1585 · K121056 — Antverpiae [Antwerpen, i.e. Leiden], Apud Christophorum Plantinum [Chr. Plantin] 1585 [12] + 252 + [8] + 188 + [8] + 48 + [22] + [8bl.] pp. , with engraved printer's device (on all three title pages), ornamental initials, 33x22cm., full-leather binding (original covers and ends rubbed and discoloured, professionally re-backed), two unidentified heraldic ex-libris tipped-in, two ancient manuscript ex-libris on title page ("Timoleon Grangis (?), iii Jan 1588" & "Ex libris Adriani Augustini de Lamet doctoris & socij Sorbonis" = Adrien-Augustin de Bussy de Lamet, 1621-1691), paper is browned but text is always well readable, few ancient text underlinings, text in Latin, [First folio edition of the collected works by Tacitus with commentaries and notes by Justus Lipsius. The first Lipsius edition of Tacitus was published in 1574 by Plantin, but this 1585-edition uses new manuscripts found in Spain and Germany, now lost, and an incunable of Venice ca. 1470. Title is mentioning Antwerp but it is in fact the 3rd Leiden edition], Ref. Voet 2279B-1562B-1563B, K121056
