[Rarebooks] FS: Epitome of Pompeius Trogus' history. Venice: 1489-90

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(INCUNABULA) Justinus, Marcus Junianus. EPITOME IN TROGI POMPEII HISTORIAS. 
[Edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus]. Venice: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis for 
Antonius Moretus. N.d., but after 1489-90. Folio. Roman type. ff.54. Later 
plain boards, stained brown. Light text soiling, otherwise a very nice 
wide-margined copy.     $5,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Important scholarly edition, edited by M. A. Sabellicus (1436-1506), with 
revisions by Justinianus Romanus. A second text by Lucinus Annaeus Florus appears 
on ff.38-54, entitled “Gestorum Romanorum Epithoma;” it is edited by Filippo 
Beroaldo the Younger (1472-1518). Goff J 619; Hain-Copinger 9653; BMC V, 421.

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