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SUETONE. Caius Suetonius Tranquillus. [La vie des douze césars]. 1644.
SUETONE.
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus. [La vie des douze césars].
Paris, e typographia regia, 1644.
18mo (170x69 mm), (12)-558-(30) pages. binding : End of seventeen century /beginning of eigteenth century full morroco binding. Minor staining to the binding. Waterstain to inner margin of some leaves. One tear without lack on the margin of page 525.
Latin edition of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars given by the Imprimerie royale, created at the Louvre by Richelieu four years earlier in order to "give the public the works of good authors in characters worthy of their work".
Edition illustrated with an engraved title, and 12 portraits in the text engraved by Abraham Bosse.
These portraits representing the 12 Caesars are placed at the head of each of the chapters devoted to them.
A fine copy in morocco binding.
Price : 1200 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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