De Mensura Temporum antiquorum & praecipue Graecorum exercitatio

Coloniæ Agrippinæ [Cologne] Apud Ioducum Kalcovium [Jost Kalkhoven]. 1645.

First edition. 8vo. 188x122mm. pp. [8], 239 [1bl]. Attractively bound in eighteenth century mottled calf, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with a floral motif, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Edges of boards, tooled in gilt, all edges red. Internally there is some browning and foxing but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Macclesfield Library. Allatius (1586-1669) was a Greek scientist, theologian and keeper of the Vatican Library. This is the attractive Macclesfield copy of Allatius's important work on time, its divisions and historical dimension.