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LOT 315
SOLD €440,00

[Roman history] Fasti Consulares,

ac triumphi acti a Romulo rege usque ad Ti.Caesarem. Eusdem in Fastos et Triumphos idest in Universam Romanam historiam commentarius. Eiusdem de nominibus Romanorum liber. Carolus Siginius. Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1556. 3 parts in one vol., part 3 consecutively paged. Small folio, halfleather, cased boards covered with marbled paper, title and part title with the Aldus printer's mark (with flowers/ fruit wreath) in woodcut, title with 2 additional small woodcuts on both sides of the wreath. Title in ms. to bottom edge. 16 ff, 2nd title and 151-169 (= 165) ff. + 2 errata pages, 2 small woodcuts on f. 166 (= f. 162).

The second, expanded and most important Aldus edition of this standard work on the chronology of Roman history [the first edition (1555) without the extensive commentary]. Paging in the first and third part somewhat irregular. Scarce.

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