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Bipont Editions (also known as the Bipontine Editions), the name of a famous series of editions, in 50 volumes, of
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where they were first issued by the Societas Bipontina (under the supervision of Friedrich Christian Exter and Georg Christian Crollius) in 1779. Their place of publication was afterwards transferred to Strasbourg (referred to on the title pages by the Latin name of "Argentoratum").


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Further reading

* Friedrich Butters,
Ueber die Bipontiner und die Editiones Bipontinae
'. Zweibrücken 1877. * Georg Burkard: ''Bibliographie der Editiones Bipontinae''. Zweibrücken 1990, . * Johannes Schöndorf: ''Zweibrücker Buchdruck zur Fürstenzeit 1488–1794''. Zweibrücken 1995, , S. 161–179. ;Attribution * Series of books {{publish-company-stub