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SUETONIUS Tranquillus (Caius 86-34 B.C.) Opera, & in illa commentarius Samuelis Pitisci. Leeuwarden: Halma, 1714-1715. 2 volumes, 4 (253 x 195mm). Titles in red and black with engarved vignettes. Engraved frontispiece to vol.I, head- and tailpieces, plates, some folding or double-page. (Some light spotting, plate facing p.338 re-margined.) Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, the cover over-stamped with the later arms of the Bagot family. Provenance: Bagot (binding). Brunet V, 582.
Publius TERENTIUS Afer (185-159 B.C.). Comoediae. Rome: Typographia Zempeliana for Nicolaus Roisechius, 1767. 2 volumes, 2 (420 x 290mm). Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved plates, illustrations and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: George Grenville, later 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813, inscription noting purchase in Rome in 1774). Grenville was in Rome, on a tour with Viscount Bulkeley, in January-March and April-May 1774.
[And:] five other works in six vellum-bound volumes (Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera, Paris: 1745, 2 volumes, 12; Aeschylus, Tragoediae, in Greek and Latin, Glasgow: 1746, small 4; Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera, London: 1796, small 4; Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolica et Goergica, ex antiquis monumentis illustrata... Henrici Justice, [n.p.: n.d.], 8; Aulus Gellius, Noctium Atticarum libri XX, Leiden: 1706, 4). (10)
Publius TERENTIUS Afer (185-159 B.C.). Comoediae. Rome: Typographia Zempeliana for Nicolaus Roisechius, 1767. 2 volumes, 2 (420 x 290mm). Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved plates, illustrations and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: George Grenville, later 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813, inscription noting purchase in Rome in 1774). Grenville was in Rome, on a tour with Viscount Bulkeley, in January-March and April-May 1774.
[And:] five other works in six vellum-bound volumes (Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera, Paris: 1745, 2 volumes, 12; Aeschylus, Tragoediae, in Greek and Latin, Glasgow: 1746, small 4; Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera, London: 1796, small 4; Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolica et Goergica, ex antiquis monumentis illustrata... Henrici Justice, [n.p.: n.d.], 8; Aulus Gellius, Noctium Atticarum libri XX, Leiden: 1706, 4). (10)