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[Persia]. BORICHIUS, Andreas. Andreae Borichii de Persico Imperio & rectâ numerandarum LXX. Danielis Hebdomadum ratione. Hafniae [Copenhagen], Prostat apud Reg. Acad. Bibliopp. Christianum Cassubium & Joh. Melch Liebe / Literis Christiani Weringii Acad. Typ., 1688. [Followed by]. LIEBE, Christiano Sigismundo. Prodromi reformationis pia memoria recolendae sive Nummi Ludovici XII regis Gallorum epigraphe perdam Babylonis... Lipsiae (Leipzig), apud Io. Christ. Martini, 1717. Title engraved in black and red [Followed by]. [RAPIN, René]. Observationes in poëmata Homeri et virgilii e Gallico Latine redditae. Trajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht), Apud Franciscum Halma, Academ. Typogr. Ordinarium, 1684. Three works in one volume, in-12, [14] ff (of which 1 bl.), 96 pp; [5] ff, , 182 pp; 128 pp, [1] bl. f.; contemporary ivory parchment (soiling on parchment, wide spotting throughout, small worm gallery in book 1, browned paper in book 2). A factitious collection of two treatises by Andreas Borichius on the history of the Persian Empire and biblical chronology, and a text by Christiano Liebe offering a symbolic interpretation of a coin of Louis XII in a pre-Reformation context. The set also includes observations on the poems of Homer and Virgil, translated from French into Latin by René Rapin. Titles of 2nd and 3rd books handwritten in ink on verso of flyleaf and opposite title of 1st book. Antique Paris bookseller's label "Librairie orientale de Dondey, Dupré Père et fils".