Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales of Cornelius
Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie [-The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba... The Life of Agricola], 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut initials, lacking initial and final blanks, title and first 2ff. of prelims with restoration to upper and outer margins, affecting text on verso of third ff., occasional worming to upper margins, a few ff. lower margin chipped, small hole to M4 with loss to 1 or 2 letters of text, ink inscription to endpaper, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, splitting to upper joints, rubbing to extremities, [STC 23646], sm. folio, by Arnold Hatfield, 1612.
⁂ Provenance: Fitzedward Hall (bookplate); W. Douglas Simpson (1896-1968, Scottish academic and archaeologist, his ink ownership inscription with addresses).
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Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie [-The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba... The Life of Agricola], 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut initials, lacking initial and final blanks, title and first 2ff. of prelims with restoration to upper and outer margins, affecting text on verso of third ff., occasional worming to upper margins, a few ff. lower margin chipped, small hole to M4 with loss to 1 or 2 letters of text, ink inscription to endpaper, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, splitting to upper joints, rubbing to extremities, [STC 23646], sm. folio, by Arnold Hatfield, 1612.
⁂ Provenance: Fitzedward Hall (bookplate); W. Douglas Simpson (1896-1968, Scottish academic and archaeologist, his ink ownership inscription with addresses).
