• Livius, Titus (59 BC - 17 AD) Historiarum Ab Urbe Condita Decadis Quintae Libri Quinque, Nunc Primum Excusi. Venetiis: Aedibus Lucaentonii Iuntae Florentini, 5th August 1531. Main title page.
  • Livius, Titus (59 BC - 17 AD) Historiarum Ab Urbe Condita Decadis Quintae Libri Quinque, Nunc Primum Excusi. Venetiis: Aedibus Lucaentonii Iuntae Florentini, 5th August 1531. Quarto. Binding.
  • 1531 Livy's History of Rome on the Third Macedonian War
  • Livius, Titus (59 BC - 17 AD) Historiarum Ab Urbe Condita Decadis Quintae Libri Quinque, Nunc Primum Excusi. Venetiis: Aedibus Lucaentonii Iuntae Florentini, 5th August 1531. Colophon.
  • 1531 Livy's History of Rome on the Third Macedonian War
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Livius, Titus

1531 Livy's History of Rome on the Third Macedonian War

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Livius, Titus (59 BC - 17 AD)
Historiarum Ab Urbe Condita Decadis Quintae Libri Quinque, Nunc Primum Excusi.
Venetiis: Aedibus Lucaentonii Iuntae Florentini, 5th August 1531.
Quarto.

This edition contains the history of the relationship between Rome and Macedon from Livy’s History of Rome (books XLI-XLV). Within its pages Livy discusses the deteriorating relationship between Rome and Macedonia, the Third Macedonian War, Roman victory at Pydna, the capture of Perseus, and the reorganisation of Macedonia.

Size: 140 x 201 mm

Condition

[A–K⁸, L⁴, 1 blanks]

Contemporary full vellum with ink title to spine. Binding warn and detached from page block, with some marks and discolouration, small hole to rear board, and warping. Holes to slides of boards, indicating ties wanting. White circular sticker to top of spine. Wanting front blank. Revealed ink title to page block spine. Text block collates as complete, clean with some minor wormholing, most prominently to last few leaves, catching some words, but overall sense of text remains.

USTC 838292; EDIT16 CNCE 29487; Internet Archive ark:/13960/t2q55h13k

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