De re militari libri quatuor [...] correcti a Godescalco Stewechio Heusdano. Accesserunt Sext. Iulii Frontini Stratagematon libri quatuor. In eosdem Francisci Modii Notae [...].

Antwerp [= Leiden], Plantin Press, 1585

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Description du lot

4to: [12]-276 [= 280] pp. (usual toning and spotting).

Old vellum, spine with raised bands and morocco label, red sp. edges (sm. def. at front cover, corners sl. bumped).

Four Roman treatises on military science, edited by G. Stewechius (1557-1588). Woodcut mark on title and part title. Some 30 ill. of battle arrays. Published at Leiden, but one of copies with an Antwerp imprint.
Ref. Voet 2419B. - BT 4682. - Dekesel V-13 (1). - STCN.
Prov. Mod. bookpl.
Bound with (as usual) - Stewechius, Godescalcus - Commentarius ad Flavii Vegetii Renati libros De re militari. Ibid., 1585. [16]-419 [= 399]-[1 bl., 36] pp. + folding "Figura Castrametationis ex Polybio" (missing in the copies described by Voet). Woodcut mark on title and part title. Nice oval portrait of Stewechius by Hendrik Goltzius. 54 woodcuts of Roman coins, military engines etc. Ref. Voet 2261B. - Dekesel V-13 (2). - STCN.