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AMMIANUS, Marcellinus

Rerum Gestarum libri xviii / Henri & Adrien de Valois eds.

Paris
Dezallier, Antonius
1681

€180 - €240

In folio, [32], XXXIV, 676, [2], 100, [2] [14] pp., engraved printer's device on title page, Woodcut initials, printed headpiece and tail piece. The front page shows a small water stain and a small piece missing from the right margin, Some foxing, but overall a good copy. Full leather binding, restored with gold tooling, gilt title on the spine. All edges gilt

Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330-400 AD) was a Roman historian of Greek origin. Regarded as the last major historian of the Roman Empire, he chronicled events from 353 to 378 AD. Several ownership notes and inscriptions in brown ink on the front flyleaf and end flyleaf. On the title page an ownership note: Ex Libris Biblio D.D. Caroli De Pradel Epipi Monspe

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