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Cornelius Tacitus

Historia Augusta Actionum Diurnalium

Ex officina Io. Froben [Johann Froben]

1519

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A finely bound edition of Tacitus' Historia Augusta Actionum Diurnalium.

  • Cornelius Tacitus (Roman).
  • Basel: Ex officina Io. Froben [Johann Froben], 1519. 
  • Sexto.
  • [28], 379, [1] pages.
  • Text in Latin.
  • Bound in full brown calf with gilt ornamentation to spine and boards, and with label bearing gilt titling to spine.

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Cracking to both joints; light plus wear and bumping to edges and corners of boards and light wear to surfaces of boards.

Moderate cracking of leather on spine.

Text block lightly age toned with light foxing.

Marbled endpapers with catalogue extract pasted to front free endpaper pencil annotations to endpapers.

Third blank front endpaper with slip bearing a name in ink pasted to page.

Fourth front free endpaper with several early ink annotations; page with extensive archival repairs to damaged edges.

Ink annotations to title page and throughout text block, with annotations in several hands, several colors of ink, and in pencil.

Language

Latin

Subject

Fine bindings, Antiquity and Archaeology, Classics, History, European Literature and History

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