1598 DE MILITIA ROMANA by LIPSIUS antique ILLUSTRATED WARFARE Plantiniana vellum
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1598 DE MILITIA ROMANA by LIPSIUS antique ILLUSTRATED WARFARE Plantiniana vellum

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De militia Romana libri quinque. Commentarius ad Polybium. Editio nova, aucta varie & castigata. Antwerp, Plantin for Moretus; 1598366 pp. with engraved title page (printer's mark), 9 (6 full-page, 1 folded) copperplate engravings and 15 woodcuts in the text by Theodore Galle Bound with:Analecta sive observationes reliquae ad militiam et hosce libros. Antwerp, Plantin for Moretus; 1610 XXIX, (5) pp. with woodcut printer's mark3 copperplate engravings and 6 woodcuts in the text Original vellum, with manuscript title to the spine- Adams L 781 and L 760. ADB XVIII, 741 ff. Cockle 620 (1614 edition). Jahns I, 561. - Second edition; the first edition appeared in 1596. 2 engraved bookplates, title page with small repaired excerpt (without loss of text), period underlinings and occasional marginaliaSize about 7 1/4 by 10 1/8 inches Text in Latin=================================The Flemish humanist J. Lipsius (1547-1606) intensively studied the Roman military and warfare; his p

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