Ἐκ τῶν Κτησίου, Ἀγαθαρχίδου, Μέμνονος ἱστορικῶν ἐκλογαί. Ἀππιανου Ἰβηρικὴ και Αννιβαϊκή. Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica [...]

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Full title: Ἐκ τῶν Κτησίου, Ἀγαθαρχίδου, Μέμνονος ἱστορικῶν ἐκλογαί. Ἀππιανου Ἰβηρικὴ και Αννιβαϊκή. Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica. Item, De gestis Annibalis. Omnia nunc primùm edita, cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus. 8vo. ff. [8], pp. 248 (p. 144 misnumbered 124). C17 calf gilt; Macclesfield copy. First printings in Greek and the first English editions of the fragments of the geographical and anthropological fantasist Ctesias’s ‘Indica’ and part of his ‘Persica’ (both from the ‘Myriobiblon’ of Photius, not itself printed in full until 1601) – but not including the Ctesias fragments preserved by Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, Xenophon, et al. Cf. H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, C 3020. On Ctesias of Cnidus, see also A. Freeman, “Hoax and Forgery, Whimsy and Fraud: Taxonomic Reflections on the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, p. 23. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.