1598 DE MILITIA ROMANA by LIPSIUS antique ILLUSTRATED WARFARE Plantiniana vellum

De militia Romana libri quinque.

Commentarius ad Polybium.
Editio nova, aucta varie & castigata.

Antwerp, Plantin for Moretus; 1598


366 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 mark

3 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 marginalia

Size about 7 1/4 by 10 1/8 inches 

Text in Latin

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The Flemish humanist J. Lipsius (1547-1606) intensively studied the Roman military and warfare; his publication is considered a fundamental work on ancient warfare

Lipsius' treatise on ancient Roman warfare, based on the rediscovered writings of the late classical Greek historian Polybius
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