HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE SCRIPTORES. Dion Cassius... - Lot 42 - Giquello

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HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE SCRIPTORES. Dion Cassius... - Lot 42 - Giquello
HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE SCRIPTORES. Dion Cassius Nicaeus. Aelius Spartianus. Julius Capitolinus. Aelius Lampridius. Vulcatius Gallicanus. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1544. In-8, granite-faced calf, Du Seuil decoration, spine decorated, marbled edges (Binding from the 17th century). Renouard, Estienne, p. 61, no. 16. - Schreiber, number 75. The first part of this collection of texts on the life of the Roman emperors of late antiquity, known as the Augustan History, published by the humanist and philologist Giovanni Battista Egnazio. A second part, not present here, was printed the same year by Robert Estienne. Bound copy from the seventeenth century, with a few pen notations. A former owner has placed his ex-libris at the top of the title after having crossed out the title of his predecessor: R. Catinae anno 1650. Noël du Payrat ex-libris (ex-libris). Freckles to a few leaves. Used binding, one jaw split over the height of a box
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