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AURELIUS VICTOR

Historiae Romanae breviarium [...]. Ex bibliotheca Andreae Schotti, cuius etiam Notae adiectae sunt [= De vita et moribus imperatorum Romanorum ...]

Antwerp
Chr. Plantin
1579

€380 - €450

8vo: 2 parts, 221-[2, 1 bl.], 123-[11, 2 bl.] pp. Woodcut mark on titles. 140 woodcuts (coin portraits of emperors). (toned, some soiling, stain at the end, holes in 1st title and fore-edge margin frayed). Good copy

Editio princeps of the complete Aurelius Victor by Schottus (1552-1629), including the 'Res gestae Augusti' (recently discovered by BUSBEQUIUS in Turkey). Ref. Voet (Plantin Press) 606-607. - BT 4750-4751. - Adams A-2260 & A-2263 - Dekesel A-75-74.. Prov. Old ownership entry on title (erased). Guilford (armorial bookplates, one dated '1702')

Humanism Numismatics