Francisci Guillimanni. De rebus Helvetiorum, sive antiquitatum Libri V. Ex variis scriptis, tabulis, monimentis, lapidibus, optimis plurium linguarum auctoribus

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [12], 142 (p. 71 called p. 17), [2] (blank), 143-457 (p. 305 called p. 705), [3] (last blank). Contemporary vellum. Gilded tooled medallion on board center, ties, tooled spine, manuscript spine title. Signed on title page: "La Bibliotheca Waseriana 1697".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition, significantly omitting the forged epitaph of the mythical priestess of Aventicum, ‘Julia Alpinula,’ a victim of Rome’s transalpine conquests later celebrated by Byron and many others as a heroine of first-century Helvetia. The imaginary inscription, as communicated by Merula to Justus Lipsius, was first published among the Auctarium Lipsius added to the Inscriptionum antiquarum of Martin Smetius (Leide