BOOK, Sallust’s “Conspiracy of Catiline”, 1555.

Gaius Sallustius Crispus:

De L. Sergij Catilinae coniuratione, ac bello Iugurthino historiae.

Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555. 8vo. 15,2 x 10,5 cm. 320 pp. Woodcut device to title and final page.

Contemporary vellum, worn and soiled, damaged at fore-edge of front cover, annotations and occasional scribbles in ink, blue bookseller’s stamp on first three leaves, light waterstaining to upper and lower margins of first half of the book.

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