Live auction - Lot 863

[Plantin Press]

TACITUS, Publius Cornelius

Opera quae exstant. Iustus Lipsius quintum recensuit. Additi Commentarii meliores plenioresque cum curis secundis.

Antwerp [i.e. Leiden], Chr. Plantin [i.e. Fr. Raphelengius], 1589

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3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [4]-335-[8], [8]-194, [4]-xliii-[7] pp.; 1 folded pl. (tiny marg. wormholes and wormtrack in the first quarter, minor browning and foxing, lower corner of title restored, waterstain on last ff.). Inside good copy.

19th-c. paper wr. over cardboard, flat spine, red edges (used, joints cracked, trace of tabs).

Revised ed. of the famous Tacitus by Justus Lipsius, which contains "Annales", "Historiae", "Germania", "Agricola" and "Dialogus Quinctiliani". After the text, as announced on title, come 2 comments with distinct title page and pagination. The book was printed in Leiden, in the "Officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelenghium", but some copies, as ours, received a title page with Plantin's Antwerp address. The genealogical table of the first Roman emperors (Stemma augustae domus) is misbound in the 3rd part. This ed., the 5th signed by Lipsius, is a reprint of 1588-ed. with slight changes.
Ref. BB V:293 T-70. - Voet (Plantin Press), 2281, 1565, 1566. - Adams T-37. - BT 6824. - STC Dutch (BL) 195. - Pettegree NB 28814. - USTC 406848.

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Lot 863

Opera quae exstant. Iustus Lipsius quintum recensuit. Additi Commentarii meliores plenioresque cum curis secundis.

TACITUS, Publius Cornelius

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