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[History, Elzevir] Curtius Rufus, Historiarum libri

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[History, Elzevir] Curtius Rufus, Historiarum libri

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EARLY ELZEVIR EDITION OF CURTIUS RUFUS' HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN A FINE CONTEMPORARY VELLUM ARMORIAL BINDING

Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Q. Curtii Rufi Historiarum libri, accuratissime editi. Lugd. Batavorum: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1633.

12mo (126x72 mm), contemporary full vellum binding, with gilt coat of arms and blind stamped fillets at boards, handwritten title at flat spine, traces of removed book-laces; pp. [12], 364, [24], [1] folding plate.
Engraved title-page of Alexander the Great riding roughshod over a fallen enemy, a woodcut medallion portrait of Alexander, an engraved folding map showing the expedition of Alexander, and a full-page plate of the Temple of Jupiter [p. 81]. Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Text in Latin.
Edmund Goldsmid call this the third printing of that year.

Curtius Rufus (1st century) was a Roman historian and professional magistrate of senatorial rank mentioned by Tacitus and Pliny the Younger for life events occurring during the reigns of the emperors Tiberius and Claudius.

Provenance: Ownership bookplate label with coat of arms, glued to the front paste-down (Ex libris Georges Montandon).
Alexis George Montandon (Cortaillod, April 19, 1879 - Clamart, August 30, 1944) was a French anthropologist of Swiss origin.

References: IT\ICCU\MILE\038884. OCLC, 25349717. Graesse II: 311; Brunet II: 450; Rosenbach 33: 117; Willems 381; Dibdin II: 374.

Condition

Very light brownings. Little hole at p. 363/364 with loss of some letters.

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