Extra Illustrated first Latin Edition of Potter's Archæologia Græca.

Potter, John Archælogia Græca. Archæologia Græca, sive veter. Græcorum, præcipue vero Atheniensium, ritus Civiles, Religiosi, Militarist et Domestica . Fusius Explicata per Joannem Potterum. Lugduni Batovorum (Leyden) Excudit Petrus Vander Aa. Biliopl. 1702
Folio; [12] 356,[14]. 9 numbered plates [1 folding]. Extra illustrated with map Graecia Sophiani by Vander Aa after Ortelius and 67 unnumbered plates, from Gronovius' Thesaurus Antiquitatum Græcarum.Title-page printed in red and black, with engraved vignette.
Printed in numbered columns 788 [but 463- 464 used twice. Jumps from column 661 to 736 (nothing missing) Collation: *6, A-Z4, Aa-Ss4, Tt usque Zz2, Aaa-Eee4.
A separate Latin edition of Potter's Archæologia Græca which also appears in Thesaurus graecarum antiquitatum / contextus & designatus ab Jacobo Gronovio; voluminis duodecimi, pars secunda. Extra illustrated with plates from elsewhere in Vander Aa's edition of the larger work

First published in English in 1697 (vol. I only) and reissued with the second volume in 1699. Includes all 9 illustrations called for.
Extra illustrated with Vander Aa's map Graecia Sophiani after Ortelius and 67 other engravings from Gronovius' Thesaurus Antiquitatum Græcarum[1697-1702] ,showing portraits of figures from ancient Greek and Roman history, and including double page engraving Deorum dearumique Capita ex Vetuustis Numismatibus collecta, effigiat, et edita e museo Abrahami Ortelii and large folding (2 double plates joined) version of Bartoli, Pietro Santo's Nova Nupta in Genarali Thalmo or The Aldobrandini Wedding a 2000 year old fresco found in Rome. Original vellum; Ex libris or "Prize" excised from front paste down.
Scattered spotting. Map: dark impression folded.

John Potter PC (c. 1674 – 1747) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1737-1747).
He was the son of a linen-draper at Wakefield, Yorkshire. At the age of fourteen he entered University College, Oxford, and in 1693 he published notes on Plutarch's De audiendis poetisand Basil's Oratio ad juvenes. Potter, skilled in Greek and very interested in classical history, enjoyed a noted reputation for his historical works on ancient Greece. In 1694 he was elected fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and in 1697 his edition of Lycophron appeared. It was followed by his Archaeologia graeca (2 vols. 8vo, 1697–1698), the popularity of which endured till the advent of Dr William Smith's dictionaries. A reprint of his Lycophron in 1702 was dedicated to Graevius, and the Archaeologia graecawas afterwards published in Latin in the Thesaurus Antiquitatum Græcarumof Gronovius.
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