Proconsul in Africa with Marginalia

Paris: Apud Nicolaum Chesneau [Exudebat Henricus Thierry], 1580. 4to. 2 parts in 1. (12),372;118,(18)pp. Indices. Large woodcut printer’s device on title. Early mottled calf, some rubbing & very minor worming, head of spine nicely repaired, spine label rubbed. Text with some marginal notations in 2 early hands. Ownership signature on title page dated 1690. Another signature in bottom blank margin has been inked out. Symmachus was a 4th century Roman Proconsul in Africa. This work, first published in 1577, was edited by Francois Juret, a French lawyer and diplomat to the Court of Queen Elizabeth I. Adams S2198.