The Works of Tacitus. Fourth edition, revised and corrected. Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1658. 1 vol. in-4. Full contemporary calf, central arms, large foliage decoration on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title-piece
Engraved title-frontispiece by F. Chauveau and a title vignette by Math. > Copy with the arms of Michel-Etienne Turgot (Normandy, XVIIth-XVIIIth), marquis of Sousmont, lord of Saint-Germain-sur-Eaulne.
Bookplate glued on the counter-plate of the Château de Sanois. Library of Alfred de Colombel, handwritten ex-libris of Alphonse de la Guère - 1879 on a blue added leaf, handwritten ex-libris: Fontaine, on the title page.
Title-frontispice pasted on the previous leaf, from which a handwritten writing is visible, clumsy restoration to the blue paper in the lower margin of the title page. Blue paper strip also pasted in the margin of the four table leaves, with handwritten alphabetical indication.
Lack of cover, beginning of cracks in the spine, arms on the lower board scratched. Slight angular spotting on some leaves at the end of the book.
O.H.R. pl. 1633, n°3
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