1543 EPIC POEM on PUNIC WARS by Silius Italicus antique PIGSKIN BINDING RARE

Silius Italicus. Libri XVIII.
bellorum, quae Romani adversus Poenos gesserunt. Cum annotationibus Hermanni Buschii.

Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1543

8 leaves, 665 pages, 3 leaves.

With woodcut printer's device at the colophon.

Size 4 by 6" (14.5x9.5cm.)

Blind stamped pigskin binding , worn, missing ties, with manuscript the year of publication on the front cover. 


-- VD16 S 6480. -

The edition by the humanist Hermann von dem Busche (1468-1534), first published in Leipzig in 1504.

The Punica is the only work of the Roman poet Silus Italicus (around 25-100 AD), the epic about the second Punic War comprises around 12,000 verses and is considered the most comprehensive Latin epic that has come down to us from antiquity. 


Ex-library.

With old annotations.

Text in Latin