TACITUS.

Opera. [Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus]. [

      Milan, Antonius Zarotus, c.1487.] Second edition of Tacitus' historical writings (Histories, Annals, Germania etc.), the first to include the Agricola, Tacitus' life of his father-in-law who became governor of Britain. It is an important early essay in the art of biography and is also valuable for its account of Roman Britain.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 T-7. Cf. PMM 93.