Live auction - Lot 794
[Plantin Press - Binding]
Opera quae exstant, a Iusto Lipsio postremum recensita, eiusque auctis emendatisque commentariis illustrata: item C. Velleius Paterculus cum eiusdem Iusti Lipsii auctioribus notis.
Antwerp, Plantin Press, B. Moretus, 1648
Hammer price: €
600
€ 550 / 650
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Lot description
3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [16]-547-[33], 36, 84-[14] pp. (age-toned, some sm. marg. tears and sl. soiling on title).
Contemp. calf, large blind-st. filets and rolled frame with central gilt coat of arms on boards, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, ms. mention "Tacite" on lower edge (skilfully restored, some scratches on boards, lower turn-in missing, some def. on joints and corners). Nice copy.
Reprint of the 1607 and 1627 Moretus ed. of Tacitus and Velleius Paterculus, edited by Lipsius. Engr. mark on title. Woodcut marks on part titles and at end. Second and third parts have their own title pages.
Ref. BB V:304:T-89. - Justus Lipsius en het Plantijnse Huis, 17-23. - STCV.
Prov. Jean de Hennin (†1634), Lord of Calbreucq, alderman of Ath, city where Lipsius studied in the municipal "Collège latin" in the years 1557-1559 (ms. mention "D.J. Henin 1655" on endpaper; supralibros with coat of arms and mention "Ioes. de Hennin Ath"; ref. de Jonghe 756). - Jesuit College of Ath (contemp. ms. mention on title). - Thomasseau (?), 1800 (ms. mention with note in French, on endpaper).