TACITUS Publius Cornelius [Opera]. P. Cornelii Taciti libri quinque noviter inventi atque cum reliquis eius operibus editi.

Brunet, V, 634 :”édition précieuse” ; Adams, T-21 ; Norton, Italian printers, p. 99 ; Clavreuil & Perier, Les Français à Rome, n° 14 : this copy.

Fine and important work published in Rome by Etienne Guillery.

The first six books of the Annales survive in a single manuscript [it] was taken to Rome and came into the possession of Pope Leo X. Leo gave it to Filippo Beroaldo the Younger who used it to produce an impressive editio princeps in 1515″ (R.J. Tarrant, in Texts and Transmission, 1983, pp. 406-07).

Of this rare and important edition USTC locates only three institutional copies in the United States: Austin Texas (Harry Ransom), Chicago University, and North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 

Old ownership inscription on the title page and extensively annotated throughout ; some occasional worming at the beginning and towards the end without loss of text ; some leaves with occasional marginal waterstain ; binding skilfully restored. 

From the institutional library of Notre-Dame de la Flèche with their stamp on the title.