Live auction - Lot 1469
[Prize book - Amersfoort]
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, ex recensione Joannis Georgii Graevii, cum ejusdem animadversionibus, ut et commentario integro Laevini Torrentii, Isaaci Casauboni, Theodori Marcilii [...].
SUETONIUS
Hammer price: €
150
€ 150 / 200
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Utrecht, W. van Poolsum, 1708
4to: [18]-829-[1 bl.]-79-[4-1 bl.]-110-[153-1 bl.] pp. (some local spotting).
Contemp. speckled calf (some tiny def.), covers with gilt arms within double gilt-rolled floral frames and corner pieces, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (sl. rubbed), orange title label, red edges. Very good copy.
Reissue of the 3rd standard ed. of the Roman historian Suetonius by the Dutch scholar Graevius (1632-1703), 1st Utrecht 1672. This ed. ill. with the engr. title of the 1703 ed. Some in-text woodcut coin ill. 2 folding printed cenotaphs. Commentary in 2 col.
Ref. STCN. - Not in BL.
Prov. Amersfoort prize binding (Spoelder, Amersfoort 6). - J.H. De Vries (collector's label).