HERODIAN. - Historiae libri VIII.With:(2) AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus. A D. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta.(3) EUTROPIUS. Historiae libri X.(4) PAUL THE DEACON (PAULUS DIACONUS). Libri VIII. ad Eutropii historiam additi.Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1517. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With Giunta’s woodcut device on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. Later half calf.

[4], 90; 127, [1 blank] ll.Collection of four works on Roman history, published at Florence by Filippo Giunta in his last year: Herodian's Historiae, in eight books, from Marcus Aurelius to Gordian III (180-238 CE). This edition is dedicated to Pope Innocentius VIII and gives Herodian’s text in Angelo Poliziano’s elegant Latin translation of the original Greek, first published in a folio volume in 1493. Although a bit moralizing, it is especially valuable for Herodian's contemporary knowledge. The second work, De vita et moribus Imperatorum Romanorum, excerpta ex libris Sexti Aurelii Victoris, à Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium Imperatorum is an epitome of Aurelius's Caesares, giving biographies of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Theodosius. The last two works are Eutropius, De gesta Romanorum in ten books, and the additional books 11 to 18 by Paulus Diaconus.With occasional old underlining and manuscript notes, and an owner's early photographic portrait mounted on fly-leaf. Some slight stains at the beginning; a few wormholes at the end. In good condition.l Adams H376; BMC STC Italian, p. 326; Barbéra, I Giunti tipografi ..., 98; ; USTC 835656.

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