Q. Curtii Rufi Alexander Magnus, et In illum Commentarius Samuelis Pitischi...; Editio secunda priori ornatior & comptior.
Utrecht: Franciscum Halmam, 1693.
Extra-engraved title page and 13 other fine copperplates, 7 folding, including 1 map. [46], 785, [164] pages. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. Very thick 8vo, full contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine; hinges cracked but still sound. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Apud Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second edition. A very good(+) copy with clean plates.
A good, annotated edition of De Rebus gesti Alexandri Magni, a biography of Alexander the Great, by the first century A.D. Roman rhetorician. This is one of the primary sources on the Macedonian king's life. Brunet II 449.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good(+)
Edition: Second
Language: Latin
Price: $925.00
Item #250929