T. Livii - Opera quae Supersunt - 1784

T. Livii Opera quae supersunt… Editio postrema in sex tomos distributa. Patavii, Typis Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfrè, 1784.

Six volumes in-12 (cm 15.9 × 8.4).
Pp. (15), 604; 508; 553; 503; 488; 476.
Contemporary parchment bindings with manuscript (or printed) titles on the spines (“T. Liv. Opera T. I.” … “T. VI.”). Frontispiece of volume I in two colors (red and black) with a fine engraved vignette (phoenix on the pyre and motto Post fata resurgo); in volume I there is a figured frontispiece engraved by M. Beylbrouck.
Printer’s mark repeated in the following volumes.

Critical and commented text of the Historiae ab Urbe condita of Titus Livius (surviving works), with interpretations of obscure passages, selecta annotations, and the Supplementa to the final books according to Arnold Drakenborch’s recension. Volume VI contains the Exercitationes rhetoricae in orationes T. Livii with the Animadversiones of Jean Le Clerc (Joannis Clerici), plus materials on the patavinitas of the author, his life and his eulogies.

Padua edition “postrema” of one of the most appreciated and widespread eighteenth-century reviews of Livy, based on the fundamental critical work of Drakenborch (major edition 1738–1746).

Portable format, clear printing by the Seminar Typography and complete in six volumes: a set sought after by collectors of Latin classics and of eighteenth-century Italian typography. Not common complete and in a homogeneous period binding.

Bindings in parchment with wear and stains to the spines and boards; rear boards somewhat later. Interiors overall good, with the usual browning and signs of time.
A reference work for the study of Livy in the Age of Enlightenment, in a complete edition and a pleasant format."