Red calf binding with gilt decoration (no title) on the spine and boards. All edges gilt.

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A lovely bound book of an unusual and not popular topic. Very rare, and a possible precursor to the notoriety of Austrian Hitler. 

Herostratus was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The act prompted his execution and the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. The law was ineffective, as evidenced by surviving accounts of his crime. Thus, Herostratus has become an eponym for someone who commits a criminal act to become famous.