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AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS.
Rerum gestaru[m] libri XVIII . . .
Librum trigesimumprimum qui in
exemplari Frobeniano non habetur,
adiecimus ex codici Mariangeli Accursii.
513 [
i. e., 543] pages. 8vo, 158x98 mm, 18th-
century vellum, top of spine chipped,
minor worming through pastedowns;
contents clean; red sprinkled edges.
Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1544
[400/600]
FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION
of a continuation of
the works of Tacitus by the last major Roman
historian, who wrote in the 4th-century A.D.
Renouard I, 61(17); this edition not in
Schreiber.
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APOLLONIUS of Rhodes.
Argonauticon libri IIII.
Greek text, edited with notes
by Henri Estienne. [8], 240 pages. 4to, 260x170 mm, 18th-century red straight-grain
morocco gilt with Cracherode arms on covers, spine faded; contents clean, early signature
(“
De Chatigny”) on title.
[
Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1574
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION
of the 3rd-century B.C. epic on the quest of Jason and the
Argonauts for the Golden Fleece. Renouard (Estienne) I, 141(1); Schreiber 188; Hoffmann I,
207.
From the libraries of the Reverend Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-99), bibliophile
and British Museum benefactor, bound for him, with his ink monogram on front fly leaf; Castle
Howard (sale, Hodgson, 3 February 1944, lot 177); J. R Abbey, with his bookplate and ini-
tialed and dated inventory number (sale, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1967, lot 1629); and Bradley
Martin, with his bookplate, (sale, Sotheby’s New York, 14 June 1990, lot 3363).
