Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS. The Annales . . . The Description of Germanie [with The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba, and The Life of Agricola]. [6] (of [8]), 271, [1]; [6], 12, 227 pages; lacks initial and final blanks. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 276x186 mm, contemporary calf, expertly rebacked; margins trimmed slightly entering engraved diagram on page [213] in second volume but not otherwise affecting text, occasional marginal dampstaining, few small wormholes through opening leaves not impairing legibility, few marginalia, portion of blank upper margin of title excised and restored, soiling in lower margin of page 243. [London: Arnold Hatfield for John Norton], 1604 [colophon dated 1605]

Additional Details

First combined edition of translations by Richard Grenewey and Sir Henry Savile. STC 23645.