Live auction - Lot 1018
[Antiquity]
Les femmes des douze Césars, contenant la vie & les intrigues secretes des Impératrices & femmes des premiers Empereurs Romains [...].
SERVIEZ, Jacques Roergas de
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Amsterdam, E. Du Villard & Fr. Changuion, 1721
12mo: [8]-531-[1] pp.
Contemp. overl. vellum. Very good copy.
Very rare Amsterdam edition of the Paris 1718 ed. Serviez (1679-1727) adapted Greek and Latin biographies of the Roman Emperors to illustrate the lives of their wives. Title in red & black.
Ref. STCN (2, i.a. BL). - Cp. Conlon 18:723 (orig. ed.).