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PERIZONIUS, JACOBUS. Origines Babylonicae et Aegyptiacae tomis II. [14], 376, [14]; [20], 510, [26] pages. 2 volumes in one (with the second bound
PERIZONIUS, JACOBUS. Origines Babylonicae et Aegyptiacae tomis II. [14], 376, [14]; [20], 510, [26] pages. 2 volumes in one (with the second bound before the first). 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, top of spine chipped, few surface imperfections on rear cover; scattered foxing and minor marginal dampstains, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, annotations in same hand on front free endpaper. Leiden: Johannes vander Linden, Junior, 1711
- Notes: first edition of an examination of ancient Middle Eastern historiography and chronology by a scholar who taught at Franeker and Leiden (1651-1715). "In his Origines... he was the first to suggest the spuriousness of the royal lists of Manetho, and he defended the chronology of Scaliger against the criticisms of Sir John Marsham"--Sandys II, 331. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 102.
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