A Roman Triumvirate
EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS].
Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices manuscriptos & optimas editiones recognitum & correctum … Fragmenta ad Calcem. Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.
12mo, pp. [2], 380, with copper-engraved frontispiece by De la Fosse after Eisen; woodcut non solus device to title, woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces; an excellent copy in contemporary green straight-grained morocco, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, edges gilt, brown endpapers, ribbon placemarker; very slightly rubbed.
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Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices manuscriptos & optimas editiones recognitum & correctum … Fragmenta ad Calcem.
First edition by Capperonnier of this collection of three Roman histories of the fourth century, printed in small format and handsomely bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco.
Although previously printed by Barbou in both Latin and French, Eutropius is here joined for the first time by his contemporaries Aurelius Victor (c. 320–c. 390) and Festus (d. 380) and newly edited by Jean-Augustin Capperonnier (1745–1820). The allegorical frontispiece depicts Rome and her tributaries, with the She-Wolf suckling Romulus at her feet and a city under construction in the background.