[History] Alamos de Barrientos, Baltasar: Works of G. Cornelius Tacitus. Annals, Histories, Customs of the Germans, and Agricultural Life... In Venice: published by Giunti, 1628.

Format in-8°, mm. 255x180, pp. (72), 544, (132), (168), (48), 83. Complete. Small ink stain on cc7 paper with loss of text, woodworm work on the lower margin from p. 61 to p. 154 and on the upper margin from p. 195 to p. 260. Small holes on the woodcut frontispiece with small losses. Frontispiece printed in red and black with the lily in red. Double-page map of the Roman Empire (Engraving). Woodcut initials and tailpieces in the text. Caroli Ceriana Mayneri ex libris on coat of arms applied to the first white page. Elegant back binding in full smooth parchment with 5 ribs, handwritten title on the spine, trimmed margins, red cuts. Old seventeenth-century edition (in Venice in 1628, by Giunti) of the Works of Tacitus (Annals, Historia, Germanic Customs and Traditions and Life of Agricola) with the aphorisms of the Spaniard Baltasar Alamos de Barrientos (1555-1640) translated into Italian by the linguist Girolamo Canini (1551-1631) and the translator Andriano Politi (1542-1625). With the table of aphorisms, table of commonplaces, comparisons of some places and finally the Declaration of some Latin words for the understanding of the history of Adriano Politi.