Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JUSTINUS, MARCUS JUNIANUS. Thabridgemente of the Histories of Trogus Pompeius, gathered and written in the Laten tung, by the famous Historiographer Iustine, and translated into Englishe by Arthur Goldinge. Title within woodcut historiated border. [13], 7, 9-92, 94-161, leaf 159, leaf 159, 163-172, 193-200 leaves. Apart from the preliminaries, printed in black letter. 4to, modern 1/2 calf gilt with morocco lettering pieces; contents toned, some dampstaining, worming in upper inner corners not impairing legibility, occasional contemporary underscoring and cropped marginalia, title soiled, torn in outer margin and mounted, with missing portion of border replaced in pen-and-ink facsimile, approximately 30 leaves remargined, generally without text loss. London: Thomas Marshe, 1570

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Second edition of Golding's translation, the first complete version in English, originally published in 1564. STC 24291.