[Histories]; Bellum Catilinarium; Bellum Jugurth; Historiarum Fragmenta; Oratioi Ad C. Caesarem; Epitome Rerum Romanarum
by Sallustius, C. Crispus and Florus, L. Annaeus
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Joannis Baskerville, 1773. [5], 2-317pp, [1]. Contemporary full straight grain morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, author lettered directly to second panel with a small number of fleuron tools to foot, covers with single line border, single line to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., shell patterned marbled endpapers. Rubbed to outer joints and extremities, corners lightly bumped. Some light browning and occasional light foxing internally, but generally fairly bright and clean. Moss regarded this as "one of the most beautiful of Baskerville's editions, and by far, the most elegant one we have of this historian" (Moss, 'Manual of Classical Bibliography', Volume II, page 561). Gaskell 51; Harwood, pg 160, Moss II:561; Schweiger, page 883. First Thus. Hardback. Good+. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004181
- Title
- [Histories]; Bellum Catilinarium; Bellum Jugurth; Historiarum Fragmenta; Oratioi Ad C. Caesarem; Epitome Rerum Romanarum
- Author
- Sallustius, C. Crispus and Florus, L. Annaeus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Joannis Baskerville
- Place of Publication
- Birminghamiae [Birmingham]
- Date Published
- 1773
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Baskerville, Fine Binding, Sallustius, Florus, Classics, Military
- Bookseller catalogs
- Eighteenth Century; Military and Anti-War; Classics and Ancient History; Fine Bindings;
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...