Accession number
PML 195954
Creator
Florus, Lucius Annaeus.
Published
Rome : Vitale Mascardi for Pompilio Totti, 1639
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2013.
Notes
Engraved title page.
Date from preface.
"Lucio Ampelio Delle cose mirabili del mondo, e particolarmente de' Romani" has special half-title.
Translation of: Epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri II.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy has Sacchetti name and armorial scraped off of title page and dedicatory preface.
Date from preface.
"Lucio Ampelio Delle cose mirabili del mondo, e particolarmente de' Romani" has special half-title.
Translation of: Epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri II.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy has Sacchetti name and armorial scraped off of title page and dedicatory preface.
Description
[24], 358 p. : ports. ; 14 cm (12°).
Provenance
Sacchetti family (armorial binding), the work is dedicated to Matteo Sacchetti (1593-1659); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs Bros., April 2013.
Binding
Contemporary Italian brown calf with citron and red morocco onlays and gilt-tooling over paper boards (14.3 x 8 cm), on 3 bands. Coat of arms of Sacchetti family on top and bottom board. Gilt-tooled, flat back of 5 compartments.
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