De vitis, dogm[atibus] et apoph[thegmatibus] clarorum philosophorum libri X. Hesychii De iisdem philosophis & de aliis scriptoribus liber. Pythagor[icorum] philosophorum fragmenta [...]. Is[aaci] Casauboni Notae.

8vo: [16]-884-88 (= 82)-120-[4]-47-[25-2 bl.] pp. (usual toning and spotting).

17th-c. gilt overl. vellum, covers with large central lozenge-shaped gilt ornament within gilt double ruled borders, gilt spine titled in ink, blue edges (ties gone). Good copy.

Re-issue by a number of booksellers of the 1593 Geneva ed. by Henri Estienne of The Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. In this very important ed. “appear for the first time many passages discovered in manuscripts by Estienne” (Schreiber). Woodcut mark on title. Greek and Latin printed in facing columns. Ref. Cp. Hoffmann II:73 (Stoer issue). - Cp. BnF (Vignon issue). - Cp. BL (1616 issue). - Cp. Schreiber 178. Prov. "Sum Joannis Bogaert" (old name on front endpaper). - Libr. stamps.