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1726 VALERIUS MAXIMUS Dictorum Factorumque Memorabilium antique VELLUM BINDING

Name: 1726 VALERIUS MAXIMUS Dictorum Factorumque Memorabilium antique VELLUM BINDING
Brand: Motka
Price: 571.0 USD
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Valerius Maximus, C

Libri novem factorum dictorumque memorabilium.
Cum notis recensuit & notas adiecit.

Leiden, Luchtmans; 1726

Size 8 by 10"

With engraved frontispiece, 24 pages, 914 pages, 113 pages

Original attractive Dutch school prize gilt embossed vellum binding with coat of arms to both covers, richly decorated spine

Very good interior, some soiling to the vellum, lacks ties.

Schweiger II, 1111. Spoelder p. 686.

- First edition edited by Torrenius

with printed dedication leaf for the prize winner Anton Gerhard Alexander van Rapparo with various signatures

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Valerius Maximus (was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as De factis dictisque memorabilibus or Facta et dicta memorabilia).
He worked during the reign of Tiberius (14 AD to 37 AD).
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Text in Latin

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