[Greek/Latin Classics] Cornelius Nepos Latin Et François Traduction Nouvelle Avec Des Notes Géographique Historiques Et Critiques. Paris, 1759

Format in-12°, mm. 170x100, (2), xiv, 664, (10). Elegant full leather binding with 5 ribs, gold titles and decorations on the spine. Red edges. Endpapers in antique marbled paper. Minimal defects and peeling on the spine. Clear text, sporadic foxing and light browning. Notes in ink on the back of the title page.

Old edition printed in Paris in 1759, works of the ancient Roman historian and biographer Cornelius Nepos (100 BC - 27 BC). Latin text, with a French translation on the facing page, geographical, historical and critical notes. Contains the lives of: Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Pausanias, Cimon, Lysander, Alcibiades, Thrasybulus, Conon, Dion, Iphicrates, Chabrias, Timotheus, Datames, Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Agesilaus, Eumenes of Cardia, Phocion, Timoleon, Hamilcar Barca, Hannibal, and finally the Roman historians Cato and Atticus.