31st Mar, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia

 
  Lot 42
 

Livius (Titus) & Sigonio (Carlo, editor)

Livius (Titus) & Sigonio (Carlo, editor)

Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV, 2 parts in one, woodcut printer’s devices to titles, historiated initials and ornaments, Milltown Park library stamp, bookplate and shelfmark to title-page and front pastedown, along with the William O’Brien bequest label, intermittent dampmark to fore-edge (heavier at the beginning), occasional spotting or light soiling, a few marginal annotations, early manuscript index to rear flyleaf, later vellum over boards, gilt-lettered morocco label on spine covering a blind-decorated leather label, ink shelfmark, a little rubbed and stained, [Ahmanson-Murphy 477; Renouard 166:15; Brunet III:110; Adams L1342; Dibdin II 166], folio, Paolo Manuzio, 1555.

*** The first Sigonius edition of Livy, with copious commentary, introducing critical methods for reconstructing the past which revolutionized the study of ancient Roman history and the Italian Middle Ages. Carlo Sigonio (1523-1584) was professor at Venice, Padua, and Bologna. He wrote other historical works, including the ‘Fasti Consulares’, the first work in which the history of Rome was set forth in chronological order, based upon some fragments of old bronze tablets dug up in 1547 on the site of the old Forum.


 

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