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Rare Books & Manuscripts
1:00 PM PT - Sep 25th, 2008

 

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Lot 2121 save

Elsevier Printing of Latin Orations

Title: Conciones et Orationes Ex Historicis Latinis Excerptae
Author: Perion, Joachim
Description: [xii], 420 + 12 (index) pp. Extra engraved title-page. 5x3, original vellum with yapp edges, title in manuscript on spine. Second Edition (first in 1649).Latin orations from Livy, Tacitus, Sallust and Quintus Curtius, printed by Louis Elsevier toward the end of the time he managed the press alone. Although a date of 1653 appears on the engraved title-page, the printed title shows 1652, which corresponds bibliographically to Willems et al.
Heading: Place Published: Amsterdam
Publisher: Louis Elsevier
Date Published: 1653

Condition report

Vellum soiled with a few stains; endpapers spotted and occasionally foxed, ink in lower margin of engraved title-page; a few pages browned, otherwise very good.

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