1588 APPIAN ROMAN HISTORY of FOREIGN WARS antique VELLUM in ITALIAN 16th CENTURY

------ - ---- --- - - - - Appiani Alexandrini Romanorum historiarum lib. XII Ex collatione Graecorum exemplarium restituti & emendati. Cum indice copiosissimoLugduni, apud A. Gryphium; 1588.2 parts in one volumeSize 3 1/4 by 5"Original limp vellum  binding with manuscript title to the spineLacks ties Some soiling of the vellum, couple of tears at the spine, outer margin of the title page is repaired.Compact Lyon edition printed in Italics. The second part, containing "Hannibalica", is preceded by a separate title page, translated by the novelist Francois Beroalde de Verville (1556-1626).These two volumes contain the history of Rome according to Appian, "a native of Alexandria, [who] compiled in the second century A.D. an ethnographic history of Rome from the Republic to the time of Augustus" (Dilts).As such history was of great importance to historians throughout the ages, his history was published. Text in Italian --------------