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The first printing of the surviving fragments of major pre-Socratic philosophers, including Parmenides, Empedocles, Xenophon, Cleanthes, Timon of Phlius, Epicharmus, and others, along with the letters of Heraclitus and Democritus. Edited by Henri Estienne, with Latin notes by Joseph Justus Scaliger. A volume of both great intellectual importance and bibliographic beauty. OCLC/WorldCat lists eight copies, none in the United States. Provenance: The Newby Hall copy, so named in gilt on the front cover, and armorial bookplate of Baron Grantham; The Garden Ltd., with the morocco bookplate of Haven O’More.