De Moribus Germanorum et De Vita Agricolae (with two folding maps; 1829)

Tacitus, C Cornelius

Description:

Selected and edited by Richard Relhan from the edition of Gabriel Brotier and dedicated by the editor to the Bishop of Lincoln. The dedication is dated 25 August 1817, with this copy being from the fourth edition 12 years later. Copies such as this, with both inserted folding maps present and perfect, are rare. The maps are of Germania (1770) and Britannia (no date). The foreword to this fourth edition, by " J B", indicates the corrections and sources. Relhan's original preface remains the same.

In its day, this was a two-shilling Latin schoolbook, and T Mills, the scholar whose book this once was, has filled the endpapers and part of the back cover with attractive doodles and what may be a list of the 13 boys in his class.

The full tan calf covers are sound though rubbed on the faces, with a doodle (see above) on the back. "Tacitus a Relhan" is gilt-embossed on a red panel on the spine, which is decorated with seven gilt double-rules. The binding remains secure, although the front free endpaper remains only partially attached to the binding. The first map, Germania ex Cornelio Tacito, is inserted between the xii pp of prelims and p1; the second between pp 72 and 73 (sections F and G) of the total of 260 pp of text, footnotes, chronological table and index, followed by a four-line errata page - all unmarked and clean except for some offset on the pages following the maps.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Printed by John Smith for one Cambridge and three London publishers - Deighton; and Longman, Rivington Whittaker, and Simpkin and Marshall
  • Publisher Place: Cambridge
  • Date of Publication: 1829
  • Edition: Fourth
  • Binding Condition: Fair to Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 185 x 115
  • Lot No: 135
  • Hammer Price: $75
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 40
  • Estimate: $200
  • Reserve: $75

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