Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS; and VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, CAIUS. Opera quae exstant. Edited with notes by Justus Lipsius. [16], 547, [33]; 36; 84, [14] (of [16]) pages; lacks last (blank?) leaf. Folio, early 18th-century Amsterdam school prize binding of vellum gilt with Amsterdam arms on covers, spine painted brown, in 8 compartments, with morocco lettering piece in one and gilt ornamental tooling in the rest; occasional toning. Letterpress prize certificate dated 1714 bound before title. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana Balthasari Moreti, 1648