SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius, et al. [Scriptores historiae Augustae]. Omnia quam antehac emendatiora . Basel: J. Froben and N. Episcopius, July 1533. Second Froben edition, in a contemporary binding, of this collection of texts by ancient Roman historians. Giovanni Battista Cipelli (1478-1553), best known under his academic name, Egnatius, edited the work. Adams S-2025; Schweiger II:975. Folio (330 x 220mm). Printer’s device on title and final leaf, fine woodcut initials from the Kinderschule, with the blank 2U8 (some light stains in a few gatherings at beginning and end). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, one brass clasp, titled in manuscript on spine (loss of pigskin at head of upper joint, lightly rubbed and soiled, missing one clasp). Provenance : ‘Hildeprand ?Waldin’ (inscriptions on title and front pastedown) -- early marginal annotations.
SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius, et al. [Scriptores historiae Augustae]. Omnia quam antehac emendatiora . Basel: J. Froben and N. Episcopius, July 1533. Second Froben edition, in a contemporary binding, of this collection of texts by ancient Roman historians. Giovanni Battista Cipelli (1478-1553), best known under his academic name, Egnatius, edited the work. Adams S-2025; Schweiger II:975. Folio (330 x 220mm). Printer’s device on title and final leaf, fine woodcut initials from the Kinderschule, with the blank 2U8 (some light stains in a few gatherings at beginning and end). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, one brass clasp, titled in manuscript on spine (loss of pigskin at head of upper joint, lightly rubbed and soiled, missing one clasp). Provenance : ‘Hildeprand ?Waldin’ (inscriptions on title and front pastedown) -- early marginal annotations.
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