Item #59334 Petri Burmanni Vectigalia Populi Romani, et Zeus Kataibates sive Jupiter Fulgerator, in Cyrrhestarum Nummis. Roman Taxes, Peter Burman.

Petri Burmanni Vectigalia Populi Romani, et Zeus Kataibates sive Jupiter Fulgerator, in Cyrrhestarum Nummis.

Leyden: apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff, 1734.

Price: $500.00


About the item

First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck, additional printed title in red and black. [26], 344, [14] pp.; separate title page (Dd4) for second title, misbound at rear, along with Contents leaf. Two parts, with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled Dutch calf, gilt spine, red leather title label. Small rectangular excision from lower margin of half-title leaf. some slight darkening at edges.

Item #59334

Collects two works by the prolific Dutch scholar and Roman historian, Pieter Burmann. The first deals with a Roman tax called the "vectigal", which was applied to revenue "derived from public land, mines, salt-works. etc., and in general to rents derived from State property." - Oxford Classical Dictionary (1949).