[Mythology/ROME] Hildebrand, Friedrich : Antiquitates Romanæ, in compendium contractæ, et juxtaordinem alphabeti dispositæ... Franeker, Leonardum Strik, 1700

Format in-12°, mm. 145x85, pp. (16), 523, 60, (16), 103, 22 c. of plates. Contemporary binding in full parchment with handwritten titles on the spine. Foxing and browning, light stains in the text.

Ancient original edition from 1700, printed in Franeker (Holland) for the type. Leonhardus Strick, follow with their own front. (same publisher and year of publication) respectively at c. Y11 and 2B5: "Compendium compendii antiquitatum Romanarum. Seu antiquitates Romanae ... Opera & studio M. Friderici Hildebrandi, ..." and "Brevis institutio de comitiis veterum Romanorum, libellus tribus comprehensa: operâ ac studio P. Ottonis Aicher, ..." Front. calcogr. engraved by Jun Luiken ( 1649-1712). Front. typ. printed in red and black. With 21 intaglio plates depicting medallions and portraits of Roman mythological deities. Latin text. Headers, initials and endpieces in woodcut nt Work by the German historian Friedrich Hildebrand (1626-1688).