1599 WAR MACHINES ILLUSTRATED ANTIQUE Poliorceticon Siue de Machinis PLANTIN

img{max-width:100%} Iusti Lipsi Poliorceticon Siue de Machinis. Tormentis. Telis. Libri Quinque. Ad Historiarum lucem. Antuerpae, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1599by Justus Lipsius, Petrus van der Borcht- Bound with: Ivsti LipsI De Constanta libri duo'Antuerpae, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1599- Bound with: Ivsti LipsI Amphitheatro LiberAntuerpae, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1598ILLUSTRATED including FOLD OUT ENGRAVINGSSize 6 3/4 by 10"Vellum bound.Text in LatinRAREVery good conditionBinding split at the lower right of the front.Spine and front cover with old repair.  Lacks endpapers=======================================Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips or Joost Lips;  1547 – 1606) was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity. The most famous of these is De Constantia (On Constancy). His form of Stoi