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[26], 762pp, [56]. With a half-title and an additional engraved title page. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities marked and discoloured. Later armorial bookplate of Rugby School to FEP, armorial plate to recto of FFEP: 'From the library of the Rev. T. Arnold, D.D. Head Master. Presented to the School by his Widow. 1842'. A finely printed continental edition, with extensive commentaries, of the Antonine Itinerary, an invaluable register dating from the third-century, of the stations, and the distances separating them, along the roadways of the Roman Empire. Traditionally ascribed to the patronage of the Antoninus Pius (86-161 AD), the oldest extant copy has been assigned to the time of Diocletian and the most likely imperial patron - if indeed the work had one - would have been Caracalla (188-217). This edition is subjoined by the 'Itinerarium a Burdigala Hierusalem' chronicling the journey from Bordeaux to Jerusalem, and the 'Grammatici synecdemus', the geographical text of Hierokles (with passages in Greek), containing the administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and the cities composing them. All three are furnished with prefaces and exhaustive notes by the German philologist Peter Wesseling (1692-1764), the Swiss Protestant theologian and historian Josias Simmler (1530-1576), the official chronicler of the Kingdom of Aragon Jeronimo Zurita (1512-1580), and the Jesuit professor of rhetoric at Louvain Andreas Schott (1522-1629). A choice copy, late of the library of the reforming headmaster of Rugby School Thomas Arnold (1795-1842), and bequeathed on his death to the school's illustrious stacks. A passionate bibliophile, Arnold gravitated towards classical authors from an early age and developed a profound interest in Roman history. When later under financial hardship, he executed one of his most significant literary schemes in the hopes of generating income; a series of ambitious articles on Roman history written during 1823-7 for the Encyclopaedia metropolitana that were later reprinted in two volumes with a life of Trajan in 1845. His monumental History of Rome (1838-1843), remained incomplete at his death. The present book no doubt served as a source for this endeavour. Size: Quarto.