Lot 03310

Socratis Scholastici et Hermiae Sozomeni Historia eccleciastica”, Augustae Taurinorum (Turin), 1747. Complete: 2 volumes in one. Folio, 39x27cm, pp.380+407. Half titles, text in parallel Greek and Latin, two folded maps of religious episcopates of the East (48x35cm each) not in Zacharakis. Socrates Scholasticus and Hermias Sozomenus were 5th century historians, leaving in Constantinople. Their work covers the early stages of the Church history, with insights also on general history and societies issues. The two maps, engraved in Italy, but based in earlier French and Dutch, are apparently very rare. Contemporary half vellum, a fine copy.