Poikilē historia, sive, Novus historiarum fabellarumque delectus
Subtitle: quem è multis probatissimusque Graecis scriptoribus, erudiendae juventutis gratia compositum
By: notis & versione illustravit Jacobus Upton, A.M. ...
Contributors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Aelian, active 3rd century; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Impensis J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Sprint, D. Midwinter, W. Innys, J. Osborne & R. Robinson
Published: 1726
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Readers; Latin language; Philosophy; Greek language; History
Other titles: Hist. ant. collectnea; Novus historiarum, fabellarumque delectus
Notes: Greek title romanized.

Contains exerpts from these Greek authors: Claudius Aelianus, Polyaenus, Aristotle, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Maximus of Tyre, Plato, and Herodotus.

LC copy imperfect: first 12 pages, including title page, and p. 115-[116] in the second part of the book wanting. Description based on ESTC.

LC copy has manuscript t.p. with title from Robert Watt's Bibliotheca britannica; also contains note on front pastedown erroneously describing this volume as the 1785 edition of the Analekta hellēnika.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 108

ESTC T111205

Greek texts with Latin translation.

Initialled by Thomas Jefferson at signature I; has the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.