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Extra-engraved title page and 18 other fine copperplates, 11 folding, including 4 maps. [68], 468, [2], 469-855, [170]pp. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. Very thick 8vo, full contemporary vellum with handsome gilt-stamped coat of arms on both covers; small gilt decorations on spine. Hagae Comitum [Hague]: Apud Petrum van Thol, 1708. Third edition. Very good (+). Presentation copy: an 1801 prize to a gymnasium student, neatly inked on the flyleaf. A good, annotated edition of De Rebus gesti Alexandri Magni, a biography of Alexander the Great, by the first century A.D. Roman rhetorician. This is one of the primary sources on the Macedonian king's life. Brunet II 449. Seller Inventory # 128506
Title: Q. Curtii Rufi Alexander Magnus, et In illum...
Publisher: Hague
Publication Date: 1708
Binding: hardcover
Condition: very good(+)
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