Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ARRIANUS, FLAVIUS. Ars tactica, Acies contra Alanos, Periplus Ponti Euxini, Liber de venatione [and other texts]. Greek text with Latin translation and notes by Hieronymus Wolf et al.; edited by Nicolas Blankaart. Folding engraved map of the Arabian Sea and surrounding regions; smaller uncolored folding engraved map of the Black Sea; folding diagram of battle formations. [14], 450, [4] pages, including hand-colored etched additional title and 2 leaves of errata at end. 8vo, 194x112 mm, early 18th-century Dutch school prize binding of vellum boards with large gilt arms of Amsterdam on covers, ties lacking, covers slightly warped; scattered minor spotting, short clean tear in larger map, diagram partly separated at fold. Prize certificate dated 1725 bound opposite additional title. Amsterdam: apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1683

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first blankaart edition of the shorter works of the 2nd-century A.D. Greek historian. Hoffmann I, 376; Sarton I, 284-85.