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LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNAEUS. De bello civili, cum Hug. Grotii, Farnabii notis integris & variorum selectiss. Edited by Cornelius Schrevelius. Folding engraved map of Europe. [16], 614, [146] pages, including engraved title. 8vo, early 19th-century red straight-grain morocco, spine darkened, joints worn; bookplates. Leiden: Officina Hackiana, 1669
Preferred second edition of an important variorum edition first published in 1658 of Lucan's Pharsalia, containing the complete commentaries of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Farnaby; the parody Specimen belli civilis by Petronius; and the verse continuation to the death of Caesar by Thomas May. From the library of the classical scholar Henry Drury (1778-1841), with his signature and collation note dated 1817.<
