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Author	Aelian, 3rd cent.
Title	Ailianou Poikilīs istorias = Cl. Æliani sophistæ variæ historiæ / cum notis Ioannis Schefferi.
Publication Info.	Argentorati : Impensis Friderici Spoor, Anno 1647.

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Winthrop	Win 3	IN LIBRARY

Description	[16], 397 [i.e. 423], [120] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note	Errors in pagination: no. 359-384 repeated.
	At head of title: author and title in Greek.
	In Greek and Latin in parallel columns.
Bibliography	Includes index.
Note	Signatures: )(⁸ a-c⁸ D-2L⁸.
Local Note	Library copy from the Winthrop Collection. Rebound. Imperfect: title page wanting; reproduction supplied from copy in British Library.
	With ms. drawings on endpapers: shields, and a diagram of London Bridge indicating the destruction caused by the fire of 1633.
Subject	Anecdotes -- Early works to 1800.
	History, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.
Genre or Form	Pagination errors (Printing) -- France -- Strasbourg -- 1647.
	Annotations (Provenance) -- 17th century.
Added Author	Scheffer, Johannes, 1621-1679, editor.
	Spoor, Johann Friedrich, printer.
	Winthrop, John, 1606-1676, former owner, annotator.
	Winthrop Collection (New York Society Library) ZNS
Added Title	Varia historia. Latin & Greek
	Cl. Æliani Sophistæ Variæ Historiæ
	Cl. Aeliani sophistae variae historae
	Variæ Historiæ

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