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by Alexander the great, Historiae Philippicae
Historiae Philippicae. Justinus. Basileae: 1539. Measures 5.5 x 7.5 inches. 319 pages. Rebound in brown calfskin with gilt title card on spine. Text in Latin. Inscribed with original contemporary annotations. Marcus Junianus Justinus was a Roman historian and wrote here an abridgment of a longer work with the same title by Trogus Pompeius of which only the table of contents has survived. Trogus, a Roman historian who lived during Augustus, authored a 44-book history on the Macedonian monarchy from origin to decline, sometimes referred to as a universal history. Justinus's abridgement remains especially useful in the absence of the longer work for providing (truncated)