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Sex. Aurelii Victoria Historiae Romanae breviarium, cum Schotti, Machanei, Vineti, Lipsii, Casauboni, Gruteri &c. integris notis

Victor, Sextus Aurelius, Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708, Gaasbeeck, Daniel van, fl. 1655-1692, Gaasbeeck, Abraham van, fl.1655-1675, Gaasbeeck, Adriaen van, fl. 1665-1670 · 1670 · Lugduni Batavorum & Amstelodami, Apud Danielem, Abrahamum & Adrianum à Gaesbeeck · 50 pictures

A 1670 Latin edition of Sextus Aurelius Victor's brief history of imperial Rome, printed in Leiden and Amsterdam by the Gaasbeeck brothers and annotated by earlier scholars for a learned readership. The pictures are engraved portraits of emperors set inside beaded medallion frames, each in profile with a laurel wreath and a Latin legend running around the rim, which a designer could borrow for coin-style borders and classical roundels.

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