Live auction - Lot 887

Live auction - Lot 887

[Plantin Press]

TACITUS, Publius Cornelius

Opera quae exstant. Ex Justi Lipsii editione ultima: & cum eiusdem ad ea omnia commentariis aut notis.

Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1585

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Folio: [12]-251-[1 bl.], [8]-187-[1 bl.], [8]-48-[20]-1 bl.] pp. (some marginal dampstains).

Contemp. vellum (upper corners def.), flat spine.

Third Leiden edition, but with the title mentioning Antwerp and first folio edition of the collected works of Tacitus with commentaries and notes by Justus Lipsius. The first Lipsius ed. of Tacitus was publ. in 1574 by Plantin, but this ed. uses new manuscripts found in Spain and Germany, now lost, and an incunable of Venice ca. 1470. With the genealogical table of the first Roman emperors (printed for the 1589 ed. of Lipsius' "Ad Annales Cor. Taciti liber commentarius", but apparently sold separately to be bound with former ed.).
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Voet (Plantin Press) 2279B, 1562B, 1563B. - Sorgeloos 413-416. - BT 4458. - Pettegree NB 28811. - BB V:291-292. - Adams T:33. - STC Dutch 195.
Prov. Engr. bookpl. removed. - "Baux", "Daman" (ms. ownership entries). - Ownership entry cut out on title.

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Lot 887

Opera quae exstant. Ex Justi Lipsii editione ultima: & cum eiusdem ad ea omnia commentariis aut notis.

TACITUS, Publius Cornelius

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