Antiquitatum sive originum Romanarum libri XI. A Lapo Birago Florentino latine versis, ac per Henricum Glareanum P.L. recogniti, ab innumerisque mendis repurgati, & illustrati Annotationibus. Adiuncta est per eundem Chronologia temporum in Dionysii historia comprehensorum.

Basel, Officina Frobeniana, March 1532. Fol. [4] ll., 539 pp., [20] ll. and [16] ll. with separate title page. With a printer's device repeated four times. Eighteenth century vellum, edges nicely decorated with slanted stripes in green and reddish brown. Somewhat foxed and with a few faint marginal dampstains.

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First Basel edition. Written in Greek, the work of Dionysius of Halicarnassus - about half of which has survived - complements Polybius and deals with the earliest history of Rome until shortly before the Punic War. Glareanus edited and annotated the text in the translation of Lapo Birago and dedicated it to King Ferdinand of Austria. On the recommendation of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Glareanus received from the king a gift of 50 Rhenish guilders for his editorial work (cf. Gulik, Erasmus and his books 299). - A few marginal annotations in ink. Domenico Maroni, inscription on title, other ms. entries cancelled. Adams, D 629. BMSTC German Books, 124. VD16 D1970. Hoffmann I, 586.