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AMMIANUS, Marcellinus

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

Paris
Antoine Dezallier
1681

€140 - €200

In folio (38 x 25 cm), [32], XXXIV, 676, [2], 100, [2] [14] pp., engraved printer's device on title page, Woodcut initials, printed headpiece and tail piece. Marginal damp stain on title page, Some foxing, but overall a good copy. Full calf binding, with gold tooling, spine repaired, 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.
Ref. Dibdin I, 256

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