De Vita Xii Caesarum Commentationes Conditae A Philippo Beroaldo In Svetonium Tranquillum

by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Ca 70 After 122

$16,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

The title page features a fine woodcut 8 x 11.5 cm. depicting the birth of Caesar repeated in the text . The text is illustrated with an additional 71 small woodcut scenes 50 x 75 mm . Bound in contemporary Swiss or German half pigskin over original wooden boards, the pigskin richly tooled in blind. Two brass catches are preserved the clasps and straps now perished ; Pigskin soiled, some tiny wormholes to the binding. The text is in fine, bright condition, with small wormholes in the

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