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SUETONIUS TRANQUILUS, Gaius.- Vitae XII. Caesarum libri. xii.- Venetiis: impressa sunt per Ioannem Rubeu[m] de Vercellis a natali christiano. M. cccc. lxxx. die. XV. Iulii. [1490].- [106] f.; 29 cm.- E. Main work of the Roman historian Suetonius (69- ca. 141), containing the biographies of 12 Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Domitian, the only one of whom the author was a contemporary. Second part of the Venetian incunabular edition usually known by the collective title “Scriptores historiae Augustae”. Lightly handled copy, with slight browning, occasional underlining and signs of reading (old); some smaller wormholes. Entirely turned sheepskin binding, very damaged, missing the free endpapers, preserving wide margins. Goff, S 342. HC, 14563. GW, M44253. Britirh Library (ISTC): parts are often found separately.