Lot 08031

[PATAROLO LORENZO] “Series Augustorum, Augustarum, Caesarum, et Tyrannorum Omnium, Tam in Oriente, quam in Occidente, A C. J. Caesare ad Carolum VI […] Auctore LAURENTIO PATAROL / Editio Tertia”, Venetiis MCDDXL: Apud Jo. Baptistam Recurti [1740]. In small 8vo, p.xl,146,[14 Monitum Typographi]. With large engraved frontispiece at the front door of Io. Segala, engraved by Joseph Iuster; title in red and black with elegant engrgaved vignette; several headers and initials, along with numerous coin engravings. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Fenwick, Bywel, Northumberland.

The third, revised and enlarged edition of a book about all Roman emperors, including those from the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. The author starts with Gaius Julius Caesar and ends with the Austrian Emperor Charles VI. Illustrated throughout with coinage of the reigns (with portrait of the emperor) at each chapter. The book also contains a detailed bibliography, index and unpaginated errata (“Addenda, Delenda, & Emendanda”). Two pages with the publishers list of other books is included. Text in Latin. 

Leather binding with gilt ornaments and title on spine; cover rather worn along edges, leather and gilt ornament slighlty rubbed; pages only slightly yellowed, with rare tiny smudges or tanning, clean and tight overall. Good copy.