No. 94060617

Ammien Marcellin - Ammien Marcellin, ou Les Dixhuit livres de son histoire qui nous sont restés - 1775
No. 94060617

Ammien Marcellin - Ammien Marcellin, ou Les Dixhuit livres de son histoire qui nous sont restés - 1775
AMMIEN (Marcellin)
Ammienus Marcellin, or The Eighteen [sic] books of his history which have remained to us.
Berlin, George Jacques Decker, 1775.
3 volumes in-12 (17.5 x 10 cm), Empire green morocco (contemporary binding), smooth spines decorated with special gilded fleurons, repeated, gilded roulette in frame on the covers, gilded lace inside, gilded edges, [2]-x-[8]-448-[2]; [14]-453-[3]; [14]-448-[4] pages (complete). Small stains on the covers, some foxing. Good condition.
First edition of the French translation, by Guillaume de Moulines (1728-1802); it is decorated with a frontispiece portrait and a title vignette in the first volume, both engraved on copper by the Berlin artist Krüger.
Ammianus Marcellinus (circa 330-circa 395), is one of the most important historians of late antiquity along with Procopius of Caesarea. Although of Greek origin, he wrote in Latin and was the last great historian of antiquity to use this language.
Beautiful binding attributable to Derôme the younger.
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