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Gaius Julius Caesar (100/102 BCE - 44 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
leather, paper
Measurements
217 x 140 mm; 42 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088355.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1.,plates. . ill..,maps,port.. . 8vo.. With manuscript notes by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928), including some copied from Lord Macaulay. Dates of reading: June 23 1835, 'May 28 1917 Welcombe The most interesting military story I ever read, as told by the hero of it. If Pharsalia had gone the other way the Kaiser and the Czar would now be called "Pompey"', 'June 16 1835' and 'March 28 1917. How very inconsistant with the fact was my first prize - poem at Harrow in 1855 - 62 years ago!' (p. 171), June 19 1835 and April 30 1917 (p. 345), May 18 1917 and March 21 1835 (p. 478), June 22 1835 and May 21 1917 (p. 524). Provenance: Pastedown obscures armorial bookplate of former owner, lettered S.T. Galton (possibly Samuel Tertius Galton, 1783-1844).. Binding: Nineteenth-century full leather binding, rebacked; red and greed spine labels, gilt lettered.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Gaius Julius Caesar (100/102 BCE - 44 BCE) Aulus Hirtius (c.90-43BC) Jeremias Jacob Oberlin (1735-1806)