Author: TACITUS.
Title: [Opera] ex Lipsii editione, cum not. et emend. H. Grotii.
Description: Leiden, Elzevier, 1640. In 2 vols. 12mo. (12, 7x6, 6cm). [xvi], 746[=748], [16=index] pp. With engraved title, plate with portraits of Augustus, Livia and Tiberius (by C.C. Duysent), and 1 fold.table (Stemmata Augustae Domus). Red morocco with gilt borders, spines, and (board) edges, spines with morocco title-shields. (a few tiny wormholes in spines; small damage and light stain on upper corner front board; tear in table repaired). Good copy. ¶ "Schönste und gesuchteste Elzevir'sche Ausg. des Tacitus, welche ... in hohem Preise steht, da ihr Grotii Theilnahme auch wissenschaftl. Werth giebt. (Ebert 22158). Schweiger II.1002. ¶ "Of these elegant little editions, that of 1640 is preferred, on account of its having the notes of Grotius. It is one of the scarcest Elzevir classics..." (Dibdin II.452)

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