DELLE GUERRE CIVILI DEI ROMANI, Tradotto da Messer Alexandro Braccese Fiorentino. Nuovamente Con Somma Diligentia Impresso
Rare and modern books
[Appianus] Appiano Alexandrino
di Filippo Giunta,
1519
DELLE GUERRE CIVILI DEI ROMANI, Tradotto da Messer Alexandro Braccese Fiorentino. Nuovamente Con Somma Diligentia Impresso
Rare and modern books
[Appianus] Appiano Alexandrino
di Filippo Giunta,
1519
3135.00 €
(Newburyport,
United States of America)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1519
- Place of printing
- Firenze
- Author
- [Appianus] Appiano Alexandrino
- Publishers
- di Filippo Giunta
- Languages
- English
Description
Rare, the first printing of Appianus translated into Italian. With the printer's woodblock on the title-page. 8vo, antique Italian calf, the boards ruled in gilt, the spine gilt tooled with central floral devices in compartments between wide flat gilt tooled bands, gilt lettered. 287 ff, (1) pp. A finely preserved copy with light wear to the binding. A wonderful and very rare survival.
Edizione: very rare first printing by giunta and the first in a modern language. appian's roman history comprises narratives of the various roman conquests from the earliest times to the accession of vespasian, in twenty-four books (of which nine books survive complete).
