De Romana republica, sive De re militari & civili romanorum, ad explicandos scriptores antiquos [...]. Editio tertia priori correctior, & quamplurimis aeneis figuris ornata.

12mo: [24, engr. title incl.]-390 pp.; 15 pl. and 1 table. (sl. damp stain in the end).

18th-c. Dutch vellum, flat spine titled in ink.

Third edition (1st: 1684) of a work on the Roman Republic by the French Jesuit Cantel (1645-1684). Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 plates, of which 8 fold., depicting combats of gladiators, circus games, triumphal processions, shields, etc., extracted from works of Lipsius and Panvinio. With one fold. table with the captions of the plan of Rome.
Ref. DBS II:691:3.
Prov. Pierre-Philippe-Constant Lammens (1762-1836), Ghent bibliophile (bookpl.).