Appianus : Appianus of Alexandria History of the civil and external wars of the Romans. 2 volumes. Venice, Bartolomeo Cesano 1550

2 volumes. Format in-8°, mm. 160x110, cc. 285, (1 blank) / 190, (2). Complete. Contemporary binding in full parchment with colored boards. Gold titles and decorations on a leather insert on the spine. Marbled edges of the cc. Ex libris on the back flyleaf. Clear text, clean leaves, with woodworm work on the edges of some leaves, one letter missing on c. ff6. Italic text. Woodcut mark on the title page. Woodcut initials in the text.

Old edition printed in Venice in 1550 by Bertolomeo Cesano publisher, complete in 2 volumes. Work of the ancient Greek historian Appian of Alexandria (c. 95 AD - c. 165), who lived during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, in Egypt and Rome. Appian was a lawyer and obtained the office of procurator in the province of Alexandria and Egypt. Translation into Italian from the Greek by Alessandro Braccesi (1445-1503).