1614 DE MILITIA ROMANA by LIPSIUS antique ILLUSTRATED WARFARE Plantiniana vellum

De militia Romana libri quinque.
Commentarius ad Polybium.
Ed. ultima.

by Lipsius, J.

Antwerp, Plantin for Moretus; 1614

 With engraved title vignette (printer's mark),
12 (5 full-page, 1 double-page) copperplate engravings and woodcuts in the text.

397 pp., 3 leaves.

Bound with:

Poliorceticon sive de machinis, tormentis, telis, libri quinque ...
Ed. quarta.

by Lipsius, J.

Antwerp, Plantin for Moretus; 1625

 With engraved title vignette and numerous partly full-page text engravings.

219 pp., 3 leaves.


Original overlapping vellum binding (spine missing).


The engravings show fortifications, weapons, fighting soldiers, etc.

Ex-library copy.

Toning, partly underlined in red, title page with marginal damage

 Size: 7 by 10 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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