De Historicis Graecis Libri Iv; Editio Altera, Priori Emendatior, & Multis Partibus Auctior. Vossius, Gerhard Johannes.

Leiden, ex officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1651. 4to. (10),+ 549,+ (54) pp. Title printed in red and black and with engr. vignette. Some foxing, stain in inner margin first 20 pages. Worn contemporary full calf, spine richly gilt with raised band, torn at head and tail, front hinge slighly loose. From the library of Olof Andreas Knös, with his signature on front paste down, dated Uppsala 1784. Reprint of the second improved edition of the Dutch philologist Vossius? book with biographies of Greek historians. With a printed dedication to Christina of Sweden. The first edition was published in 1642. Gerhard Johannes Vossius or Gerrit Janszoon Vos (1577-1649) was a Dutch classical scholar, philologist and theologian. He become director of the theological college at Leiden in 1615 but after suspicions of heresy due to his book ?Historia Pelagiana?, published in 1618, he hade to resign in 1619. Instead he became professor at the University of Leiden in 1622 and in Amsterdam in 1631. He is the father of Isaac Vossius.