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[004181] Sallustius, C. Crispus and Florus, L. Annaeus. [Histories]; Bellum Catilinarium; Bellum Jugurth; Historiarum Fragmenta; Oratioi Ad C. Caesarem; Epitome Rerum Romanarum. Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Joannis Baskerville, 1773. First Thus. 4to. Hardback. Good+. [5], 2-317pp, [1]. Contemporary full straight grain morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, author lettered directly to second panel with a small number of fleuron tools to foot, covers with single line border, single line to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., shell patterned marbled endpapers

Rubbed to outer joints and extremities, corners lightly bumped. Some light browning and occasional light foxing internally, but generally fairly bright and clean

Moss regarded this as “one of the most beautiful of Baskerville’s editions, and by far, the most elegant one we have of this historian” (Moss, Manual of Classical Bibliography, Volume II, page 561)

Gaskell 51; Harwood, pg 160, Moss II:561; Schweiger, page 883