APPIANUS Alexandrinus.- The History, in two parts. The first consisting of the Punick, Syrian, Parthian, Mithridatick, Illyrian, Spanish and Hannibalick wars. The second containing five books of the Civil wars of Rome.
Estimation :
250 / 300
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
London, printed for Abel Roper, Richard Basset, William Turner, 1703. 2 parts in 1 vol. in-f° : [14]-251-[1 bl.], 273 pp. (copy slightly browned, foxing, stains, some marginal tears). Contemporary binding : sprinkled calf, boards encircled with blind fillets (fleurons in the angles) and roll-stamps, ribbed spine with gilt fillets, red edges (spine and joints renewed, light scratches on the boards, edges and corners dulled). Third edition of the English translation but second by John Davies (1st ed. of the transl. : 1578; 1st by Davies : 1679).
