Lot 159
Ammianus Marcellinus
The Roman Historie
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
containing such Acts and Occurrents as passed under Constantius, Julianus, Joovianus, Valentinianus, and Valens, Emperours … Now translated newly into English … by Philemon Holland. London: Adam Islip, 1609. First edition, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt spine laid down, later labels (perhaps 18th-century), arabesque lozenges gilt to covers, lacking 2 leaves of text (2C3-4), title-leaf soiled and laid down, marginal repairs to following 2 leaves, occasional damp-stains, repairs to final 2 quires, final leaf (2F2 also laid down) [ESTC S114268; STC 17311]; Together with 4 others (these not fully collated), including: John Cruso, Military Instructions for the Cavallrie, Cambridge: Roger Daniel, 1644 (folio, contemporary sheep, rebacked, engraved title-page, engraved plates, extensive repairs, many plates backed on card); Joshua Sprigge, Anglia Rediviva, Englands Recording, being the History of … the Army under … Sr Thomas Fairfax, London, 1647 (folio, 19th-century half calf, lacking portrait and plate of the battle of Naseby, retaining woodcut arms plate, ownership inscriptions including William Chapple, 1772, and Mary Fairfax, 1832); and others (5)