Appianus Alexandrinus( 95-162 A.D)

APPIANO ALESSANDRINO DELLE GUERRE CIVILI ET ESTERNE DE ROMANI CON DILIGENTIA CORRETTO ET CON NVOVA TRADOTTIONE DI MOLTI LUOGHI MIGLIORATO. AGGIUNTOVI ALLA FINE UN LIBRO DEL MEDESIMO, SULLE GUERRE DI SPAGNA, NON PIÙ VEDUTO. Con Privilegio di nostro Signor Papa Paolo III. et della Illustrissima Signoria di Vinegia. M. D. XL V. (1545). In Vinegia, nel1' anno, M. D. XXXXV. In casa de' figliuoli di Aldo.

      "Description : [ small 8vo] – leaves 258.ALDINE EDITION. A copy by the heirs of the celebrated Venetian printer Aldus Manutius of the translated edition in vernacular language of the ROMAN WARS fought against Chartagine, Syro and Partycum (GUERRE CIVILI ET ESTERNE DE ROMANI) composed by Appianus Alexandrinus (A??????? A?????????? 95-162, II century A.D) and translated from the greek language into Italian by Alessandro Braccio . The first recorder edition of the Braccio’s translation is the folio 1502 edition printed in Rome ( Stampato in Roma in Campo di Fiore) by Silber.The Aldus Edition states the translation has been corrected and cleaned of previous errors compared to the previous editions to make it more accurate for the reader and scholars. The text is printed in the beautiful aldine typeface cancelleresco with the notes at margins in tondo. Aldine logo is reproduced on title page and again in the end at verso of last leaf. The present copy contains also seven nicely illuminated initials in black ink and watercolor with floral and geometric motives, at foreword, premium and one at the beginning of each of the five parts the work is composed. The book has been restored and bound in late ful leather green binding with red leather grafts on front and rear boards, blindstamped decorations on both boards include a rectangular frame with Florentine lilies at corners, five raised bands with gilt roses at compartments at spine. On the front board is printed in gilt characters the title with a typo “civil(e) et estern(i)” instead of “civili et esterne” on rear board the word ALDUS and the year of printing 1545 . Traces of an exlibris partially removed.ALDINE EDITIONCfr. HOFFMANN, Lexicon Bibliographicum sive Index Editionum et Interpretationum Scriptorum Graecorum Tum Sacrorum Tum Profanorum., Lipsia (1832), Vol. I , p.227. GAMBA, Serie dei Testi di Lingua 1054; GRAESSE Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de Livres I, 169."