DIO CASSIUS.
Historiarum libri XXIII, à XXXVI ad LVIII usque.
Paris, Robertus Stephanus, Typographus Regius, 1548. Folio. (32, 2x20, 5cm). (vii, 1 blank), 498, (2) pp. With large intricate woodcut initials. Printer's device on title-page and last page (some old underlinings, especially in the first half of the book; some pages slightly foxed or browned; front endpaper a bit frayed, tiny piece from margin of one leaf). Full blind-panelled calf. (restored, new spine with morocco title-piece). A good copy with ample margins.
¶ Provenance: owner's entry on title-page of Zacharias Caimus (physician in Milan ca.1550).
¶ EDITIO PRINCEPS. Robert Estienne used a - defective - manuscript from the royal library, to which he added some 'castigationes'. "Schöner, genauer u.correkter Abdruk eines Paris Ms., selbst mit dessen Fehlern. Beigefügt sind v.p.474 an krit.Noten v.Rob.Stephanus, oder vielmehr H.Stephanus, wie in .Vorrede d.folg.Ausg.gesagt wird." (Hoffmann I/548). "Première et belle édition, avec des corrections de Henri et de son père, qui se plaint avec raison de n'avoir pu imprimer ce livre que d'après un tres mauvais manuscript." (Renouard, Estienne, p.73). Printed with the King's Greek Type.

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