John Price (Pricaeus) (c. 1602–1676) was an English classical scholar, publisher and collector of books. He was a

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who described himself as ‘Anglo-Britannus’.Michael H. Crawford, ‘Price, John (c1602?–1676)’,

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, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; In 1635, in Paris, he published the ''Apologia of

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''. From 1652 the Medicis employed him as their "keeper of coins". He was also appointed professor of Greek at Pisa. In 1661 he moved, under patronage of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, to

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where he died in 1676.

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