[Rarebooks] FS: Important Plantin ed. of Vegetius' military work w/commentaries. Antwerp: 1607

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(MILITARY) Vegetius Renatus, Flavius. ...DE RE MILITARI Libri Accedunt Frontini Strategematibus Eiusdem Auctoris Alia Opuscula. Omnia Emendatius, Quaedam Nunc Primum Edita a Petro Scriverio. Cum Commentariis aut Notis God. Stewechii & Fr. Modii. (Antwerp): Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii. 1607. 4to. 2 parts in 1, each with its own title page (the second part dated 1606). (8),208;(10),348,24,(32)pp. Indices. Printer's large woodcut device o title page, and a smaller device on second title. Text illustrated with woodcuts of military devices plus medallion portraits and plans of formations. Cont. vellum, a bit soiled but very sound, ribbon ties lacking. Title page lightly soiled & with an ownership signature dated 1758. Old faded water stain at top fore-edge of final 100 leaves.	$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
An important edition with the commentaries on Vegetius by Stewechius, Polybius and Hyginus, an anonymous treatise titled "De Rebus Bellicus," and the "Leges Militares" of Ruffus. Cockle. MILITARY BOOKS #3.


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