Description:
Elaborately engraved frontispiece by Antonio Luciani a Venetian print maker who worked between 1700-1738. [xvi], 205, [158] pp. 4to, half calf and speckled boards, extremities rubbed, hinges starting, Ms. Ex Libris note to front free end page by Anthony Alfredo Giarraputo, a poet, Harvard graduate and language teacher in the Boston, MA with an older German ms. Previous owner's name and stamp to title page, occasional spotting but on the whole very clean. Roman historian's classic work on the history of the Roman people. The work covers the period from from the foundation of the city of Rome (c. 753 BCE) to the death of Augustus in 14 CE
