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CAESAR, Caius Julius (100-44 B.C.). [Opera] quae extant. Accesserunt annotationes Samuelis Clarke. London: Jacob Tonson, 1712.
Large 2 (462 x 281 mm). 87 engraved maps and plates. Late 18th-century diced russia gilt, gilt turn-ins (slight wear to extremities).
"THE MOST SUMPTUOUS CLASSICAL WORK WHICH THIS COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED" (Lowndes). The double-page plate 42 (depicting a bull), which, according to Lowndes, "is sometimes wanting or damaged", is present in this copy with full margin. Lowndes I, p. 344.
Large 2 (462 x 281 mm). 87 engraved maps and plates. Late 18th-century diced russia gilt, gilt turn-ins (slight wear to extremities).
"THE MOST SUMPTUOUS CLASSICAL WORK WHICH THIS COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED" (Lowndes). The double-page plate 42 (depicting a bull), which, according to Lowndes, "is sometimes wanting or damaged", is present in this copy with full margin. Lowndes I, p. 344.