Historiarum ex Trogo Pompeio. JUSTINUS (Marcus Junianus).

Historiarum ex Trogo Pompeio Lib. XLIV. Cum notis Isaaci Vossii.

Engraved title-page.

12mo. [126 x 75 x 24 mm]. [6]ff, 310, 36, [50] pp. Near contemporary English binding of calf, the covers tooled in blind with a double fillet border and panel with a scroll at the inner corners and a floral tool at the outer corners. The spine divided into five panels with gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the others with floral centre and scroll corners, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Short crack at foot of upper joint, small wormhole in top panel, portion of front free endleaf cut away).

Lugd. Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1640.

Willems, Les Elzevier, 502.

A few headpieces and initials have been coloured by hand at an early date. A very good copy. With the purple ink stamp of T. A. L. Hamilton.

Stock no. ebc9004