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SUETONIUS, Caius

XII Caesares, et in eos Laevini Torrentii commentarius auctior et emendatior

Antwerp
Plantin Press (Wid. Chr. Plantin & Joannes Moretus)
[1592]

€240 - €360

Large 4to: [4]-407-[23] pp. Engraved title by Peeter van der BORCHT, with medallion portraits of 12 Roman emperors. Numerous woodcut coin illustrations. (missing final blank; toned, some marginal dampstaining, title fore-edge margin shaved, minor worming in bottom inner margin). Old gilt calf, gilt ruled border on covers, gilt spine with 4 raised bands, a.e.g. (rubbed, spine def. at head and tail). Good copy

Combined revised edition of Pulmannus' Suetonius (1574) and Torrentius' commentary (1577). L. Torrentius (1525-1595), humanist bishop of Antwerp, was a lifelong friend of the Plantin Press. Ref. Imhof (Moretus) S-55. - Bibl. Belg. V:283 S-406. - BT 4436. - Adams S-2052. Prov. Unidentified gilt arms on covers. Corn. Henr. a Roy (18th-c. engraved bookpl.)

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