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Tacitus,C.C.

Historiarum et annalium libri qui exstant, Iusti Lipsi studio emendati... Antwerp, Plantin 1574. with small woodcut printer's mark. 762 p., 2 pp. Blind embossed. Hogshead boards (rubbed and worn). PMM 93. BM STC, Dutch Books p. 195. Voet 2276. Rare first edition of Lipsius. - Schweiger II, 999: "His alterations are very perceptive, his explanations highly estimable". - Some spotting and browning, numerous marginalia (mostly in pencil), title page with handwritten ownership mark and upper margin. Ownership annotation and top. Marginal defects, inner hinges brittle. - Bookplate.

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