Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(DIO CASSIUS.) Xiphilinus, Joannes. Rerum romanarum . . . epitome. Greek text. 357, [3] pages. 4to, 246x171 mm, later 17th-/early 18th-century mottled vellum boards, spine ends worn, turn-ins sprung; intermittent browning, mainly in upper margins and at beginning and end. Stamp of Marco Lazzari on title, signature of Jacobus Davy on verso. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1551

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first edition in the original greek, elegantly printed, of an 11th-century abridgment of the early 3rd-century Roman history by Dio Cassius. Harvard/Mortimer-French 170; Hoffmann III, 618; Schreiber 108.