Description
Pharsalia.
Lugduni Batavorum: Luchtmans; 1728
Engraved frontispiece.
Folding engraved map.
2 volumes.
Original calf, spines gilt in 6 compartments; spines dried and flaked, library number at base of spines,
Very good interior
Edited by Francisco Oudendorpii.
"A very excellent edition." - Dibdin II, page 186.
size: 9 1/2 by 10 1/3 inches
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epic poem by the Roman poet Lucan (also known as Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) or the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, which is the central event of the poem.
Lucan's Pharsalia (or Bellum Civile) recounts the Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, focusing on themes of civil strife, ambition, and the fall of the Republic.
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