1846 TACITUS ROMAN HISTORIES CORNELII TACITI OPERA VOLS I & II ORELLIUS ROME
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:29231093 | Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military |
| Region: Europe | Year Printed: 1846 |
| Author: TACITUS | Binding: Fine Binding |
| Language: Latin |
I have for sale a 2-volume set entitled C CORNELII TACITI Opera Quae Supersunt ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem recensuit atque in Scholarum Usum edidit Io. Gaspar Orellius. Vols I and II. All in Latin. Works of Tacitus the famous Roman historian and politician from the first century AD. Handwritten notes at the start of Vol I. Published by Williams and Norgate London in 1846-7. Latin text interleaved with blank pages for notes and emendations but no notes writt...en.Histories; Vita Agricola; Dialogues; AnnalsHalf brown leather on marbled hardboards. 5 raised gilt bands to the spine with dark maroon leather title blocks and gilt lettering. Some rubbing to the hinges and edges and the rear board of vol I is detached, but the other three boards are all firmly attached. Marbled endpapers and page edges to match. Clean and firm throughout, apart from last few pages of Vol II which are foxed a little. Vol I - 316 pages, Vol II - 262 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if and anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
