Dion Cassius (Dio Cassio)

Dione Historico delle Guerre & Fatti de Romani: Tradotto di Greco in lingua vulgare, per M. Nicolo Leoniceno. Con le sue figure a'ogni libro, opera nuovamente venuta in luce, ne piu in lingua alcuna stampata.

      Vinegia (Venice): Nicolo d'Aristotile di Ferrara detto Zoppino, 1533. FIRST EDITION OF THE WORKS OF DION CASSIUS IN ANY LANGUAGE. (6), CCLXXXII leaves (i.e., 572 pp). This 3rd-century AD author provides, among many other things, the only chronology of Augustus' reign that has come down to us from antiquity. Illustrated with a woodcut portrait of Dion Cassius and 22 other fine woodcuts. 4to. Bound in contemporary vellum. Binding a little worn and somewhat torn, but still solid. Some faint internal staining and discoloration, but still attractive and even fresh. Haym 11.4; Adams D511; Moss I, 407..