Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii Historiis Externis Libri XXXXIIII. His Accessit ex Sexto Aurelio Victore De Vita & Moribus Romanorum Imperatorum Epitome. Omnia Quam Diligenitissime ex Variarum Exemplarium Collatione Castigata
by Justin [i.e., Marcus Justinus]
Price: $450.00
- Bookseller: Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)
- Seller Inventory #: 11257
- Book condition: Occasional light foxing; a very good copy.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Seb. Gryphium
- Place: Lugduni
- Date published: 1555
Book Description
Lugduni:: Seb. Gryphium,, 1555. Occasional light foxing; a very good copy.. Small 8vo, later half vellum, morocco label, gilt lettering, 313, [29] pages. Lyon publisher Sebastien Gryphe (1493-1556) first published an edition of Justin's Epitome of Trogus in 1538; he republished it a number of times through the end of the 16th century. Nice woodcut griffin device (Baudrier's mark 6) on the final page, with a neat early ink ownership inscription below that. Evidence of a bookplate neatly removed from the front paste-down; bound without the final blank. Baudrier (8e Serie) 277; Schweiger 488.
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