63. ‘Viața lui Alexandru cel Mare’ (The Life of Alexander the Great), by Jacobus Gronovius, after Arrian from Nicomedia, bilingual Latin-Greek edition, Leiden, 1704, with ex-libris of the Colonel Dimitrie A. Pappasoglu, collectible piece
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63. ‘Viața lui Alexandru cel Mare’ (The Life of Alexander the Great), by Jacobus Gronovius, after Arrian from Nicomedia, bilingual Latin-Greek edition, Leiden, 1704, with ex-libris of the Colonel Dimitrie A. Pappasoglu, collectible piece
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The Dutch historian Jacob Gronovius (1645-1716) published this history of Alexander Macedon's expedition to the Orient in 1704. The edition opens with an engraved portrait (copper engraving, author unknown) of the author. On the title page is an ex-libris in purple ink of Colonel D.A. Pappasoglu (1811-1892), historian and cartographer, first author of a scientific synthesis on the history of Bucharest.
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