Author: DIO CASSIUS.
Title: Dionis Nicaei Rerum Romanarum à Pompeio Magno ad Alexandrum Mamaeae, Epitome authore Joh. Xiphilino. Ex bibliotheca Regia.
Description: Paris, Robert Estienne, 1551. Large 4to. (24, 4x17, 6cm). 357, [3] pp. With a printer's device on the title, numerous large woodcut initials and some woodcut borders. Old limp vellum binding, ties gone. (a few (light) marginal (water-)stains; one small marginal tear; a few pages with minimal marginal worming). A good copy with ample margins.) ¶ Editio princeps of this 11th-century abridgment of Dio Cassius by Johannes Xiphilinus. (Ebert.24175). ¶ One of the last Parisian publications of Robert Estienne. (Renouard, Estienne, 80.8). ¶ Hoffmann III.618. Schweiger 93 (different edition). Pettegree, French Books 65034; Adams D.513

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