hardcover
1693 · Utrecht
by CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus & PITISCUS, Samuel
Utrecht: Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second. hardcover. near fine. Extra-engraved title page and 13 other fine copperplates, 7 folding, including 1 map. [46], 785, [164] pages. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. Very thick 8vo, full contemporary vellum with gilt & blind-stamped covers and manuscript title on spine. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Apud Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second edition. A near fine copy with clean plates. A good, annotated edition of De Rebus gesti Alexandri Magni, a biography of Alexander the Great, by the first century A.D. Roman rhetorician. This is one of the primary sources on the Macedonian king's life. Brunet II 449.
(Inventory #: 272368)