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Philadelphia: Impensis M. Carey, 1808. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Ink note from previous owner on front endpaper ('The property of Otis Hutchins. purchased second hand. August 22d 1815. price 1.00, No. 77'), edges of endpapers toned, top corner of front free endpaper removed. 1808 Full-Leather. iv, 256 pp. Original full leather, red leather spine label, gilt titles & rules. Books 1-4 of Tacitus's histories in the original Latin, taken primarily from the Brotier's edition, with portions from Barbou and Gronovius. Notes by Barbou taken from his 1793 edition. Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman statesman in the first century A.D., whose histories provide an authoritative account of various events within the Roman Empire, with the unique insight of a politician living at the time.