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Commentarius ad Polybium.
Editio nova, aucta varie & castigata.
Antwerp, Plantin for Moretus; 1598
366 pp.
with engraved title page (printer's mark), 9 (6 full-page, 1 folded) copperplate engravings and 15 woodcuts in the text
by Theodore Galle
Bound with:
Analecta sive observationes reliquae ad militiam et hosce libros.
Antwerp, Plantin for Moretus; 1610
XXIX, (5) pp.
with woodcut printer's mark
3 copperplate engravings and 6 woodcuts in the text
Original vellum, with manuscript title to the spine
- Adams L 781 and L 760. ADB XVIII, 741 ff. Cockle 620 (1614 edition). Jahns I, 561. -
Second edition; the first edition appeared in 1596.
2 engraved bookplates, title page with small repaired excerpt (without loss of text), period underlinings and occasional marginalia
Size about 7 1/4 by 10 1/8 inches
Text in Latin
The Flemish humanist J. Lipsius (1547-1606) intensively studied the Roman military and warfare; his publication is considered a fundamental work on ancient warfare
Lipsius' treatise on ancient Roman warfare, based on the rediscovered writings of the late classical Greek historian Polybius=
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