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AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus

Historia Romana, cum notis integris. Ed. J. Arntzenius

Amstelodami
Janssonius-Waesbergen
1733

€140 - €200

4to, (46), 668, (134) pp., engraved frontispiece, title page with title vignette, engraved plate, num. ills. of coins, PRIZE BOOK in contemporary vellum with gilt coat of arms of the city of THE HAGUE. With the prize bound at the beginning of the volume. It represents Pallas Athena, harnessed and helmeted, accompanied by her owl and with a lance in her right hand and a shield in her left. The Hague stork is shown on the shield (binding slightly soiled)

Ref. Dekesel, Bibliography of 18th century numismatic books; A 167. Ref. Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch decorated Bookbinding in the 18th c., vol. IIA, p. 21 ""Until c. 1795 Hague prize bindings were made practically without exception in vellum

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