Luciani Samosatensis [Lucian]; Georgius Henricus Martini, ed. — Dialogi Selectiores, in Primis Deorum, Grã¦Ce

Lipsiae, Germany, Caspari Fritsch, 1794. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line of this collection of the sayings and satires of Lucian. Lucian of Samosata[a] (c. 125 – after 180), according to his Wikipedia entry, "was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal." Though his Mother tongue was likely Syriac, his works are in ancient Greek and then, secondarily, Latin. Two bookplates inside front flap denoting ex-library status (Ex Bibliotheca Borgiana legatum Collegio De Propoganda Fide), endpaper torn at bottom tip, accession sticker to spine bottom of tan paper over boards, moderately rubbed, chipping to spine head and foot, tips bumped and scuffed, ink-stamp at title page, moderately toned of interior, a bit foxed here and there, else clean and unmarked. Latin and Greek texts throughout including a Latin-Greek dictionary at book's end. xxvi [1], 2-313 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good