[Rarebooks] fa: CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES 1750 - Martin Bladen - FOLDING ENGRAVINGS after PALLADIO

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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C. Julius Cæsar's Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey. To which is added, A Supplement to his Commentary of his Wars in Gaul; As also, Commentaries of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish wars, by Aulus Hirtius, or Oppius, &c. With the Author’s Life. Adorn’d with Sculptures from the Designs of the famous Palladio. Made English from the Original Latin, by Col. Martin Bladen. The Seventh Edition, revised and corrected. With Notes explaining the most difficult Passages, an Index of the Ancient and Modern Names of Places, and Dionysius Vossius’s Supplement collected from Plutarch, Appian, Dion, &c. which makes a Connection between the Wars in Gaul and Civil War with Pompey. London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, in Ludgate-Street [et al], MDCCL [1750]. Thick 8vo (20.5 cm) in modern half calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt-lettered label; xxxii + 430 + 18 pp; with an engraved frontispiece + 13 engraved maps and plates (all but one folding). ESTC T137029.

A handsome example of this handsomely produced edition of the Commentaries of Julius Caesar, complete with all the plates depicting Caesar's armies, formations, encampments, etc. In this 1750 edition of Bladen's translation, the printer, William Bowyer, a learned man himself, added many notes signed "Typogr." which were lated included in his Miscellaneous Tracts (1785). Modest darkening/dust-soiling to the edges of the text block; short tear to the fore-edges of two leaves, not affecting any text; occasional small spots; one plate splitting along the folds, one map with a short tear to the lower margin and some creases from mis-folding; otherwise contents and plates are clean and sound, firmly bound.