Panegyrici Veteres. Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Jacobus de la Baune Soc. Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis ad Usum Serenissimi Delphini.

350, [158] pp. a4, ẽ4, ĩ4, A- Vv4, Xx1, a-v4. Latin text. Full leather, morocco spine label, gilt titles, rules, and decorations in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved title page and headers, including several numismatic copper engravings (depicting Roman coins). Collection of panegyrics of Roman emperors from the 1st to the 4th century (Trajan, Maximian Augustus, Julian the Apostate, Constantine I and II, Theodosius the Great) by Pliny the Younger, Mamertinus, Eumenes, Nazaire and Drepanius Pacatus. This was used as a source for Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, based on auction records showing that his bookplate appeared in a copy sold by Maggs. Contents include: C. Plinii Panegyricus Trajano dictus.; Claudii Mamertini Panegyricus Maximiano Augusto.; Ejusdem Claudii Mamertini Genethliacus Maximiani Augusti.; Eumenii oratio pro restaurandis Scholis.; Ejusdem Panegyricus Constantio Caesari.; Incerti Panegyricus Maximiano & Constantino; Eumenii Panegyricus Constantio Augusto.; Ejusdem gratiarum actio Constantino Augusto Flaviensium nomine; Incerti Panegyricus Constantino Augusto.; Nazarii Panegyricus Constantino Augusto.; Mamertini pro consulatu gratiarum actio Juliano Augusto.; Latini Pacati Drepanii Panegyricus Theodosio Augusto. Following text are two indices: Index Vocabulorum Omnium, Quae in Plinii Panegyrico Leguntur.; Index Vocabulorum Omnium, Quae in Sequentibus Undecim Panegyricis Continentur.