Auction 359 Old & Rare Books - Classical Antiquity
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VETERES DE RE MILITARI SCRIPTORES quotquot extant, nunc prima vice in unum redacti corpus. Wesel, A. ab Hoogenhuysen, 1670. 3 parts in 1 vol. (23), 494 (1 blank); (7), 566; (1); 78 (2); 497-604, (25), (2). W. 2 engr. ti.-pp., 1 fold. diagram, 40 half-p. engr. and several in-text illustr. Cont. cf., spine w. raised bands, gilt dec. & light brown label. (Entry in pencil on first free end-p., some pp. slightly yellowed, otherwise a very good, if quirkily bound copy).

This volume is complete, but bound in incorrect order: I. Flavii Vegetii Renati: Institutorum rei militaris ll. V; II. Sexti Julii Frontini: Strategematum & strategeticon ll. IV; III. Claudius Ælianus: De instruendis aciebus; IV. Modestus: De vocabulis rei militaris; V. Polybius: De militia & castrametatione Romanorum; VI. Æneæ Poliorceticus, sive de toleranda obsidione; I. G. Stewechii: In Fl. Vegetium comm.; III. P. Scriverii: In Fl. Vegetium & Sex. Jul. Frontinum animadversiones; VII. Incerti auctores: De re militari opusculum, quod M. Tullio Ciceroni vulgo inscribitur (belongs after VI); II. (G. Stewechii) Ejusdem conjectanea, & Fr. Modii: Notæ in Sex. Jul. Frontinum (Incl. Indices). - Schweiger II, 1304; Brunet V, 1162; VD 17 1:047308C.

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