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JUSTINUS, MARCUS JUNIANUS. Warhafftige Hystorien . . . auss Trogo Pompeio gezoge[n]. German translation by Hieronymus Boner. Large woodcut on title and 48 text illustrations by Jörg Breu and Hans Weiditz. [4], 119, [1] leaves, including final blank * HERODIANUS. Der fürtreffliche Griechisch Geschichtschreiber Herodianus. German translation by Hieronymus Boner. Large woodcut of Antoninus and Gordianus on title; woodcut of emperor and supplicant on a1r. [4], 70 leaves * CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Officia. German translation by Johannes von Schwarzenberg and Johann Neuber. Large woodcut of Julius Caesar and Cicero on title, portrait of Schwarzenberg on verso, and 101 text illustrations by Hans Weiditz. 91 leaves; lacks final blank. Together, 3 volumes in one. Folio, 302x203 mm, contemporary (Augsburg?) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, binding somewhat soiled, stain in lower outer corner of front cover; contents generally clean and bright with only infrequent light marginal soiling and scattered light marginal dampstains toward end Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1531; (19 August 1531); (7 December) 1531
exceptionally well-preserved sammelband of illustrated classical texts in translation, containing thefirst editions in german of the histories of Justinus and Herodianus and third edition (or first edition, third issue?) of this translation of Cicero's work of moral philosophy, which originally appeared the same year. Fairfax Murray German 231, 197, 118.
