C. Corn. Tacitus Ex I. Lipsii Editione Cum Not Et Emend H. Grotii. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Elzeviriana. Anno 1640.
C. Cornelius Tacitus, from the Edition of J. Lipsius, with Notes and Corrections by H. Grotius. Leiden, From the Elzevir Press, Year 1640.
The third and best Elzevir Press edition of Tacitus in a beautiful contemporary fine binding; this is one of the rarest editions from the Elzevir Press and remains highly desirable as one might expect.
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Provenance:
Armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys with the motto "probum non poenitet" (the honest man does not regret)
Bookplate remnants of Mr. Ambrose Holbech.
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Size: 74 x 128 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[t.p., 14pp., 746pp., 16pp.]
Full brown calf with decorative gilt borders to both boards, a red tooled label in a compartment to the spine between raised bands, other compartments with simple decorative gilt. Wavy pen/ink marks to both boards. Small losses to the tooled label. Wormholing to the spine. Lacking headcap with small loss to the head of the backstrip. Both boards attached, front joint and hinge cracked, thus fragile, rear joint and hinge with some wear. Shelf and edge wear. No shelf lean. Spotted page edges dulled, top edge darkened as often. Bookplate attached sideways to the front pastedown. Ink inscription to front blank. One front blank torn with loss to the top. Very small ink inscription to the bottom of the title page. A remnant of a bookplate and a shield attached to the reverso of the title page. Ink inscription to rear blank. Minor wormholing to the first few leaves in the gutter. Text block very clean with light edge toning and occasional foxing and very minor pencil marginalia.
