[Rarebooks] FS: ELZEVIR PRINTING

[Norman Kane]

PATERCULUS, M. VELLEIUS.  HISTORIAE ROMANAE]. CUM NOTIS GERARDI VOSII. 
Leiden: Officina Elzeveriana, 1639. 
Old calf, nicely rebacked with calf and new labels, raised bands; 12mo, approx. 4-3/4 X 2-3/4 inches,  [8], 116, [26], 128, [2] pages. Nice vignette title showing a Roman soldier carrying a man on his back with Rome, ships & a hillside in the background. A few old marginalia.  Willems 484 cites 2 printings; this is the earlier, with the Dedication dated "pridie Kal. Majas."   This edition  was reprinted word for word by Jean & Daniel Elzevir in 1654 & by Louis  & Daniel in 1664. (Paterculus was a military tribune, public official & historian.  His "History" survived in but one worn copy which was discovered in Murbach Abbey in Alsace in 1515, and is now lost. His principal patron was Tiberius.)
$190.00 ($170.00 to the trade) + postage

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