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APPIANUS of Alexandria. Romaikon . . . Romanarum historiarum. Greek text. 393, [2] pages. Folio, 347x214 mm, contemporary limp vellum, worn, ties lacking; contents generally quite clean apart from few minor stains on opening leaves, tiny wormhole through approximately the last dozen leaves not impairing legibility. wide-margined copy. Paris: Charles Estienne, 1551
first edition in the original greek of Appian's history of Roman wars and conquests, "generally cited as the supreme example of the use of the Royal Greek types . . . the first classical text printed in all three sizes of the 'grecs du roi' "--Schreiber 126. Harvard/Mortimer-French 29; Hoffmann I, 214; Updike I, 237-38.
