TACITUS.

Opera. [Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus].

      [Milan, Antonius Zarotus, c.1487.] 1487 Folio, 188 leaves, roman letter, capital spaces, a few contemporary annotations; a large crisp copy in an English late 17th / early 18th-century binding of marbled paper boards for Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (see below), leather back strip renewed, original edges preserving MS title “Cornel Taciti”. Second collected edition of Tacitus containing the Annals, and Histories, the Germania, and the first printing of the Agricola. The Agricola is Tacitus’ biography of his father-in-law, the Roman general who completed the conquest of Britain and ultimately became its governor. It includes an account of Britain and its tribes (these were the days of Boadicea), and even the weather, the continual rain and cloud.From the library of the Scottish patriot Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), with his signature on final blank and on rear paste-down. Fletcher’s library included almost fifty incunables, among them the Subiaco Augustine of 1467 and the Aldine Aristotle.HC 15219; BMC VI, 719; Goff T7. Cf. PMM 93 describing the Antwerp (Plantin) edition of 1574 edited by Lipsius.