Herodotus, Henri Estienne, Friedrich Sylburg, Gottfried Jungermann, “ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΥ ΑΛΙΚΑΡΝΑΣΣΗΟΣ Ιστοριών Λόγοι Θ, επιγραφόμενοι Μούσαι. Του αυτού Εξήγησις περί της Ομήρου βιοτής / Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX, IX Musarum nominibus inscripti. Eiusdem Narratio de vita Homeri ”, Francoforti, Apud Claud. Marnium, & hered Jo. Aubrii, 1608. Folio (340 x 210mm), pp. [46], 731, [25 index]. First published by Henri Estienne in 1566. Text in Latin and Greek in parallel columns, woodcut ornaments and initials throughout. Title page printed in red and black. Herodotus Histories is clearly the centerpiece of the edition (pp. 1-635), but the focus of the ancillary material very much highlights 16th-century interest in the East. Herodotus nine books of his Histories cover the time period 650-479 BC and focus on what led up to the great wars between the Persian Empire and the Greeks in the early 5th century and how these wars unfolded. Edition published in Frankfort, 1608, by Gottfried Jungermann, which made considerable improvements on Stephanus work by dividing the books into chapters, amending the life of Herodotus, and including the annotations of Sylburgius, numerous passages from Ctesias, a glossary in Greek, and an appendix regarding the overflowing of the Nile. Binding: contemporary full-vellum with fine blind-stamped decorations on both covers. Condition: Soiling on covers, bumped corners, rubbed along extremities. Light signs of water-stain on external lower corner, light spotting throughout.