Live auction - Lot 1339
[Plantin Press]
Opera quae exstant. Justus Lipsius postremum recensuit. Additi Commentarii [...] [and] Dispunctio notarum Mirandulani codicis ad Corn. Tacitum. Editio secunda. Accessit C. Velleius Paterculus cum eiusdem Lipsii auctioribus notis.
Antwerp, Plantin Press (J. Moretus), 1607
Hammer price: €
130
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Lot description
3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [16]-547-[32, 1 bl.], 36, 84-[14] pp. (final blank missing; toned, minor spotting, hole in blank bottom margin of title).
19th-c. half vellum, marbled paper on covers, gilt flat spine with morocco label (sl. rubbed and soiled).
Second Moretus edition of Lipsius’ most extensive Tacitus text-with-commentary (1st 1600). Large engr. mark on general title. Woodcut mark at end and on part titles.
Ref. BB V:297-298:T-77. - Imhof (Moretus) T-3. - Bibl. Lips. Brux. 389-390.
Prov. Alexander Thomson of Banchory (1798-1868), Scottish advocate, agriculturalist, antiquary, author, philanthropist and traveller (armorial bookpl. and sm. gilt device at tail).