Onomasticon Historiae Romanae. Ioanne Glandorpio Auctore

Quo veluti per satyram de familiis & reliquis illustrib. Personis Rom. Qua simul a bonis auctoribus, simul aliis id genus priscis monumentis celebrantur, collecta expositio est : Ad historiam Rom (...) collata opera sit, docet Reineri Reineccii praefatio. Frankfurt. Andrea Wechel Erven, Claudius Marnius & Johannes Aubrius. 1589. (10),928-970 pp., (numbering from 1 to 928 runs across 464 pp. with 2 numbered columns per page). Small folio, 19th-century half deerskin red with black binding, white-leather title label with gilt stamping. Before the title an extra leaf on blue paper is bound along with annotations in hw., var. names and dates and name previous owner. Title with printer's mark in woodcut.

The book reads like a "who's who" of the history of Rome with digressions to and by classic Roman and Greek authors. Behind the index a number of family trees is included. Johannes Glandorp was a German humanist and linguist. First edition. Rare.