1524 POST-INCUNABULA ANCIENT WARFARE TREATISE by V.Flavius antique PIGSKIN

Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.

De re militari.
 Sexti Iulij Frontini consularis de strategematis. Aeliani de instruendis aciebus. Modesti de vocabulis rei militaris. Praeclara opera nunc demum ad multorum vetustissimorum codicum fidei recognita & castigata. Index capiti praefixus est.

[Cologne, Johann Soter for Gottfried Hittorp, 1524]

3 parts in 1 volume.


With  woodcut title border and some woodcut initials.


Original bind embossed pigskin, spine with raised bands, worn

 - VD16 V 462. – First printed by Hittorp, a major work on ancient warfare. –

12 lvs., 74 (recte: 67) lvs., 1 leaf; 73 lvs; 24 (instead of 40) lvs.

Sixteen leaves are missing at the end, including the leaf with the colophon. Lacks endpapers


Somewhat damp-edged, more severely affected at the end, and slightly stained.

With bookplate to the front pastedown

Size 4 by 6"

text in Latin
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