Drakenborch arnold ed (2 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. No Dust Jacket. Early edition of Crevier's revised edition of Drakenborch's Livy. Quarter-leather binding, worn on exterior, with significant loss to spine. Front hinge broken, front board loose. Minor foxing to endpapers; contents otherwise clean and sound. Used.

First Edition. Very good copy in contemporary full calf boards, with the rear detached, showing an abrasion, and both now somewhat scuffed. Corners bumped, with panel edges worn. Spine likewise worn, gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels; raised bands rubbed along with the joints and endbands, the latter showing minor tears. Contemporary owner's signature (1856) to front free endpaper. Text block remains strong and clean; a well-preserved example overall. Physical description; viii, 616 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Livy, history of Rome. Rome, history, to 476, sources. Latin literature, historians, editions. Classical literature, Oxford editions. Historians, Latin, texts. 1 Kg.…