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16°, pp.LXIV-384 (8) + 2 cartine f.t. +vv.rip. (carta topogr. della Sicilia e piantina di Siracusa, a 3 coll.) T. tela verde, tit. oro al dor. Ex libris. Nelle cc. preliminari, l'Introduction, che contiene: Sicily not the seat of any one natio; Its earliest inhabitants: Sicans and Sicels; The Elymi; The old Phoenician settlers in Sicily; Greek settlers in Sicily; Extension of Ionian settlements in Sicily; The settlements on the southern and northern coasts; The territorial expansion of Syracuse; The political development of the siceliot cities; The carthaginian interventation in the affairs of Sicily and the death of Gelon; The tiranny of Hieron; Sicily set free from tyrants; The commonwealth after the fall of the tyrants; Ducetius, his scheme of united Sicily; Beginning of Athenian interferen-ce in Sicily; Renewed disturbances in Sicily; The preliminary proceedings to the sicilian expedition; The sicilian expedition before the arrival of Gylippus in Sicily. Seguono testo greco; "Notes on the History of T., book VII" (pp.85-392), 3 indici (Matters; Grammar; Greek).