TACITUS. Opera quae exstant. Iustus Lipsius postremum recensuit. Par., N. Buon, 1606. 3 parts in 1 vol. (8), 418, (14); (8), 246; lxxxii, (24) pp. W. woodcut printer's device on each title page. 4°. Cont. elaborately gilt tooled full cf. binding, bearing the gilt armorial stamp of Charles of Lorraine, Abbot of Gorze, on both sides, a.e.g. (Skillful restorations to spine, bottom of spine sl. dam., upper hinge strengthened, sm. rep. to ti-p., some marg. stains, sl. browned).
The coat of arms of Charles of Lorraine shows the full arms of Lorraine with a diagonal bar (from upper right to lower left), surmounted by a plumed angel head between a crozier and a mitre, surrounded by the text: "Carolus a Lotaringia Abbas Gorziensis 1609". - Schweiger II, 1000; cf. Cat. Gumuchian N° 300. For the binding: Guigard, Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile, I, p. 60. "Grands quartiers de Lorraine, au lambel à trois pendants de gueules à la barre brochante sur le tout du même".€ 500