Gruter, Janus. Inscriptiones antiquae totius orbis romani. Amsterdam, Halma, 1707. In 2nd (440 x 272 mm); 2 volumes in 4 tomes.2 figured frontispieces, 2 frontispieces printed in red and black with intaglio vignette, 3 portraits of the author, Graevius and Joseph Scaliger, 1 dedicatory table, intaglio illustrations, numerous plates and framed text with illustrations of inscriptions, large woodcut initials, each volume consists of two parts, contains at the end of the second volume the Notae Tironis ac Senecae(sporadic blooming, other minor defects.) Coeval bindings in bazzana with title on spine (defects and minor faults). Magnificent work of an encyclopedic nature with regard to inscriptions dating from the classical Latin period. (4)

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