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(DIO CASSIUS.) Xiphilinus, Joannes. Rerum romanarum . . . epitome. Greek text. 357, [3] pages. 4to, 219x151 mm, later 18th-century mottled sheep gilt with arms of General Count Dimitrios Mavros (1820-96) added on front cover and his crowned monogram in bottom spine compartment, 2 small holes near top of spine, front joint cracked, cords intact, rear joint reinforced; margins trimmed without text loss, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, marginal soiling on title. Inscription of Count Mavros dated 1872 on endleaf facing title, his stamp on title verso; bookplate of Seved Tegefors. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1551
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.
