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Lot 4116
First English Edition of The History of the Triumvirates
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Samuel de Broë, seigneur de Citry et de la Guette; Thomas Otway, trans. THE HISTORY OF THE TRIUMVIRATES. THE FIRST THAT OF JULIUS CAESAR, POMPEY AND CRASSUS. THE SECOND THAT OF AUGUSTUS, ANTHONY AND LEPIDUS. 2 vols. bound in one. London: Printed for Charles Brome, 1686. First English edition. Blind tooled mottled calf with raised bands on spine, edges stained or speckled, ribbon bookmark. 8vo; [36], 655, [1]pp. With table of contents and printed marginalia. ESTC R13558.

7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Boards with some scuffs and marks, corners bumped, edgewear, spine and joints lightly rubbed, with cracking at front joint and small loss at head of spine; front paste-down separating from board, with ex libris sticker and wormhole, endpapers with staining and offsetting, cracking at front hinge and reinforcement at hinge head between free endpapers; pages lightly toned with wormholes at one corner through E2, taped repair at upper margin of H2, occasional minor stain/mark or corner loss; a good copy of this English translation from the original French.