Lipsius's famous edition of Tacitus, 1668

PLANTIN PRESS. TACITUS, C. C. Opera quae extant, a Iusto Lipsio postremum recensita... item C. Velleius Paterculus cum eiusdem Iusti Lipsi auctioribus notis. Antverpiæ (ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti) 1668. Folio. (16), 1-547, (33, last blank); (2), 3-36; (2), 3-84, (14, last blank) pp. Title printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, 2 titles with woodcut printer's device, 2 full-page woodcut printer's devices, woodcut initials and vignettes in text.Contemporary brown mottled full calf, worn, gilt Meandrical border, mended in the hinges, somewhat faded spine, spine label mended, marbled edges. Minor foxing. Bookplate of Ioannis Christopheri, his signature on first endpaper. This edition first published by Moretus in 1627, reprinted by Plantin-Moretus in 1648. Lipsius's edition of Tacitus is considered the masterpiece of this great classical scholar. Also included here are Lipsius work on the Mirandola codex of Tacitus, and his Animadversions on Paterculus.