MINELLI Joh., CORNELIUS NEPOS DE EXCELLENTIBUS VIRIS in usum locupletissimum notis perpetuis ad modum JOH. MINELLII illustratus a M. ANDR. STUBELIO […] Editio Nova Revisa, Lipsiae, ex officina WEIDMANNIANA, 1733. In 16mo, p. [20], 398, [106 – Index]. With frontispiece, black and red title page, two folded maps. Cornelio Nepóte (in Latin: Cornelius Nepos; Hostilia, about 100 BC – Rome, about 27 BC) was a Roman historian and biographer. The DE VIRIS ILLUSTRIBUS is a collection of biographies in sixteen books divided into sections. Only the book dedicated to foreign leaders (Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Pausanias, Cimon, Lysander, Alcibiades et al.) has come to us fully. Full leather binding of the period, visibly rubbed and scratched; owner’s name on front cover and on end paper (Keller, 1802). Red edge pages, excellent binding inside, slight browning. Very Good copy.