Live auction - Lot 327
[Greek]. Romanarum antiquitatum pars hactenus desiderata. Nunc denique ope codicum Ambrosianorum ab Angelo Maio [...] quantum licuit restituta. Opus Francisco I. Augusto sacrum.
Milan, Regiis Typis, 1816
€ 350 / 450
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Lot description
4to: [12 incl. front.]-xxxii-187-[1] pp. (sl. foxing).
Contemp. red long-grained morocco, gilt dentelle on boards, gilt-orn. flat spine, gilt edges (sl. traces of use). Wide-margined copy.
Books XII-XX of the major work of the Greek historian edited by Angelo Maio (1782-1854), philologist and Cardinal, librarian to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and containining in this edition also the text of the manuscript preserved in the Milan Library. Greek text with Latin translation below. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
Ref. Hoffman II:93.
Prov. Jean-Baptiste-Théodore de Jonghe (1801-1860), Belgian bibliophile (arm. bookpl. and ms. note on the front flyleaf).