Usener, Hermannus [Hermann Usener] — Epicurea

Dubuque, Iowa, Wm. C. Brown Reprint Library, 1980. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the 1980 reprint of the 1887 edition. Blue buckram cloth over boards, rubbed gilt lettering to spine. From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, of Iowa City, Iowa, who was 99 years old, nearly blind, but still working, in this case on a new translation and with annotations, of Herodotus, his favorite historian, when he passed away on the 16th of September of 2015. University of California Press will soon publish his final two books. His ink-stamp inside front and rear flaps. Reproduction of a fine black-and-white engraving at title page. His Wikipedia entry notes that "Hermann Karl Usener (23 October 1834 – 21 October 1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion." lxxviii [4], 4-445 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine