemporary blindstamped calf, with contemporary annotations.</span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p><p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The ‘editio princeps’ of Diodorus’ Bibliotheca historica, a universal history in forty books completed sometime between 36 and 30 BC, was a Latin translation of the first five books by Poggio Bracciolini in 1472 [represented as 1-6, as book 1 is in two parts]. It contains a description of the cultural heritage and geography of Egypt (book 1), Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia (book 2), North Afric