Ventes live - Lot 1056
[Militaria - Antiquity]
De re militari [- Commentarius ad Vegetium Renatum [...]].
Wesel, A. van Hoogenhuysen, 1670
€ 500 / 600
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Description du lot
8vo: [48 incl. engr. title]-494, [16]-566, 78, 495/510, 567/604-[47] pp. (few spots, appendices of both works bound at the end).
18th-c. sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red sp. edges (front joint split, tail missing, corners sl. bumped).
Later ed. by P. Scriverius (1576-1660) of the major annotated ed. by the Dutch humanist Stewechius (1557-1588) of the major classical sources for the Roman Army, here with a foreword by H. Grotius. With the folding table "Figura Castrametationis ex Polybio".
Bound with, (as usual), same address: Stewechius, Godescalcus - Commentarius ad Vegetium Renatum [...]. Richely illustrated with in-text engravings.
Ref. VD17 1:047308C (De re militari) & VD17 1:047331U (Commentarius).