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TACITUS, Cornelius (ca. 56-120 BCE). Germania... Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1827. Folio. Latin text with publisher’s note in French. Title vignette by Godefroy. Later red buckram (dust soiling to covers, browning throughout). Includes parchment vellum leaf (perforated) of deluxe edition with tipped-in publisher’s slip. Provenance: Newberry Library (bookplates). The text of Germania survives as a single manuscript discovered in Germany’s Hersfeld Abbey in 1425. OCLC 459183413.