May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
Caesar, Julius (100-44 BCE) trans. William Duncan (1717-1760)
The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, and R. Dodsley, 1753.

First edition of Duncan's translation, large folio; illustrated with engraved frontispiece of a bust of Caesar and a set of eighty-four additional plates, stunning for their informative and artistic nature, most are folding, including six folding maps, fifty-five folding battle scenes and other illustrations, and twenty-three plates mainly showing examples of people of various ethnic groups, some folding plates with minor straight breaks along their folding sections, a clean, crisp copy with a full set of plates; bound in later half leather and pebbled cloth-covered boards, ex libris Emma Kenderdine Mitchell with bookplate and Donna P. Cole with signature, both inside front board, 17 x 10 in.