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Livy: [...] Historiarum Quod Extat, cum perpetuis Car. Sigonii et J.F. Gronovii Notis. [...]  Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Apud Danielem Elsevirium. 1679

Book, 3 vols. 8vo. pp. [xlviii], 922, [lxx], 62; 973, [lxi], 58; 1080, [lxxxii]. Engraved title to first volume. Portrait frontispiece of the Archbishop of Paderborn (the dedicatee of this edition), and with a further portrait of Gronovius. Divisional titles with woodcut Elzevir device. Some very light toning and spotting to the very edges of the margins. Late eighteenth-century gilt-ruled diced russia, extremities a little rubbed (partucularly to vol. 3) but still a handsome set.

The last and best of the Gronovius editions printed by the Elzevirs., Willems 1568; Dibdin II, 167.

£400

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