Histoire [...] traitant des faicts mémorables des successeurs de Marc Aurèle à l'Empire de Rome [...].

HERODIANUS

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Paris, F. Morel, 1581

4to: [28]-225 (= 229)-[14] pp. (clear marg. dampstains, p. 8 stained, sm. marg. wormholes).

Cont. vellum, flat spine (sm. lacks of vellum).

Re-issue of the 1580 ed. (with only the date changed) of the French trsl. by Jacques de Vintimille of Herodian's Greek history of the Roman Empire for the years 180-238, from Marcus Aurelius to Gordian III. Title printed within woodcut border. Woodcut on p. 146. Ref. Pettegree (FB) 28792. - Dumoulin (Morel) 327. - Hoffmann II:367. - STC French 223. - Not in Adams, BnF, BL.