Author: Suetonius, Caius Tranquillus: [van Oudendorp, Frans, ed.:]
Title: [XII Caesares] Ad Optimorum Exemplarium Fidem Castigatus.
Description: Leyden [Leiden], S. and J. Luchtmans, 1767. 12mo., pp. [iv], 408 + additional engraved title-page. Publisher's device to title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. A few faint in lines to margins, occasional light ink smudges. Contemporary vellum prize binding, gilt spine, large gilt centrepiece of Middelburg to each board, edges sprinkled red. Vellum greyed with some smudgy marks, ties lost, very good. Scarce in UK institutions. Edited, according to Engelmann in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum, by Frans van Oudendorp (1696-1761) professor of Eloquence and History at Leiden and 'the last of the great Latinists of the third age of scholarship in the Netherlands' (Sandys). Schweiger, 980; Spoelder 5.

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