Live auction - Lot 772
[Prize binding - Rotterdam]
[Greek] [...]. Romanorum historiarum pars prior [- altera] […] Alexander Tollius […] correxit & Henrici Stephani […] annotationes adjecit.
Amsterdam, J. Janssonius van Waesberge & J. van Someren, 1670
Hammer price: €
220
€ 150 / 180
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Lot description
8vo (toned, lower half of 1st typogr. title cut out and underlaid, some spotting at end).
Contemp. gilt vellum, covers with large gilt framework pattern, central arms and corner pieces, gilt spine titled in ink. Very good copy.
Voluminous ed. of the historical writings of the Greek historian Appian (95-165), with Greek text and Latin translation in 2 col. (Greek near the gutter). Engr. front.
Ref. STCN 850280176.
Prov. Rotterdam (supralibros; ref. Spoelder (Rotterdam) 1). - Prize awarded on 12 October 1700 to "Johannes Beens" by the Schola Erasmiana of Rotterdam (signatures of "Joh. Rexelius" and of rector "Joh. Silvius"). - John Lewis Petit (1736-1780), Fellow of the Royal Society (armorial bookpl.).