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DENYS D'HALICARNASSE. LES ANTIQUITEZ ROMAINES....

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DENYS D'HALICARNASSE. LES ANTIQUITEZ ROMAINES. P., Dupuis, 1722. Two volumes in-4 marbled tawny calf, ornate ribbed spine, garnet-red morocco title-pages, red edges (Binding of the period). Heads of vol. 1 worn, skin missing from 2 spines, some spotting and rubbing. FIRST EDITION of the annotated translation from Greek by Father Le Jay (1657-1734), with historical, critical and geographical notes. The aim of this major historiographical work is to link the origins of Rome to those of ancient Greece, and to show how the Roman city, an ideal city-state, became the center of the world.