Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. Rerum gestaru[m] libri XVIII . . . Librum trigesimumprimum qui in exemplari Frobeniano non habetur, adiecimus ex codici Mariangeli Accursii. 513 [i. e., 543] pages. 8vo, 169x108 mm, later 17th-/early 18th-century vellum boards with spine title in ink, 4 conspicuous holes through rear joint not affecting contents; light soiling on title, intermittent underscoring and partly cropped marginalia, extensive notes on endleaves. Signature of Joshua Allen dated 1749 on title. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1544

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first estienne edition of the Roman history by a 4th-century A.D. Greek author who wrote in Latin. Renouard I, 61(17); this edition not in Schreiber.