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Lot 22

ALESSANDRIA ANTIQUE ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM VELLUM 1576 ROMAN HISTORY APPIANO

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Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: History
Binding: Vellum
Description: Di Alessandria, Appiano. Libri XII Romanarum Historiarum. Restored and amended ex collatione Graecorum exemplarium [...]. Grifio, the lion, 1576; 16 months: 120x85 mm, or 3 1/4 by 4 3/4 " Woodcut initials and printer's mark on the title page. Manuscript title on the spine and lower border of a limp vellum piece. The binding is fixed. Origin: Parmae Collegii nobilius??(Note scribbled by hand on the first page) Beautiful small-format version of the Greek Appiano's historiographical book, which spans Rome's history from the city's founding to Hadrian's demise. compiled and finished updated endpapers 1011 pages + a lengthy Index Latin text

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