AELIANUS, CLAUDIUS. Opera quae extant. Greek text with Latin translation in parallel columns. [48], 655, [56] pages, including double-page woodcut diagram of troop formation on pages [604-05]. Folio, later 19th-century red morocco gilt, light dampstains on covers; dampstaining in lower margins throughout with varying traces of mold, small repair in blank outer margin of title, paper corrosion along bottom of free endpapers. Zurich: apud Gesneros fratres, 1556
first collected edition of the works of a Roman author (circa 175-235) who wrote in Greek, comprising his De natura animalium, a moralistic zoological text, and Varia historia, a collection of miscellaneous anecdotes. This edition also contains writings by the Greek military author Aelianus Tacticus, with whom he was sometimes confused. Hoffmann I, 10; Sarton I, 326.
