Bidspirit auction | [Rome] Massimo, Valerio: Of the

[Rome] Massimo, Valerio: Of the sayings and notable facts of the Romans. In which, in addition to the knowledge of the histories, many documents and examples are contained ... Venice, by Lucio Spineda, 1605 - Format in-8°, mm. 150x105, cc. (15), 320. Complete text, only the blank f. b8 is missing. Elegant post. binding (19th century) in full old parchment with gold titles on a leather tag on the spine. Sporadic foxing. Halo stain on the first and last leaves. Old stamp on the front. Translation into Italian by Giorgio Dati (1506-1557). Woodcut capital letters. Venetian seventeenth-century printed in 1605 (first edition, Venice 1563) by Lucio Spineda. Work of the Roman historian Valerio Massimo (c. 1st century BC - 1st century AD).