<p>A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Tacitus&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tacitus</a>' <em>Historia Augusta Actionum Diurnalium.</em></p><ul><li>Cornelius Tacitus (Roman).</li><li>Basel:&nbsp;Ex officina Io. Froben [Johann Froben],&nbsp;1519.&nbsp;</li><li>Sexto.</li><li>[28], 379, [1] pages.</li><li>Text in Latin.</li><li>Bound in full brown calf with gilt ornamentation to spine and boards, and with label bearing gilt titling to spine.</li></ul>

Historia Augusta Actionum Diurnalium

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painted with an allegory of Time, as an old man wearing drapery, winged and holding a clepsydra, flying with Mercury over a landscape with a river, waterfalls, a castle and mountains in the distance, the border with putti and bunches of flowers, signed on a scroll within a concentric yellow roundel: SAVERIO GRVE P; above a cartouche inscribed: ALIGER ECCE DEUS / CVRSUM REPRIMERE TENTAT / TEMPORIS VT TACITOS COMPLEAT / IPSE DOLOS

painted with an allegory of Time, as an old man wearing drapery, winged and holding a clepsydra, flying with Mercury over a landscape with a river, waterfalls, a castle and mountains in the distance, the border with putti and bunches of flowers, signed on a scroll within a concentric yellow roundel: SAVERIO GRVE P; above a cartouche inscribed: ALIGER ECCE DEUS / CVRSUM REPRIMERE TENTAT / TEMPORIS VT TACITOS COMPLEAT / IPSE DOLOS 29.8 cm, 7¾ in. diameter

View 1 of Lot 247: A maiolica dish, Saverio Grue, perhaps Naples, second half of the 18th century

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