[De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus grammaticis. De Claris rhetoribus. Horatii vita. Plinii vita. Lucani vita].

Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.

12mo, pp. [xii], 558, [30]; with a fine engraved title-page, engraved medallion portraits of the Twelve Caesars, engraved tailpiece with putti (repeated); a fine copy in early nineteenth-century blue straight-grained morocco (by Charles Lewis?), covers with a roll-tool border in blind, spine in four compartments with two large blind stamps and gilt rules, lettered directly, gilt edges; armorial bookplate of Edward R[ogers] Cookman, of Moynart House, County Wexford (1865).

£350

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An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius. Quoting the pioneering early eighteenth-century bookseller Guillaume de Bure, Cookman notes that this edition is ‘recherché a cause de la beauté de son impression’.

Brunet V, col. 582 (‘Jolie edition’).

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