Antiquitatum, Sive Originum Romanarum, Libri X...Adiectimus Undecimum ex versione Lapi: ac Indicem rerum notatu dignarum locupletissimum

[Lyon]: Sebastien Gryphe, 1555. 16mo (12.5cm). Two volumes in one. Contemporary brown calf, spine divided into 5 compartments and tooled in gilt, title in gilt on brown leather label. 16mo in eights: a-z A-Q 2a-2z 2A-L8. $1-5 (m3 missigned 'm5', 2f5 not signed). [1-2] 3-519, [5], [1-2] 3-459, [85]pp. Printer's waste used in binding, with some visible on front pastedown. Bookplate of the James V. Brown Library of Williamsport, PA tipped onto front pastedown. Rebacked with original spine laid down; wear to corners, soil to final leaves but internally generally clean: around Very Good.

History of Rome from its mythical history to the beginning (truncated) of the First Punic War, authored by a Greek historian and rhetorician. This edition printed by a notable French scholar/printer/bookseller. In a contemporary binding showing printer's waste used on the front pastedown, despite slightly clumsy later repairs. USTC 151686. [63002]. (Inventory #: 63002)