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VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS; et al. Scriptores rei militaris. Edited by Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus. Woodcut white-on-black ornamental initials throughout; typographical diagrams of troop formations in text. [104] leaves. Roman type. bound with: HERODIANUS. Historia de imperio post Marcum. Latin translation by Angelus Politianus. [64] leaves. Roman type. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, 210x152 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with list of contents written on front cover in contemporary hand, brass catches and clasps, spine ends chipped; opening leaves of Vegetius wormed in blank lower margin, contemporary painted coats of arms on title, Herodianus title toned, light marginal dampstaining toward end of volume; yellow edges. (Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1494); (Bologna: Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, 30 September 1493)
first edition of a collection of writings by Roman and Greek military authors comprising Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari; Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata; Pseudo-Modestus, De vocabulis rei militaris; Aelianus Tacticus, De instruendis aciebus in the Latin translation by Theodorus Gaza; and Onosander, De optimo imperatore, in the Latin translation by Nicolaus Sagundinus. Bound with the third edition, published the same year as the first, of a history of the Roman empire from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the reign of Gordianus II. Hain-Copinger 15915, 8468; BMC IV, 116, VI, 834; Goff S344, H87; ISTC is00344000, ih00087000.
