449 - Levant.- Georgius Codinus and Peter Lambeck, (editor). Excerpta de Antiquitatibus Constantinopolitanis, text in Greek and Latin, half-title, large engraved device to title, headpieces, tailpieces and initials, 16 full-page engravings, minor worming to upper-margin, occasional light finger soiling, some faint scattered spotting, light browning, ink and blue pencil inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped with loss to top compartment, joints split but firm, rubbed, [Praz II 97], folio, Paris, Typographia Regia, 1655.

Levant.- Georgius Codinus and Peter Lambeck, (editor). Excerpta de Antiquitatibus Constantinopolitanis, text in Greek and Latin, half-title, large engraved device to title, headpieces, tailpieces and initials, 16 full-page engravings, minor worming to upper-margin, occasional light finger soiling, some faint scattered spotting, light browning, ink and blue pencil inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped with loss to top compartment, joints split but firm, rubbed, [Praz II 97], folio, Paris, Typographia Regia, 1655. *** One of the works in the celebrated series of Byzantine texts and histories published during the seventeenth century at the Imprimerie Royale, under the direction of Labbé. This edition is the revised version of the text from an Amsterdam codex by the editor Peter Lambeck, with a new Latin translation. The work begins with an account of the origins and typography of Byzantium, then describes the public buildings and statues, as well as the construction of Hagia Sophia, before concluding with a brief chronicle from the creation of the world to the sack of Byzantium by the Turks.