May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
LIPSIUS, JUSTUS. De militia Romana libri quinque, commentarius ad Polybium. Editio nova, aucta & varie & castigata. Folding etched plate of troop formations; 12 engraved illustrations, including 5 full-page. 366, [2], xxix, [7] pages, including final blank. 4to, old boards, rebacked with vellum; occasional light browning, one preliminary leaf torn along bottom edge, another restored in blank lower outer corner. Early Innsbruck Franciscan ownership inscription and illegible later stamp on title. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana apud Joannem Moretum, 1598

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Treatise on the ancient Roman military first published in 1595.