1588 APPIAN ROMAN HISTORY of FOREIGN WARS antique VELLUM in ITALIAN 16th CENTURY

------ - ---- --- - - - - Appiani Alexandrini Romanorum historiarum lib. XII Ex collatione Graecorum exemplarium restituti & emendati. Cum indice copiosissimoLugduni, apud A. Gryphium; 1588.2 parts in one volumeSize 3 1/4 by 5"Original limp vellum  binding with manuscript title to the spineLacks ties Some soiling of the vellum, couple of tears at the spine, outer margin of the title page is repaired.Compact Lyon edition printed in Italics. The second part, containing "Hannibalica", is preceded by a separate title page, translated by the novelist Francois Beroalde de Verville (1556-1626).These two volumes contain the history of Rome according to Appian, "a native of Alexandria, [who] compiled in the second century A.D. an ethnographic history of Rome from the Republic to the time of Augustus" (Dilts).As such history was of great importance to historians throughout the ages, his history was published. Text in Italian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - - Appiani Alexandrini Romanorum historiarum lib. XII Ex collatione Graecorum exemplarium restituti & emendati. Cum indice copiosissimoLugduni, apud A. Gryphium; 1588.2 parts in one volumeSize 3 1/4 by 5"Original limp vellum  binding with manuscript title to the spineLacks ties Some soiling of the vellum, couple of tears at the spine, outer margin of the title page is repaired.Compact Lyon edition printed in Italics. The second part, containing "Hannibalica", is preceded by a separate title page, translated by the novelist Francois Beroalde de Verville (1556-1626).These two volumes contain the history of Rome according to Appian, "a native of Alexandria, [who] compiled in the second century A.D. an ethnographic history of Rome from the Republic to the time of Augustus" (Dilts).As such history was of great importance to historians throughout the ages, his history was published. Text in Italian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appiani Alexandrini Romanorum historiarum lib. XII  Ex collatione Graecorum exemplarium restituti & emendati.  Cum indice copiosissimo Lugduni, apud A. Gryphium; 1588. 2 parts in one volume Size 3 1/4 by 5" Original limp vellum  binding with manuscript title to the spine Lacks ties  Some soiling of the vellum, couple of tears at the spine, outer margin of the title page is repaired. Compact Lyon edition printed in Italics. The second part, containing "Hannibalica", is preceded by a separate title page, translated by the novelist Francois Beroalde de Verville (1556-1626). These two volumes contain the history of Rome according to Appian, "a native of Alexandria, [who] compiled in the second century A.D. an ethnographic history of Rome from the Republic to the time of Augustus" (Dilts). As such history was of great importance to historians throughout the ages, his history was published. Text in Italian RARE ================================= Appian of Alexandria (Latin: Appianus Alexandrinus; c.?95 – c.?AD 165) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius. He was born c. 95 in Alexandria. After holding the senior offices in the province of Aegyptus (Egypt), he went to Rome c. 120, where he practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors (probably as advocatus fisci, an important official of the imperial treasury). It was in 147 at the earliest that he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto, an influential rhetorician and advocate. Because the position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian order (the "knightly" class), his possession of this office tells us about Appian's family background. His principal surviving work (??µa??? Romaiká, known in Latin as Historia Romana and in English as Roman History) was written in Greek in 24 books, before 165. This work more closely resembles a series of monographs than a connected history. It gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments. The work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars. The Civil Wars, books 13–17 of the Roman History, concern mainly the end of the Roman Republic and take a conflict-based view and approach to history. Despite the lack of cited sources for his works, these books of the Roman History are the only extant comprehensive description of these momentous decades of Roman history. The other extant work of Appian is his "The Foreign Wars", which includes an ethnographic style history recounting the various military conflicts against a foreign enemy in Roman history, until the time of Appian. Another work of Appian's history which still survives mostly extant is called The Foreign Wars. This history describes the wars the Romans fought against other cultures throughout their history. The mostly extant work narrates the wars in Spain (book 6), the Punic Wars in both Italy and Africa (books 7 and 8), the wars against the Seleucid Empire (book 11), and the Mithridatic Wars (book 12). Several small fragments also survive, describing the early Roman kingdom (book 1) and the wars against the central Italians (book 2), Samnites (book 3), Illyrians (book 9), Macedonians (book 9), Numidians (book 8), and the Gauls (book 4). Especially notable is this work's ethnographic structure. Appian most likely used this structure to facilitate his readers' orientation through the sequence of events, which are united only by their relationship to Rome. For example, the chapter on Spain recounts Roman history in Spain chronologically with the Romans' first intervention in Spain during the War with Hannibal. The book goes on to describe the Roman conquest of several regions of Spain, followed by their wars with Spanish tribes and the Numantine War. The chapter on Spain concludes with the war against Sertorius in roughly 61 BC. Likewise, the chapter on the Hannibalic wars only recounts the battles that took place on the Italian Peninsula during the second Punic war, while the chapters on the Punic War recount all the action that occurred in northern Africa during the first and second Punic war. =================================== Please see my other auctions   Refund Policy: We will issue a FULL REFUND, 100% money back if you are not satisfied with your purchase. 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• Topic:Historical
• Binding:Vellum
• Subject:Military & War
• Language:Italian
• Original/Facsimile:Original
• Year Printed:1588