C. Sallustii Crispi Opera Quae Extant Omnia. Cum Selectissimis Variorum Observationibus, et Accurata Recensione Antonii Thysii

In Latin. 1649 Apud Franciscum Hackium (Lugdun[um] Batavorum [Leiden, The Netherlands]), 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches tall x 1 3/4 inches thick full vellum bound, old titled paper labels to spine, yapped fore edges, engraved title page, engraved printer's devices to some heads, 556, [48] pp., complete. Moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Small ink accession mark and chipping to top page edge of blank front free-endpaper. Ink prior owner name and chipping to top page edge of title page. Otherwise, apart from slight marginal soiling or foxing, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce imprint of an important work. OCLC (No. 458898240) locates only one copy, at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. ~LL~ [2.0P] The extant works of Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicized as Sallust (86-c.?35 BC), a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa. This edition of Sallust was edited by Antonius Thysius (c. 1603-1665), a Calvinist theologian and professor of theology at Harderwijk and Leiden Universities and Rector of Leiden University in 1633. In 1655, he became librarian of the University library as successor to Daniel Heinsius. He wrote numerous works on many subjects (law, philology, history, politicology) and edited many editions of modern and classical authors, such as Seneca, Sallust and Lactantius. This work was published before his appointment as historiographer of the States of Holland (in 1659).…