Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS. The Annales . . . The Description of Germanie [with The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba . . . The Life of Agricola]. [6] (of [8]), 271, [1]; [6], 12, 227 pages; lacks initial and final blanks. 2 volumes in one. Folio, contemporary calf with gilt center lozenge on covers, rebacked, endpapers renewed; scattered minor stains, marginal scrawls on page 138 in the second volume. Contemporary signature of Will. Wyle on first title. [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.