(Auteur de l'antiquité) — Eutropius.- Epitome belli Gallici ex Suetonii Tranquilli monumentis quae desiderantur. In C. Julij Caesaris commentarios de bello Gallico ac civili, Henrici Glareani poetae laureati annotationes. Lutetiae [Paris], ex...
Estimation :
200 / 250
Adjudication :
450 €
Description
officina Roberti Stephani, 1544. In-8° : 134-[122] pp. (rare pp. slightly browned, rare marg. handwritten notes, light and small marg. dampstains in the end). Contemporary binding : calf, blind stamped boards with central panels figuring 2 portraits in medallions encircled by afloral roll-stamp and fillets, ribbed spine, red edges (slightly rubbed on the edges, large scratch on the panel of lower board). First edition of the abstract on the Gallic Wars attributed to the Roman historian Eutropius (4. Cent). Followed by the commentaries on the stories by Julius Caesar of the same conflicts and of the Civil Wars given by the philologist Glaeranus (1488-1563). With extensive toponymic and populations indexes (one with translations in French). Title-page with the mark of Robert Estienne. # Renouard 60; # Adams I-1133; # STC French 410; # USTC 149167 (with 18 unnumbered pp. at the end); # not in Soltész nor in Machiels. fl Édition originale de l'abrégé du récit sur la guerre de Gaules, attribué à l'historien du IVe s. Eutrope. Suivi par des commentaires de Jules César donnés par le philologue Glaréan. Plein veau de l'ép. avec plaques à froid figurant deux portraits en médaillons (lég. us.).
