Description: Franklin Library leather edition of P. Cornelius Tacitus's "The Annals and The Histories," a Limited edition, one of the 25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD series, published in 1979. Bound in brown leather, the book has burnt orange French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Publius Corneilus Tacitus, who lived from AD 56---AD 120, was a senator and historian of the Roman Empire. His book examines the reigns of the Roman Emperors: TIBERIUS, CLAUDIUS, NERO, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to the years of the First Jewish-Roman War in 70 AD. The book has chapters on the Death of Trajan and Tacitus, Asia Minor, Roman Britain, Italy, Imperial Rome, and The Roman Forum. The Histories includes descriptions of Lucius Vitellius, the brother of the Emperor, who when Coenus, a freedman of Nero, threw them into consternation by an outrageous falsehood. 566 pages, including an Index, and Reference Maps.
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Binding: Leather
Signed: No
Publisher: Franklin Library 25th Anniversary
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1979
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Maps
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Region: Europe
Author: John Stuart Mill
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: History of Rome
