Roma illustrata, sive Antiquitatum Romanarum breviarium. Accessit Georgii Fabricii Chemnicensis Veteris Romae cum nova collatio. Ex nova recensione Antonii Thysii J.C. Postrema editio.
Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
Category
Books
Date
1657
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3020388
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 524, [20] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 5882. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown (facing title page): "Lipsius" [i.e. author note and catalogue entry, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript codes on front pastedown: "B", "6" and "R:". Manuscript inscription on title page, just above place of publication in imprint: "Leroy". Manuscript price[?] in pencil on rear pastedown: "1tt 10". Binding: seventeenth-century mottled sheepskin (rubbed, very worn); gold-tooled spine. Red and black mottled edges.
Makers and roles
Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), author Georg Fabricius (1516-1571), author Antoine Thysius (1603-1665), editor