Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LIPSIUS, JUSTUS. Poliorceticon; sive, De machinis tormentis, telis, libri quinque. 33 full- and half-page engraved illustrations, attributed to Pieter van der Borcht. [16], 267, [8] pages, including last leaf with printer's device. 4to, 250x176 mm, contemporary vellum boards, spine darkened, ends chipped, front free endpaper renewed; marginal foxing and soiling, ink stains on page 105. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Joannem Moretum, 1596

Additional Details

first edition of a work on ancient siege equipment and tactics, fortifications, etc. Cockle 672; Funck, page 354.