1717 HISTORY of SECOND PUNIC WAR vellum bound ILLUSTRATED antique in LATIN

Silius Italicus

Punicorum libri septemdecim, cum excerptis... curante Arnoldo Drakenborch.


Utrecht, van de Water; 1717


 With engraved frontispiece, 8 copperplate engravings and numerous text engravings.


16 leaves, 880 pp., 13 leaves.

Original hand tooled vellum binding. Spine with raised bands and title label

 -Brunet V, 383. Ebert 21230. Schweiger II, 955 - 


ex- Library

Good condition

 Size 8 1/2  by 10 1/4" 

Text in Latin
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Punicorum libri septemdecim is a prominent 18th-century scholarly edition of Silius Italicus's Latin epic poem Punica, which chronicles the Second Punic War.
Curated and annotated by the Dutch classical scholar Arnold Drakenborch in 1717,
the volume also incorporates critical excerpts and commentary from earlier scholars such as Franciscus Modius and Daniel Heinsius
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