Aeilian (1 results)
Published by Leiden: Officina Plantin, 1592, 1592
- Hardcover
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Full title: post omnes omnium editiones, ope veterum librorum correcti, a Godescalco Stewechio. Accesserunt Sex. Iulii Frontini Strategematà n libri quatuor. Aelianus De instruendis aciebus. Modestus De vocabulis rei militaris. Castrametatio Romanorum ex historiis Polybii. Accessit seorsum e…iusdem G. Stewechii in Fl. Vegetium commentarius. Adiuncta eiusdem G. Stewechii & Francisci Modi, in Iul. Frontinum coniectanea, & notae. Bound in full contemp. vellum, witrh leather spine label. Text-block partailly detached from binding, but still quite sturdy. Usual discoloration to binding from age. A large collection of texts and commentaries on ancient warfare, with illustrations in the text, mostly of siege techniques and vehicles, and a folding plan illustrating a fortified camp described by Polybius. There are also many illustrations made using type symbols to show troop formations.