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The historical library of Diodorus the Sicilian. In Fifteen Books. The First Five, Contain the Antiquities of Egypt, Asia, Africa, Greece, the islands, and Europe. The Last Ten, An Historical Account of the Affairs of the Persians, Grecians, Macedonians, and other Parts of the World. To which are added, The Fragments of Diodorus that are found in the Bibliotheca of Photius: together With those Publish’d by H. Valesius, L. Rhodomannus, and F. Ursinus. Made English, by G. Booth, of the city of Chester, Esq. The present work is the first complete edition of Diodorus Siculus’s Bibliotheca historica in English, including excerpts out of book 6, 21-26, 34 and 37 from a translation by Henri de Valois published in 1634, and fragments concerning embassies. See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), D 1512. Diodorus Siculus was a Greek historian who lived during the 1st century BCE, active around 60–30 BCE. He is best known for writing the massive historical work Bibliotheca historica (“Historical Library”), a universal history in 40 books, of which Books 1–5 and Books 11–20 survive in full, with fragments of others.