Author: Suetonius Tranquillus.
Title: C. Suetonius Tranquillus ex recensione Joannis [Iohannis] Georgii Graevii [Joannes Georgius Graevius], cum ejusdem animadversionibus, ut et commentario integro Laevini Torrentii, et Isaaci Casauboni. His accedunt notae Theodori Marcilii et Francisci Guyeti, nec non index Matthiae Bernecceri [Opera].
Description: Gisberti a Zyll (Ex officina Zyliana) [Utrecht, G. van Zyll], 1672. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thick crown quarto (240 x 185mm). Pp. (xxii), 826, (ii) blank, 112, (126) index. A very fine, engraved allegorical frontispiece, captioned at bottom. With 66 text illustrations of coins. Large pictorial woodcut devise to title-page, decorative initials and tail-pieces. Set in double columns. HARDCOVER, handsomely bound in contemporary vellum, spine with raised bands, manuscript title in contemporary hand in second compartment, sides blind-ruled (corner-tips bit exposed), central large ornament blind-stamped on each side. Overall a fine copy. ~ FIRST EDITION, this copy is collated in accordance with the University of London copy. Includes "C. Suetonii Tranquilli libri duo, De illustribus grammaticis, et de claris rhetoribus; cum annotationibus doctissimorum virorum"; and "C. Suetonii Tranquilli Liber VIII, sive, Tres imperatores Caesares Vespasiani, interpretati, & emendati à Theodoro Marcilio (.)" each with a separate section title. Suetonius (ca. 69-ca. 122). Provenance: from the private collection of W. H. van der Voort, with his name in letterpress on first free endpaper. Lipsius p. 385; Dibdin II, p. 441. Scarce. A-2 .

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