SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius (c. 69-c. 122 A.D.). Las vidas de los doze Cesares .... Traduzido de latin en lengua castellana por ... Jayme Bartholome. Tarragona: Phelipe Roberto, 1596. 8° (140 x 90mm). (Title repaired in the bottom margin with a few letters supplied in manuscript, some repaired tears and margins, without front blank but probably never bound as in Palau.) Burgundy morocco by Brugalla, 1945, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941.

SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius (c. 69-c. 122 A.D.). Las vidas de los doze Cesares .... Traduzido de latin en lengua castellana por ... Jayme Bartholome. Tarragona: Phelipe Roberto, 1596. 8° (140 x 90mm). (Title repaired in the bottom margin with a few letters supplied in manuscript, some repaired tears and margins, without front blank but probably never bound as in Palau.) Burgundy morocco by Brugalla, 1945, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941.

FIRST EDITION of this 'excellent translation' of Suetonius's Lives by Jayme Bartholome, a canon of the Church of Urgel. Maggs cat. 495, no. 1008; Salvá II, 3518: 'Esta traduccion parece estar hecha con inteligencia'; Palau XXII, 324863.