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APPIANUS. Romaikon . . . Romanarum historiarum. Greek text. 393, [2] pages. Folio, 282x186 mm, modern 1/4 black morocco with red morocco lettering piece; contents unobtrusively washed, margins trimmed without text loss, blank lower outer corner of opening leaves gnawed and partly restored, light residual soiling and later owner's signature on title. Paris: Charles Estienne, 1551
"editio princeps of Appian's histories of the various Roman wars from the earliest times to the accession of Vespasian (A.D. 70) . . . generally cited as the supreme example of the use of the Royal Greek types"--Schreiber 126. Harvard/Mortimer-French 29; Hoffmann I, 214; Updike I, 237-38.
